All Chapters of Reborn To Ruin The Alpha: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

*Aurelia's Pov* Yemi's check-in came at nine.Three words through Kane's line.*Confirmed. It's worse.*I read it twice. Set the phone down. Picked it up again like the words might have changed.They hadn't.Elle was at my door in four minutes. She took one look at my face and closed the door behind her without being asked. "Talk." She said.I showed her the message.She read it. Set the phone on the desk. Said nothing for a moment which was its own kind of answer because Elle always had something to say."Worse how." She said finally."She can't transmit detail through the coded line." I said. "She's back tomorrow morning.""Tomorrow morning." Elle repeated. "So we sit with confirmed and worse for twelve hours.""Yes." I said. She looked at the ceiling briefly. "Alright." She said. "Then we don't sit. What do we move on tonight.""I need to reach Adrian." I said. "Elora found a proximity flag on his district this morning. He's relocating tonight but he needs to know what Yemi found before h

*Adrian's Pov*Nobody moved.Drake was still in the doorway. Astra had gone completely quiet beside me. The new location settled around us with the particular silence of a space that had just received information that changed its weight."You know where she moved it." I said."Yes." Nyxara said."How." I said."Because I've known about Elora's facility for four months." She said, "The original location and the one she moved everything to tonight." She held my gaze without flinching. "I've been watching it the same way I've been watching everything inside Edgar's circle. From close enough to be useful and far enough to stay invisible.""And you said nothing." I said. "For four months.""I said nothing because I was still calculating." She said. "Whether what I knew was worth the cost of revealing that I knew it." She paused. "Tonight the calculation changed.""Why tonight." I said."Because Elora moved up her timeline." She said. "Whatever the breach at the warehouse triggered in her, it acce

*Edgar's Pov* He arrived two days early.Not because he was impatient. Edgar Stan had never been impatient in his life. He arrived early because the report Nyxara had sent him three nights ago had been sitting in the back of his thinking like a splinter, small and precise and impossible to ignore, and waiting two more days to address it had started to feel like a strategic error rather than discipline. His delegation was smaller than planned. Eight people instead of twelve. Travelling light was something he did when he wanted to move without the weight of his own visibility.Elora was not with him.He had told her he was arriving on the scheduled day.She had believed him.He noted that with the cold clarity of someone filing information rather than feeling it. The city received him the way cities received people who didn't announce themselves, without ceremony and without recognition. He moved through it in a vehicle that attracted no attention and arrived at the accommodation his adva

*Aurelia's Pov* He was in the entrance hall.Same composed authority as yesterday, same settled quality, but something underneath it today that hadn't been there then. A tightness at the jaw. An attention in the eyes that was sharper than his usual reading attention.He had found something.Not everything. If he had found everything he would not have come through the front door. But something.I stopped at the bottom of the stairs and looked at him across the entrance hall and neither of us spoke for a moment."The meeting is at ten." I said."I know." He said. "I need five minutes before it.""You had yesterday for that." I said. "You used it to look at me instead of talk to me."Something moved through his expression. "I was assessing." He said."I know." I said. "What did you find."He held my gaze. "Something I wasn't expecting." He said carefully."Tell me." I said."The east district." He said. "My canvassing team flagged movement patterns that don't match anything in their operational b

*Aurelia's Pov* Brent Soal lived in a third floor apartment above a laundry on Carver Street.He opened the door before we knocked, which meant he had been watching the street from the window, which meant he had been waiting with the specific alertness of someone who understood that whoever arrived first tonight determined everything about what happened next.He was smaller than I expected. Mid forties, the kind of face that had been unremarkable by design for so long it had forgotten how to be anything else. His hands were steady but his eyes were doing the rapid assessment of someone running a continuous calculation about whether they had made the right decision.He looked at me. I looked at Adrian beside me.Then he looked at Adrian for a second longer and something moved through his face that wasn't recognition exactly but was close to it, the instinctive reading of something that registered as different before the mind caught up with why."Inside." I said.He stepped back.The ap