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Chapter Nineteen

Author: Richiegirl
last update publish date: 2026-05-10 19:31:38

Kia

For a moment I just sat there.

Three Alphas on the floor in silence. My brain wouldn't catch up fast enough. It kept presenting me with the image and asking me to make sense of it and I kept failing because nothing in six years of living inside the Volkov machinery had prepared me for the possibility that I could knock them down simply by pulling away.

"Ryder," I called out.

"Ryder." Louder this time.

Still nothing as his chest moved, he was breathing fast, but his eyes were closed and his
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