Chapter 69
Chapter 69:
“Small potatoes?!” I exploded, my voice echoing off the bulletproof glass windows. “Maybe to the Blackstone Empire! But to my Pack, that is life or death! That is food for the pups! That is the roof over the heads of women whose Mates died defending our borders! I am their Alpha heir, Kain! It is my job to protect them, and Jase is slaughtering them just to get to me p>
Kain froze, the crystal glass halting halfway to his mouth.
The room fell dead silent. His storm-gray eyes darkened, locking onto mine. His Inner Wolf didn’t bristle at my outburst — instead, I felt a sudden, heavy wave of profound respect rolling off him. He recognized the fierce, desperate instinct of a true Alpha fighting for her territory.
He set the glass down and closed the distance between us. He didn’t tower over me this time. He bowed his head slightly, leveling his gaze with mine.
“You’re right,” Kain murmured, his voice a low, lethal promise. “It is your territory. But Jase made a fatal miscalculation p>
Kain pulled his encrypted phone from his pocket and dialed a number. “Liam,” he commanded the moment his lead attorney answered. “Terminate all of the Blackstone Empire’s current global corporate travel contracts. Draft a new, five-year exclusive agreement with The Wolfe Hotel Group. Fifty million dollars. Paid upfront. Have it on my desk in ten minutes p>
He ended the call.
My jaw dropped. “Fifty million? Kain, no. I can’t accept that. I don’t want your charity p>
𝖠𝗰𝘵𝘪𝗏𝘦 𝗰о𝗺𝗆𝘶nі𝘁y 𝘰n ѕ.co𝘮
“It is not charity, Adelina,” Kain said, his eyes burning with a dark, possessive fire. He stepped into my space, his ancient cedar scent wrapping around me like an impenetrable shield. “It is a war alliance. A coordinated attack p>
He reached out, his thumb gently brushing the trembling line of my jaw. The electric spark of his touch sent a jolt straight to my heart.
“I want to see the look on Jase Davenport’s face,” Kain whispered, his voice vibrating with absolute, destructive power, “when he realizes he didn’t attack you. He attacked me p>
I stared up at him, the sheer magnitude of his protection leaving me entirely breathless. I wasn’t fighting alone anymore.
Before I could even process the monumental shift between us, my phone vibrated violently in my palm. I looked down at the screen. My mother’s name was flashing back at me.
Adelina POV
The phone vibrated violently against my palm, its harsh buzzing shattering the fragile, charged silence between Kain and me. I looked down at the glowing screen. Carolyn Parrish.
I swiped to answer and brought the phone to my ear. I didn’t even get a chance to speak.
“You ungrateful little Pack-wrecker!” Carolyn’s shrill voice pierced my eardrum, dripping with absolute venom. “Vincent just told me what Jase did! Two million dollars, Adelina! You are destroying your father’s legacy because you couldn’t keep your legs closed for the right Alpha p>
The familiar, suffocating ice of my mother’s emotional abuse flooded my veins, freezing the breath in my lungs. “Mother, I p>
“Shut up and listen to me!” she shrieked, her panic over losing her lavish lifestyle making her vicious. “You are going to march over to Jase Davenport’s penthouse right now, get on your knees, and beg him to reinstate that contract! Do you hear me? You will fix this, or we will lose everything p>