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Author: I.O PIETRO
last update publish date: 2026-04-23 06:51:04

"He is very good at believing in himself," I say.

The room is still. The arbitrator who asked the question is watching me with the specific attention of someone who has decided they want to hear what comes next and has set everything else aside for it.

I do not look at my father.

I have decided I will not look at him during this. Not out of anger. Out of clarity. He spent twenty-three years defining what I was allowed to see and say and feel in rooms where he was present. This room is not one o
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  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The anchor holds

    Soren's voice comes through the door before he does. "The building is locked. Every exit is covered. Nadia is not inside."Bastien does not relax. "Not inside yet.""Marta," I say. "Where is she now?"A pause, keys somewhere on her end. "Her last registered location was a clinic two towns north, forty minutes ago. I am pulling current transit records.""Forty minutes is nothing," Bastien says."Forty minutes is enough for us to be ready instead of surprised," I say, and I hear how steady my own voice sounds, which surprises me more than it should. River is warm against my chest, gold eyes open, watching the ceiling the way she always watches things no one else can see.Wolfe's voice comes through the phone, quieter than before. "If I can help, I want to. Whatever this costs me with my own people.""Then tell us what she would need to do it," Bastien says. "If Nadia's plan requires separating Lena from River convincingly enough for the field to register it as loss, what would that look

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Eleven months

    "Marta," Bastien says. "Identify the fourth request. Now. Whatever resources you need, use them.""I am already working on it," Marta says. "Eleven months places the request before River's birth, before her existence was public, which narrows the field of who could have known to ask. I need time I do not currently have.""We do not have time either," I say.Bastien's hand is still around mine, tight enough that I can feel his pulse through it, faster than I have felt it in a long while."Wolfe," he says. "You have read further into this than any of us. If someone wanted to remove an anchor, deliberately, without triggering an immediate response from the pack around her, how would they do it."Wolfe is quiet for a moment. "The account I found does not detail methods. But logically, an anchor removal would not need to be violent to be effective. It would only need to be permanent, or perceived as permanent by the child's field. Distance. Estrangement. A convincing severing of the bond,

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The mechanism

    Nobody answers Bastien's question. It sits in the room the way certain things sit, too heavy to pick up right away."We need Wolfe," I say. "Not Marta's guesses about Wolfe. Wolfe himself, in front of us, answering directly.""He signed an agreement to stay away," Soren says."Then we invite him," Bastien says. "The agreement does not prohibit that."Marta clears her throat on the line. "I would advise caution. If my reading on his motives is wrong, bringing him into direct contact with River again is a risk we cannot undo.""If your reading is right," I say, "then he is the only person alive who knows what we need to know. We cannot protect her from a mechanism none of us understand."Bastien is already moving toward the desk, already reaching for his phone. "I will call him myself. Not through an intermediary. He answers to me directly or he does not answer at all.""Bastien," I say.He looks at me."If he says yes," I say, "we do this on our terms. Neutral ground. Ivy and Soren pre

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What the agreement does not says

    River does not cry.She goes still, and the stillness is worse than crying. Her gold eyes are fixed on the ceiling and her small body has gone rigid in the bassinet, and for three full seconds nobody in the library moves either."Lena," Bastien says.I am already crossing the room. I lift her out of the bassinet and she is warm and stiff in my arms, not seizing, not distressed in any way I recognize, just utterly still, and her field is doing something I have never felt it do before. It is not reaching outward the way it always reaches. It is pulled in tight, close to her body, like a hand closing around something it does not want to drop."What is she doing," Soren says."I do not know," I say."Marta," Bastien says into the phone. "Say the name again.""Wolfe," Marta says. "Cassian Wolfe."River's field pulls tighter. I feel it against my own, a pressure that is almost physical, and I understand with a certainty that has no evidence behind it and does not need any that she recognize

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What Gregor knew

    "Eight years ago," Bastien says.He says it the way he says things that are restructuring something significant, quietly, with the specific stillness of a man who is recalculating a position he thought he understood.Marta is still on the line."The request was denied," she says. "The archivist at the time did not grant access to founding-period documents for individuals without direct lineage connection to the relevant pack. Your father has no Iron Fang lineage. His request was refused on those grounds." A pause. "But the request itself tells us he was looking. Eight years ago he was searching specifically for information about gold-eyed children in the Iron Fang founding period.""How did he know to look," I say."That is the question I have been sitting with since I identified the request two months ago," Marta says. "The Founder's Mark is not widely documented. The Iron Fang founding texts are not public documents. The council parallel record is restricted. For your father to have

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Marta speaks

    "I have been waiting for you to work it out," Marta says.She says it before I have said a word, which tells me she knew the call was coming and has been sitting with her phone in her hand for some amount of time, which is consistent with everything I know about how Marta operates, thirty years of watching and waiting and being precisely where she needs to be when the moment requires it."You submitted the archive request," I say."Six months ago," she says. "When Nadia's quarterly report to the inter-pack medical registry noted an active Volana wolf in her second pregnancy with an Iron Fang Alpha. The report was anonymized but the field signature is distinctive and I have known your field since your emergence." A pause. "I submitted the request the same week.""You read the council parallel record," I say."I read Sorel's account," she says. "The full version, which the council archivist was able to provide because my credentials as the Crest Pack's heritage representative are suffic

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The name

    "Aldric Vane," Bastien says.He says it in the hallway outside the meeting room four minutes after my father is escorted back to his council-supervised accommodation, and he says it the way people say names that carry history, quietly and with weight behind each syllable.Pell has left. The observe

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The last card

    "He wants to trade," I say.Bastien looks at me across the library.He has information about the conduct review that he says changes the situation for everyone, I say. That's not a man with resources. That's a man with one card left and he knows it. I picked up my phone and reread Soren's message.

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    He is already here

    "Show me the number," Bastien says.I hand him the phone without argument because there is no version of this where I pretend the text isn't serious. I saw you go in. I'll be here when you come out. Eleven words and my whole body went cold reading them.Bastien looks at the screen. His face does th

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What he knows now

    "You knew," Bastien says. "This whole time."It is not a question. He is looking at me the way he looks at contracts with hidden clauses, like he is already three steps past the surprise and deep into the calculation of what it costs him.We are in Nadia's office. She has moved to stand beside her

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