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Chapter Twenty-Three: Blood and Betrayal
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MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Forty-Two: What Marcus Knew
Serena’s POVMarcus doesn't speak immediately.That silence is its own answer.Kael's hand is still around mine. His grip hasn't loosened since he crossed the room. I can feel the tension running through him like a current. Controlled. Barely.My mother is standing near the window with her arms wrapped around herself. She won't look at Marcus. She won't look at me either.That tells me everything about what she already knows."How long?" I say.My voice comes out quieter than I intend. Not weak. Just stripped of everything extra. I don't have the energy for volume right now.Marcus finally meets my eyes. "Since before the exile." The fire in the hearth crackles once; nobody moves. "You sat across from me in that study," I say. "You watched me read that book. You watched the words come up through the pages, and you let me believe the bond was enough.""I needed you to come here willingly.""So you lied.""I simplified."Kael makes a sound low in his chest. Not a growl. Something quiete
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Forty-One: The Cost of the Key
Kael’s POVSomething is wrong. I feel it before I understand it.A sharp pull through the bond. Not pain exactly. More like pressure building behind my eyes the way it does before a storm breaks. Quiet. Heavy. The kind that makes your body tense before your mind catches up.I've held position at the tree line for over an hour. Far enough back that Marcus won't catch my scent immediately. Close enough that I can reach Serena in four seconds if everything goes wrong.The cabin looks peaceful from the outside. One thin line of smoke rising from the chimney. Warm light behind the single window. Trees pressing in close on all sides, But the bond tells a different story.It's been pulled tight since she walked away from me this morning. Like a rope stretched past its limit. I told myself that was just distance. Just the natural discomfort of her being outside my sight.Then twenty minutes ago something shifted. A flare. Sharp and sudden through the bond. Not fear, not physical pain, but rec
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Forty: The Mother's Choice
Serena’s POVThe paper shakes in my hand, not because of the words. Because of the handwriting. I know it; I've seen it on birthday cards. On grocery lists stuck to the fridge. On the note she left beside my bed the morning she told me we were moving. My mother wrote this."That's her handwriting," I say.” The room goes silent.Kael takes the paper from me gently and studies it. Then looks at Damien. "Where exactly did you find this?""On her dressing table. Folded once. Placed on top of a silver pendant I've never seen before." "What pendant?"Damien reaches into his pocket and produces a chain. A thin silver chain with a small crescent moon hanging from it. My legs almost give out."That's my father's," I whisper. Every head in the room turns to me. "My birth father." My voice sounds far away. "He wore it every day. My mother kept it after he died. She never took it out. Never showed it to anyone."Kael's expression shifts. "She left it deliberately.""She left it for me." I take th
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Thirty-Nine: What Woke Below
Kael’s POV“Don’t answer it.” The words leave me before I even know I’m speaking. The voice in the pool laughs, not loud, not wild, but worse, calm and ancient. Like it already knows we’re afraid.Serena stands beside me, frozen, her silver mark burning through the fabric at her collarbone. The black water keeps turning in slow circles. Too smooth. Too deliberate. Like something under it is testing the shape of the room. I grab her wrist.“We’re leaving.”The voice comes again, rolling up through the stone. “He can pull you away,” it says. “He cannot close what was opened.”Serena sucks in a breath. I pull her behind me and back toward the doorway. I don’t take my eyes off the pool.“Kael,” she says quietly, “the book.” Damn it. The black leather book is still on the altar. The water in the pool rises by an inch. Not splashing. Not flooding. Just lifting. Like a thing standing up under a blanket. I make a choice. “Stay there.”I move fast, cross the platform, and yank the book up with
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Chamber Below
Serena’s POV“Don’t touch it.”Kael’s hand closes around my wrist just as the stone door groans wider. Cold air spills out of the darkness beyond. Not fresh air, old air, buried air. The kind that has been trapped too long. I stare past him.The chamber on the other side is bigger than the one we’re standing in. Much bigger. A wide round space carved into the earth itself. Black stone. A low pool of still water in the center. And beyond it, on a raised platform, a narrow altar with chains bolted into the floor around it. Not prison chains, but restraint chains. My skin goes cold. “What is this?” I whisper.Kael doesn’t answer. He steps in front of me, torch raised, every line of his body tight and ready. Like he expects something to rush us from the dark, Nothing moves.That somehow makes it worse. The silver light under my collarbone burns hotter. The mark is pulling me forward. “Serena.” Kael’s voice is low. Sharp. “Stay behind me.” “I’m trying.” But it’s not true, not really. Somet
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Thing Beneath Us
Kael’s POV“What did it say to her?”The guard nearly drops his spear. He stands outside the lower cells with his back too straight and his face too pale. That tells me enough before he opens his mouth. “It spoke, Alpha, just once, to Lady Serena.” I don’t stop to answer. I push past him and head down the stone steps two at a time.The lower corridor is colder than the rest of the mansion. Damp. Quiet. The kind of quiet that makes every sound feel wrong.Serena is standing outside the last cell. She turns when she hears me. Her face gives nothing away at first. Then the bond catches up with me, not fear, not exactly. Shock, confusion, and something colder underneath both.The altered wolf is still chained to the far wall. Half-shifted. Bare skin split by those dark veins. Eyes half open. Breathing shallowly. It looks worse than before. Good. I stop beside Serena. “What did it say?”Her fingers tighten around the torch she’s holding. “It said I’m not the end of the prophecy.” She pause
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Twenty: The Father's Sin
Serena’s POVThe training room goes cold. Not the air. The feeling. Like all the warmth just bled out through the walls.Kael stands completely still. The note hangs from his fingers. His knuckles are white.Marcus hasn't moved from the doorway. I've never seen him look like this. Not calm. Not cal
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Eighteen: The Awakening
Kael’s POVI wake to the sound of my own heartbeat. Steady, strong, Alive that last part surprises me most. I remember the battle. The blood. Viktor's claws tearing into my chest. The moment I thought it was over.And then, Serena. Her face above mine. Her tears are falling on my skin. Her voice wa
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Seventeen: The Cost of Victory
Serena’s POVThe silence after battle is worse than the noise.I sit in the corner of the safe room, my back pressed against cold stone, and listen to nothing. The screaming has stopped. The howling has stopped. Even the distant thunder of bodies crashing together has faded into memory. All that re
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Sixteen: The Breaking Storm
Serena’s POVThe howl cuts through the night like a blade. I freeze mid-step. The knife Maya gave me slips in my sweating palm. "They're here," she whispers beside me.We're in the eastern corridor of the mansion. Far from the front lines. Safe, according to Kael, but nothing feels safe anymore. An
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