《My Rival Alpha Knows I'm an Omega》全部章節：第 51 章 - 第 60 章

My name stared back at me from the page.Adrian Vale.The ink was still dark enough to be recent.The date beneath it read only three days earlier.I traced the signature with my fingertips.Every stroke was mine.The slight hook on the "A."The sharp angle beneath the "V."Even the tiny flourish at the end that my father had always criticized."A signature should be difficult to copy," he used to say."Yours is too elegant."No forger could have reproduced those imperfections.Because they weren't imperfections.They were habits."I signed this," I whispered.Marcus looked over my shoulder."Maybe they forged it.""No."I closed the ledger."I've spent years watching experts verify contracts worth billions."I looked around the room."This wasn't forged."Ronan remained unusually quiet.He wasn't looking at the ledger.He was watching me."What?""You already knew."I frowned."Knew what?""You weren't surprised.""I was.""No."He shook his head slowly."You were confused."The dist

60.The digital countdown on the man's remote began to fall.No explosion came.Not yet.The silence was worse.Every person inside the library could hear the numbers ticking away.Marcus's voice crackled through the small radio clipped to my belt."Adrian?"His whisper echoed from somewhere behind the moving shelves."We heard the countdown.""Stay hidden.""What if—""Stay hidden."I released the transmit button before he could argue.The tactical leader remained standing in the center of the grand hall, his eyes fixed on me.He wasn't looking at the books.He wasn't studying the exits.He was studying me.Ronan stepped beside me."He's watching your face.""I know.""Then don't give him what he wants."55.Inspector Mara Voss appeared briefly at the far end of the upper gallery before disappearing behind another shelf.She had repositioned her officers.No one fired.Neither side wanted a gunfight.Not while the library remained standing.The leader smiled faintly."Clever."His vo

The mechanical voice faded.Silence settled over the library.No one breathed.No one moved.Only the distant rumble of shifting bookshelves echoed through the maze.One registered visitor has entered under a false identity.The sentence repeated in my mind.A registered visitor.Not one of the armed men.One of us.Marcus looked around nervously."That's impossible."Inspector Mara Voss didn't lower her weapon."No."Her eyes swept across every face."It's exactly the kind of thing we'd expect from tonight."Ronan remained perfectly still."Don't."Marcus frowned."Don't what?""Start accusing each other."His pale blue eyes met mine."That's what whoever planned this wants."I knew he was right.The whisper in the stairwell.The forged signatures.The erased memories.Every move had been designed to make allies doubt one another.I wasn't going to fall into the same trap again."The library recognized all of us," Marcus said."It recognized our faces," Ronan corrected."Not necessar

The gunshot echoed through the stone chamber.Then came Ivy's scream.It wasn't loud.It wasn't panicked.It was the cry of someone trying to warn others instead of themselves.My body moved before my mind caught up.The silver ring slipped onto my right hand almost instinctively.The moment it settled against my skin, another series of hidden mechanisms awakened inside the Keeper's Chamber.Stone gears rumbled beneath my feet.A section of the wall rotated inward, revealing a narrow passage I hadn't noticed before.A shortcut.My father had anticipated this.I ran.The passage climbed sharply upward through rough stone before opening behind a concealed panel overlooking the library's second-floor gallery.The sight below stopped me cold.The reading room had become a battlefield.Books littered the marble floor.One of the massive oak tables had been overturned to form a barricade.Inspector Mara Voss and two officers exchanged controlled bursts of fire with the intruders, forcing th

The telephone rang a fourth time.No one moved.The small display continued to glow.ORIONMarcus swallowed."That's impossible."Inspector Mara Voss kept her pistol lowered but remained alert, her eyes scanning every corner of the library."No one touch anything."Ivy looked at the telephone with quiet recognition."It finally remembered."I turned toward her."The library?"She nodded."It only displays that name for one person."A chill ran through me.The ringing stopped.Then began again.Slower this time.Patient.As though whoever was calling knew I would eventually answer.Ronan stepped beside me."If this is another trap...""It probably is."I looked at the receiver."But we've spent the entire night avoiding traps."My hand closed around it.I lifted the receiver."This is Adrian."Silence.Not empty silence.Breathing.Soft.Steady.Then...A woman's voice."Hello, my little star."Everything inside me stopped.The words struck somewhere deeper than memory.I closed my eye