Bound To The Broken Alpha (Amy and Daniel) novel Chapter 247

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AMY

I stepped out of my room and froze before I could take a full breath.

Mrs. Carter looked dead flat on the floor.

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Her body was limp, her head tilted at an odd angle. The glass cup of water she’d been carrying was shattered beside her, water spreading slowly across the tiles.

My stomach flipped.

“Mrs. Carter?” My voice cracked.

I rushed to her and dropped to my knees. My hands shook so badly I could barely touch her shoulders. I shook her lightly.

“Mrs. Carter… please wake up. Please.”

Nothing.

Her eyelids didn’t flutter. Her chest moved, but the breaths were shallow and slow.

A wave of panic surged up my throat. I looked down the hallway, waiting–begging–for Cole to turn the corner. He should’ve been here. He should’ve been seconds behind her. He’d said he was checking the perimeter, not disappearing into thin air. I strained my ears, waiting for any sound.

There was nothing. No guards. No footsteps. No staff. Only silence stretching through the house like a warning.

“Cole!” I shouted, even though my voice wavered. “Cole, I need help!

Nothing answered back.

My hands trembled more. Fear crawled under my skin. I tried to push myself up from the floor, but my legs wobbled strangely. The dizziness from earlier returned, except stronger. Denser. My head spun as if someone had pulled the ground out from under me.

This wasn’t normal.

My heart pounded harder. I pushed a hand against the wall to steady myself. My limbs felt weak in a way that wasn’t stress or pregnancy or exhaustion.

Something was wrong,

Very wrong.

I backed away slowly, trying to get my breathing under control. I needed to get to my phone. I needed to call Daniel, call Cole, call anyone-

A voice slid through the hallway behind me.

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“Looking for someone?”

My entire body stiffened.

I turned sharply.

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Clara stood at the far end of the hallway.

Her hair was messy, her expression bright with sick satisfaction. A knife dangled from her fingers, catching the light with every small sway of her hand. Her smile was wide, sharp, and dripping with victory.

My stomach dropped.

“What did you do to her?” I forced out. The words scraped out of my throat, shaky, but strong enough.

Clara tilted her head, amused. “Relax. She’s not dead. Yet. I needed her out of the way. She was getting annoying.”

My hands curled into fists even though my arms felt like they weighed far too much. “Where’s Cole?”

“Oh, please.” Her eyes lit up with twisted delight. “Do you think I came here without a plan? Everyone who could interfere is already dealt with.”

My chest tightened.

“What did you do?” I asked again, this time sharper.

She lifted the knife and dragged the tip against the wall as she walked toward me. The sound screeched down the hallway.

“Just a little insurance,” she said casually. “Wolfsbane in the vents. A strong dose, timed perfectly. I couldn’t risk you fainting in the car before I arrived. I wanted to see your face when you realized you were finally alone with me.”

My breath shook. My hands were cold. The weakness in my limbs suddenly made sense. The dizziness. The heaviness.

It wasn’t exhaustion, stress, fear, or poison.

“You’re insane,” I whispered.

Clara laughed–loud, unrestrained, thrilled. “And you’re slow/ You should’ve realized earlier.”

She kept walking forward, her footsteps steady and confident while mine felt unsteady and unpredictable. My vision blurred at the edges, the hallway tilting slightly. I blinked hard, trying to keep her in focus.

“You planned this,” I said. “You staged Elias’s escape. You did everything.”

“Oh, now you’re thinking.” She clapped softly with her free hand, mocking, “I knew if the council took him down, everyone would forget about me. So I fixed it. I made sure he slipped right through their fingers. And

now…”

She shrugged, pleased with herself. “…now it’s your turn.”

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I swallowed hard. The taste of metal filled my mouth. I tried to straighten my posture, but my knees buckled again. I held onto the wall tightly.

My voice was barely audible. “You won’t get away with this.”

Clara smirked. “I’ve already gotten away with plenty.”

Her pace quickened.

I tried to take a step back, but my legs felt disconnected from my body. My arms were heavy. My breathing turned shallow. Panic built rapidly in my chest.

“Don’t bother trying to shift,” she said. “The wolfsbane in your system will crush your wolf before it even

starts.”

My jaw clenched. Every part of me wanted to attack her, claw at her, scream, anything–but my body refused to cooperate. My muscles trembled violently just from trying to stay upright.

Clara stopped a few feet from me, lifting the knife to eye level. “You know, I thought I’d have to work harder to get to this point. But you just keep handing me opportunities.”

“You won’t touch my baby,” I said, hearing the rawness in my own voice.

She smiled wider. “You really think Dcare? I only need you gone, the baby will die with you. Everything else is extra.”

A cold surge of fear shot through me, but anger followed right behind it. My legs threatened to give out again, but I pushed all my remaining strength into staying on my feet.

Clara watched my struggle with a delighted expression. “You really are hard to kill. I’ll give you that.”

My vision flickered. The hallway tilted again. My breaths grew shorter faster.

I tried to call out for Daniel, for Cole, for anyone–but the words didn’t come out. My throat tightened too. much.

Clara lifted the knife higher.

“Well,” she whispered, “this is the part where you fall.”

She Junged.

The blade scraped against my forearm as I blocked the hit. The impact jolted up to my shoulder. Pain spread through my whole body and I stumbled.

I kept moving backward even though my legs felt like they weren’t listening to me anymore.

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