All Chapters of Ruined for the Captain (A MxM WEREWOLF ROMANCE): Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

~Everett~The loud sound of the guards' boots behind me felt less like protection and more like a walk to my doom.I didn't need to turn around to know they were there. Four towering, broad-shouldered Alphas from Knox's personally assigned guard detail followed exactly three paces behind me. Their shared scents were a strong, overwhelming barrier of burned wood, metal, and forceful control that now pushed against my back, causing the tiny hairs on the back of my neck to rise.Knox had kissed me thoroughly before he left for the Alpha meeting, his hands gripping my waist so tightly it left faint bruises, whispering against my lips that the men he assigned to me were for my protection. He told me the campus wasn't safe. He told me he couldn't think properly if he knew I was unguarded.But as I walked down the stone steps of the residential wing, the folded piece of note from last night hidden securely in the waistband of my trousers felt like a white-hot branding iron against my skin

~Everett~I quickly entered Nicky's recovery room and slammed the heavy wooden door shut to block out the cold, threatening smell of Declan's winter scent.My back hit the timber, my breath coming in rough, shallow gasps that made my lungs burn. Outside the large glass observation window, Vance and the other three Alpha guards immediately shifted, their eyes locking onto me with sharp, sudden intensity. They didn't move to enter, but their presence felt like a tightening noose."Everett? What happened?" Nicky asked, his voice strained as he tried to lift his uninjured arm. The movement pulled at his bandaged chest, making him wince. "You look like you've seen a ghost.""Worse," I choked out. I stepped away from the door, keeping my body angled so the guards outside couldn't see my hands. With trembling fingers, I pulled the crumpled warning note from my waistband and smoothed it out on the sterile white sheets of Nicky's bed. Then, I slid my phone face-up right next to it.The g

~Everett~Twenty minutes later, Vance and his three guards escorted me back across the campus to Knox's private quarters. I walked in complete silence, with my hands shoved deep into my pockets, squeezing the encrypted drive so hard.When Vance unlocked the reinforced door to Knox's suite, I stepped inside, expecting an empty room.Instead, Knox was already there, standing by the window.He had taken off his jacket, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, looking utterly exhausted. But the moment the door clicked shut behind me, he turned around, his dark piercing eyes locking onto mine with an intensity that made my stomach drop."Where were you?" Knox asked. His voice was unusually quiet, carrying a dangerous, low vibration that set my instincts on edge."I was at the clinic," I said, forcing my voice to remain flat as I walked toward the kitchenette, keeping my back to him. "With Nicky. Like I told you I would be.""Vance told me there was a medical emergency," Knox said, his foots

~KNOX~ "Knox?"Everett's raspy, sleep-thickened voice suddenly shattered the silence I turned around slowly. Everett was sitting up in bed, rubbing his eyes, the heavy bedcover pulled up to his waist. He blinked against the dim moonlight, his eyes falling onto my hands, onto his phone, the note, and the data drive now resting on the table beside me.All the color instantly drained from his face."What is this, Everett?" I asked, my voice low, trembling with a mixture of heartbreak and rising, deadly anger.Everett swallowed hard, his hands gripping the sheets. He tried to pull his act back on, forcing a small, nervous laugh that sounded hollow in the quiet room. "Knox... it's—it's nothing. I just found those down in the clinic. Someone left them near Nicky's room. It's just a misunderstanding....""A misunderstanding?" I roared. "A misunderstanding you intentionally hid from me?!"The sound exploded off the stone walls, making Everett flinch violently. The anger that had been simm

~EVERETTE~My knees hit the floor before I could think, before I could talk myself out of it.The worn carpet wools bit into my skin through my jeans, but that dull scratch barely registered. Something deeper had taken over....a tidal pull of instinct and omega surrender that folded my legs and brought me down exactly where I belonged.Between his thighs.Kneeling for him.Knox sat at the edge of the bed, forearms resting on his knees, watching me with those dark, unreadable eyes. The lamplight carved shadows beneath his cheekbones. His scent wrapped around me, made my mouth water and my pulse drop into a slow, rich beat."Everett." Just my name. Low. A warning or an invitation. I couldn't tell anymore.My fingers found the button of his jeans. The zipper rasped down, obscenely loud in the quiet room, and he lifted his hips just enough to let me work the denim past his thighs.His cock sprang free, already thick and flushed, the head slick with a bead of pre-cum that caught the li