Bound To The Broken Alpha (Amy and Daniel) novel Chapter 232

Bound To The Broken Alpha

Chapter 232 This Can’t Wait

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I barely slept through the night. My eyes stayed on Amy the entire night, waiting for any sign that the pain she felt earlier would return. She slept on her side with one hand over her stomach, and every few minutes I reached out to check her breathing even though I knew she was fine.

The room felt strangely still. I kept imagining problems I couldn’t fix, and every one of them made my chest feel tight.

Brian knocked at dawn. The sound was sharp enough that Amy shifted in her sleep. I got up quietly and opened the door before he knocked again.

He stepped inside, closing it behind him. “Daniel… Clara just requested a private meeting with the elders. They approved it. She’s already on her way to the council building.”

I stared at him. “They approved it? Under what grounds?”

“No one knows,” he said. “No announcement. No agenda. Nothing.”

I looked at Amy again. She was waking up slowly, her eyes soft but alert. “You’re not going,” she said before I could speak.

I walked to the bed. “I have to know what she’s doing.”

“You’re suspended,” she reminded me. “If you break that rule, Elias will use it to bury you.”

“I can’t just sit here.”

She pushed herself up carefully. I sat beside her, and she caught my face between her hands. “You’re not useless. You’re not powerless. But if you act the way Elias expects, you’ll make everything worse. He wants you cornered. Don’t give him that.”

I closed my eyes and leaned my forehead against hers. “It feels like everything I built is being taken from me in slow pieces.”

“I know,” she whispered. “But you’re still here. And you still have allies.”

Brian added quietly, “We’re not letting Elias or Clara walk all over this.”

Amy squeezed my hand. “Then start acting like the Alpha you’ve always been. You plan. You don’t flail.”

Her words settled something inside me. Not comfort, exactly–more like direction. I nodded.

By late morning, I convinced Brian to watch the house while I stepped out. Amy wanted to come with me, but I didn’t want her walking around when her body was already under stress. I promised her I’d be back in less than two hours.

I drove to a quiet meeting spot where Elder Havik agreed to see me. He waited behind an old administrative building near the ridge. He looked tense, which wasn’t his usual state. Havik rarely showed emotion, so the stiffness in his posture worried me.

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“You shouldn’t be here,” he said once I reached him. “If someone sees you-”

“No one followed me,” I said. “What’s going on? Why did Clara ask for a private meeting?”

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He exhaled slowly and handed me a sealed envelope. “This came to the council last night. No sender. No signature. Nothing. But the documents inside… Daniel, they’re not about you. They’re about Carter Holdings.”

I opened the envelope. Inside were records of supposed financial transfers–large amounts disguised as maintenance expenses.

According to the papers, the money flowed through the South, routed through shell accounts tied to the southern envoy group Clara was connected to.

“These are fake,” I said immediately.

“They don’t look fake.” Havik replied. “If I didn’t know Carter Holdings‘ accounting protocols, I might believe them myself.”

I rubbed my jaw. “Clara set this up. She and Elias must have been planning this for months.”

Havik lowered his voice. “There’s more. Some of the elders think these documents prove you’ve been working with the South behind their backs. They’re discussing appointing an acting Alpha by midnight.”

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My stomach tightened. “They’re going to put Elias in my seat.”

“It’s leaning that way,” Havik admitted. “He’s been gaining support fast. Too fast, if you ask me.”

I folded the documents. “Thank you for telling me.”

He nodded once. “Be careful. The room is shifting, and it’s not in your favor.”

I returned home in a state I could barely name. Anger, frustration, dread–they all blended together. When

I walked inside, the house was quiet. Amy stepped out from the hallway and watched me closely.

“What happened?” she asked.

I held up the envelope. “Clara’s trying to destroy the company now. It’s bigger than I thought.”

She walked to me and placed her hands on my chest. “You’re breathing too fast.”

“I’m fine.”

“You’re not.”

She didn’t push or scold. She just waited. I wrapped my arms around her and lowered my chin to her shoulder. She held me until my breathing evened out. When I finally pulled back, her face softened.

“You’re allowed to feel this,” she said. “Just don’t let it control you.”

I kissed her, needing the reminder that I still had something stable in my life. She kissed me back without hesitation, grounding me in a way nothing else could.

“Daniel–sorry–this can’t wait.”

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Amy pulled the blanket up, annoyed but alert. “What is it?”

Cole held a tablet out, his hand shaking. “Clara just sent this statement to the elders. And they’re broadcasting it internally through the council system. You need to see this.”

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My pulse spiked. I took the tablet and opened the file. Clara stood in front of the council podium, speaking with that calm expression she always wore when she wanted to pretend she cared about the pack.

Her voice played through the speakers:

“I have come forward today to present information that the council deserves to know. Daniel Carter has concealed several breaches of protocol, and Carter Holdings has been involved in financial activities that put the North at risk…”

Amy grabbed my arm. “Pause it.”

I did.

She looked at me, “Then we start our counter now.”

The room no longer felt quiet or safe. The trap was bigger than I expected, and Clara had just tightened another piece of it.

But as long as Amy stood beside me, I wasn’t giving them the victory they wanted. The only thing that mattered now was staying ahead of them, piece by piece, until the truth broke their entire plan apart.

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