All Chapters of The Alpha Triplets’ Rejected Omega: Violet Blood Reign: Chapter 41 - Chapter 49

Ryker's POVThe south perimeter report came in clean at eleven forty two and something about it was wrong.I was in the strategy room with Zephyr and two of my senior guards, looking at the layout of the breach points on the map, and the wrongness sat at the back of my mind like a splinter while I listened to the report and asked the right questions and processed the information being given to me."Two trip points," my guard captain said, "south fence, forty meters apart, triggered within three seconds of each other.""Simultaneously," I said."Nearly.""A person moving along the fence line wouldn't trigger two points forty meters apart in three seconds," I said, "they'd trigger one and then the other with a gap of at least fifteen seconds at a run." I looked at the map. "Two separate people triggering simultaneously means coordinated entry.""Or," Zephyr said from the corner, his voice quiet and careful, "two objects thrown against the fence simultaneously to trigger both sensors at

Dr. Elara's POVI have been doing science for forty one years and the first thing science teaches you, if you are paying attention, is that projections are not outcomes, they are informed estimates, and the distance between an estimate and reality is where all the interesting information lives.I adjusted.The glow in her hands was not in my projections, I will acknowledge that plainly because there is no productive purpose in pretending otherwise, my models had accounted for the mate bond accelerating the blood activation but had not accounted for the specific rate of that acceleration combined with the emotional state she was presenting, which was considerably more stable than I had anticipated.I had expected fear, fear was the standard response to this situation and fear was actually useful because fear suppressed the higher functions and made the blood reactive in ways that were manageable and predictable, the projections were built around a frightened subject with dormant power.

Ava's POVRyker came through the door first.I heard him before I saw him, the sound of running in the corridor outside that stopped abruptly at the doorway, and then he was in the room and his eyes found me immediately, crossing the space between us in the same instant he did, and his face was doing something I had not seen it do before.The control was there, it was always there, but underneath it something was visible that the control was usually sufficient to cover, and it wasn't hidden well enough right now because he had been running and running undid the careful architecture of composure faster than almost anything else.He looked at me for two seconds with that visible thing under the control and then he looked at Elara and it was gone, replaced by the version of his face that I understood was genuinely dangerous precisely because it looked so calm.Cax came through next and went directly to me without speaking, his hands moving to my arms and then my face and then my arms aga

Cax's POVRyker passed me the document without a word.I took it and read it the way I read everything that mattered, from the beginning, without skipping, without letting my eyes move ahead of my understanding, because documents were constructed with intention and the intention was usually in the sequence and jumping ahead meant missing what the sequence was designed to do to you.I read the header, the verification notice, the formal Elder Council formatting that I had seen on official bloodline documents enough times to recognize its elements accurately, the specific typeface used for royal family verification, the layout of the bloodline chart, the notation system for establishing lineage connections.I read the first column, the Iron-Claw Kingdom founding family line, our mother's name where it should be, the three of us listed below it in birth order, the dates correct, the verification notation matching the format I had seen on the original documents in the family archive.I re