Owned By The Possessive Alpha, Bounded To My Mate novel Chapter 134

Chapter 134

Alyssa POV

I made the call the next morning when Eli was still asleep.

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I decided to make the call sometime between three to four a.m. as I watched Eli’s breathing as he slept As the day got brighter, I had moved from whether to how and used the following hour to make my preparations on how to reach him.

The phone I used to reach him was a burner that couldn’t be traced to me or my location in any way at all.

I had already written down Dante’s office line which I found during my research in that unholy hour of the morning.

Here goes nothing. I took a deep breath before dialing; he answered on the second ring.

“Dante Moretti.” He sounded like someone who found seven a.m. calls routine and not unusual.

“Alyssa Stone,” I said.

The silence lasted four seconds. The silence wasn’t because he didn’t know my name. He was calculating and running simulations as to the nature of the call. He knew it was delicate but was trying to decipher how delicate.

His voice had a cautious edge to it. “Ms. Stone. This is unexpected.”

“Yes it is. I need to have a conversation with you.”

“About?”

“Not about the mating or Kieran.”

He did a poor job of hiding his curiosity. “Then what?”

“I have a situation that I want to be handled with the utmost discretion.”

“Why me?”

“Because you are a stranger.”

He was quiet for a moment. I could hear his thoughts whirring as he thought about what was offered and what was expected.

He finally spoke, “What do you need?”

“Information. I have been receiving some harassing calls and I traced to one of your business holdings.”

His voice tensed just a bit. “What?”

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“One of the firms was through which the call was routed was owned by you. You are in a better position to

me more.”

He was quiet again. “And in return?”

“I’ve been doing my own investigation. I’ve found things may be useful to you, depending on what your current interests are.”

“That’s deliberately vague.”

“Yes.”

I heard him move a bit. “I’d need more before agreeing to anything.”

“How about a meeting so we can lay our cards on the table?”

“My office would be a good place.”

“Anywhere in your company but your office.”

“Next week?”

“Yes, I will be in the city by then.”

He sounded different now, more invested. Dante was a man who liked challenges and I just handed him

one.

I stared into space and spoke measuredly. “Before we wrap up, I have one condition.”

“Go ahead.”

“Kieran can’t know about this. I’m not asking to you lie if he asks you when he finds out.”

The pause told me he was making some calculations that I couldn’t decipher, probably looking for what to leverage on.

“Understood,” he said finally.

“That’s not a yes”

“It wasn’t meant to be. I’ll see you next week.”

I ended the call and the severity of what I had done came rushing. What have I done?

I called a man who was still had feelings for the wife of my son’s father, asked him for help and told him to keep it a secret all because I didn’t want to call Kieran.

I told myself I had my reasons for not wanting to call Kieran: He was married now and that would complicate things. He would send a security team that would probably make Eli worried and shatter his childhood innocence and I wanted to protected that innocence for as long as possible.

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They were good reasons but they weren’t the main reason; I was honest enough to admit that.

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If called Kieran, he would come and it would almost impossible to maintain the boundaries that I created when he would be less than twenty feet away from and Eli calling him Dad.

I had no interest in tempting fate so I had called Dante instead.

I stayed with my thoughts for a while before heading to Eli’s room. He was still asleep. The blue Mickey mouse themed blanket wrapped him and he was folded into a ball or the letter C.

Standing in the doorway and watching him breathing, I told myself I had done this for him.

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