บททั้งหมดของ The Alpha's Obsession : บทที่ 181 - บทที่ 190

LORENZO'S POV“No,” I said before Killian finished reading the message. He looked up from the paper, but I was already shaking my head. “Absolutely not. Sending you alone to an address chosen by hardliners is not strategy. It is stupidity dressed as courage.”“Nobody is actually sending him alone,” Jordan replied. I turned toward him and asked, “Did the message suddenly become unclear?” Jordan folded his arms and said, “Mara can guide us through their communication methods, Reef can set a perimeter, and I can stay connected to Killian through the convergence.”“The convergence they may be able to suppress?” I asked. Jordan's mouth closed. I stepped closer and added, “Have you forgotten the stolen medical kit?” Jordan sighed and admitted, “No.” I asked, “If they reproduced the suppressor, can they silence the bond?” He hesitated before replying, “Possibly.”“Then why are we still discussing this?” I demanded.“Because I am standing here,” Killian said. I looked at him, and he continued

KILLIAN'S POVI woke with metal biting into my wrists and an empty space inside my mind. For one terrible second, I forgot everything except the silence where Jordan should have been, and my body jerked against the chair before I remembered his face in the strategy room. “If the bond disappears, you don't assume I'm dead.” I closed my eyes and repeated, “Silence doesn't mean he's dead.”“Good,” Vale said from somewhere to my left. “Hold on to that thought.”I forced my eyes open and found him standing beside a table covered with medical equipment. Two wolves I did not recognize were working behind him, checking glass containers filled with dark liquid, while I sat strapped to a metal chair in the middle of what looked like an old treatment room.“Kidnapping is an interesting addition to your medical practice,” I said. Vale barely looked at me as he replied, “Do not fight the restraints. The suppressor has weakened your healing ability.” I tested the metal around my wrist and asked, “W

JORDAN'S POV“Say that again,” I told Vale.He stood in the ruined treatment room with blood drying above his eye and looked at me without blinking. “The convergence will complete itself at the next moonrise,” he repeated. “You have less than seven days.”Seven days. After everything we had survived, the number felt almost insulting. I stared at him and asked, “What exactly does complete itself mean?”Killian moved closer to me and added, “And try answering without leaving out the part where Jordan dies.”Vale's eyes shifted toward him before he explained, “Every awakened bloodline connected to Jordan will be pulled toward a single purpose. If his parents were right, the choices that formed your bonds can change what that purpose becomes.”“And if they were wrong?” Lorenzo asked.Vale hesitated.I laughed without humour and said, “I am done being protected with half-truths. Answer him.”Vale looked at me and replied, “The convergence will follow its original design. Jordan's body will

KILLIAN'S POVI hated the word Mirror the moment Vale said it. Maybe it was the way he explained it so calmly, as though replacing Jordan after his death was an ordinary medical process, but I had already heard enough.“How does another wolf become Jordan?” I asked.Vale looked at me and replied, “Stop thinking about identity. The Mirror does not take Jordan's face, memories or personality.”“Then what does it take?” I demanded.“His function,” Vale answered. “Once the original centre fails, the Mirror copies the Anchor's bloodline purpose.”Reef frowned and asked, “The convergence continues after Jordan dies?”“Yes,” Vale replied. “That was the protection built into the original system. Anchors were temporary. The convergence was designed to survive them.”Jordan folded his arms and said, “I am beginning to dislike my ancestors.”“You're only beginning?” I asked.Jordan ignored me while Vale continued, “A Mirror remained dormant near the Anchor and absorbed the Anchor's bloodline pat

JORDAN'S POV“How do we stop it?” I asked.Vale looked up from Mara's blood sample and replied, “The obvious solution is separation. Mara needs to leave the territory and travel far enough that your bloodline can no longer reach hers.”“Yes,” Killian said before Vale had even finished speaking.“I agree,” Mara added.“No,” I replied.Three people turned toward me at once, and Lorenzo sighed before asking, “Can you explain before this becomes another argument?”“Sending Mara away is exactly what Silas expects us to do,” I said. “He told us about the Mirror because he knew we would panic the moment we found her.”Mara folded her arms and replied, “I can protect myself.”“Killian thought the same thing before he woke up strapped to a chair,” I reminded her.Killian frowned and complained, “My kidnapping needs to stop becoming an example in every argument.”“It is an excellent example of bad decision-making,” Lorenzo told him.Killian looked at his father and asked, “Have you forgotten yo