All Chapters of The Alpha’s Puck Bunny: Chapter 81 - Chapter 87

JaceI called my father three times.Three.Every call went straight to voicemail.By the fourth attempt, I was seriously considering throwing my phone into the nearest wall.“Jace, you’re going to crack the screen.”I looked at Ava.“Good. Maybe it’ll start working.”She took the phone from my hand before I could do something expensive.“Your dad isn’t answering because he’s probably driving.”“Or because somebody’s already gotten to him.”The moment I said it, I regretted it.Ava’s expression changed.Not because she was frightened for herself. She was worried about me.That somehow made everything worse.“Call my dad,” she said. “He might have another way to reach Alpha Michael.”I stared at her.Right.Headmaster Peters had direct communication with the neighboring Alphas. My father had once told me those emergency channels were harder to intercept.Why hadn’t I thought of that?Probably because I was too busy imagining Marcus Voss betraying my family and my father walking into a

AvaI had spent most of my life wishing people would notice me.Now strangers were sending me photographs of missing girls while I was trying to eat pizza.I missed being invisible. Just a little.“Seventeen years ago,” Jace said, studying my phone. “That means someone knew where the door was before you were born.”Corey leaned across the table. “What door?”“The kind you don’t want opened,” Sara said, taking one look at my face.I turned the screen away. The girl in the photograph had a gap between her front teeth and a nervous smile. She looked like someone who’d been told to stand still while an adult took a picture. Not someone who’d volunteered for an ancient ritual.“I’m going to find Reynolds,” I said.Jace stood with me. “We’re going to your father first.”I opened my mouth.“Not because you can’t handle yourself,” he added. “Because someone knows exactly where we are and keeps sending you messages.”I glanced at my half-eaten pizza.“Fine. But I’m taking this.”Corey slid the

JaceThere was something seriously wrong with a world where my girlfriend couldn’t eat a cheeseburger without somebody threatening to kidnap her.I stared at Ava across the kitchen table.She’d gone pale after describing the words she’d seen above that steel door.Guardian Access Required.I didn’t like those words.Not even a little.“What do you mean they’ve been waiting for you?” I asked.Ava looked at me. “I don’t know, Jace. It’s not like they handed me an invitation.”Normally, I would’ve laughed.Not tonight.Headmaster Peters closed his laptop.“Nobody is going anywhere near that facility until we understand what we’re dealing with.”Ava opened her mouth.“No,” her father said.“I haven’t said anything!”“You were about to.”She folded her arms.“Everyone keeps assuming I’m going to do something reckless.”I raised an eyebrow.She turned toward me.“Don’t.”I lifted both hands.“Didn’t say a word, sweetheart.”“You were thinking it.”Unfortunately, she was right.Again.⸻My f