All Chapters of REBORN TO LOVE MY FATHER-IN-LAW: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Scarlett's POVThirty seconds.That was all Cain said. One look at his face and I knew he meant every word of it. He was not performing fear. This was the real thing. The kind that lives in the body, not just the mind.I stopped pulling against his grip."Talk," I said."I am a double agent." He said it fast, cutting each word short. "For eighteen months I have been inside the Iron Veil. I have been feeding information back to Dominic. Border movements. Supply schedules. Names. Decisions. All of it passing through a relay contact." He glanced toward the south end of the corridor and back to me. "My cover was blown three hours ago. Someone gave me up to Razor. If any Dark Eclipse brother sees me in this jacket tonight, I am dead before I finish explaining myself."I stared at him. My brain worked fast."You sent me the warning text," I said."Yes." One nod. "They planned to use you as bait tonight. The idea was to put you in danger inside this compound and force Dominic to come in pers

Scarlett's POVThe floodlights died and the compound went black.Two full seconds. Nobody moved. Nobody breathed.Then Dominic's hand found my arm in the dark. His grip was firm and immediate, no searching for it, like he already knew exactly where I was. He pulled me against the outer wall before my own body had decided to move."Stay here," he said."No," I said.He made a sound that was not a word. Pure frustration packed into one exhale. Then the emergency lighting kicked in along the inner walls. Red. Low. Ugly. The specific color of a situation that has already started going wrong.Cain was still behind me. And Dominic's gun was back up. Pointed directly at Cain."Don't," I said.I moved between them. Not slowly and not carefully. I stepped right into the line and felt Dominic's entire body go rigid behind me. Every muscle. The way a man goes rigid when something happens that he absolutely did not expect."Scarlett. Move.""He is on our side," I said. I kept my back straight and

Scarlett's POV"South corridor," I said. "Now."And Dominic was already moving.His hand was locked around my wrist and he changed direction without slowing, without questioning, without that half-second pause of a man deciding whether to trust what he is being told. He just turned and we ran together, and I matched his pace, and the smoke thickened around us as another section of the roof came down somewhere behind us with a sound like a building deciding it had had enough.The emergency lighting had taken damage. Half the red strip lights along the ceiling were out. The remaining ones flickered. Smoke rolled along the floor in low waves and the heat coming from the south end of the building had increased enough that I could taste it on the air before I could see it.A side door to our left burst open.Iron Veil. Young. Panicked. He saw Dominic and swung.Dominic let go of my wrist, blocked the swing with his forearm, drove the man into the wall with two clean movements, grabbed my w

Scarlett's POV"The session will come to order."Elder Voss struck the council table once with his palm and the murmuring in the hall dropped to a tight, uncomfortable silence.Dawn light came through the high windows in flat grey sheets. The kind of light that makes everything look like evidence. I stood on the left side of the floor with Dominic beside me and I kept my spine straight and my hands still and my face giving nothing away that I had not decided to give.Across the floor, Luca sat in the heir's seat.He wore his good jacket. The dark one he put on for pack functions when he needed to look like he belonged to a family with expectations. His hands were loose in his lap. His face wore the expression he used when he was performing patience. Pleasant. Still. The look of a man watching a process he believes he has already controlled.Seven Elders at the long table. Cain at the far left, reinstated by Dominic's direct order four hours ago, with the face of a man who understood e

Scarlett's POV "The session is adjourned," Voss said. "Pending investigation into chain of custody. This council will reconvene in seventy-two hours." The gavel came down. The room began emptying immediately. Elders filed out in clusters with their heads together and their voices low. Luca's lawyer gathered his documents with the calm efficiency of a man who had achieved exactly what he came to achieve. Luca himself moved toward the side door with two pack soldiers flanking him. His face had returned to that pleasant blankness he wore by default. I watched the door at the back of the hall. The man in the dark coat was gone. I had not seen him leave. One moment he was in the doorway. The next time I looked, the doorway was empty and the door was shut. If I had not been watching him specifically I would have doubted whether I had seen him at all. I crossed the hall fast and pushed through the back door into the corridor beyond it. Empty. A junction ten feet ahead. Left and right