Chapter 306 The Dead Line
Chapter 306 The Dead Line
Natalie’s POV
The incoming routing number blinked again, stubborn, unstable, unregistered.
Jensen
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Nyx inside my consciousness shifted slightly.
‘Still unstable.”
That was all she offered.
I leaned back into the leather sofa, the stitching pressing softly against my spine as I allowed my gaze to drift toward the wide glass panels of the veranda.
The sketchpad on my lap remained untouched.
My mind was no longer a place where Jensen existed in any emotional capacity.
Only in historical context.
The phone vibrated again.
1 exhaled.
I picked it up.
Another unknown routing packet.
Faster this time.
I opened it.
The message was long.
Unfiltered.
Jensen’s voice, even through text, still carried the same fractured dominance it used to use bike armor
[Natalie… I’m in the master quarters… I’ve divorced Sharon… there is nothing between us anymore. please just speak to me
once.
The rest dissolved into repetition.
My eyes scanned it once.
Then stopped.
There was no spike in my pulse
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+placed the phone down on the velvet cushion beside me.
The fabric absorbed its weight without complaint. →
For a moment, I simply sat there, listening to the silence after a storm that no longer belonged to me
Then I did what I had learned in the Pack’s northern discipline.
I executed closure.
One tap.
Delete
No hesitation.
The message disappeared.
Then I opened the system firewall.
Blocked.
I placed it back into my blazer pocket and exhaled once more, returning my attention to the sketchpad.
Jensen’s POV
The kitchen floor was cold enough to feel like judgment.
Porcelain tiles beneath my palms.
Lucy stood near the doorway.
My fingers tightened around the small domestic phone she had handed me earlier.
The screen glowed.
Still no response.
Still nothing.
Not even a rejection.
Silence.
The worst possible outcome.
Lexhaled sharply, chest nghtening so violently I thought my ribs might fold inward.
NO
my voice scraped out, low and unstable. That’s not possible”
Lusy did not respond immediately
She adjusted her postine slightly, trying to soften her presence without provoking me further
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Alpha Jensen…” she said carefully. “Perhaps the line is simply delayed. The southern network sometimes-”
“NO”
The word snapped out of me before I could contain it.
I forced myself to inhale.
Once.
Twice
The third breath did not stabilize anything.
It only made the emptiness clearer.
I lifted the phone again.
Redialed.
2
Once.
Twice.
Three times.
Each attempt returned the same result.
No pickup.
No acknowledgment.
Then-
A mechanical voice.
“The recipient has blocked incoming communication from this number.”
My body went still.
Lucy’s expression shifted subtly.
Not pity exactly.
Something older.
1 lowered the phone slowly.
The kitchen felt larger than before
Or maybe I had become smaller inside it.
whispered, almost to myself.
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“She blocked me
The words did not feel real when spoken aloud.
Lucy hesitated.
Then carefully said, “Alpha Jensen… Miss Stone doesn’t want to talk”
The name hit harder than any insult.
Stone.
Not my Luna.
Not m ne.
My jaw tightened.
“She wouldn’t,” I said immediately. “She wouldn’t just erase me like that.”
My grip tightened until the plastic phone casing creaked.
Lucy stepped back slightly as if sensing the pressure spike.
“I paid credits,” I said suddenly, voice cracking. “I recharged the line. I made sure it worked.”
Lucy blinked.
…Sir, the issue is not credit.”
I laughed once.
Then I tried again.
Her number.
The one burned into my memory.
The one I had never needed to look up.
Dial.
Ring
Ring
Ring
Then
Nothing
Mot even a connection
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Just dead silence
My fingers loosened stip
My chest felt hollow.
Lucy took one cautious step forward.
“Sir… maybe you should rest-”
“I AM NOT RESTING.”
My voice broke louder than intended.
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