Bound To The Broken Alpha (Amy and Daniel) novel Chapter 479

Chapter 479 The Hard Part

DANIEL

I reached the door marked with restricted clearance and pressed my hand to the scanner.

Denied.

Finished

I exhaled slowly and entered the manual code Amy once taught me for high–security corporate rooms. Not because she planned for this. Because she always planned.

The lock disengaged.

I stepped inside.

Amy was sitting upright on the bed, a blanket pulled tight around her shoulders. A medical monitor beeped steadily beside her. She looked thinner. Pale. But her eyes were sharp.

She looked up.

For half a second, she didn’t move.

Then she said my name.

“Daniel.”

I crossed the room in three steps and dropped to my knees beside her. I didn’t touch her at first. I needed to know she was real.

“You’re here,” she said, voice unsteady but controlled.

“Yes,” I replied. “I’m here.”

Her hand gripped my sleeve like she might lose me if she didn’t. “I thought… I didn’t know if you-”

“I know,” I said quietly. “I’m sorry it took this long.”

She shook her head. “You found me. That’s what matters.”

Cole’s voice came through the comm. “We have six minutes.”

Amy looked at me. “They won’t let you walk out.”

“I know,” I said. “We’re not walking.”

I helped her stand slowly, She swayed, and I caught her immediately.

“I’ve got you,” I said.

“I can move,” she insisted.

“I know you can,” I replied. “Let me help anyway.”

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We moved her into the wheelchair Cole had staged earlier. Medical transport. No suspicion if done right.

As we reached the door, footsteps echoed down the hall.

“Problem,” Cole said.

Two handlers appeared, surprise flashing across their faces.

“Stop,” one of them said.

I didn’t argue.

“This patient is being transferred under emergency protocol,” I said evenly. “You were not notified because you don’t have clearance.”

“That’s not-”

Amy spoke then. Calm. Clear. “I’m unstable. If you delay this, it will be documented.”

They hesitated.

That was enough.

We pushed through.

The elevator ride down felt longer than the ride up. My hand never left Amy’s shoulder.

“You’re shaking,” she said softly.

“So are you,” I replied.

“Mine’s medical,” she said.

“Mine isn’t.”

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The doors opened. We moved into the corridor. Alarms didn’t sqund. No one shouted.

When we reached the exit and stepped into the night air, Amy exhaled sharply.

“I didn’t think I’d feel this,” she said.

“Feel what?”

“Free,” she replied. “Even if it’s just for now.”

I helped her into the back of the van and climbed in beside her. Cole drove without a word.

As the building disappeared behind us, Amy leaned her head against my shoulder,

“They were preparing me,” she said quietly.

“I know,” I replied.

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“For something they wouldn’t explain.”

“I know.”

She was silent for a moment. “You’re going to ask me questions.”

“Yes,” I said. “But not tonight.”

She nodded. “Good.”

Her hand found mine. “You didn’t give up.”

“Never,” I said.

The road stretched ahead of us, dark and uncertain. But for the first time in weeks, Amy was beside me.

And that changed everything.

We didn’t go straight to the safe house. That was the first rule after an extraction like this. Patterns get people caught. Cole drove us through three routes, stopped twice, switched plates once. I watched every mirror while keeping one hand steady on Amy’s arm.

She stayed quiet. Not weak. Just alert. The kind of quiet that comes from learning not to waste energy.

“You in pain?” I asked.

“Yes,” she said. “But it’s controlled.”

That word again. Controlled. Everything about what they had done to her lived inside that word.

Cole glanced back. “We’re clean so far.”

“So far,” I repeated.

When we finally stopped, it wasn’t anywhere official. An old private clinic that shut down years ago but still had power, water, and a basement no one bothered to check anymore. I carried Amy inside myself. She protested once, then stopped.

Inside, the air smelled sterile but unused. Dust layered over equipment that hadn’t been touched in years.

“This will hold,” Cole said. “For a few hours at least.”

“A few hours is enough,” I replied.

I helped Amy onto a bed in one of the rooms. She sat carefully, breathing slow. I checked the monitor Cole had grabbed during the extraction and connected it again.

“You know how to read that?” she asked.

“I learned fast,” I said.

She nodded. “Figures.”

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Cole stood near the door. “I’ll keep watch.”

Amy waited until his footsteps faded before she spoke again.

“They were adjusting things,” she said. “Doses. Timing. Tests that weren’t on the original plan.”

“Clara told me something wasn’t right,” I said. “Not details. Just enough to know they’d crossed a line.”

Amy looked down at her hands. “They asked me a question.”

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