All Chapters of The Alpha My Sister Wanted: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

Harwick’s answer sat between us for one heartbeat.Mine.Darius looked down at the seal again.“Inside.”No one argued.We returned to the western store room, where Vivian still had ledgers spread across the table and Maren was checking the list of files removed from Victor’s office. Luca appeared through the hidden passage a few minutes later, dirt along one sleeve from whatever route he had been inspecting.His eyes went to the document in Darius’s hand.“What happened?”“Victor has begun a Right of Answer petition,” Darius said.

By breakfast, Darius's study looked as though years of suspicion had been emptied across every available surface.Folders covered the desk. Old notebooks were stacked on the floor beside it, some so worn the leather had softened at the corners. Loose pages lay across the long table in rough groups, each marked with dates, names or pieces of Victor's administration that had never made sense at the time.Vivian stood at one end of the table reading through a ledger.Maren sat opposite her.Ezra stood beside the window, arms folded. Darius moved between the papers like a man trying to see a picture he had spent years collecting one piece at a time.I stopped near the table."You kept all of this?"Darius glanced at the nearest stack. "Most of it.""Most?""A few early notes were written when I still believed Victor's influence could be explained politically."Vivian looked up. "And when did you stop believing that?""Before I knew what else to call it."She returned to the ledger.Darius

Darius had apparently decided sleep was optional.When Ezra and I reached his study, every lamp was burning. Books covered the desk, the side table and one of the chairs. Maren had claimed the other chair and was reading something that looked old enough to fall apart if she breathed too hard near it.Darius looked up.“You’re back.”“We found the watch post,” Ezra said.“And?”“Used this morning. Cleared before we got there.”Darius closed his eyes for a second.“Well,” I said, “that expression is comforting.”Ezra’s mouth twitched.Darius did not look amused.“I sent for you because I need to see something.”“That sounds slightly better.”“It may not be.”Of course.I stepped closer to the desk. One of the books was open to cramped writing and diagrams I could not begin to understand.“What did you find?”“Nothing I can prove yet.”“You dragged us back here for nothing?”“I asked you to come back because I may finally know what questions to ask.”That was very Darius.I folded my arm

My wolf surged so hard I caught the edge of the desk.Ezra moved at the same time, stopping close enough that he could catch me if I needed him.Darius looked from me to the drawing beneath his hand.A crescent curved around a dark stone.“The Black Moon Stone,” Maren said.I stared at the page.“The presentation.”Darius nodded slowly.“The same shape.”My wrist had started to ache beneath the clasp. Not the sharp burning Victor could cause through the black mark. Something deeper.Pressure.My wolf pushed once against the suppression and settled again.Waiting.I was beginning to hate when she did that.“What does the Stone have to do with this?”Darius turned several pages at once.“I thought it was ceremonial.”“It is ceremonial,” Maren said.“That does not mean that is all it is.”He found another passage and dragged the lamp closer.Ezra leaned over the opposite side of the desk.“What are you looking for?”“A reason Liora would divide one working across three objects instead of

We told Darius before I could give fear time to become a better argument.He looked at me for so long I almost wished he would try to talk me out of it.“You’re certain?”“No.”His eyebrows pulled together.“I’m certain I want to do it,” I said. “I’m not certain I won’t be terrified while I do.”“That is a different thing.”Maren, standing beside him, nodded once. “And a more honest one.”Darius closed the folio on his desk.“Then we do it tonight.”By the time we reached the main hall, the council benches stood empty. Two guards remained outside the doors, but Darius shut them behind us.Only the four of us remained inside.The Black Moon Stone waited on its old plinth at the far end of the hall.The last time I had stood here, I had been near the back while Vivian walked towards the future everyone had prepared for her. The Stone had stayed dark beneath her hand.Then it had answered me from across the room.Tonight there was no ceremony.There was nothing for the pack to witness or