Lahat ng Kabanata ng My Alpha Rejected Me Then Discovered I was Billionaire Luna: Kabanata 81 - Kabanata 83

Kade's POVNobody in that study said a word for a long moment. Helena, oblivious, turned the little thorned coin over in her fingers like a button she'd found under the sofa.I eased it out of her grip with a smile I didn't feel, promised her a biscuit in exchange, and watched Sarah carry her toward the kitchen wing. Only when the door closed behind them did I let my face change."Sarah said the nursery was locked from the inside," Nora said. Her voice had flattened into the careful register she used when she was holding something enormous at arm's length. "Who has a key?""Three of us." I counted them off. "You, me, and Sarah.""And the lock itself?""Biometric. Palm print, plus a keycode that changes every week." I pulled up the access log on the study terminal, fingers moving faster than my mind could keep pace with. "Torres rebuilt that system after Elias. Nobody gets through it without leaving a trace."The log loaded. Nursery door, 9:04 that morning: Sarah Whitlock, palm verifie

Kade's POVI let Nora go because she was right, and I hated that she was right.The car's taillights had barely cleared the south gate when I turned and walked straight to the cellar, where Torres's people had put Thorne in the old cold room. It had no window and a single steel door. A chair, a table, a bare bulb. He sat there with his hands folded, looking like a man waiting for a late train."Alpha Parker." He nodded politely. "I wondered how long you'd make me wait.""Where's the real key?""Ah. So Venn finally did it." He sounded almost pleased. "I told him to be patient.""You told him?""I told him a great many things. Whether he listened is another matter." Thorne tilted his head. "Sit, Kade. You look like you want to break something, and this room has so little furniture."I stayed standing. Torres closed the door behind us and leaned against it, arms crossed."Start with who Venn works for," I said."Not me." The answer came too easily, and I almost believed it. "Alaric Venn