Lahat ng Kabanata ng Alpha Daddy Take my Cherry : Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 20

Darkfang Manor was big enough that two people could go an entire day without crossing paths if they wanted to.Elias clearly wanted to.He moved through the house with purpose and direction, always going somewhere specific, always arriving and leaving without lingering. When he passed Liora in the corridor he gave a short nod. When he had an instruction he delivered it cleanly and waited for confirmation before walking away. He didn't stop to chat. Didn't ask how things were going. Didn't offer anything beyond what the situation required.Liora, on the other hand, had become very creative about being in the right place at the right time.She took her morning tea in the kitchen instead of her room because Elias passed through the kitchen between six and seven. She reviewed Niko's work at the dining table instead of the session room because Elias sometimes sat at the far end with his laptop in the early afternoon. She chose the reading chair in the main sitting room after Niko's evening

It happened the second his blood touched her skin.A spark. Sharp and electric, shooting up through her fingers and along her veins like a current finding its wire. It was gone almost as fast as it came — a single bright flash — but the warmth that followed it was enormous.Freya exploded.*YES.* The word rang through Liora like a bell. *YES. Do you feel that? Do you FEEL that?*Liora felt it. Every inch of it. Like every cell in her body had been plugged into something live and real and powerful. Freya was spinning somewhere inside her, delirious with it, drinking it in like someone who had been thirsty for years and had finally found water.Then a hand closed around her arm.Hard. Fast.Elias shoved her back from him, not violently but with enough force that the air left her chest. He was on his feet, his chair scraping back, his eyes sharp and his jaw tight."What are you doing?" His voice was low and controlled but there was something underneath it that wasn't controlled at all."

Her phone rang at half past eight the next morning.She was in the session room setting up Niko's work for the day when she saw the name on the screen.Leoric.She stared at it for two rings. Then she picked up."What do you want?""Good morning to you too." His voice had that smooth, unbothered quality he used when he wanted to sound like he had the upper hand. "I heard you're settling in nicely over there.""Who told you that?""Word travels." A pause. "I just want to understand something, Liora. What exactly are you trying to gain? Selling yourself to an Alpha who doesn't even look at you twice?" He let out a short laugh. "Is this about the debt? Because there are easier ways—""Leoric." She kept her voice very calm. "What I do with my life no longer concerns you.""Is that right.""You know it is. I rejected you. We're done. Whatever choices I make from this point forward have nothing to do with you.""Ah." She could hear the smile in it. The particular kind he wore when he though

Elowen moved fast.One second she was in the doorway. The next her hand was around Liora's throat and they were both going down, Liora's back hitting the floor hard enough to knock the air clean out of her lungs.She gasped.Elowen's face was above her, jaw tight, eyes blazing. "You think you can go after my father?" Her grip tightened. "You think I'll just stand here and let a broke little Omega worm her way into this family?"Liora grabbed at her wrist. Pulled. Got nowhere.*Freya,* she called inside herself. *Freya, I need you.*Nothing. Just a faint flicker, weak and distant, like a candle in wind.Elowen's wolf was fully awake. Liora could feel the power rolling off her in waves, hot and controlled and completely out of Liora's league right now. This was the heir of the Blue Moon Pack. Trained. Strong. Fed by a healthy wolf bond that Liora hadn't had in months.Elowen pulled back and threw a punch.It connected with Liora's cheekbone and her vision burst white.She twisted sidewa

Liora sat on the edge of his desk and did the only thing she could do.She looked up at him and kept her face as still as possible while internally she was having a completely different conversation.Freya.Hmm? Freya's voice was warm and distant, the tone of someone lying in a field of flowers with their eyes closed.This is not the time.I know. I'm just — Liora, do you feel that? Even now? Just from him standing this close, I'mFreya, he has his claws out.Yes but his body heat is incredibleHe might kill us.He's not going to kill us.He has CLAWS, FreyaAnd you have all of my attention and also approximately forty percent more energy than you had ten minutes ago so really this situation has an upside—I cannot believe you right now.Freya went quiet. But Liora could still feel her humming happily somewhere underneath everything, soaking up the proximity like sunshine through glass, completely unbothered by the fact that the man generating all that warmth looked like he was three