Todos os capítulos de I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake : Capítulo 121 - Capítulo 130

Damon's POVThe Vampire King returned within five days, considerably faster than his original week-long estimate, and the speed itself told Damon something significant before a single word passed between them."I found him," the King said, settling into the study with none of his usual composed formality, exhaustion evident throughout his entire bearing in a way Damon had never previously witnessed. "Lord Ashgrave. Senior court advisor, serving my family for over two centuries, present at my own coronation.""Two centuries of trusted service," Constance observed. "That's a considerable investment for someone apparently working against your own interests.""Which made the investigation considerably more difficult than I anticipated," the King admitted. "I couldn't simply confront him directly without genuine proof. Two centuries of trust doesn't dissolve on fragmentary testimony alone, regardless of how urgent the concern.""What did you actually find?" Damon asked."Correspondence," t

Maya's POVI drove to the settlement myself the following morning, against Damon's initial protest, Elias's careful security concerns, and Ruth's outright insistence that someone should accompany me given everything currently unfolding."I need to tell Yara personally," I said, settling this argument with the particular firmness I'd learned, over years, actually worked on my household. "She deserves to hear this from me directly, not through some formal, impersonal message relayed by security personnel."Damon eventually compromised by insisting on driving me himself, which I accepted, understanding his own need to feel useful rather than simply waiting anxiously at home while search efforts continued across the territory.Yara received the news with a stillness that unsettled me considerably more than tears or visible distress would have."How long has he been missing?" she asked, settling into her chair with obvious effort, the years si

Maya's POVReyna had been moved, weeks earlier, from the cellar's cold restraint to a modest but genuinely comfortable room in the mansion's staff wing, part of the gradual trust-building Constance had recommended once her cooperation proved consistent and genuine. She looked up from the book she'd been reading when I entered, something wary but no longer entirely fearful in her expression."You need something," she said, setting the book aside. "You have the look of someone about to ask a difficult question.""Marcus is missing," I said, deciding directness would serve us both better than careful diplomatic softening. "We believe he went willingly with people connected to Corvain. I need to know anything you remember about how they operate. Locations they use. Methods for this kind of... recruitment, rather than simple infiltration."Reyna was quiet for a long moment, something working behind her expression that I'd learned, over weeks of careful interaction, indicated genuine consid

Maya's POVWe didn't arrest Ashgrave, though every instinct Selene and the security team carried suggested we should have. Something in his exhausted, genuinely uncertain expression convinced me, and eventually Damon as well, that whatever he offered next mattered considerably more than another tribunal, another cell, another cycle of punishment without genuine resolution."I'll give you something," Ashgrave said, once we'd settled into the settlement's central hall properly, Marcus beside me now rather than across from his former captor, security personnel positioned discreetly rather than aggressively surrounding the old vampire. "Not simply information. Genuine access. Records my faction has maintained for centuries, documenting every bloodline connection, every suppressed piece of shared ancestry we've spent generations controlling.""Why would you offer that now?" Damon asked, wariness evident despite the offer's obvious value."Because I'm tired," Ashgrave said simply, and somet

Damon's POVThe investigation that followed consumed the better part of three weeks, Constance and Ashgrave working in tandem through records that spanned not just his own faction's archives but, gradually, materials Selene managed to source through her own considerably more scattered witch contacts, and eventually, careful correspondence with the Vampire King's own royal archivists once the full scope of the situation had been formally disclosed to him."I need to be direct with you," the King had said, upon learning the truth of Ashgrave's centuries of betrayal alongside its genuinely uncertain original justification. "I'm furious. Two centuries of trusted service, weaponized against exactly the alliance I've genuinely committed myself toward building. But I also recognize the value in understanding this fully, rather than simply punishing the messenger and losing whatever truth he's finally willing to help uncover."His formal judgment—considerable restriction on Ashgrave's movemen