All Chapters of Reborn To Seduce My Bully's Alpha Father : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

Chapter 41The car door shut with a quiet, final sound.No driver. No escort. Just Matthias behind the wheel and the city began to blur past the windows as we pulled through the gates.I didn't ask where we were going immediately. I watched the estate disappear in the side mirror and let the silence sit between us for a few minutes because it wasn't empty silence. It was the kind that had weight and shape and too many things moving underneath it."Where are we going?" I said finally."Somewhere quiet.""That's not an answer."His eyes stayed on the road. "It's the one you're getting right now." A pause. "You're safer if fewer people know the location."I looked at his hands on the wheel. Steady. Controlled."And you?" I said. "Are you safe?"A short exhale. "No one comes after me directly.""That's not what I asked."He glanced at me. Just briefly. Taking stock of something in my expression before looking forward again."Don't worry about me," he said."I already am."He didn't respon

Chapter 43Matthias POV I didn't sleep after we arrived at the safehouse.By the time pale light started coming through the windows, I was already dressed, phone to my ear, moving toward the door with the quiet efficiency of someone who had long since stopped distinguishing between night and morning.Aria heard me leave.She lay in the small bedroom, staring at the ceiling and listening to the car pull away, thinking about my hand over hers on the drive here. How certain it had felt. How little it had resembled anything she'd planned.---The Ashford Security Tower looked different at seven AM than it did in press photos.Less impressive from the outside. More real. The private elevator opened onto a floor that fell silent the moment I stepped out, conversations dropping mid-sentence, people straightening without thinking. The kind of response you didn't train into people. The kind that came from knowing exactly what someone was capable of.Dante fell into step beside me."The board

Chapter 45My fingers nearly dropped the photo.I caught it just before it hit the floor and held it with both hands, staring at the image until my eyes stopped moving and I just saw.The baby was me. I knew it the way you knew your own reflection, not because anyone had told me, but because the shape of the face was mine. The eyes especially. That slight downward tilt at the outer corners that I had always thought was just mine.The woman holding me had the same eyes.Dark hair. Sharp cheekbones. Something quiet and certain in the way she held herself even in a photograph, like someone who knew exactly where she stood in every room she entered.She looked like me. Not perfectly. But enough that looking at her felt strange, like seeing yourself in someone else's face and not being prepared for it.The man beside her was tall, broad, one arm around her in a way that wasn't casual. It was protective. Deliberate. The posture of someone who had decided this was his to protect and meant it

Chapter 47I didn't go back to the dorm.Elena walked with me for two blocks in silence before she stopped and turned to look at me the way she did when she'd decided something."You're not okay," she said."I'm fine.""You're holding a notebook full of dead people connected to your bloodline."My grip tightened on my bag strap. "I said I'm fine."She didn't move. Just looked at me with that steady expression she had, the one that didn't need anger or fear in it because the care underneath was already enough."You don't have to do this alone," she said quietly.Something pulled tight in my chest. The dangerous kind of tight. The kind that made you want to sit down somewhere and stop performing."I'm not alone," I said."You are when you shut everyone out."I looked away. "I just need to think."She nodded slowly. "Then think. But don't disappear."It wasn't quite a promise when I said I wouldn't. But it was close enough that she let me go.---I didn't realise where I was walking unti

Chapter 49The silence between us had weight.Matthias stood a few steps back with the particular stillness of someone who had made a decision and was holding it in place by force. The distance was deliberate. Calculated. Exactly enough space to stay in control and not one inch more.His eyes hadn't moved from me."You're stopping," I said."Yes.""That didn't look like stopping.""It is now."I tilted my head. "Or you're trying to convince yourself it is."Something moved in his jaw. That flicker I had learned to read. The one that meant something had landed, but he , wanted to give me the satisfaction of acknowledging out loud."Careful," he said."You keep saying that.""You keep giving me reason to.""I don't plan to stop."He looked at me steadily. The heat hadn't gone anywhere. He'd just put structure around it again, the way he put structure around everything, methodical and deliberate, the work of a man who had spent decades making sure nothing got past his defenses.I was ge