All Chapters of Rejected by my Mate, Accepted by his Alpha Uncle: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

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Betrayal from inside.

AlanThe shot left my gun at the exact moment the mask came off, and for one sickening second, everything inside me locked up because I did not know whether I had hit the person or missed, I only knew that the face I saw in that brief, broken flash of light was enough to make my blood turn cold.Emily.She jerked back out of sight almost at once, and the whole wall erupted into noise again, men shouting, boots pounding against the ground, another gunshot cracking through the night as Victor and two others ran hard toward the stairs that led up to the east side lookout.“Get her!” I roared.They did not need to be told twice.I took two steps forward, but then Natasha said my name, and the sound of her voice stopped me more effectively than a hand to my chest ever could.“Alan.”I turned.She was standing a few feet away from me, pale, shaken, her eyes too wide, and for all the chaos around us, all I could see for a second was the look on her face. It was not just fear, it was somethin

Miss me?

Natasha“The code was entered from your room.”Those words did not just hang in the air like something that could be brushed aside or explained away with a simple answer, instead they settled over me slowly, heavily, like something meant to crush the air out of my lungs, and for a moment I honestly felt like I had forgotten how to breathe because nothing about that statement made sense to me, nothing about it could possibly be true, and yet it had been said out loud in front of Alan, in front of the very people whose trust I could not afford to lose.“No,” I said, but even as the word left my mouth, it felt like it was struggling to carry the weight of everything I was trying to deny, like my voice itself was trying to catch up with the shock that had taken hold of me. “No, that’s not possible.”Alan’s arms were still around me, but I could feel the shift in him, the way his body had gone rigid in a way that told me this was no longer just about protecting me from danger, but about t

Panic.

AlanSomething wasn’t right, and it wasn’t the kind of feeling I could brush aside or ignore no matter how hard I tried to focus on the screens in front of me, because the unease had settled deep in my chest in a way that made it impossible to think clearly, like every instinct I had was trying to pull my attention somewhere else.“The code was entered at exactly zero-two thirteen,” Raymond said, pointing at the screen as the footage replayed yet again, and even though I had already watched it more times than I cared to admit, my eyes followed his hand like I was hoping this time something would change, like the truth would suddenly rearrange itself into something that made sense.“And you’re absolutely certain this isn’t some kind of system glitch or interference?” I asked, my voice controlled and even, but there was a weight underneath it that I didn’t bother to hide because this was not something I was willing to accept at face value.“We ran it multiple times, and we also checked

Die!

NatashaThe sound of the gunshot tore through the air so violently that for one terrifying moment I could not even tell where it had come from, because everything around me seemed to explode at once, voices rising, feet shifting, bodies moving, and my own heart slamming so hard against my ribs that it felt like it wanted to break free from my chest, and all I could think was that this had gone too far, far beyond anything I had imagined when I left the house thinking I would corner Matt and force the truth out of him.I gasped and instinctively dropped low at the same time the pressure of the gun against my head disappeared, and that alone told me something had changed in the space of a second, something sudden and dangerous enough to throw every one of us off balance, and before I could even understand it properly, another shot rang out from somewhere to my left, followed by shouting so loud and sharp that it made my whole body jerk.“Get down!” Alan’s voice thundered across the spac

Say it!

NatashaMy whole body went cold the moment those words left Matt’s mouth, not because I wanted Alan to hear anything from him, and not because there was any truth in whatever twisted version of events he was preparing to spill, but because I could feel the shift in the air around us, the way every man there seemed to tense at once, the way even the night itself felt like it had gone still, as though all of it was waiting to see what would happen next, and with that blade pressed against my stomach and Alan standing only a short distance away with murder in his eyes, I knew that whatever happened in the next few seconds was going to change everything.Matt’s breathing had become rough and uneven behind me, and the arm he had around my chest no longer felt controlled the way it had earlier, instead it was tighter, harsher, almost desperate, like he was no longer acting from confidence but from the fear of losing control, and somehow that made him even more dangerous than before, because

This is where I choose.

Alan The moment those headlights cut through the darkness, bright and sharp and blinding as they tore across the open space like something sent to split the night in two, I felt something inside me lock into place in a way that left no room for hesitation, no room for doubt, because whatever this was, whatever Matt had been stalling for, it had arrived, and the worst part was not the sound of the engines growing louder or the way my men were already shifting into position, it was the fact that Natasha was still in his arms with that knife pressed against her like she was the only shield he had left.“Don’t move!” Matt shouted, and his voice cracked in a way that made it clear this was no longer control, this was desperation dressed up as confidence. It was the kind that made men unpredictable and far more dangerous than they ever were when they thought they were winning.I did not lower my gun, I did not step back, but I stopped advancing, because every instinct in me was screaming

Did you do it?

NatashaThe explosion did not just echo somewhere far away like something distant and unimportant that we could push to the back of our minds and deal with later, it tore through everything around us with a force so heavy and violent that I felt it ripple through my chest, through my bones, through the ground beneath my feet, and for one long, suffocating moment. I could not even pull in a proper breath because my body refused to understand how something so sudden and so destructive could be real.I tightened my hold on Alan’s shirt without thinking, my fingers gripping the fabric so hard that they started to ache, because the only thing that felt steady in that moment was him, the warmth of him, the solidness of him, and when I looked up into his face, I saw something that made my heart twist in a way that had nothing to do with the chaos around us.He looked…shocked.Not weak, not broken, but caught off guard in a way that a man like Alan rarely ever allowed himself to be, and that

The culprit.

Alan The second he pressed that button, something inside me snapped into a kind of focus so sharp it almost felt like everything else had been stripped away, because whatever he had just triggered, whatever he had just set into motion, it was no longer a question of what might happen next, it was a matter of how much I could still control before everything fell apart.Another explosion tore through the distance, louder than the last, closer, violent enough that I felt the shockwave push through the air and hit my chest like a physical force, and for a split second, I closed my eyes, not out of fear, but because I needed that one fraction of time to think clearly before reacting.Then I opened them again.“Victor,” I said, my voice steady even though everything around us was starting to break into chaos.“I’m here,” he answered immediately.“Redirect all units to the east wing,” I ordered. “Now.”There was no hesitation. “On it.”I turned slightly, my arm still around Natasha, pulling

Get down!

NatashaThe moment Victor pulled me away from Alan, it felt wrong in a way I could not even explain properly to myself, because even though I understood why Alan had done it and even though I knew he was only trying to protect me the only way he knew how, it still felt like I was being torn away from the one place I needed to be, and every step Victor forced me to take deeper into the compound felt heavier than the last, as though my body was moving forward while everything inside me was still back there with Alan, with the sound of gunfire, with the explosions, with the look in his eyes when he promised me that he would come back.“Move faster,” Victor said, his voice sharp but controlled, and I knew he was not trying to be cruel, he was trying to keep me alive, but that did nothing to calm the panic clawing at my chest because the farther I got from Alan, the worse the feeling inside me became.“I’m trying,” I said, breathing harder now as we rushed down the corridor, the sound of b

Distract him.

Natasha.That hit me so hard that for a second I could not speak, because I knew he was right, I knew it in the deepest part of me, and suddenly the words from earlier came back to me, the tension in the compound, the strange confidence of the men attacking, the feeling that every move had been planned with care.“They want to distract him,” I said.“Yes,” Victor replied.“And if they want to distract him then Sophia is not the end of it,” I said, my voice dropping as the thought finished forming in my head. “She is only part of it.”Victor’s expression darkened. “Exactly.”The room seemed colder now, the air heavier, and I looked around again, at the guards, at the frightened women, at the door, at the corners of the room where shadows seemed thicker than they should have been, and for the first time since stepping inside, I noticed something else, something I had been too distracted to pay attention to earlier.There were fewer guards in here than there should have been.My heartbe

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