บททั้งหมดของ Alpha Daddy Take my Cherry : บทที่ 81 - บทที่ 87

Elias came through the door first.He crossed the room in four steps and dropped to his knees beside Niko, his hands moving over his son the way a father's hands move — checking everything at once, looking for what was wrong, finding it in the trembling and the white at the corners of his mouth and the shallow uneven breathing."Morris." His voice came out as something she had never heard from him before. Raw. Stripped of every layer of control. "Morris. Get the healer. Now."Morris was already on his radio in the doorway.Elias lifted Niko. Both arms, the boy's body against his chest, his head tilted to keep the airway clear. He stood and Liora could see his arms shaking slightly — not from the weight. She had seen him carry Niko a hundred times without effort.His wolf was right at the surface.She could feel it from where she stood — the particular energy that came off an Alpha whose most protected thing was threatened. Hot and enormous and barely contained."What is it?" Owen said

"Dark magic," Elias said."Residual," Kael said. "The kind left deliberately. Not transferred through contact with the poison itself." He looked at Liora's hands, still turned palm up between them. "If she had prepared the poison or handled it directly the trace would be chemical. Biological. It would match what's in the boy's system." He paused. "What's on her skin doesn't match. It was placed there separately. By someone who wanted her hands to read guilty if anyone examined them.""Someone who knew you could do this," Owen said."Someone who knew the method exists and prepared for it," Kael confirmed. "Which narrows the field considerably."Elias said nothing.He stood at the window where he had been standing since Petra took Niko to the adjoining room and the examination moved out of sight. His back was partially to the room. His hands were at his sides.Liora watched the back of his head and waited."Elias," she said.He turned.The doubt was smaller now. She could see that. The

The room went very quiet after Kael said it.Then Elias said, "Leoric is in custody.""Yes," Kael said."Pending his smuggling trial. Under council detention." Elias looked at the wall for a moment. "He can't move the magic himself. He can't leave the facility." He paused. "But someone visited him. Someone who came back here carrying what he gave them."He looked at Morris.Morris was already on his radio.Thirty seconds. Then — "Visitor logs from last night at the detention facility." Morris looked at Elias. "Elowen signed in at nine forty-two pm. Approximately forty minutes after her probation release was processed."Nobody spoke.Owen closed his eyes briefly. Just briefly."She went straight from release to his cell," Sophia said quietly from the couch."Find her," Elias said.---Elowen was found at a hotel two streets from the pack council building.She came without a physical fight, which was the only thing that went simply in the next hour. Morris brought her to the main counci

She didn't answer immediately.Not because she didn't know the answer. She had known it since the garden, probably since before that. But it was the kind of answer that deserved to be said carefully rather than quickly, because the question underneath it was real and Elias had earned a real response."Kael confuses me," she said. "I won't pretend he doesn't. Everything he represents — the bloodline, the history, the family I never got to have — it pulls at something in me that I didn't know was empty until he showed up and named it." She looked at Elias directly. "But it's not the same pull. It's not anywhere near the same thing." She paused. "You asked Freya to speak for herself once. So I'll say it for her now. She has never once turned toward Kael the way she turns toward you. Not even slightly. Whatever I feel when I'm near him is about understanding who I am. Not about wanting him."Elias looked at her."My heart is yours," she said simply. "It's been moving in that direction sin