Todos os capítulos de FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL : Capítulo 41 - Capítulo 50

ElenaI know exactly where you are right now, and exactly who you're with. I'm on my way, and Elena you should know I'm not coming alone.I stared at the screen, my whole body going cold, our joined hands still resting on the seat between us like nothing in the world could touch us five seconds ago."Elena." Ryder's voice, sharp now, noticing the change in my face immediately. "What is it?""Victoria." I turned the phone toward him, watched his jaw tighten as he read it. "She knows where we are.""How?""There's a photo," I said quickly, the truth spilling out now that hiding it no longer served any purpose. "Someone took it while we were parked here. Naomi sent it to me before you even finished talking. I didn't want to interrupt what you were saying, I didn't want to—""You should have told me the second it happened.""I know." My hands were shaking now, adrenaline replacing whatever warmth had settled between us moments ago. "I'm sorry. I just wanted a few more minutes of this befo

ElenaThey don't strip him of his title, Elena. They execute him.I didn't remember walking out of that stairwell. I didn't remember sitting through first period, or second, or any of the classes that blurred together for the rest of that day, Victoria's words looping over and over until they'd worn a groove straight through the center of everything, I thought I understood about the danger I was actually standing in.It wasn't just my future on the line anymore. It wasn't even just Elena's future. Marcus's life sat balanced on whatever the Council decided in the next week, and somewhere underneath the fear, some small, unwanted part of me had started to feel something that wasn't quite grief but stood uncomfortably close to it.Aiden was waiting outside my last class when the final bell rang.He didn't say anything about why he was there, didn't offer some excuse about equipment or wrong turns the way Ryder always did. He just fell into step beside me the second I walked out, close en

AidenI didn't tell Elena I was going. I didn't fully understand my own reasons well enough to explain them out loud, only that after everything from the last few days, Naomi's confession, the Council's inquiry, Elder Whitmore's DNA request hanging over Elena's head like a blade, I needed to see something with my own eyes instead of just hearing about it secondhand.I needed to see Ryder Knight on that ice, and I needed him to see me watching.The Knight Pack's practice facility sat on the edge of campus, glass-walled and gleaming, the kind of building that made it very clear whose family had paid for it. I found Elena already there when I arrived, cap pulled low over her eyes, tucked into a corner of the bleachers like she was trying not to be noticed at all."You shouldn't be here," she said, the second she spotted me settling in beside her."Neither should you, technically. This is a closed scrimmage.""I have an excuse. I'm hiding.""So am I," I said. "Just less successfully, appa

ElenaI found out from a teammate, not from Ryder, not from Aiden, not from either of the two people who'd actually been standing close enough to the moment to tell me the truth themselves.Her name was Sadie, a defenseman I recognized vaguely from the bleachers, and she caught me at my locker the next morning with the kind of wide-eyed urgency people get when they've been sitting on a good story too long to keep it in any longer."Did you hear about Ryder?" she said, not waiting for an actual answer. "Full breakdown in the hallway after practice. Coach and two staff had to hold him down. Claws out and everything. Someone said his eyes went completely gold."My stomach dropped straight through the floor. "What?""Nobody's supposed to know," she said, lowering her voice like that made the gossip more responsible somehow, "but half the team saw it happen before they got cleared out. It's already all over the group chats.""Is he okay?""I mean, I guess?" Sadie shrugged, already losing i

RyderI didn't leave the study right away. My father's pen kept moving across the page in front of him, that same infuriating calm settling back over him like the conversation we'd just had hadn't cracked anything open in either of us at all."There's something else," he said, without looking up."What."He reached into a drawer and pulled out a single sheet of paper, setting it face-up on the desk between us, sliding it toward me with two fingers like it weighed nothing at all.I looked down. A name, typed in clean, formal print at the top of an official document I didn't need to read fully to understand.Damon Alistair Knight."Your cousin," my father said, "has already been briefed on the possibility of an early succession. He's agreed to begin transition preparations immediately, should the need arise."My stomach dropped. "You already talked to him? Before you even talked to me?""I talk to a great many people before I talk to you, Ryder. That's part of what running this pack actually req