Todos los capítulos de MY SECRET ALPHA HEIR : Capítulo 61 - Capítulo 70

"Zoom in," I said, leaning closer to the screen. "On the ring."Ethan adjusted the image, and the gold band sharpened slightly, enough to make out a crest I'd seen once already, in the blurry photograph William had hidden alongside his notebook."That's the same ring," I said. "From the photo with Madison. The one with Desmond Cole.""It can't be him," Ethan said slowly. "We know where Desmond was four days ago. The detective's been tracking every lead connected to him since Noah was found.""Then who else wears a ring like that?"Madison had gone very still beside us, staring at the frozen image with an expression I couldn't quite read. "I think I recognize him," she said quietly. "Not Desmond. Someone else.""Who?""Turn it a little more. The angle, there, by the shoulder." Madison pointed, and Ethan adjusted the footage again, pulling the frame forward slightly until more of the figure's profile became visible.My stomach dropped."I know him," I said. "He was at William's funeral.

"Tell me everything," I said, standing in the middle of Ethan's study with the photograph still clutched in my hand. "Right now. Whatever you know about this old blood thing, I need to hear it."Ethan sat down heavily behind his desk, rubbing a hand over his face. "The Hayes family has history that goes back further than Hayes Corporation. Further than any of the business my father built. There's an old story, something I always treated as family legend rather than actual history.""What kind of story?""That generations ago, before this family had money or power the way we understand it now, there was a line of Hayes wolves considered different. Stronger, the story goes. Connected to something older than the usual pack structures. My father used to mention it occasionally when I was a kid, always framed as folklore, something to make a bedtime story more interesting.""You never thought it was real?""I never had a reason to." Ethan's jaw tightened. "Until a few weeks ago, nothing in

I stood in the boardroom twenty minutes later, every seat around the long table filled, faces I'd known for years looking back at me with expressions ranging from discomfort to open hostility. A stack of printed documents sat in front of each board member, and I didn't need to read mine to know roughly what it contained."Ethan." The board chair, a woman named Patricia Haines who'd served on this board since before my father handed me the company, didn't bother with pleasantries. "We've received evidence of significant financial irregularities tied directly to your personal authorization codes. Unauthorized transfers, falsified reporting. The board has a duty to investigate.""I've seen this evidence before," I said, keeping my voice level despite the fury building under my ribs. "It's fabricated. Built using templates from my father's private files, files that were stolen from a vault in my own home three days ago.""That's a serious accusation.""It's a serious crime," I said. "Some

"Olivia." Victoria's voice carried up the stairs, tight with warning. "Madison's here. She's asking to see you."I set down the glass of water I'd been holding and felt my whole body go rigid. Noah was asleep upstairs, finally, after a day that had worn all of us thin, and the last thing I wanted was Madison Reed anywhere near this house tonight."Tell her to leave.""She says it's urgent. Olivia, she looks frightened. I've known that woman for years and I've never seen her look like this." Victoria's voice had an edge to it I rarely heard, something closer to worry than her usual careful composure.I almost said it again, tell her to leave, tell her I don't care how she looks. But something in my mother's voice, some genuine unease I rarely heard from her anymore, made me pause with my hand still wrapped around the water glass.I went down anyway, because some instinct told me ignoring this would cost more than hearing it out, and found Madison standing in the entryway, her hands twi

"That's not possible," I said, staring at the screen. "Harold hasn't set foot in this house in years. I would have known.""The logs don't lie, Ethan." My security chief stood beside the terminal, his own face grim. "Someone's been using his credentials consistently, accessing internal systems from a location inside this property. Either he's been coming and going without anyone noticing, or someone inside this house has been feeding him access."I called a full lockdown before he'd even finished the sentence, every door sealed, every member of staff gathered into the main hall within twenty minutes, Noah kept upstairs with Victoria and two guards posted outside his room despite his sleepy protests that he wanted to see what was happening.I questioned every single person in that hall myself, staff who had worked for this family for years, people I'd trusted without ever really examining why. Most of them had nothing useful to offer, confusion and fear plain on their faces at being pu