《The Alpha’s Rogue Luna》全部章節：第 41 章 - 第 50 章

Killian’s POVI walked back into Asher’s room with my hands almost fisting at my sides.Selene noticed immediately. She always did notice when I’m angry and trying to hide it.“You’re not fine,” she said, before I could say anything.“I’m fine.”“You’re doing the thing with your hands,” she said. “What happened out there?”I exhaled and leaned against the wall. “Rae wants Zeus released from the cell to help with the investigation.”They all became quiet.Liah looked up from where she’d been sitting quietly. Kael straightened in his chair.“What exactly does that mean?” Selene asked. Her voice was laced with anger.“It means she thinks his knowledge of the contact’s patterns and timing is more useful to us outside the cell than inside it,” I said.“Did you say no to that?” Selene asked.“I rejected her request, I mean… how can I possibly release someone who wants my pack destroyed.”Selene looked at Liah, Kael and then back at me.“You realize what this sounds like,” she said carefully

Rae’s POVI stood beneath the spot where the raven had sat on the windowsill in the grey early morning and made myself go back through everything I had seen that night… the angle the shot had come from, the speed of it, the direction the maid had fallen, the exact position of the raven afterward.Whoever had fired that shot had been precise. Not an amateur but someone with a specific assignment and the skill to execute it cleanly from a distance in the dark.And whoever that was had sent a bird to my window first.A message before they took action . It was someone who wanted me to know they were watching before they showed me what they could do.I had been here since walking out on Killian. The cold hadn’t bothered me the way it would have two weeks ago, before the bond had finished settling into my system and my wolf had come back properly. She was alert now, pressed forward in my chest, reading the air and the ground and the silence the way she used to before Iron Hollow had dulled

Rae’s POVI watched Selene leave the room back and I felt her words sink in after she left.They were meant to hit and they did. Not because they hurt, but because their logic was hard to argue with. The attacks had gotten worse since I arrived. Selene wasn’t wrong about the timing. She was wrong about the cause, and I knew those were two different things.I sat on the edge of the bed.Ethan’s face kept coming back. That controlled stillness that wasn’t sleep. I had been watching people perform things for long enough to know the difference, and what I had seen in that room was performance… But why?If he was guilty of something he would have more reason to stay unconscious longer, not to surface early and lie there pretending. Unless the pretending wasn’t about hiding guilt but listening to who came in and what they said and what they knew.A knock interrupted me and snapped me back to reality. I moved from the bed and went to open the door… It was Killian.He stood in there and didn’

Rae’s POVWe reached the packs gate and Killian slowed the bike immediately, it was as if his mind wasn’t there… Body present, absentminded.I noticed it immediately in the way he eased off the throttle a fraction earlier than he needed to, the particular quality of his silence on the ride back that had nothing to do with focus and everything to do with something sitting heavy in him.He cut the engine in the garage and didn’t move right away.I climbed off and turned to look at him.“What’s wrong?” I asked.He looked at the handlebars for a moment. “That road,” he said. “Every time we go near it something in me says we shouldn’t go further… I don’t ignore that feeling often.”I had never heard him say anything like that before… Not Killian, who walked into every room like he had already decided how it was going to go. Not the man who had crouched in an enemy cell and offered me a way out without flinching once.Something about the road was getting to him at a level his control couldn

Rae’s POV“Are you sure about this?” he asked.“Yes, I’m completely sure about it.”The music was still playing through the hall and I kept my voice low and my face in a way that anyone watching from a distance would think we were having a normal conversation. “The night Ethan was found in the pool,” I said, “he called Zeus’s name the moment he woke up. Everyone took that as him saying that Zeus is the one who did it to him. But think about it… Ethan is a trained sentinel. If he was attacked from behind and blacked out, the last thing he would have seen before losing consciousness would be whoever was with him… Zeus wasn’t near that corridor that night. We can account for where Zeus was. But Ethan being in that pool means someone put him there. And the most logical person to have done it without triggering alarm is someone the sentinels already trusted.”Killian looked like he was already reasoning what I was saying.“The CCTV… From that night. We need to pull the footage from the co