All Chapters of I teamed up with my ex-husband’s rival Alpha: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Project Genesis.The words burned into my mind. The Apex Coalition had spent a decade stealing the vital essence of the region’s most powerful wolves, all to stitch together an artificial rival to my extinct bloodline. They were not simply harvesting energy to hoard it. They were trying to play God.I rested my palms flat against the cool glass of the drafting table. The golden rings in my irises flared as I studied the complex genetic markers spiraling through the hologram."They built a king," I whispered, the chilling reality settling deep in my bones. "They took the raw dominance of thirty Alphas, the healing factor of Elder Thorne’s niece, the physical density of elite Enforcers... and they fused it into a single vessel.""To mimic you," Dominic stated, his icy blue eyes narrowing as he analyzed the data. He stepped closer, his broad shoulders casting a long shadow over the table. "They read the ancient texts, Sienna. They knew the Aurelian strain was immune to the traditional hi

I stared at the pale man standing in the freezing mist. Subject Zero did not blink. His corrupted red and yellow eyes locked onto my face.My heart hammered against my ribs. I did not look at him like a monster. I looked at him the way an architect looks at a building. I studied his foundation. I looked for the stress points.He was built wrong.I could see the raw Alpha energy practically vibrating under his skin. It was too heavy for his frame. A skyscraper built on a foundation of sand will always collapse under its own weight. The muscles in his neck twitched constantly. He was holding the stolen power of thirty wolves, but those powers were fighting each other inside his veins. He was structurally unstable."You built a corpse," I told Adams. I kept my voice perfectly level. "He is falling apart just standing there."Adams lost his polite smile. His jaw tightened in sudden anger."Kill the Alpha," Adams commanded softly. He took a slow step backward into the thick gray mist. "Bri

She looked nothing like the healthy young woman in the old Council photographs Carter had pulled up on the drafting table.Elise Thorne stood in the mansion's foyer wrapped in a thin gray coat that hung off her frame like it belonged to someone twice her size. Her skin was pale, almost translucent, stretched tight over sharp cheekbones. Her dark hair had gone brittle and dull. But her eyes, when she lifted them to look at me, were sharp and clear and very much alive."You are the Aurelian," she said. Her voice was hoarse, like she had not used it properly in years. "I felt it the moment I crossed onto this property. Something in the air changed.""How are you alive?" I asked. The ledger had been so precise. So final. "The records said your essence was siphoned and transferred to the incubator.""It was," Elise said. She wrapped her thin arms around herself. "But a Siphon cannot take everything. If she drains a wolf completely dry, the body dies, and a dead body cannot be moved without

"Dominic!" I shouted into the sudden blackness.A low growl answered from somewhere behind Adams, deep and inhuman, echoing off the concrete walls of the abandoned station."He brought me a gift," Scarlett's voice continued through the dead speakers, somehow still carrying power even with every light extinguished. "How thoughtful of him."A pair of burning crimson eyes opened in the darkness across the platform.Subject Zero."You said alone," Adams stammered, backing away from me, his composure finally cracking. "This was not part of the arrangement.""There was no arrangement," Scarlett's voice said. "There was only ever a test. And you failed it beautifully."Subject Zero moved.I threw myself sideways just as his fist slammed into the concrete where I had been standing, cracking the platform floor wide open. I rolled across broken glass, scrambling back onto my feet, my heart hammering so hard I could feel it in my throat."Sienna!" Dominic's voice roared from the tunnel entrance.

"Say that again," I whispered, my voice shaking. "Say it again slowly."Julian did not look away from me this time. "She had golden eyes. Just like yours. Scarlett wrote it down herself in her private notes before she ever met you."Dominic's grip on my shoulders tightened, holding me steady while my mind spun through a hundred impossible questions at once. If another Aurelian wolf existed twelve years ago, then I was not the last of my kind after all. And if Scarlett found her first, that meant something had gone wrong before she ever came looking for me."What happened to her," Dominic asked, his voice low and controlled, though I could feel the tension radiating off him. "After Scarlett decided she was not ready yet."Julian shook his head slowly. "I do not know. My part ended once I handed over the suppression formula. Scarlett kept the rest of the details to herself. She never trusted me with everything, not even back then."Carter was already typing furiously at his terminal, sc