Lahat ng Kabanata ng Alpha Daddy Take my Cherry : Kabanata 21 - Kabanata 30

The silence stretched long between them.Elias didn't push for the answer he said he needed. He just stood there, looking at her sitting on his desk, the gold in his eyes settling slowly back to normal the way embers cool after the fire stops being fed.Then he stepped back.One step. Then another. Like he was making a deliberate choice to put distance between himself and whatever had been building in the air of that room for the last ten minutes.He turned away from her and moved to the window. Stood with his back to her, one hand in his pocket, looking out at the grounds below.Liora stayed on the desk. She didn't move until she was sure she was supposed to.The silence between them now was different from the one before. Less charged. Like a storm that had decided at the last moment not to break."You feel it too," he said quietly.It wasn't a question. But it wasn't quite a statement either. It sat somewhere between the two, careful and reluctant, like it had cost him something to

"Every capable guard," Elias said. "All of them. Tonight.""Understood." Morris was already moving on the other end of the line. "I'll have them assembled in twenty minutes.""You have ten." Elias ended the call.He changed quickly. Not the sharp, tailored things he wore around the house. Something different. Dark and close-fitting and built for movement. He strapped things to himself that Liora, passing in the corridor on her way back from Niko's room, had never seen on him before and didn't want to look at too long.He was almost at the front door when she stepped into the hallway.He didn't stop. Didn't explain. Just caught her eye for half a second as he passed, something in his expression that was neither warm nor cold but simply locked in, focused entirely on whatever was ahead of him.The front door closed.The house went quiet.Liora stood in the corridor for a moment. Then she went to check on Niko.---He was already half asleep when she pushed his door open, one arm thrown

The location was wrong.Elias knew it the second they arrived. The warehouse sat empty and dark, no guards, no vehicles, no sign that anything of value had ever been stored there. Just cold concrete and the smell of something that had been cleared out in a hurry.A setup.He stood in the middle of the empty floor and felt the pieces rearrange themselves in his head with the particular clarity of someone who had been played and knew exactly when it had happened."Alpha." Morris appeared at his shoulder. "It's clean. Nothing here.""I can see that.""They moved the shipment. Must have anticipated we'd find the first location." Morris's jaw was tight. "I'm already pulling contacts. We'll have the new coordinates within the hour.""Do it fast." Elias turned toward the door. "I want every man on it.""Understood." Morris was already on his radio. "I'll coordinate from here. You need to—"Elias's phone rang.He pulled it out. Unknown number. He almost let it go.Then something made him answ

His wolf came forward without being asked.That had never happened before. Elias had always been the one in control, always the one who decided when and how much. But lying on the crumpled roof of his car with fuel in his nose and a small orange flame doing something final near the engine, his wolf simply came forward and took over.The pain didn't disappear. But it moved. Shifted from the front of everything to the back, manageable, background noise.He moved.One arm. Then the other. Dragging himself across the broken glass and twisted metal toward the gap where the windscreen used to be. Something tore somewhere along the way. He noted it and kept moving.He cleared the car.Got onto the road.Behind him, thirty seconds later, the heat hit his back in a wave.He didn't look.He got to his knees. Then one foot flat on the ground. Then the other. The first few steps were wrong in ways he didn't examine. Then his wolf pushed harder and his bones remembered what they were supposed to d

Adams came back through the front door fast.He took in the scene — Kane on the floor, Elias standing over him bleeding through his shirt — and made his decision in under a second. He came in hard, going straight for Elias from behind, and the two of them hit the wall together.Kane was back on his feet.Two of them now. Fresh and coordinated, working the angles, pushing Elias toward the centre of the room where they had more space and he had less.Elias fought both of them.But even his wolf had limits tonight.*Liora.* Freya's voice was not gentle this time. Not warm. It was sharp and bright and fully awake. *Get up. Right now. He needs us.*Liora was already moving.Her hands were still bound but her legs were free and Freya was pouring everything she had into her limbs, that deep steady energy she had been building since they moved into this house, and Liora felt it hit her bloodstream like something catching fire.She went for Adams.He was bigger. She didn't care. She hit him fr