Cheating on a Frenzied Alpha, Pregnant with his Child のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 51 - チャプター 60

SERENA POV‘And it isn't the man written in your file.’I read Adrian's message three times. My hands wouldn't stop shaking.Across the room, Kael still held the file that claimed Adrian was my biological father. Tobi stared at the photograph, unmoving. My adoptive parents were nowhere in any of this — for once, I didn't even know which lie to go after first."Kael." My voice came out smaller than I wanted.He looked up. "What?"I held out my phone. His eyes moved over the message once, then narrowed. "You still trust him?""No." It came too fast, and he noticed — of course he noticed, he notices everything about me except the things I want him to miss."I don't know what I trust anymore," I admitted, looking away.He set the file down slowly. "That man has been sleeping with my wife.""I know.""And you still met with him.""Yes.""You still care about him."I swallowed hard. "Yes." The truth cost me something to say, but I was done lying to either of us.Kael looked at the photograp

SERENA POVMy biological parents were alive.That single fact had cracked my entire sense of self down the middle, and I hadn't even finished processing it before the next blow landed.I stared at the photograph shaking gently in Kael's hand. My biological mother looked older than the fragments I carried of her — hair longer, face thinner, worn down by whatever years had passed. But I knew those eyes the instant I saw them. I'd seen them staring back at me in dreams I could never fully explain.Beside her sat my biological father. Both of them, in a bare concrete room. Alive. Held somewhere beneath Blackwood territory, of all the places in this world."Where did you get this?" My voice came out thinner than I wanted it to.Kael held out his phone. "An unknown number sent it.""When?""Five minutes ago."My hands wouldn't stop trembling. I turned to Adrian, and whatever easy charm usually lived on his face had gone completely, deadly serious."You told me you knew where my mother was b

Serena PovThe glass shattered before I could scream.One second, my biological mother stood behind it. The next, smoke swallowed the chamber whole."Mom!"I threw myself toward the broken glass, but Kael caught me around the waist and hauled me back."Serena, wait!""Let me go!""She could still be in there!""Then why are you holding me back?" I twisted against his arms, my heart slamming like a fist against a locked door. "Because if she's in there, I'm going in there!""Because if you go in blind, you'll be in there with her, and then who saves you both?""Don't you dare use logic on me right now!""Somebody has to!"Then the smoke shifted, and I saw her. Not my mother. A woman with silver hair, the same woman who had stood in my adoptive parents' house, the same woman Tobi remembered. She gripped my mother's arm like a captor holding a prize."LET HER GO!"The woman's eyes met mine. For one sickening second, I thought she smiled. Then she dragged my mother through a hidden doorwa

SERENA POV"Take Serena."The words barely left Kael's mother's lips before the whole chamber detonated into motion.Armed men poured down from the opening above the Root, boots hammering the stone floor in a rolling, merciless rhythm. Kael stepped in front of me. Adrian stepped beside me. And somehow, despite every ugly thing between those two men, neither of them so much as twitched toward the other. Their eyes were locked on the people coming for me.Behind us, my biological father leaned against the wall, blood streaming down one side of his face."Took you long enough," he muttered, to nobody in particular.I stared at him. "You knew this was coming?"His jaw tightened. "I knew they would eventually find the Root.""That is not what I asked, and you know it.""It's the answer I have.""It's a terrible answer.""I've been told."Before I could push harder, Kael's mother raised one hand. "Kael."He froze. I felt the change before I saw it. His shoulders locked. His breathing thicke

SERENA POVThe words on the screen refused to disappear.WELCOME BACK, ADRIAN.Nobody moved. Adrian stared at his father's name as if it had reached out of the grave and wrapped a hand around his throat."That's impossible," he whispered.My father stepped closer to the terminal. "Not necessarily."Adrian whipped around. "My father died.""So did mine," my father said. "And it seems we're both learning that death was sometimes the easiest lie to tell."Adrian's jaw locked. "You knew Gabriel?"My father didn't answer right away, and the pause said everything."You knew him," Adrian repeated."Yes.""Then start talking. Slowly, and with as few dramatic pauses as possible."My father looked at me first, and something in my chest lurched. "Your father and I worked together.""On Lunar Shield?"He nodded. "But we didn't create the Frenzy."Kael's eyes narrowed. "Then what exactly were you doing?""Trying to stop what Lunar Shield had already started."I turned in a slow circle. The photogr