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Chapter Fifty-nine: The Flicker
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The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Fifty-nine: The Flicker
Sophie SteeleSophie was watching from the shade of the garden wall, half a cup of tea gone cold in her hands, when Ethan's eyes went gold. The sight of it hit her with such a sudden, visceral wrongness that she was on her feet and moving across the lawn before she'd even fully registered deciding to move at all.It had been an ordinary lesson up until that moment, the same kind Ethan had been attending three mornings a week since Tessa had appointed herself his unofficial guide to all things pack related, Brooke walking the small cluster of children through a breathing exercise meant to settle their instincts before they attempted the balance work, nothing in the morning suggesting it would be any different from the dozen mornings before it. Ethan had been sitting cross legged in the grass with his eyes closed, following Brooke's count the way he always did, methodical and serious in the particular way he approached everything, and then, for no more than half
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Fifty-eight: Loose Ends
Gerald SteeleGerald chose the diner specifically because it sat forty minutes outside the territory any Steele pack member would have reason to frequent, a flat, unremarkable stretch of highway diner with vinyl booths and coffee that had clearly been sitting on the burner considerably longer than it should have, and even so he found himself checking the parking lot twice before he went inside, a habit of caution that had kept him ahead of consequences for thirty years and showed no sign of loosening now, even under close watch, even with Lena presumably tracking every mile his car logged.Vera Kessler was already seated in the back booth when he arrived, exactly where she'd told him she would be, and she didn't look up from her coffee as he slid into the seat across from her, which told him, before either of them said a single word, that whatever this conversation was about to become, she had already decided the terms of it in advance."You look like a man who's had a diffi
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Fifty-seven: Two Cities
Sophie SteeleSophie had exactly four minutes before her video call started, which was not nearly enough time to figure out what she was going to say when someone on her own team eventually asked her, point blank, the question she'd been quietly dreading for two weeks now, which was some version of when are you actually coming back, because the honest answer had stopped being a simple one the moment she'd stood in Richard's unfinished studio with paint gone hard in its tubes and understood, with a clarity she hadn't asked for, that some part of her no longer wanted the answer to be soon.She set her laptop up on the small writing desk in her room, angled so the camera caught the window light rather than the heavier furniture behind her, an old habit from years of running client calls out of apartments too small to properly stage, and she was still adjusting the screen when Priya's face filled it, followed a moment later by Marcus leaning into frame from his own d
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Fifty-six: What It Would Cost
Sophie SteeleSophie was still holding the folded newspaper when Dominic found her in the small sitting room off the east corridor, and the moment he saw her expression, something in his own face shifted from the easy warmth he'd been carrying all morning into the careful, braced stillness of a man who already suspected he was about to be handed a problem he couldn't simply solve with authority or money."What is it," he said, crossing the room to sit beside her rather than across from her, which she noticed, because he'd started doing that lately, choosing proximity even in moments that had nothing to do with intimacy, as though he'd decided somewhere along the way that distance between them had already cost them enough years to last a lifetime.She handed him the paper without a word, folded to the society page, where a small item near the bottom mentioned, in the breezy, speculative tone reserved for exactly this kind of gossip, that Alpha Dominic Steele's long-es
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Fifty-five: No More Distance
Lena MarshLena had rehearsed exactly what she would say to Rowan for three years, which was a number she was slightly ashamed of admitting even to herself, and every single version of that speech evaporated the moment she found him waiting for her outside the security office at the end of a day that had already asked more of both of them than either had energy left to spare, because the way he was standing there, arms crossed, jaw set with the particular stillness of a man who had finally run out of patience for waiting on someone else to make the first move, told her instantly that whatever conversation was about to happen was not going to be one she controlled the pacing of."I need five minutes," he said, before she'd even fully closed the door behind her. "Not about work. Not about Gerald, not about the schedule for tomorrow, not about any of the dozen things we usually hide behind when one of us wants to avoid actually talking to the other.""Rowan—""Five
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Fifty-four: Tessa
Ethan SteeleEthan had been told there would be other children at the lesson, and he had privately decided, in the careful and methodical way he decided most things, that this information did not necessarily require him to be excited about it, because in his experience other children asked a lot of questions he didn't feel like answering and wanted to play games that didn't make sense to him, games with rules that changed depending on who was winning, and he had found over the years that it was generally easier to observe from a slight distance until he understood exactly what was expected of him before deciding whether it was worth joining in at all.His mother walked him down to the lower lawn that morning holding his hand a little tighter than usual, which he noticed the way he noticed most things, filing it away without commenting on it, because he understood by now that there were things adults did when they were nervous that they didn't want pointed out,
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The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Three : Funeral
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The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter One : The Wrong Kind of Right.
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