All Chapters of FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL : Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

ElenaI read Naomi's message three times before the words fully settled, and when I finally looked up from my phone, every face in that hospital room mirrored the same cold dread already sitting in my own chest."Show me," Ryder said, and I turned the phone toward him, watching his jaw tighten as he read it."She is actually considering it," he said quietly. "Not just threatening it for leverage actually considering invoking the old law.""We need a plan," Marcus said, his voice weaker now, the earlier burst of strength clearly costing him more than he wanted to admit. "Something beyond simply hoping my testimony alone changes her mind.""What would actually change her mind," I asked. "If Victoria's fear campaign already has this much momentum, what could possibly counter it in two days?"Eleanor spoke up for the first time in several minutes, her voice careful but steady. "Precedent," she said. "Marcus mentioned his own mother nearly faced this same law decades ago. What actually sto

ElenaI read Aiden's message aloud to the room, and the silence that followed felt heavier than anything Victoria's briefing had managed to produce."That is not possible," Marcus said slowly, though something uncertain had entered his voice. "Elder Whitmore has served on this Council for over three decades. Her family history predates the Cross Pack's current leadership entirely.""Predates it or not," Ryder said, "if Aiden found her name in his father's private files, that connection did not appear out of nowhere."I called Aiden back immediately, putting him on speaker so the whole room could hear."Tell us exactly what you found," I said. "Every detail.""There is a financial record," Aiden said, his voice tight with the same disbelief that had gripped the rest of us. "A transfer, going back almost four years, routed through a shell account that eventually traces to Elder Whitmore's personal holdings. It is not large. Small enough that anyone glancing at it casually would assume i

ElenaWe left the hospital a little after ten that night, the plan assembled hastily but deliberately over the final hour, every piece of it built around one single priority: getting me to that meeting with enough protection that whatever waited at the training grounds would not catch us as unprepared as whoever planned it clearly hoped.Ryder drove. Aiden met us there separately, having left even earlier to scout the perimeter before the rest of us arrived, using what remained of his family’s old maps of the territory to identify every possible approach and exit point. Marcus’s security detail, thinned but still functional even with their alpha hospitalized, followed in a second vehicle, keeping enough distance to stay unseen without losing contact entirely.Eleanor had wanted to come. Marcus, still too weak to argue effectively but clearly terrified of losing her again after only just getting her back, had finally convinced her to stay at the hospital instead, a compromise none of u

ElenaThe Council chamber had never looked this full in any of the formal gatherings I had attended over the past two months. Elders filled the raised benches along the back wall, their faces carved into careful, unreadable expressions. Press representatives crowded the gallery above, cameras already angled toward the central floor where witnesses would eventually be called to speak. Pack members from every corner of Hartwood Territory packed the standing room at the rear, drawn by Victoria’s broadcast of Elder Whitmore’s predetermined ruling, which had spread through every channel available within hours of its release just before dawn.I stood near the front with Ryder on one side and Eleanor on the other, Marcus seated in a wheelchair beside us, having insisted, against every doctor’s objection, that he would attend this hearing in person regardless of the physical cost.“You do not have to do this,” I murmured to him, watching the strain already visible in his pale face despite the

ElenaI did not sleep that night either, the unknown contact’s final message looping endlessly through my exhausted mind. Thirty days is still thirty days too many.We gathered in Marcus’s hospital room again, the same exhausted group that had carried us through the ambush and the hearing now facing a new, uncertain threat with nothing concrete to actually counter it.“We need to assume he means exactly what he says,” Ryder said, pacing slowly in front of the window, exhaustion clearly wearing thin his usual composure. “Whatever this actual plan is, the one he keeps referencing, he clearly does not intend to wait out the investigation period patiently.”“But we have no idea what the plan actually is,” Aiden said, frustration bleeding into his voice. “Every lead we have chased has only given us fragments. The cabin attack. Elder Whitmore’s corruption. The ambush at the training grounds. None of it has told us what the actual endgame looks like.”“Maybe that is deliberate,” Naomi said q