บททั้งหมดของ The Alpha Heir Who Put a Baby in His Enemy: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

The first sign that something was wrong came while three hundred people were watching me pretend that nothing in the world could shake me.Heat gathered beneath my collar and spread slowly across the back of my neck.I kept my expression calm.Across the ballroom, cameras flashed beneath crystal chandeliers while investors, politicians, journalists, and corporate heirs celebrated Vale Dominion’s largest acquisition of the year. Behind me, the silver emblem of my family’s company dominated the stage.Tonight was supposed to prove that I was ready to inherit everything.Instead, my own body was beginning to betray me.“Mr. Vale?”The reporter standing in front of me tilted her head.“My apologies,” I said smoothly. “You were asking about Northbridge.”“I was asking about Ronan Ashcroft.”Of course she was.That name had followed me through business school, boardrooms, hostile negotiations, and nearly every major deal I had touched in the last five years.Ronan Ashcroft.Alpha heir to As

The word body changed everything.For several seconds, I forgot the heat clawing through me.Ronan moved first.He slipped the altered cartridge into the inside pocket of his jacket, then crossed the room and opened the door only far enough to block the view inside.Marcus stood in the corridor with one of Vale Dominion’s senior security officers beside him.The officer looked pale.“What happened?” I asked.Marcus glanced at me, then at Ronan, clearly wondering why my greatest rival was locked inside a private lounge with me.I gave him no explanation.“The body was found near Elevator Three in the underground garage,” he said. “Security has sealed the lower levels.”“Who is it?”“We don’t know yet.”The security officer cleared his throat.“We believe he was an employee.”Ronan’s expression sharpened.“Believe?”“There was no identification on him.”I stepped closer.“What department?”“We’re checking.”Another pulse of heat rolled through my body.I kept my face still.The last thi

The emergency lights returned with a low electrical hum, but the message in my hand made the corridor feel darker than before.ALPHA ASHCROFT, YOUR COMPATIBILITY WITH SUBJECT O-17 HAS BEEN CONFIRMED.I read the sentence again, hoping repetition might make it less impossible.It did not.Ronan stood beside me, his expression controlled, but the pistol remained in his hand.“What is O-17?” I asked.His eyes stayed on the paper.“I don’t know.”“You expect me to believe that?”“No. I expect you to believe what you can prove.”That answer sounded exactly like him.I folded the paper carefully and slipped it inside my jacket.“Then we start proving things.”Ronan looked toward the corridor.“The person who delivered that note may still be nearby.”“So let them watch.”His gaze returned to me.“You are in heat, Adrian.”“I am aware.”“You are also being targeted by someone who apparently knows your designation, your medication, and something about our families.”“I am aware of that too.”Ro

The alarms screamed through the underground garage while every security officer around us reached instinctively for a weapon.For one disorienting second, nobody moved.Then the red emergency lights began flashing across the concrete ceiling, painting the body of Daniel Kerr in violent pulses.My father looked toward the elevator.“Get Adrian out of here.”I turned on him immediately.“You just told me a dead man was supposed to stay dead for twelve years, and now you expect me to leave without an explanation?”Theodore Vale’s expression hardened.“This is not the time.”“That excuse stopped working the moment his body appeared under my building.”Ronan stepped closer to the security barrier, scanning the garage.“What triggered the alarm?”One of the officers checked his radio.“Fire system. Level B4.”We were standing on B3.Another officer shouted from across the garage.“Smoke detected near the vehicle exit!”Marcus looked toward me.“Sir, we need to move.”I glanced at the note s

The recovered footage ended, but the sentence remained inside my head.He doesn’t know what his father made him for.I read it once.Then again.By the third time, the words had become something worse than an accusation.They had become a possibility.Ronan was watching me.Marcus was watching me too.I hated that both of them could probably see the moment the thought took hold.My father had hidden my Omega designation.My father had authorized Daniel Kerr’s access to my floor.My father had stood beside him while someone altered medication inside my private suite.And now a dead man was claiming that Theodore Vale had not merely protected me.He had made me for something.“No,” I said.Ronan’s expression remained unreadable.“No what?”“That recording proves Daniel Kerr wanted me suspicious of my father.”“It proves more than that.”“It proves he held up a piece of paper.”“It also proves your father was with him.”“I saw it.”“And told him to change the dose.”My jaw tightened.“We