All Chapters of FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL : Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

Elena"Do not you dare," I said, my voice breaking as I pressed both hands against Marcus's chest, blood welling hot between my fingers no matter how hard I pushed. "Do not you dare die right now.""Elena." Ryder was beside me instantly, ripping his own jacket off and pressing it against the wound alongside my hands. "We need to get him out of here. Now."Behind us, chaos still churned through the small cabin. Marcus's security had Aiden's father pinned against the far wall, one of his men already restrained on the floor, the driver with the signet ring nowhere to be seen, having apparently slipped out during the confusion."The ambulance cannot reach this road fast enough," one of the guards shouted. "We need to carry him to the vehicle.""Then carry him," I said, my voice sharper than I had ever heard it come out of my own mouth. "Now."Two guards moved fast, lifting Marcus carefully between them, and I stayed pressed against his side the entire way to the car, refusing to let go of

VictoriaWho am I.The question hung in the air of that waiting room, and for a long moment nobody answered it, because nobody actually could. I stood there, blood roaring in my ears, watching Eleanor's careful, apologetic face, watching Elena's tired, guarded eyes, watching Ryder standing there with twenty-one years of my family's lies sitting comfortably on his shoulders like he had simply been waiting for the right moment to finally set them down.Something in my chest went very quiet, not the panicked, desperate quiet of the past few weeks, the fear that had chased me through every phone call with the Cross Pack, every threat, every sleepless night wondering how much longer I could hold this arrangement together before it collapsed on top of me entirely.This was different colder and something settling into place with a clarity I had not felt in months."You knew since the party," I said slowly, my voice steady now in a way that surprised even me. "That means every single gala, Ryd

VictoriaThe footage loaded slowly on my laptop screen, the file marked simply Cabin, Elena, gold eyes, and I sat there in my own bedroom at three in the morning with the lights off, staring at a video I already suspected would change something in me before I finished watching it.It started grainy, shot from somewhere near the cabin's tree line, whoever had filmed it clearly hiding among the trees while the confrontation unfolded inside. The audio caught fragments, muffled through the walls, Elena's voice rising sharp and strange partway through.Do not touch her.The words landed wrong on the recording, deeper than her actual voice, carrying a weight that made the hair on my arms stand up even watching it secondhand through a cracked laptop speaker.Then the camera caught her face through the cabin window, and I understood immediately why he had wanted me to see this before tomorrow.Her eyes had gone completely gold, no trace of brown left at all, holding steady in a way that felt

ElenaAiden arrived at the hospital exactly eleven minutes after I called him, and we drove to campus together in a tense, mostly silent car, both of us watching the clock on the dashboard climb closer to nine."You do not have to go," he said, pulling into a parking spot near the student center, the building already swarming with more students and press than I had ever seen gathered there before. "You could stay away entirely; let it happen without watching it happen to your face.""I need to see what she says," I said. "Hiding from it does not make it less real. It just means I find out secondhand, and secondhand always sounds worse."He did not argue further, and we made our way toward the building together, weaving through a crowd already thick and restless, phones lifted on every side, the particular electric tension of a room that senses something significant is about to happen.We found a spot near the back, close enough to see, far enough that we were not standing directly in

ElenaBy the time Aiden got me back to the car, my phone had already exploded with notifications, the livestream clip of my own confrontation with Victoria spreading faster than the original briefing itself had, cut into a dozen different versions with a dozen different captions.Some were kind. Most were not.She just admitted she can make an alpha's men freeze in place.Did anyone else notice her voice change when she said "the actual danger"?This is exactly what the old law was supposed to prevent."Do not read them," Aiden said quietly, watching my face as I scrolled. "It will not help.""I need to know what I am dealing with.""You are dealing with fear," he said. "Reading a hundred different versions of the same fear does not give you more information. It just gives you more of it to carry."I set the phone face-down in my lap, my hands unsteady, and let the silence of the car settle around us for a few minutes as he drove us back toward the hospital."Do you think it worked,"