Fake Dating The Lycan's Heir의 모든 챕터: 챕터 51 - 챕터 60

COLE “You knew him before yesterday?” Evelyn said nothing through the speaker. “You were sitting in the kitchen when we found his name.” Vanessa kept her eyes on the phone. “Christopher told us Alistair had worked for the Graysons for twenty-six years. You heard Lillian ask about him. You watched us find out he accessed my file two days before that stranger followed me, and you never once said you knew him.” “I should have told you.” “That isn’t what I asked.” “I knew who he was.” Vanessa pushed her chair away from the table and stood. I stayed where I was. “Why did you lie?” Vanessa asked. “Because telling you how I knew him meant telling you what else he knew.” “You already told me you sealed my wolf.” “There are things about that night I have not told you.” Vanessa pressed her fingertips against the table. “Of course there are.” “Vanessa, I am not asking you to forgive that.” “Then stop making me find the truth one person at a time.” Evelyn went quiet again. Vaness

COLE Vanessa kept her eyes on her mother. Evelyn gripped the back of a chair. “I built the strongest seal I could without destroying either part of you.” “That isn’t what I asked.” “No, it was never meant to be permanent.” I looked down at the page again. Reciprocal mate activation. The phrase sat beneath Alistair’s handwriting with the cold certainty of a laboratory instruction. Vanessa’s senses had started returning after she met me. For months I had treated that as evidence that her wolf recognized mine beneath the suppression. I had never considered that my presence was actively interfering with the thing holding her wolf down. “If I had stayed away from her, would the seal still be intact?” I asked. Vanessa turned toward me immediately. “Do not do that.” “I’m asking a question.” “You’re trying to make yourself responsible for something people did to me when I was four.” “I recognized you, and everything started changing afterward.” “That still does not m

COLE “Keep everyone away from the Rolland house until our team clears it.” My father held the phone against his ear while the rest of us remained around the dining table. “Check every entrance, the security system, the grounds, and the neighboring properties. I want to know how they got inside and whether anyone stayed behind.” Lillian sat between her parents with Vanessa’s phone lying on the table in front of them. The last message was still visible. “I’m not going home tonight.” Lillian’s mother kept one hand wrapped around her daughter’s. “I don’t care what they find there.” “You won’t be going home tonight.” My father ended the call. “You’ll stay here under Grayson protection until we understand the threat.” “I want our own security brought here too.” Lillian’s father reached for his phone. “I’ll arrange it with them directly.” My father returned his attention to the table. “What happens if Lillian and I simply don’t attend the Winter Gathering?” Vanessa picked up and locke

Vanessa Mum remained beside her chair, staring at the authorization bearing her name. Dad had been watching her since Christopher opened the record, and the distance between their chairs suddenly seemed far more important than anything else around the table.“I signed the authorization.” Mum placed both hands against the back of her chair. “Nobody forged my name, and I’m not going to tell you otherwise.”“That wasn’t Vanessa’s question.” Dad’s voice stayed low. “She asked who you invited.”“I don’t know his identity.”Dad pushed away from the table. “You authorized an unidentified person to attend an event where our daughter has already been threatened?”“I believed I could revoke it before the Gathering if anything went wrong.”“You believed?” Dad looked at her for several seconds. “When exactly were you planning to mention this to me?”Mum lowered herself into the chair. “Several days ago, I received a message through an old communication channel my family used after the Ash War. I

Vanessa “I agreed to meet you because you said your father knows something about Mara.” I took the chair across from Nathan. Nathan looked toward the back of the café.Cole sat several tables away with his laptop open. He had wanted to sit closer. I had chosen the distance, and he had accepted it.“You brought him anyway.” Nathan placed his phone beside his cup.“I asked him to come.”“That wasn’t part of our agreement.”“We never had an agreement.”“We did when I told you what would happen if you kept choosing him.”I kept my hands beneath the table.“You said your father knows Mara is alive.”“He knows more than that.” Nathan unlocked his phone. “I started searching his accounts after I realized he had been asking questions about you before we ever dated.”He opened a folder and held the phone where I could see it.ECL-S1 appeared several times and my designation.Beside it were references to the Winter Gathering and another phrase I had never seen before.RELEASE FAILURE.“What d