All Chapters of Reborn To Seduce My Bully's Alpha Father : Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

Chapter 121The idea came from Dante.He brought it to Matthias on Thursday morning with the folder already prepared. Not a spontaneous suggestion. Something he'd been building overnight, working through the mechanics of it carefully before presenting it.Matthias read the folder. Set it down. Looked at Dante."She'll cooperate," Dante said. "She's frightened enough of Cassius to understand that helping us is the only position that offers her any real protection.""You're certain.""Selene is intelligent," Dante said. "Intelligent people in her current position understand their options accurately." He held Matthias's gaze. "She has one viable option. This is it."Matthias held my gaze across the desk."What do you think?" he said."I think Dante is right about her cooperation," I said. "And I think the message itself has to be exactly right. Cassius has been watching this situation for twenty years. He'll read anything that feels constructed.""Which is why she has to write it herself

Chapter 123The contact gave us three things before Dante finished the session.A hotel name. A district. And the confirmation that Cassius had been in the city for six days already, moving carefully, using identities that didn't connect back to his European territorial standing.Patient. As always.Dante had a team on the hotel within two hours.I stood at the window of Matthias's office while Dante briefed us on what his surveillance team was finding."He's using a business identity," Dante said. "European import consultancy. Registered in three jurisdictions, all legitimate on the surface. The hotel is mid-range. Not where you'd expect someone of his standing to stay." He held Matthias's gaze. "Deliberately unremarkable.""He's been watching," Matthias said."Extensively." Dante opened the surveillance report. "Our team identified two locations he's visited since arrival. The Council's administrative building, he didn't go inside, just observed the entrance for approximately forty

Chapter 125The intelligence came through on Saturday morning.Dante put it on the kitchen table at seven with the expression he used when something had confirmed a suspicion he'd been carrying and the confirmation was worse than the suspicion."Caden met with someone last night," he said. "In Varn. The same rogue territory settlement where he's been building his political argument."Matthias looked up from his coffee."The intermediary who made the initial introduction," Dante said. "The one whose financial records traced back to Cassius's entity." He held Matthias's gaze. "He arranged a meeting between Caden and a man presenting himself as a European Council liaison. Someone with conservative faction connections and an interest in supporting alternative territorial leadership."I set my cup down."Cassius," I said."Not directly." Dante held my gaze. "The man Caden met is one of the two people who travelled with Cassius from Europe. His senior advisor. But the meeting was arranged t

Chapter 127Caden sat in the car for a long time after Aria left.The cafe had emptied around him without him noticing. The coffee on the table had gone completely cold. Outside the window the eastern district moved through its ordinary Saturday afternoon and Caden sat in the middle of all that ordinary and felt like something had been turned inside out in his chest and he couldn't quite locate where the edges of it were.Aria hadn't been cruel about it.That was the part he kept returning to.She'd sat across from him and told him the full shape of what he'd been part of the operation, Cassius, the advisor, all of it and her face had been completely steady throughout. No satisfaction. No anger. No performance of the moral high ground she absolutely had. Just the accurate picture, laid out plainly, given to him because she thought he deserved to have it.He hadn't deserved it.He'd done nothing to deserve it.And she'd given it anyway.You were angry and you had standing and someone v

Chapter 129 The breach alarm came at eleven forty-seven. Not the gradual escalation of a developing situation. Immediate. Full perimeter. The kind of alarm that meant multiple access points simultaneously, which meant coordination, which meant someone who had been watching the estate long enough to understand exactly where the gaps were and how to hit them all at once. Matthias was already moving before the second pulse. I was in the upper west corridor when the lights shifted to emergency configuration. The particular red-tinged quality of the estate under threat that I hadn't seen since the night my father was hurt but recognised immediately in my body before my mind caught up. My phone buzzed. Dante. One word. Move. I moved. Down the corridor, away from the upper west windows that faced the north perimeter, toward the interior staircase that Dante had designated as the primary safe route in every security briefing I'd sat through. I knew this building now. I knew its bones.