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Chapter 376
ALEXANDER
“What?” I repeated. “Faye-”
She didn’t wait for me to finish.
She leaned forward slightly, her hands pressing lightly against the desk, her gaze locking onto mine with a force that hadn’t been there before.
“I want him out,” she said.
I stared at her for a second, trying to process what I was hearing, trying to reconcile it with the woman I knew.
Then I exhaled quietly and stepped closer to the desk.
“Out?” I repeated, trying to keep my tone steady, though there was a slight edge of disbelief creeping in. “Out to where, Faye? Where exactly do you want him to go?”
The question left my mouth before I had even fully thought it through.
And for a brief, strange moment-
I surprised myself.
Because there had been a time… not too long ago… when I had been the one saying Roman couldn’t stay here. When I had questioned his presence, his place, his loyalty. When I had been the one pushing for distance.
And now here I was-
Standing in front of Faye… defending him.
The irony almost would have been amusing.
If the situation wasn’t so wrong.
Faye didn’t react to that. Not the irony, not the shift. She didn’t even pause to consider the question beyond what it meant to her argument.
Instead, she leaned forward again, her gaze fixed on mine with a sharpness that hadn’t been there before.
“He sat there,” she began, her voice controlled but tight underneath, “and claimed that he had
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the exact same dream as me-‘
Her brows pulled together, her expression ha: ning.
“Not just similar,” she continued, her tone rising just slightly. “The same.”
I didn’t interrupt.
I let her speak.
Because I needed to understand exactly where this was coming from.
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“And then,” she added, her voice tightening further, “to also be able to understand whatever that voice was saying–something neither of us should even recognize-”
She shook her head slightly, like even saying it out loud made it sound worse.
“That’s not normal, Alexander,” she said, her eyes locking onto mine again. “That doesn’t just happen.”
I held her gaze. I could see the fire in her eyes even as she tried to stay calm.
“It could be another vision,” she went on, her voice dropping slightly but somehow becoming more intense. “I was bleeding out, and he was there.”
She paused for a moment.
“That means something,” she added.
The way she said it-
Not like a possibility, but like a conclusion.
“And what does it mean?” I asked, my tone even.
She didn’t hesitate.
“It means he knows more than he’s saying,” she replied immediately. “Or worse–he’s part of it.”
I couldn’t believe how easily she said it.
How quickly she got there.
“And if that’s the case,” she continued, pushing forward before I could respond, “then keeping him here is dangerous.”
She straightened slightly, her chin lifting just a fraction.
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“The only logical thing to do is send him out,” she said. “Get him away from me.”
For a second, I just looked at her.
Then I let out a short breath and shook my head.
A quiet scoff escaped me before I could stop it.
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“Can you hear yourself right now?” I asked, my voice calm–but there was no softness in it anymore.
Her expression tightened immediately.
I didn’t stop.
“If Roman was part of whatever this is,” I continued, stepping closer to the desk, my gaze sharpening now, “if he was dangerous, if he knew more than he was letting on-”
I held her gaze firmly.
“Why would he say anything at all?”
A brief pause.
“Why would he sit there, in front of both of us, and expose himself like that?” I added. “He could have said nothing. He could have pretended he didn’t know what you were talking about.”
I tilted my head slightly, lowering my tone.
“But he didn’t.”
Silence stretched between us.
I could see it–the conflict flickering behind her eyes, the part of her that understood what I was saying, even if she didn’t want to admit it.
But it didn’t last.
Not long enough.
Because something shifted again.
Her expression hardened, her jaw tightening, her eyes flashing with something I hadn’t seen in her like this before.
“I can’t-” she started, her voice rising suddenly, sharp, cutting through the room before she could finish.
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Her hand slammed against the desk.
The sound echoed loudly in the space, abrupt and jarring.
“Stop talking to me like I’m a child, Alpha Alexander,” she snapped.
The force behind it, the anger–the way she called my name…
My eyes locked onto her immediately, studying her now more closely than before.
And that was when I noticed the way her breathing had changed.
The tension in her body, coiled too tight.
Pulsing faintly beneath her skin.
I could see her veins popping out.
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