Chapter5
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The door didn’t just open, it slammed hard enough that the sound echoed through the entire room.
I flinched instinctively, my grip tightening on Kaels shirt as the last wave of pain faded from my chest and then I saw him.
The beta. I didn’t know what he name was yet. He stood in the doorway, broad shoulders tense, eyes locked directly on me and Kael and on the space between us that suddenly felt too close.
For a moment no one spoke but the silence wasn’t empty, it was loaded. Romans gaze dropped briefly to kaels hand still gripping my arm then back to my face and something in his expression darkened.
“I knew she was going to be a problem,” he said slowly, each word controlled. “But I didn’t think you would let it get this far.”
My chest tightened and Kael didn’t move or let go, if anything, his grip steadied, subtle but deliberate like he wanted to send a message and his beta of course noticed.
His betas jaw clenched. “What exactly am I looking at right now?” His voice was sharper now.
I pulled slightly, trying to create distance but Kael didn’t release me and that only made things worse.
“I said she stays Roman,” Kael replied, calm and unmoved.
Roman let out a quiet breath. “That’s not what I asked.” His eyes flicked back to me, narrowing slightly.
“She walks in here, no wolf, no identity, no explanation and suddenly she’s in your space, triggering something strong enough to shake the entire territory?”
My stomach dropped.
Shake the territory?
“You felt that?” I whispered.
Romans gaze snapped back to me.
“Everyone felt that.”
The words hit like a warning because this meant that whatever was happening to me… it wasn’t contained.
Roman took a step forward.
Kael didn’t move but something in the air shifted instantly. Roman stopped but the tension didn’t ease.
“If she’s a threat,” Roman said, quieter now, more dangerous, “she doesn’t stay.”
The words hung in the air and I felt the shift in Kael, not anger, something more dangerous.
“She’s not a threat,” Kael said.
Romans gaze hardened. “You don’t know that.”
“I do.” Kael responded.
The silence that followed was sharp and tensed.
Romans expression didn’t change but something behind his eyes did, Doubt, Not in me,In Kael and that was worse.
“Since when do you take risks?” Roman asked quietly.
Kael didn’t answer and I didn’t know whether it was because he couldn’t or wouldn’t. And the silence said everything.
Roman exhaled slowly, dragging a hand across his jaw before looking at me again but this time like he was seeing me for what I really was, not a girl or gues but a problem.
“She doesn’t belong here,” he said.
My chest tightened because he was wrong but before I could say anything, Kaels voice cut through the room.
“She belongs where I say she does.” And just like that, the line was drawn and some who, I know this wasn’t the worst part because the moment Roman stepped fully into the room, the air shifted again, the same pressure and wrongness.
My breath caught because this time, it wasn’t coming from me.
The silence didn’t break, it tightened and Roman’s gaze stayed on me, steady,unblinking, like he was waiting for something… maybe a reaction?
I swallowed hard, forcing myself not to look away. “What exactly do you think I am?” I asked, my voice quieter than i intended but steady atleast.
Roman titled his head slightly. “That is what I’m trying to figure out.”
Something in the way he said it made my chest tighten like I wasn’t a person but a risk that he was trying to assess.
Roman took a step forward but this time, Kael didn’t block him but I felt the shift in him, like he was watching and waiting to see what Roman would do. Roman stopped just a few feet away from me now, close enough that I could feel the weight of his presence pressing against mine.
“Let’s make this simple,” he said. “You triggered something strong enough for the entire territory to feel it.”
My stomach dropped. “But it wasn’t on purpose.”
“I don’t care.” Roman said.
The bluntness of it hit harder than it should have.
Romans eyes darkened slightly. “Accidental power is more dangerous than controlled power.”
I didn’t have a response to that because he wasn’t wrong and that silence was all he needed.
“Show me.” He said
My breath caught. “What?”
“Do it again.” He repeated.
My heart started racing. “I can’t just….”
“Then we have a problem,” he said cutting me short.
The words landed heavy and I felt the same unstable energy from before, like it was listening… responding.
“No,” Kael said. The words cut through the room instantly but there was something under it this time, like a warning but Roman didn’t look at him.
“She doesn’t even know what she is,” he said. “And you’re telling me not to test that?”
“I said no.” This time, Kael stepped forward and the air shifted immediately, not loud or explosive.
Worse.
Quiet dominance.
Romans jaw tightened but he didn’t back down. “If she loses control..”
“She won’t.” Kael interrupted
“You don’t know that.” Roman replied
“I do.”
Silence.
Ronan’s gaze flicked between us and something changed. “Or maybe,” he said slowly, “you just don’t want to see what happens if she does.”
The words landed hard.
Because they weren’t just about me anymore.
They were about him, Kael.
And for the first time, I saw it.
A c***k though it was small but there.
Kael’s expression didn’t change…but his control did.
His eyes darkened slightly, his jaw tightening in a way that felt… restrained. “Watch yourself,” he said quietly.
Ronan didn’t move.“Or what?”
The question hung in the air like a blade.
And suddenly, I wasn’t the most dangerous thing in the room anymore.
The tension snapped tighter and it was hard to breathe through.
And right in the middle of it me.
My chest started to tighten again not from fear but from that thing inside me reacting to them, to the pressure, to the clash.
“No…” I whispered under my breath.
Too late.
The energy surged again, sharp, violent, rising faster this time.
The room seemed to bend around it.
The air thickened.
Pressure building… and this time, I couldn’t stop it.
I gasped, stumbling slightly as it pushed outward, not as strong as before… but enough.
Ronan went completely still.
His eyes snapped to me, wide, alert, calculating.
But Kael moved fast.
He was in front of me instantly, one hand gripping my jaw,not harsh, but firm,forcing me to look at him.
“Focus,” he said, his voice lower now.
My breath hitched.
“I can’t…”
“Yes, you can.”
His thumb brushed lightly against my skin,barely there but it sent a sharp, unexpected heat through me.
“Look at me.”
I did because at this point I couldn’t not.
His eyes held mine completely, grounding and overwhelming at the same time.
“Breathe.”
I tried.
The power inside me twisted, resisted then slowly…settled.
Not gone though… just…quiet.
Ronan exhaled slowly, dragging a hand across his face like he was trying to process what he’d just seen.
“That’s not normal,” he muttered.
Ronan was still watching mebut now, there was something new in his gaze.Like he’d just confirmed something he didn’t want to believe.
“You feel that?” Ronan said quietly.
Kael didn’t look at him. “I do.”
Then Ronan spoke again,more serious. “Then you know what that means.”
The silence that followed was worse than anything else.
Because Kael didn’t deny it.
And suddenly the tension shifted again, not between all three of us, between just two.
Me and Kael.
Because now I knew one thing for certain, he wasn’t confused.
He knew exactly what was happening to me.
And he wasn’t telling me.
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