CHAPTER 11

Ivy's POVMaren.She's standing in the middle of the empty room with a small torch in one hand and something in the other; flat, dark, the twin of the device Hess pulled from the floorboards this morning. Her face when she turns is not the face of someone caught doing something innocent.It's the face of someone who has been dreading this exact moment.We look at each other.I think about her hand over mine twenty minutes ago and the specific careful kindness she has aimed at me since the first morning.I also think about how useful that would be. If you needed someone close to me."Put it down," I say.She looks at the device in her hand. Then she sets it carefully on the floor beside her foot. She can reach it in one movement and we both know it."Let me explain," she says."You have a transmission device in an empty room. The first one was found this morning. This is the second," I keep my voice level, "How many more?"She closes her eyes briefly. "One.""Where?""Healers' building

Last Updated : 2026-04-03

CHAPTER 12

Ivy's POVMaren talks for a long time.We move to the library because the corridor is exposed and the empty room feels like a crime scene. Four of us surround the low table.Maren lays it out cleanly. ‘The group; four of them, all Pack-born, two operating from the borderlands between Pack territory and Syndicate-adjacent settlements. Watching the political situation for two years.’She puts documents on the table as she talks.Printed transmissions, handwritten notes, a timeline that starts eighteen months ago and ends four days from now. I watch Caelum look at the timeline and go very still."You've known about this group," I say to him, when Maren pauses.He doesn't deny it. "I suspected something like it existed. There have been little irregularities. Nothing I could bring to Soren without looking like I was seeing problems where there were none." He looks at Maren, "I didn't know it was you.""I know," she says."How long?""Eighteen months."Something moves through his jaw. He lo

Last Updated : 2026-04-04

CHAPTER 13

Ivy's POVI don't sleep.I lie on my back and think about Davan. His face in Soren's study when I decoded the first transmission; the careful neutral expression of a man watching a situation and calculating. I thought it was Pack wariness.I was reading the right face and drawing the wrong conclusion.That bothers me more than anything else, because I'm good at reading people. My father spent years making me good at it because a diplomatic asset that can't read a room is a liability. And Davan sat three feet from me and I missed it entirely.I won't miss it again.***Morning comes grey and cold.I'm dressed before the lodge is fully awake, sitting at the small desk in my room with Maren's documents spread in front of me; the transmissions, the financial records, the timeline. I've been through everything twice.Davan has been inside the faction's operation for at least three weeks. Possibly longer; three weeks is just when the paper trail starts. I fold the documents back into the o

Last Updated : 2026-04-06

CHAPTER 14

Ivy's POVThe letter is three sentences long.I don't know why that surprises me. My father has always communicated in the smallest number of words that will do the job. Why would this be different.‘Ivy. By the time you read this, you will have figured out most of it. What you haven't figured out is that the faction isn't trying to extract you. They're trying to eliminate you.’I read it three times.Then I put it flat on the table and look at Rook.He's already looking at me too.“They don't want to control an Omega inside Pack territory. They want to make sure there isn't one,” I say. “A fully awakened Omega changes the political balance between the Syndicate and the Pack permanently,” Rook says, “Your father wants to use that, but the faction would rather destroy it.”The fire burns between us and the library is very quiet. I sit with the specific sensation of understanding something that rearrange

Last Updated : 2026-04-07

All Chapters of Mated to the Alpha's Brother, Guarded by My Enemy: Chapter 11 - Chapter 14

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CHAPTER 14