Todos os capítulos de The Alpha's Enemy's Daughter : Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 37

Something was missing from the third shelf.Alira had counted it twice and arrived at the same number both times, which meant either her list was wrong or someone had been in this storage room without recording what they took. She made a note on her paper and moved to the fourth shelf and told herself it was probably nothing, but did not entirely believe it.The storage room was cold and quiet. The lamp she had brought threw a circle of yellow light across the shelves and left everything beyond it in shadow. She did not mind the dark. She minded the missing compound, which was specific enough to be intentional and common enough to be excused if anyone asked.She was making a second note when she felt it.She could not have described it accurately. It was not a sound or a drop in temperature, though the room was already cold enough. It was the awareness of a space that had been empty a moment ago and was no longer empty, the way a room changed when someone walked into it, except she ha

Alira had not planned to go to his office today.She had planned to finish her inventory, return to the infirmary, check on her patients, eat something at some point, and spend the evening alone in her room with a piece of paper she was not yet ready to open. That had been the plan.She knocked on Lucien's office door once and opened it without waiting, because what she had to say was not the kind of thing that improved with waiting.He was at his desk, not reading this time, just sitting with his hands clasped on the surface in front of him and his eyes on the window. He looked like a man who had been thinking for a long time and had not yet arrived anywhere useful.He looked at her when she came in."Vael," he said, one of his brows slightly twitching. “What happened to your manners"“I will not take long," she said, because she knew he valued that. She crossed to the desk, stood in front of it and kept her hands at her sides. "The infirmary needs restocking. Several of the compound

The tea helped, marginally.Alira sat at the infirmary bench and worked through the morning with her hands while her mind did whatever it wanted, which was not ideal but was better than pretending she could control it. Wren moved around her without asking questions. Maren complained about the food from his bed. She told him the food was fine and he told her she had clearly never tasted it and she almost smiled.By midmorning she had almost convinced herself that the chair by her window had been empty all night.Almost.She went to check on the border wolves in the east recovery room and found Cade's bed empty. Blanket folded back. Water cup still sitting where she had left it.She checked the light through the window. Too early. His leg was three days into healing and she had been clear about rest.She asked Wren.Wren had not seen him leave.She went looking.~*~*~*~*~*She found him by accident.She had taken the back corridor toward the lower east wing because it was the fastest ro