My Alpha Rejected Me Then Discovered I was Billionaire Luna のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 21 - チャプター 30

Kade's POVI counted the headlights before I counted anything else. Four sets, maybe five, sweeping fast along the river road toward the mill, moving with the kind of coordinated speed that told me whoever was driving them wasn't lost and wasn't friendly."Victor," Rachel said, already backing away from Marcus's crumpled form on the floor, her voice gone tight. "He doesn't send that many cars unless he thinks he's about to lose something he's not willing to lose.""Us," I said."You. Specifically." She looked at me, something sharp and calculating back in her eyes now, the fear from a minute ago folding itself into something more useful. "He heard the same thing everyone in that clearing heard tonight. Alpha Kade Parker, personally invested, personally motivated. A man like that doesn't let go of a threat easily, and Victor's smart enough to know it."I didn't waste time arguing the point. I pulled Nora further behind me, scanning the mill fast for anything we could use — exits, cover

Nora's POVNobody argued about who was going back to the compound. We all just moved, Damien shouting orders to the warriors still working the bridge scene, Kade pulling himself upright despite how badly he was favoring his ribs, and me climbing into the back of Damien's truck before anyone could suggest I stay behind."If Victor's inside the gates," Kade said, wincing as the truck lurched onto the rough road, "he's not there to negotiate. Man like that doesn't walk into enemy territory alone unless he's got nothing left to lose and one last card he thinks is worth playing.""Elder Morrison's there," Damien said, knuckles white on the wheel. "Rachel too, still giving her statement when the patrol lost eyes on the grounds."My stomach dropped. "You think he's after her.""I think a man who just watched his entire operation collapse in one night might be feeling a lot less patient about loose ends than he was yesterday." Damien's jaw was tight, eyes fixed hard on the road. "And Rachel j

Nora's POVI didn't think. I didn't have time to think."Kade! Damien! The roof, get out, now!"Smoke was pouring out the open door in thick black waves now, and through it I could just make out shapes moving, fast, low, the fire's orange glow throwing everything into sharp, ugly relief. I heard Damien shout something I couldn't make out over the roar, heard the crack of impact, and then, worst of all, I heard nothing at all for three full seconds that felt like three years.Then Kade came through the smoke, dragging Damien with one arm slung over his shoulder, both of them coughing hard, faces blackened with soot, moving as fast as the two of them together could manage."Where's Victor," I choked out, pulling at Damien's free arm to help drag him the last few feet clear of the doorway."Still in there," Kade rasped, and I felt something cold settle in my stomach even as relief flooded through me at having both of them out. "Wouldn't move. Wouldn't let go of the post he was holding on

Nora's POVThe days after the fire moved strange, slower in some ways and faster in others, like time itself couldn't quite decide what pace fit a pack trying to put itself back together after a night like that.Marcus survived, though the healer said it would be weeks before he was back on his feet properly. Damien visited him twice that I knew of, and whatever passed between them in those visits, he never fully told me, only that Marcus had asked for a chance to make it right somehow, and that Damien hadn't said no outright, which from him counted as something close to mercy.Rachel stayed on Silvercrest land under Elder Morrison's supervision, cooperating fully with the council's investigation, and word moved through the pack slow and careful the way real, complicated truths always do, nothing like the vicious gossip that had chased me through the training yard weeks earlier. Some wolves still looked at her with open suspicion. A few, surprisingly, had started looking at her with s

Nora's POVNeither of us slept much. I heard Kade's people arrive sometime around three in the morning, low voices and quiet footsteps moving around the property perimeter, and something about knowing they were out there let me finally close my eyes for an hour or two before the gray light of dawn pulled me back up again.We were at the main hall by seven, and Elder Morrison was already waiting, a plain envelope sitting on his desk like it might bite him if he touched it wrong."This came in yesterday's mail," he said without preamble, gesturing for us to sit. "I almost set it aside with the rest of the routine correspondence. I'm glad I didn't.""What is it," Kade asked."See for yourself." Elder Morrison pushed the envelope across the desk. No return address. My name written on the front in handwriting I didn't recognize, careful and deliberate, nothing rushed about it at all.I opened it slowly, and inside found a single folded letter and a small photograph, old enough that the edg