Todos los capítulos de Rejected and Pregnant with Alpha Twins: Capítulo 221 - Capítulo 230

~Caden's POV~Vera requests a second private meeting on Wednesday, and this time she brings a folder with her, thin, only a handful of pages, but she sets it on the desk between them with the specific weight of someone who has found something worth the careful, deliberate delivery she is about to give it."Isolde's original references," she says, taking her seat across from him without waiting to be invited, the specific authority of a woman who has sat in this room enough times over the years that formality between them has long since worn down to something more direct. "I finally reached the second name on her list. The first, as it happens, was unreachable, out of contact for reasons his own pack described only as personal, vague enough that I did not push further at the time. The second answered my inquiry within a day, and what he told me does not match the reference letter Isolde submitted at the time of her hiring, not in any particular that matters."Caden sits forward, his co

~Caden's POV~Vera confirms the identity within the week, working through a contact on the western regional council who owed her a favor old enough that neither of them bothers naming it aloud, and she brings the confirmation to Blackwell Manor herself rather than summoning them to Pack Hall, a choice Caden understands as its own kind of message about how seriously she is now treating this, how little she wants even the appearance of routine attached to it."Her birth name is Isolde Marchetti," Vera says, laying a second folder beside the first on the study desk, the papers inside precisely ordered, the specific meticulousness of a woman who has spent a career learning that sloppy documentation loses arguments before they are ever heard. "She changed it formally, through legitimate channels, eighteen months after leaving the western pack. Nothing illegal in the name change itself. People change names for a hundred reasons, some of them entirely benign, a divorce, a break from a diffic

~Caden's POV~The ten days move slower than he expects, each one carrying its own quiet tension, the specific vigilance of a household holding its breath around a threat that has not yet fully left the building, every ordinary interaction now weighed against the possibility that it might reveal too much before the timeline is ready.Isolde is visible less now, occupied with the summit preparations Selene built for her, buried in briefing documents and regional contact lists that require, by design, most of her attention. But she surfaces periodically, once to request access to a set of regional correspondence files Caden approves without hesitation because refusing would raise exactly the kind of suspicion they have spent so much careful effort avoiding, once to ask Rhys, in passing, in the corridor outside the records office, whether Selene's due date had been confirmed yet.Rhys reports the question that evening, finding Caden in the study, his expression flat and precise in the way

~Selene's POV~The retaliation comes eleven days after the termination notice, not from Isolde directly but through a mechanism far more damaging in its subtlety, a formal inquiry filed with the regional trade council questioning the legitimacy of the Westmere corridor agreement on procedural grounds, citing an unnamed source's concerns about whether the agreement had been properly authorized given "recent instability in Cresthaven's governance structure."Rhys brings the inquiry to the study on a Thursday morning, his expression grimmer than Selene has seen it since the first archive discovery weeks earlier, the folder held slightly away from his body the way he carries things he has already decided are unpleasant before he has even set them down."It's not signed by her," he says, setting the document on the desk between them. "It's filed under the regional council's general procedural review process, anonymous by design, the kind of mechanism meant to protect legitimate whistleblow

~Selene's POV~The regional notice goes out on a Tuesday, circulated to every pack council in the network under Vera's formal seal, three documented identities laid out plainly alongside a description of the method itself, the careful positioning during leadership gaps, the fabricated references, the pattern precise enough that any pack encountering a version of it in the future will recognize the shape within weeks rather than months, saving them the slow, painful accumulation of evidence that cost Selene eight weeks of her own life to assemble.The response is immediate and, in its way, humbling.Within four days, two more packs write back, each independently confirming a strategist matching the description had approached them for consultation work in the past year, neither hire completed, both declined for reasons the packs describe now, in hindsight, as instinct rather than concrete evidence, the specific unease of a leadership pair sensing something wrong without yet having the v