Bound To The Broken Alpha (Amy and Daniel) novel Chapter 220

Chapter 220 Escalated Situations

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Mrs. Carter returned home hours later. I heard her footsteps before I saw her. She walked in with the same sharp energy she always carried after handling pack matters outside the house. The moment she saw me sitting up, her expression softened for a second, then tightened again. with concern.

“We need to talk,” she said. “All of us. The situation escalated.”

Daniel straightened beside me, but I spoke first. “I’m joining the meeting.”

Mrs. Carter frowned. “No. You need rest after what happened earlier. This is not the time to push yourself.”

“I’m not sitting out,” I said. “If Clara is working with the Southern Alpha, none of us are safe until we expose everything. I need to hear the plan and add what I know. Plus I can’t just sit doing absolutely nothing with my time.” I debated.

Her lips pressed together. She looked at Daniel as if hoping he’d back her up, but he didn’t say anything. He knew I wasn’t going to sit quietly in bed while everyone else made plans around

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“Fine,” she said. “But you’re sitting, and you’re not overexerting yourself. If you feel light- headed, you step out.”

“I will,” I replied, even though I wasn’t sure I meant it.

We moved to the strategy room. A long table sat in the center with screens and scattered documents. Brian, Cole, and two security heads stood waiting. The air was thick with urgency.

Mrs. Carter took her seat at the head of the table. “Daniel informed me about the drive. Clara’s alliance with the Southern Alpha changes our entire strategy. We need to secure our systems and our pack before we make any moves.”

I listened as they reviewed the messages again. Clara had been communicating with him for months. She shared movements, weaknesses, and timelines. Most of this was already familiar, but I read through the logs again anyway.

Then something caught my attention.

“Wait,” I said, pointing to one message Daniel had scrolled past earlier. “Go back.”

Daniel stopped and looked at me. I leaned in closer, ignoring how heavy my body felt.

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“That one,” I said. “Open it.”

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He clicked it. The message expanded on the screen.

It wasn’t just Clara requesting reinforcement or resources. There was a line near the bottom:

>I can provide full access to Carter Holdings financial files once the system is bypassed‘

My stomach tightened. Not from nausea, this was something worse.

“She wasn’t only planning to expose pack information,” I said. “She’s planning a corporate attack. She wants to hit the business directly.”

Daniel’s jaw tightened. Mrs. Carter leaned forward, eyes sharp.

“Show me,” she said.

Daniel slid the screen toward her. She read it twice, slowly, then straightened with a facial expression that told me she was already thinking five steps ahead.

“Cole,” she said, “freeze all internal access points. Every account. Every portal. Anyone who isn’t manually cleared loses access immediately.”

Cole didn’t hesitate. “On it.”

She turned to Brian. “Double surveillance on all Carter Holdings servers. Any irregular ping gets flagged. No exceptions.”

He nodded. “I’ll inform IT.”

I kept reading through the logs. The more I saw, the clearer it became: Clara wasn’t lashing out randomly. She was trying to dismantle everything in one coordinated strike.

The meeting continued while Mrs. Carter gave more instructions. Daniel was already planning countermeasures for the pack side of things. People threw ideas across the table. Timelines were made. Risks were listed. The room felt like it was moving as fast as the situation.

Halfway through someone’s report about firewall stability, a wave of nausea hit me hard.

My vision dipped for a second. I kept my eyes down and breathed slowly. I didn’t want anyone reacting to it. I didn’t want attention pulled away from the bigger problem.

But Daniel saw it anyway. He always did. His hand brushed my knee under the table. I looked up, and the moment our eyes met, he understood everything.

Without speaking over the others, he stood up and gently pulled my chair back from the table.

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“Come with me,” he said quietly.

“I’m fine,” I whispered back.

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“You’re barely sitting upright,” he murmured. “Ten minutes. That’s all.”

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I didn’t argue. I let him guide me to the corner of the room where a smaller sofa sat. He helped me sit down and crouched in front of me.

“You’re pushing too hard,” he said.

“I’m not stepping aside when everything is falling apart,” I replied.

“You’re not stepping aside,” he said calmly. “You’re breathing for ten minutes.”

I sighed because fighting him when he used that tone never worked. He placed a bottle of water in my hand.

“Drink,” he said.

I took a slow sip. The nausea eased slightly.

The room continued buzzing with activity. Mrs. Carter did not pause, but she noticed Daniel and me in the corner. She didn’t say anything–probably because she knew arguing with me would lead nowhere.

We had barely been there a few minutes before Cole hurried back into the room, tablet in hand.

“Update from IT,” he said.

Everyone turned to him.

He looked straight at Daniel and Mrs. Carter. “The Southern Alpha’s company attempted to breach Carter Holdings‘ firewall twenty minutes ago.”

Mrs. Carter’s expression hardened instantly. “Did they get through?”

“No,” Cole said. “They didn’t expect the system to be locked down already. The attempt failed.”

Brian stepped closer. “Were they able to hide the attempt?”

“Not at all,” Cole replied. “They were clumsy. They wanted access fast, probably thinking Clara disabled protections already.”

I felt my pulse picking up. Everything was moving faster. Clara wasn’t waiting. The Southern Alpha wasn’t waiting either. They were pushing, hoping to find cracks before we found them.

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Daniel looked at me. His eyes said everything he didn’t say out loud.

Things were getting worse. And we had no room for mistakes.

I leaned back against the sofa, holding the bottle of water in my hand. “This is getting more complicated with each passing day,” I said quietly.

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