Bound To The Broken Alpha (Amy and Daniel) novel Chapter 438

Chapter 438 Nothing Illegal

DANIEL

His eyes focused slowly. “Daniel,” he rasped. “Took you long enough.”

Relief hit me hard, but I kept it contained. “You don’t get to joke,” I said. “Not today.”

Kade knelt beside him. “He’s bad. Internal injuries, maybe. We need to move him.”

Cole tried to sit up and failed. “Don’t,” he said. “They’re still close.”

My head snapped up. “Who?”

“Didn’t see faces,” he said. “They knew me. Knew you too.”

That confirmed what I already suspected. “You were targeted.”

“Yes,” Cole said. “Dragged east. I thought I could lose them. Didn’t work.”

Dara checked his pulse. “You’re lucky you’re conscious.”

Cole laughed weakly. “I didn’t feel lucky.”

“We’re getting you out,” I said. “You can tell me everything later.”

Finished

“No,” he said sharply, grabbing my sleeve. His grip was weak, but urgent. “You need to know now. They weren’t trying to kill me.”

That made me pause. “Then what?”

“They wanted me seen,” he said. “Wanted you to come.”

Silence fell over the group.

Kade swore under his breath. “It is a trap.”

“Maybe,” Cole said. “But not for me. For you.”

I straightened slowly. “Why didn’t they stop you from collapsing?”

“Because I wasn’t supposed to die,” he said. “I was bait.”

My wolf growled, pushing hard against my control. I forced it back.

Riven checked the perimeter. “We have movement. Far, but coming”

“Numbers?” I asked.

“Hard to tell. Scattered.”

I made a decision. “Evac now. Defensive formation. If they wanted me, they’ll show themselves.”

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Firishad

We lifted Cole carefully, supporting his weight. He hised in pain but didn’t complain further

As we moved, I stayed alert, scanning everything. Nothing attacked us. That worried me more than if they

had.

Back at the vehicles, we helped Cole in quickly. I took the seat beside him.

“You should have called,” I said quietly as the engines started.

“I tried,” he replied. “The signal was jammed.”

“By them.”

“Yes”

I clenched my jaw. “You said they knew me.”

Cole nodded. “They talked. Didn’t hide it. Said the Alpha Supreme was already bleeding. Business, reputation, allies. This was just pressure.”

That lined up too well with everything else going wrong. “Did you recognize anyone?”

“No. But I recognized the method,”

I looked at him. “Mark”

He didn’t answer. He didn’t need to.

The drive back was tense but uneventful. No pursuit. No ambush. Just silence that felt planned.

At the medical wing, Cole was taken straight in. I stayed long enough to hear the doctor say he’d live, then stepped out.

Kade followed me, “What now?”

“Now I stop reacting,” I said. “They want me chasing shadows. They want me stretched thin.”

“And Cole?”

“He’s proof,” I said. “Proof that this isn’t random. That someone is coordinating.”

Riven joined us. “You think this ties back to Amy?”

Everything did. “Yes,” I said. “Directly or not.”

I looked down the corridor where Cole had been taken. “They think hurting the people around me will

break me.”

Dara folded her arms. “It won’t.”

“No,” I agreed. “It won’t.”

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But it would make me careful. And careful, right now, mattered more than anger.

Finish

I stayed at the medical wing longer than I meant to, pacing the corridor while doctors worked on Cole The relief of finding him alive was already giving way to something heavier. If he had been bait, then whoever set that up was confident. Too confident.

When the doctor finally stepped out, he nodded once. “He’ll recover. Broken ribs, dehydration, internal bruising. He needs rest.”

“I need five minutes,” I said.

‘You’ll get three,” he replied, firm but understanding.

Cole looked pale against the sheets, an IV running into his arm. He turned his head when I came in. “You look worse than I do,” he said.

‘You always did have bad timing,” I replied, pulling a chair closer. “Don’t try to sit up.”

‘I won’t.” He exhaled slowly. “Daniel, before you ask-”

‘I’m asking anyway,” I said. “Your assignment.”

His eyes sharpened. “Clara.”

‘Yes.”

‘I followed her,” he said without hesitation. “Every route, every meeting she allowed herself to be seen at. dug where I could without exposing myself.”

‘And?”

‘And I found nothing incriminating,” he said plainly.

The words hit harder than I expected. I kept my face neutral. “Nothing.”

‘No illegal transactions. No secret handoffs. No coded messages I could trace back to anything concrete,” ne continued. “If you were hoping for proof, I don’t have it.”

Silence settled between us.

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