All Chapters of CHOSEN BY ALPHA: Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

POV: Nora AshHe started by telling me about his father just the way someone opens a wound they have been keeping closed for a long time ,it was careful and then he told me all at once but I knew it wasn't everything. I understood, from the first sentence, that what he is giving me is the shape of it rather than the full weight. But the shape is not enough to understand the size,the compound. A manipulated Beta used as the delivery mechanism ,a wolf Victor controlled closely enough to redirect his instincts, to create a false signal that read as real, that pulled Cole's father across a border and into a position that could be ruled accidental by anyone who did not know what they were looking at. A death that the Summit filed as a border incident. A death that Cole has been looking at the truth of, alone, for four years.He told it all flat.The flatness was not distance. I knew this now , I have learned the language of how Cole Vance carries things, and flatness is not the same as ab

POV: Nora AshI woke up by 3 AM and the wolf was already standing.That was the only way I could describe it ….I opened my eyes in the dark of the east wing room and she was there, fully present, not the gentle stirring I have grown used to over the past weeks but something enormous and immediate, like opening a door and finding the ocean on the other side. The rain on the Black Ridge roof was loud in the way rain is loud at this hour, when everything else was silent enough for one sound to fill the whole world, and I lied still for exactly ten seconds trying to understand what was happening inside my own body.Then I stopped trying to understand it and I got up.I did not make a decision to go outside. My feet found the floor, my hands found the door, the back corridor was dark and cool and smelled like timber and the rain coming under the door at the far end, and I was through it and into the night before the thinking part of me had caught up with the rest. Barefoot again ,always ba