Chapter Seventy-One: Ordinary Time

Lena MarshLena hadn't slept in eighteen hours when Rowan found her still hunched over her tablet at six in the morning, and the first thing he did, before saying a single word about the border inquiry or Vera Kessler or anything that had kept either of them awake through the night, was set a cup of coffee down in front of her and physically close her laptop."Five minutes," he said. "That's all I'm asking. Five minutes of not looking at that screen.""Rowan, there's a transaction confirmation sitting in that log that I still haven't fully decoded""And it will still be sitting there in five minutes," he said, sitting down across from her at the small kitchen table, close enough that his knee brushed hers under it, deliberately, the way he'd started doing lately, small and unhurried claims on the space between them that no longer needed four inches of distance to feel safe. "You've been awake all night. Dominic's been awake all night. Rowan's been driving half t

Chapter Seventy-two: No More Managing Me

Sophie SteeleSophie found out about the car parked near the northern perimeter from Miriam, not from Dominic, and that single fact told her everything she needed to know about exactly how this household still operated when the stakes were high enough to frighten the people who loved her."I only know because Rowan called ahead asking me to keep Ethan indoors this morning, no explanation given beyond a raised security concern," Miriam said, standing in the kitchen doorway with the particular carefulness of someone delivering information she suspected wasn't hers to deliver. "I assumed you already knew. I'm sorry if I've said something I shouldn't have.""You haven't said anything wrong," Sophie said, already moving past her toward the study, feeling something cold and familiar settle into her spine, the exact sensation she'd spent seven years building a life specifically to never feel again. "You've said exactly the thing I should have been told directly, an hour a

Chapter Seventy-three: Callum Draven

Dominic SteeleDominic had Vera Kessler's folder open on his desk within the hour, and the first page alone told him they were no longer dealing with a vague suspicion about a rival Alpha's ambitions.Rowan had brought her back to the villa himself, under guard but not under arrest, a distinction Vera herself had been quick to point out the moment she'd stepped out of the car, hands raised, insisting she'd come voluntarily rather than been caught fleeing. She sat now in the study across from Dominic, Sophie beside him this time, exactly where she'd insisted on being, and Lena stood near the door with her tablet already open, cross-referencing what she was about to say against everything she'd traced through the night."Start from the beginning," Dominic said. "Everything, in order. I want to understand precisely what you sold, to whom, and what you know about what happens next.""I didn't sell everything," Vera said, and there was none of the composed detachment s

All Chapters of The Alpha's Lost Mate.: Chapter 71 - Chapter 73

Chapter Seventy-One: Ordinary Time

Chapter Seventy-two: No More Managing Me

Chapter Seventy-three: Callum Draven