All Chapters of Alpha, Let's End This Bond!: Chapter 181 - Chapter 190

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The Silver Moon Feast.

- LUCAThe office was too quiet. Outside, the city was gearing up for the Silver Moon Feast—the one night a year every pack in the state traded their suits for traditional furs and gathered around massive bonfires. It was supposed to be about unity, but all I felt was a mounting headache.My desk was buried in quarterly reports, but my mind was at the estate.The phone buzzed. Helena's caller ID flashed on the screen. I rubbed my face and picked up."Luca. Tell me the kids are already in the car," my mother's voice clipped through the speaker. "The elders are already arriving at the ancestral hall. You know how they get about punctuality on feast days.""I'm finishing up, Mother. We'll be there.""Bring them early. Adrian needs to practice the cub's greeting, and Aurora... well, she just needs to look cute. Don't be late."She hung up before I could argue. I sighed, closing my laptop. 3:00 p.m. If I left now, I could grab the twins and make it to the Stormbourne ancestral grounds befo

The Uninvited Guest.

- LUCAThe Stormbourne ancestral mansion loomed against the night sky, its stone walls glowing under the orange flicker of the Silver Moon bonfires. It was a place of history and heavy traditions, usually smelling of old wood and expensive cigars. Tonight, it smelled like woodsmoke and the spiced wine of the feast.I stepped out of the SUV, the cold air biting at my neck. Adrian and Aurora were already squirming, their little boots thumping against the gravel as I set them down."Dada! Big fire!" Adrian shouted, pointing at the pyre burning in the distance."Yeah, big fire, champ," I muttered, grabbing their small bags.My parents, Oliver and Helena, were already at the massive oak doors. They looked every bit the retired Alpha and Luna—regal, poised, and wearing the traditional furs of the Stormbourne lineage. My mother's eyes immediately swept over the kids, a rare, genuine smile softening her face."There they are," she said, reaching for Aurora. "My little cubs."Oliver stepped fo

The Long Way Around.

- LUCAThe front door hadn't even stopped vibrating from the force of me slamming it in Ivy's face before I felt my mother's shadow fall over me. I stood there, staring at the dark wood, my chest heaving. The adrenaline from the festival, the anger at Ivy's poison, and the hollow ache of the last few days were all colliding in my gut."She's a viper, Luca. But she's a viper you let into the garden," Helena said. Her voice wasn't scolding; it was tired.I turned around. My mother was leaning against the marble pillar of the foyer, her traditional furs draped over her shoulders like a queen's mantle. "I handled it, Mother. She's gone.""Is she? Or is she just waiting for the next crack in the wall?" Helena stepped closer, her eyes searching mine. "You've spent years acting like an Alpha is someone who never bends. But look at you. You're breaking, Luca. And you're taking Aria down with you.""I'm trying to keep this family together," I snapped."By force? By court orders and locking doo

Cracked Mirror.

- LUCAThe apartment felt small, but not in the way that usually made me feel claustrophobic. It felt intimate and private. Everything here smelled like laundry soap and vanilla, making the estate feel like a frozen tomb in comparison.Aria was on the rug, her arms full of toddlers. The second she'd touched them, the screaming stopped. It was like she'd flipped a switch. Aurora was tucked into the crook of her neck, her tiny chest hitching with the last of her sobs, while Adrian was busy trying to crawl into her lap.I stood by the door, my hands shoved deep into my pockets. I felt like a trespasser in my own life."They haven't slept," I said, my voice sounding too loud in the quiet room. "They wouldn't eat the cakes. Just kept asking for you."Aria didn't look up. She was focused on Aurora, her hand steady as she smoothed back her hair. "They're overstimulated, Luca. The feast is too much for kids this age. You know that.""I thought it would be good for them. Tradition and all that

Street Side Standoff

- LUCAThe ceiling above me creaked with the rhythmic, heavy footsteps of a tired mother. I sat on the edge of Aria's grey sofa, my elbows on my knees, staring at a stack of fashion magazines on her coffee table. I wanted to go up there. My wolf was pacing behind my ribs, whining for the scent of my children and the proximity of my mate. But I stayed put. One wrong move—one uninvited entrance—and the fragile peace we'd just brokered would go up in flames.The apartment was too quiet. It magnified the sound of the city outside—the distant hum of traffic and the occasional celebratory howl from the Silver Moon Feast.Then, a pair of headlights cut through the blinds, sweeping across the living room wall. A car pulled up right behind my SUV.I stood up, my pulse spiking. I knew that engine.I walked to the window and flicked the slat. A sleek, silver sedan had double-parked. The door opened, and Brandon stepped out. He was carrying a heavy-looking shopping bag—pharmacy brands, by the loo

The Weight Of Kindness

- ARIAThe door clicked shut, and the sudden absence of Luca's heavy, suffocating energy made the room feel twice as large.I leaned my back against the wood, closing my eyes for a second. My chest was tight, my heart refusing to slow down."Hey," Brandon said softly. "You're shaking, Aria."I opened my eyes. He was standing a few feet away, the bag of supplements still clutched in his hand. He looked truly worried, not that possessive, simmering heat that Luca always carried."I'm fine," I lied, pushing off the door. "Just... a lot. Tonight was supposed to be quiet.""Let me look at that nose."I sat on the edge of the sofa, and he knelt in front of me. His fingers were cool as he gently tilted my chin up. He didn't grab; he didn't pull. He just looked. The lighting in my small living room was dim, but I could feel his focus."The swelling is down," he muttered, checking the bridge of my nose. "But you've got some yellowing under the eyes. You're pushing yourself too hard with the br

The Petition Goes Public

- ARIAMy phone buzzed three times before I even opened my eyes.I reached for it on instinct, expecting Nova's usual morning meme or a reminder about the studio's nine o'clock call. Instead my screen was a wall of notifications, each one worse than the last.STORMBOURNE HEIR'S MARRIAGE IN CRISIS: EMERGENCY COURT FILING ALLEGES "PHYSICAL ENDANGERMENT"ALPHA LUCA STORMBOURNE FACES SCRUTINY AS WIFE SEEKS PROTECTIVE HEARINGTYLER STORMBOURNE'S CAMPAIGN ROCKED BY COUSIN'S DOMESTIC SCANDALI sat up so fast the blanket slid off my shoulders. Tasha's name was already lighting up the screen."Please tell me you've seen it," she said the second the call connected. No hello."I'm seeing it right now." My voice came out flatter than I felt. My stomach had dropped somewhere around the third headline. "Andrew filed this as a quiet motion. How is it already a headline?""Someone leaked it. Filings like this take days to even get indexed, let alone picked up by three outlets before sunrise." Her voi

Helena's Ledger

- LUCAMy mother had called me into her study two days before any of this broke, sat me down across from her desk, and told me, in that flat, unbothered voice she used for things that frightened her, exactly what this marriage was about to cost the family. Tyler's funding. The northern zoning deal. Thirty years of polish, all of it riding, apparently, on whether I could make my own divorce look respectable.I'd told her I wasn't fighting it. I hadn't expected that to be the part that bought me two more days of peace before she came back with something worse.She summoned me to the old manor this time, not her office — which told me something before she said a word. Whatever this was, she didn't want it on record, and she didn't want Camilla overhearing it.She was waiting in the long gallery beneath four generations of Stormbourne portraits, a folder closed on the table like a held breath."Sit," she said. I did."I spoke with the campaign office again this morning," she began, no pre

What Rowan Signed

- IVYI'd rehearsed this conversation in my head for three days, certain that whatever Rowan actually said would be softer than what I'd imagined.It wasn't."I filed this morning," he said, setting a folder on the kitchen island between us — not sliding it, not handing it over, just setting it down, deliberate, the way you put something heavy on a table you don't trust to hold it. "My lawyer has a copy. So does yours, if you want to call her."I stared at the folder like it might rearrange itself into something less final if I looked long enough."You're serious.""I've been serious for two months." His voice didn't have the edge I expected — no triumph, which somehow made it worse. He just sounded tired. "I kept thinking losing the baby would change something. Make you look at me instead of past me, for once. It didn't. I don't think anything was ever going to.""That's not fair.""No," he agreed. "None of this has been fair, to either of us, for about six years now. I'm done waitin

The Debt Repaid

- LUCAThe long gallery had seen this configuration before — same chairs, same portraits, the particular hush that fell when everyone in the room understood something was about to be decided whether they agreed to it or not. I remembered sitting in one of these chairs at nine years old, watching Magnus settle a territory dispute with nothing but a level voice and an unwillingness to raise it. I hadn't understood, then, how much weight that kind of calm could carry.I understood it now.My mother sat at the head of the table, flanked by Aunt Lavinia and two cousins I always had to work to remember the names of. Camilla stood near the window the way she did when she suspected she might need to leave before something finished being said. My father was in his usual chair, attention entirely on me."I want this recorded properly," I said, once the room had settled. "Not gossiped about. Written down, the way Magnus would have wanted family business handled."Lavinia's eyebrows lifted. "This

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