Between Two Naughty Wolves のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 71 - チャプター 80

CHAPTER 71: The SetupAllison's POVThe vials nestled inside my birthday cake looked like poisonous beetles. The cheerful chocolate frosting was now a sick joke like a lid on a coffin.My fucking name was written on it in pink icing!The entire lobby was dead silent. You could hear a pin drop. Or the sound of my career crashing down around me.Officer Briggs turned to me with cold triumph as he held up one of the vials with the liquid inside shimmering evily.“Care to explain this, Ms. Hayes?”My mouth was desert-dry. “I have no idea what that is, or how it got there.”“It’s Apex,” he stated like he was pronouncing a death sentence. “A dangerous illegal substance. And we just found a stash of it hidden inside a cake at your surprise birthday party. A party where one of your employees just overdosed on it.”The way he said it.. it was already a done deal and the story was written in his head.“I didn’t know anything about this,” I said with my voice tighter than I wanted it to be.“Th

CHAPTER 73: A House of Cards Built on LiesAllison's POVThe relief I’d felt seeing Theo, safe and playing chess like this was some goddamn field trip evaporated faster than vodka at a pack reunion and it was replaced by a cold hard knot in my stomach the moment Gerald’s little army of stormtroopers materialized from the shadows.But then came the words. Those four simple gut-punching words from Gerald, aimed right at Jacob.“When should we tell her?”Tell me what? My eyes snapped to Jacob and there it was. The guilt in a flicker of something dark and terrified in his eyes before he looked away, refusing to meet my gaze. The knot in my stomach turned into a full-blown rockslide. Oh, you have got to be kidding me. Not him.. anyone but him!“Tell me what?” I asked again with my voice quieter than I intended and my arms tightening around Theo.Jacob’s jaw was clenched so tight I thought his teeth would powder and I saw his muscles coil like a predator ready to spring. A low dangerous c

CHAPTER 75: A Nail in the CoffinAllison's POVThe world outside my window was a big dark nothing at four AM with the kind of quiet that’s so loud it buzzes in your ears. I’d been planted in this armchair for hours with a glass of something strong in my hand that I hadn’t actually sipped in forever. My brain was a hamster on a wheel, running itself ragged on a loop of the last two days.Theo was back.. my boy was sleeping safe in his room. That was the win, right? The only thing that was supposed to matter.So why did I feel like my insides had been scooped out with a rusty spoon?My company, my reputation... temporarily shut down thanks to the birthday party from hell and Jacob… God, Jacob. His face right before my hand connected with it! He said he wasn’t that monster anymore. But monsters don’t just shed their skin. They just get better at hiding the scales.The sky finally started to lighten, shifting from black to a miserable gray and I heard the soft pad of little feet on the

CHAPTER 77: The Bait and the BoltAllison's POV“Oh, for fuck’s sake!” I snapped with adrenaline firing through my system. “Ashley, we’ve got a runner!”I was out of the car before the words had fully left my mouth. “Stay with Theo!” I yelled over my shoulder, already launching myself onto the sidewalk.The guy was fast.. unnaturally fast. He wasn’t just sprinting.. he was moving with a powerful grace that was way beyond your average panicked baker as he vaulted over a low fence like it was a curb.“Oh, you have got to be kidding me,” I grunted, pushing my own legs harder. “Another werewolf?”He weaved through the midday foot traffic like a ghost with people blurring past me as I fought to keep up. He slipped between two slow-walking tourists, cut across the path of a bike messenger... who shouted something creative about my mother... and barely broke stride. I, on the other hand, almost took out a hot dog stand. This was not a fair race.My lungs were burning and I was pretty sure

CHAPTER 79: Just A ToyDerek’s POV“Harder! Faster, for fuck's sake! Is that really all you've got?”Kate was hunched over the side of the massive bed with her back arched and her fingers digging into the expensive silk sheets. I was behind her, my body slamming into hers over and over. My skin was slick with sweat with my lungs burning with every ragged pant but I couldn't stop.I didn't want this. My mind was screaming like a trapped animal pounding against the bars of its cage but my body wasn't mine.. it was hers. That same violet glow in her eyes held me tight like a puppeteer pulling my strings. My muscles screamed in protest, exhausted and pushed far beyond their limit but the invisible force driving me was relentless.“Pathetic,” she spat, looking back over her shoulder with a cruel smirk. “A big, strong Alpha brought low. You're just a tool, Derek. My personal toy and I've been so... very... bored.”My hips kept pistoning with a brutal mechanical rhythm I had no control over