Todos los capítulos de The Alpha My Sister Wanted: Capítulo 61 - Capítulo 70

Victor called the meeting before breakfast.Not a request. A formal summons, delivered by a runner to my door before the sun had fully cleared the ridge, and something in the wording of it, careful, procedural, entirely correct, told me this was not going to be a conversation.The senior wolves' room was already full when Ezra walked me in.Darius stood near the head of the table. Maren beside him, her expression carefully arranged into something unreadable. Cassian near the far wall, watching Victor with the particular stillness of a man who had learned, the hard way, not to show his hand before he understood the game.Victor was already seated."Thank you for coming," he said, as though any of us had been given a choice."Say what you called us here to say," Darius said.Victor folded his hands on the table."After the events of the assessment," he said, "and the disturbance that moved through the pack bond in the courtyard, I have a duty of care to consider. An unshifted wolf, carr

I heard the raised voices before Maren reached the door.Ezra tilted his head toward the corridor, listening to something the rest of the house had not noticed yet. The security hold kept me confined to this wing now, watched over by wolves too polite to call it what it was. I still heard everything.Maren found us within the hour, her face schooled into the particular calm she wore when she was containing something larger than she wanted to show."Vivian has filed a formal petition," she said. "Questioning your fitness to be considered for Luna.""She did this today. After everything that happened with Victor.""She does not know the full truth about Victor yet." Maren's mouth tightened. "She has been building this for weeks. Testimony from senior wolves. Incidents recorded and dated. Your unshifted status. Your closeness with Ezra. The disturbance in the courtyard.""She used the courtyard," I said, something cold settling in my chest. "The night I nearly shifted in front of the who

Darius found us before the sun was fully up.He did not knock. He simply opened the door to the small sitting room where Ezra and I had been sitting since neither of us could sleep, and the look on his face told me whatever he had learned overnight had not come easily.I had spent most of the night going over everything Vivian had said the day before, turning it in my mind the way you turn a stone looking for the crack that will finally split it open. Wolves outside the pack, interested in my instability. She had not chosen a side yet. I did not know if that frightened me or gave me something close to hope.Ezra had not slept either. I knew because every time I shifted against him, his arm had tightened around me without hesitation, awake and alert even in the dark."There is a boundary agreement," Darius said, without preamble, crossing to the window rather than sitting, "between Black Moon Ridge and Moonfall. Old. Predating Victor's appointment as Beta by decades. It grants any Alph

We walked until the sun stood high enough to burn off the last of the morning mist, and still Cassian did not let us stop."How much further," I asked, my legs aching in a way I had not expected, seven years of city streets having done nothing to prepare me for country like this."Another day, if the ground holds." Cassian's eyes swept the tree line ahead of us, constant, careful. "Less, if we are fortunate.""Are we fortunate.""We have not been so far."I could not argue with that. The horn from the pack house still echoed somewhere in the back of my mind, three short blasts I could not stop replaying, wondering what it had cost Maren to earn us this head start.Ezra walked close beside me, his attention split between the path ahead and something just beyond the edge of what I could sense, his jaw tight with a focus I had learned to recognize."You keep looking back," I said."I keep feeling something I cannot place," he said. "Not pack. Nothing I recognize. Just a weight at the edg

The trees started thinning out before Cassian said anything, and I noticed him slow down before I understood why."It should be just up here." He stopped walking. Started again. "Past that grey ridge."We came over it together and he just stopped, flat out, and Ezra grabbed his arm on reflex before either of us had worked out what was wrong.Rock. That was all there was. A long stretch of it running the length of the hillside, no gap, no shadow suggesting a gap, nothing that looked like anything other than a hill made of stone.Cassian walked up to it and put both hands flat against the surface like he thought it might move if he pushed hard enough."It was here." He said it quietly, almost to the rock rather than to us. "I stood inside it. I remember the light on the floor. I remember exactly where the light fell.""It has been twenty years," Ezra said, careful, not unkind."I know how long it has been." Cassian didn't turn around. "She stood me in a doorway once and let me think it