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 41 - チャプター 50

Kade's POVI didn't sleep. Neither did Nora, though she tried, curling up on the small couch in the corner of the room while Torres and I kept watch over the monitoring systems we'd quietly set up around the false evidence location.Fifteen years. I kept coming back to that number, turning it over in my head like it might reveal something different if I looked at it from enough angles. Fifteen years of Daniel standing beside me through territory disputes, through my father's death, through the long, difficult process of actually becoming an Alpha worth following instead of just one born into the position. If he was working with Agatha, if he'd been compromised or bought or simply convinced somewhere along the way that his loyalty belonged elsewhere, I didn't know how I was supposed to reconcile that with fifteen years of evidence to the contrary."You should rest," Nora said quietly, sitting up from the couch sometime past three in the morning, watching me still hunched over the monit

Kade's POVAgatha's formal transfer to council custody took most of the following day, paperwork and procedure eating up hours neither Nora nor I particularly had patience for, given everything hanging unanswered over both of us since her final words in that storage room."She could be lying," I said again, mostly to convince myself, pacing the length of my study while Nora sat curled in the chair by the window, going through the last of Eleanor's documentation for what felt like the hundredth time. "A woman like that doesn't walk quietly into custody without one final attempt to leave chaos behind her.""I don't think she was lying," Nora said, not looking up from the papers. "I've been thinking about it all day. Everything about the way she said it — there wasn't any triumph in it, Kade. No satisfaction like she'd gotten one last dig in on her way out. She sounded almost relieved, honestly. Like she'd been waiting a long time to finally admit she wasn't actually the one in charge."

Kade's POVThere was a long silence on the other end of the line, long enough that I checked the screen to make sure the call hadn't dropped."Damien," I said. "You still there?""I'm here." His voice had gone strange, tight in a way I hadn't heard from him even during the worst of the last month's chaos. "What about my father?"I explained it as carefully as I could, laying out the membership list, the twenty-year-old date, his father's name sitting two lines above Agatha's on a roster none of us fully understood yet. I heard him go quiet again on the other end, processing, and when he finally spoke his voice had dropped low and rough."He died when I was nineteen," Damien said slowly. "Sudden. The healers called it heart failure, which happens sometimes even to wolves, especially ones who worked themselves as hard as he did. I never had any reason to question it.""You're questioning it now," I said, not really a question."I don't know what I'm doing right now, Kade." Something raw

Kade's POVI was down the hall before Torres finished the sentence, Nora right behind me, both of us pulling on enough clothing to be decent while still moving fast toward the security office where the rest of the household had already gathered around the main monitoring station."Show me," I said.Torres turned the screen toward me, and I scanned the intercepted message fast, my stomach dropping with every line.*To Alpha Kade Parker. This message originates from within Blackridge territory itself. I imagine that troubles you more than anything else I could have said. It should. We have had eyes inside your compound for considerably longer than you've had eyes on us. Daniel was never the only one. He was simply the one we allowed you to find.*The room went very still."Allowed us to find," Nora repeated slowly, horror plain in her voice. "You think there's another mole. One they let us catch on purpose, to make us believe we'd solved the problem.""It would explain how they knew abo

Kade's POVWe left for the cabin at first light, Damien leading the way in his own truck, Nora and I following behind with Torres and two of his most trusted people rounding out the small convoy. Nobody spoke much during the drive, the weight of everything we'd learned the night before still sitting heavy over all of us.The cabin sat tucked into a fold of the northern hills, small and weathered but clearly still structurally sound, the kind of place built to last generations rather than years. Damien stood outside it a long moment before finally unlocking the door, something raw and hesitant in his posture that I recognized immediately, the particular grief of returning to a place that held only good memories right before you discover they might have been hiding something considerably darker underneath."I haven't been back since the funeral," he said quietly, pushing the door open. "Couldn't bring myself to, honestly. Every visit before that was tied to him. Didn't seem right coming