Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Alpha's Hidden Debts: Kabanata 121 - Kabanata 123

Sera's POVThree weeks had passed since the hearing, and Northesk mornings felt different now. The sun came up over the mountains softer, the air carried less of the old fear. I sat at Riven’s desk in his study, the one that had become mine without anyone asking. Papers from the council’s legal team spread across the surface, the draft of the new hybrid status framework open in front of me. I was going through every line, cross-checking, asking questions that would make the codification bulletproof. My father was in the next room, his voice steady as he talked with Mara. I could hear him laughing at something she said, the sound warm and real, like the weight he had carried for years was finally lifting.The door opened without a knock. Dex stepped in, two mugs of coffee in his hands and a stack of documents tucked under his arm. He set one mug in front of me before I could even say thank you, then took the documents from my stack and slid them across the desk toward himself. He dropp

Sera's POVMy father’s recovery moved in waves I was still learning to read. Some days he was steady and present, sitting at the kitchen table with Mara, talking for hours about the old pack records, the way the council had changed, the small things that mattered now that Vael was gone. Other days his body remembered thirty years of damage, and he barely left his room, the weight of it in his eyes until the next morning brought him back. The unevenness of it felt like a slow bruise, every day a new shade, and I was learning slowly, slowly, how to read the difference. When he looked tired, when his shoulders sagged just a fraction more than usual, I left him alone. When he wanted to laugh at something on the radio or share a memory from the old days, I stayed.Mara managed both kinds of days with the same unhurried competence. She didn’t push when he needed silence. She didn’t hover when he wanted company. She just sat, read, listened, and let whatever the day needed be what it needed.