Alpha's Abandoned Daughter is the Secret Heiress novel Chapter 446

Chapter 446: The Hidden Wire

Chapter 446: The Hidden Wire

(Amelia’s POV)

The warehouse smelled of rust and salt water.

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It sat at the edge of the city, where the docks had long since been abandoned, where no on came unless they had a reason to disappear.

Celine stood in the middle of the concrete floor, her wrists bound, her expensive clothes rumpled and damp at the collar.

When I told her about the wire, she went completely still.

Then her whole body shuddered.

“A listening device?” Her voice cracked on the words. “You put a listening device on me?”

She stared at me like I had reached into her chest and rearranged something vital.

I watched her process it. I watched the color drain from her face as the full weight of it

landed,

Everything she had said in Griffin’s private compound. Every word she had exchanged with him about their plans, their arrangements, the things they had done and intended to do. All o it had traveled through that tiny microphone and into my ears.

Every single word.

Ava made a low, contemptuous sound somewhere deep inside me.

*The counterfeit finally realizes how stupid she’s been.*

I agreed with her completely, though I didn’t say so out loud.

Instead, I let the silence do the work.

Celine’s lips moved without sound for a moment. Then she found her voice again, though it was barely more than a whisper.

“When?” she breathed. “When did you put it on me?”

I tilted my head slightly and let the corner of my mouth curve upward.

“What do you think?”

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She swayed on her feet.

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Her eyes went blank, the kind of blank that comes when a person’s mind simply refuses to process what it’s being shown.

She knew what it meant. I could see it happening in real time. The moment she understood that her killing of Chuck had been recorded. The moment she understood that every secret she had whispered inside Griffin’s walls was no longer a secret at all.

“I’m finished,” she said.

The words came out flat and hollow, like she was reading them off a wall.

“I’m completely finished.”

She wasn’t wrong.

I turned away from her.

Lance was in the corner of the warehouse, his ruined wrists wrapped in rough bandaging, his

eyes fixed on Celine with an expression that had nothing human left in it.

I held up the encrypted black drive so he could see it clearly.

“With what she gave me,” I said, “Griffin has no path back. Not one.”

Lance’s gaze moved from the drive to Celine’s face.

I didn’t wait to watch what happened next.

I walked toward the exit, the drive tucked into my palm, and I didn’t look back.

I had barely made it twenty steps outside when I heard it.

Lance’s voice tore through the walls of the warehouse like something animal and broken, full

of a hatred so concentrated it had become its own kind of violence.

I kept walking,

My phone buzzed in my coat pocket.

I pulled it out,

Jade.

I answered before the second ring.

“He agreed.” Her voice was tight and breathless, like she had been holding it in for too long.

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“Arthur agreed to sell the Gale Pack company shares. Amelia, he actually agreed.”

“It’s a trap,” I said.

A pause.

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“I know,” she said. “I know it probably is. But Amelia – it’s my family’s company. If there’s ever a small chance –”

“There isn’t,” I said. “Arthur wouldn’t sell unless Griffin told him to. Griffin wants you in a room where he controls the exits.”

She went quiet.

“But you’re going to go anyway,” I said. It wasn’t a question.

“I have to at least –”

“Go,” I said. “Keep the earpiece in. I’ll bring people and we’ll follow behind. Whatever he’s setting up, we’ll use it against him.”

I heard her exhale.

“Amelia.”

“Don’t thank me yet,” I said. “Just don’t take the earpiece out for any reason.”

I ended the call.

I looked down at the encrypted drive in my hand.

There was one more use left in it.

One more move to make before this was over.

(Author’s POV)

The York Pack House living room was quiet in the way that expensive rooms are quiet when something wrong is happening inside them.

Griffin had been waiting for two hours.

He sat in the center of the sofa with his jacket off, his sleeves rolled to the elbow, a half–empty glass of red wine on the table in front of him that he hadn’t touched in an hour.

When Jade finally appeared in the doorway, he straightened.

She took one look at him and turned immediately to leave.

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The two guards at the door moved faster.

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They stepped into the frame before she could reach it, their bodies blocking the exit without a word.

Jade stopped.

She turned back around slowly.

Griffin’s eyes were wrong. Anyone who knew what a wolf looked like in the grip of something uncontrollable would have recognized it immediately. The fixation. The heat behind the irises. The way his attention locked onto her and didn’t move.

In the far corner of the room, Arthur York sat hunched against the wall with a young woman pressed close against him. Both of them were shaking. Neither of them looked up.

Jade’s chest tightened.

She kept her voice level.

“I want to cut the mate bond,” she said. “Whatever we had is done. I’m telling you clearly.”

Griffin stood up.

He moved toward her slowly, like he had all the time in the world.

“I haven’t agreed to that,” he said. “Until I do, you’re still mine.”

“Griffin –”

“I didn’t bring you here to negotiate.” He stopped in front of her, close enough that she had to tilt her head back to meet his eyes. “I brought you here because I’m done waiting.”

His hand came up and closed around her arm.

“You’ll carry my pup,” he said. “That’s what’s going to happen.”

Jade’s expression shifted into something that looked like revulsion, open and undisguised.

It hit him like a slap,

His grip tightened.

Then he shoved her backward onto the sofa and came down over her, his full weight pinning her in place.

“Celine was carrying my child,” he said, his voice dropping into something raw and ugly. “I ended it. I made that choice. And I’m not making it again with you.”

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He reached into his inner jacket pocket.

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“You think you get to look at me like that?” He pulled out a small glass vial filled with pale liquid. “You’ll stop looking at me like that very soon.”

Jade twisted hard under him, her hand sweeping across the surface of the side table, fingers closing around the first solid object they found.

A silver letter opener.

She drove it into his shoulder.

The silver bit into his flesh and the reaction was immediate. Griffin’s whole body recoiled, a sound tearing out of him that was more wolf than man. His eyes flooded red at the edges.

He ripped the letter opener free and flung it across the room.

Then he grabbed her jaw with one hand, his fingers digging in hard enough to bruise, and tipped the vial toward her mouth.

“You’ll thank me for this,” he said. “Eventually.”

The Aquid reached the edge of the vial.

The front door exploded inward.

The sound of fighting filled the hallway, bodies hitting walls, something heavy crashing to the floor, and then it was over in seconds.

Amelia walked through the doorway.

Her arm came up in one clean motion.

A silver throwing blade left her fingers and crossed the room in a straight line, burying itself in the back of Griffin’s hand.

The silver burned.

It burned through skin and tissue and sent a shock of white–hot pain up his arm that locked every muscle from his wrist to his shoulder.

The vial dropped.

Jade caught it.

She shoved Griffin off her with both hands, scrambled across the sofa, and ran.

She stopped when she reached Amelia’s side, breathing hard, the vial clutched against her

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chest.

She held it up.

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“Everything he just did,” Jade said between ragged breaths, “the earpiece caught all of it. And this –” she looked down at the vial in her hand, “– this is the proof.”

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