Semua Bab The Alpha’s Discarded Bride: Bab 61 - Bab 70

KAELThe night had settled deep into the city, quiet in a way that most would mistake for peace but it wasn’t.I stood by the glass, looking down at Moonfall as it moved beneath me in controlled patterns—lights steady, routes predictable, everything exactly where it should be and yet, something wasn’t.My hands rested loosely behind my back, posture relaxed, but my mind remained fixed not on noise but on absence.That was what bothered me, it wasn't the attack itself or even how it was carried out but what came after.There were no leads or trails or any mistakes and something like that never happens in my city repeatedly.My jaw tightened slightly, the only outward sign of what sat beneath the surface.Darius and the others had confirmed it earlier. No one saw anything until it was already over, there was no interference, no early warning, no movement flagged within the system I had built and reinforced over time.It was too clean and that wasn't a coincidence.It meant whoever was b

CHRISTINEThe silence that followed his last breath didn’t feel normal and it didn’t feel like an ending either.It felt arranged.My eyes stayed on the body longer than necessary, not because I was disturbed, but because my mind was trying to make sense of what I was seeing.There was no struggle left in him, no final twitch, no reflex or anything that suggested he had been taken off guard.His body went completely still.I was too shocked to digest what just happened , this seemed hard to believe for a man who had been fighting seconds ago.Kael stepped closer first, his presence cutting into the space without effort. He didn’t touch the body immediately, he just looked at it like he already understood what I was still trying to piece together.Then he crouched slightly, eyes narrowing and that was when I saw it.A faint trace near the corner of the man’s mouth, it was something dark, almost unnoticed if you weren’t looking closely.Kael exhaled once through his nose.“He did it.

CHRISTINE“A car is waiting, it will take you back.”Kael’s voice was calm, like everything that had just happened had already been filed away in his mind.I looked at him for a second, searching for something but there was nothing beyond that usual composed expression.He wasn’t lingering on the failure nor was he explaining anything.He wasn’t even looking at me like I had just been used as bait in a situation that could have gone wrong in a hundred different ways.He was already moving on or maybe he didn't just want to talk about it. My jaw tightened slightly but I didn’t argue this time, there was no point.“Can you walk?” he added, almost as an afterthought, his gaze flicking briefly to my side where the bandage was hidden beneath my clothes.So this was the right to care about my wounds? He didn't think of that or even considered my injured state before thinking of using me as a bait. I wish I could say that to him but I wasn't ready to hear him explain anything because he al

CHRISTINEThe call ended, but the weight of it didn’t.I lowered the phone slowly, my fingers still wrapped around it as if I hadn’t quite processed that it was over.Nathan was already looking at me not sharply or angrily but just watching. He overheard me and Kael's conversation over the phone and he must have heard me telling Kael that I got a message from Harlan days ago. “You never told me Harlan contacted you again.” His voice was calm, but there was something underneath it that made me look away first.“It wasn’t important,” I said, the excuse came out too quickly, too flat.“And the message from Harlan? That wasn’t important too?” he asked, his tone still even.I exhaled quietly, setting the phone down on the table beside me.“It didn’t matter.”Nathan let out a soft, humorless breath.“You keep saying that but somehow, it always matters enough for you to tell someone else.” He said and I frowned slightly. “That’s not what this is.”“Then what is it?”I didn’t answer immedi

CHRISTINEThe air outside felt different, not safer, just open but I didn’t relax not even for a second.I stopped walking first. “You knew about that place.”My voice came out steady, controlled, but there was no hiding the edge beneath it.Dorian didn’t answer immediately.He stood beside me, hands in his pockets, gazing forward like nothing had just happened.“You weren’t supposed to go there alone,” he said calmly andI turned fully toward him.“That’s not an answer.”He looked at me with a calm and unreadable expression. “No, it’s not.” He agreed and something about that made my jaw tighten.“Who are you truly?” I asked bluntly, his brows didn’t even move.“What was that place and why were you there?” I continued.He held my gaze for a moment longer, then instead of answering, he asked me a question too. “What were you doing there?”I almost scoffed, so that’s how he wanted to play it.“I asked first.”“And I’m asking now,” he replied evenly.I stared at him carefully, he wasn’t