Alle Kapitel von The Alpha's Vengeful Heiress : Kapitel 41 – Kapitel 50

CHAPTER 1Aria's POV"She is awake!"I slowly flutter my eyes open. A bright fluorescent light overhead almost blinds me. I gulp, my mind disoriented as several people dressed in white coats rush towards me.My eyelids felt impossibly heavy. Every muscle in my body ached as though I had slept for years. A sharp antiseptic smell filled my nose. Machines beeped steadily beside me. I blinked at the white ceiling, struggling to remember how I had gotten here.I try to sit up, but a sharp pain shoots through my head, causing me to wince in agony and fall back onto the pillow.As I lie there, their faces begin to blur as they run tests and check my vital signs. My confusion deepens as I try to recall how I got here in the first place.Once the medical team confirms that I am okay, a kind woman with a warm smile plastered on her face walks into the room. She freezes in front of me and asks, "How are you feeling?"I want to tell her that I am confused, tired, and uncomfortable, but instead I

CHAPTER 2Mia Hart woke to the sound of her phone screaming.Not literally. But seventeen notifications in thirty seconds felt close enough. She rolled over, squinting at the screen through crusted eyes. 2:47 AM, 2:48. Then 2:49. Her thumb swiped blindly across the glass.@WolvesInsider: Noah Hayes seen leaving arena with mystery woman—we all know who@HockeyBuzz: 100% confirmed? Sources say relationship has been ongoing for months@MiaHartFanClub (new account, 12K followers): THE QUEEN AND HER KINGShe laughed once, not because it was funny. Because the internet had created a relationship that didn't exist in less than eight hours. Thousands of new followers. Reporters requesting interviews. Fans editing videos of the "kiss" from seventeen different angles. Someone had already stitched together every clip of her and Noah from the past four years.The laugh died in her throat.She scrolled past the noise, past the tags, the edited photos and the speculative threads and the comments

CHAPTER 42ROWAN POVThe search for Tricia turned up nothing by morning, no sign of her past the eastern tree line, no scent trail that held past the first quarter mile, which told me whoever had taken her, if she'd been taken at all, had known exactly how to move a body without leaving anything a wolf's nose could follow.I walked the tree line myself before calling off the outer search, checking every broken branch, every disturbed patch of undergrowth, looking for the kind of evidence that only reveals itself to someone willing to crawl through the mud to find it. There was nothing. Whoever had orchestrated this had either been extraordinarily lucky, or extraordinarily practiced.I called off the search and turned my attention inward instead, to the one thing I could still control."Show me everything," I told Ellis, once we'd shut ourselves into the security office with the door locked. "Every log, every entry point, every hour she's been logged leaving this estate since the day s

CHAPTER 47SERA POVI was packing when the first shot hit the window.Glass exploded inward. I hit the floor before my brain caught up, cheek against cold stone, one hand already reaching for the bag I'd been filling. Another shot. Then another. Three rounds. Evenly spaced. The kind of pattern that comes from someone who wants you to know they're not going to stop.The door slammed open.Kade.He crossed the room in three strides. Hauled me up by the arm. Shoved me behind the heavy oak desk before I could say a word. His body blocked the window. His claws were already out. Somewhere down the hall, boots pounded against stone."Stay down.""I'm not—""Stay. Down."Another round tore through the wall above us. Plaster rained onto the desk. I heard Kyle's growl tear out of Kade's chest. Low. Vibrating. The air in the room went thick with it.Then the shooting stopped.Ellis burst through the door. Chest heaving. Two guards behind him. "Rooftop. West side. Two shooters, already moving.""

CHAPTER 49CHAPTER 49KADE“My Alpha.”Rowan walked inside, carefully closing the door behind him.I turned from the window.“Keep your men away from Sera.”Rowan frowned. “My Alpha?”“Anyone assigned to watch her. Pull them back.”“But—”“I said pull them back.”He studied me for a moment before nodding. “As you wish.”Silence settled between us.My gaze returned to the window.Sera had been acting strangely ever since we returned from the mission. She had become even more guarded, as if she were carrying something she refused to let anyone see.And I knew exactly what it was.Her father.“I watched him die,” I said quietly.Rowan's expression changed.“My Alpha…”“I stood there and watched them kill him.”“You weren't Alpha then.”“It doesn't change what happened.”“You could have been killed too.”I clenched my jaw.Maybe.But that had never made the memory easier to carry.Rowan remained silent for a moment before speaking again. “Sera went to the old room.”I looked at him. “What