My Alpha Boss Gave Me Triplets – Episode 36
The photograph of Evie’s brother forced every plan into dangerous territory. If Darleen believed the compromised guard still obeyed her, Stonehearth possessed its first path into the conspiracy. Warning Evie’s family too early would close that path. Leaving it open meant allowing people who had already threatened the triplets to approach again.
Leopold refused to use Evie as bait. “You will not go near the north gate.”
“Then Darleen knows we found the guard,” Evie replied. “She changes methods, and the next person she pressures may never confess.”
Max proposed a controlled office visit. The guard would confirm the schedule and disable a decoy camera while hidden teams secured every route. Evie would travel in a different vehicle and enter through the underground garage. A body double wearing her coat would approach the north gate under heavy protection. Human officers would handle the first interception because Darleen expected wolves and had already shown she could manipulate their senses. Every team received only the part of the route it needed, limiting damage if another insider listened.
Evie rejected the double until she met the volunteer, a trained wolf named Sara who had served in pack security for years. Sara understood the risk and argued that protecting Evie meant preventing a real kidnapping attempt, not waiting for one.
“No one takes a blow meant for me without knowing everything,” Evie said. She disclosed the severing magic, her brother’s violence, and the possibility that Darleen could target anyone linked to the operation.
Sara listened and still agreed. “Then we build the plan around consent for both of us.”
Leopold remained opposed, but he no longer treated his fear as the final vote. Doctor Lara limited Evie’s participation to the secure office studio and fitted her with a monitor that alerted Paula to changes in the triplets’ heart rates.
Before dawn, the compromised guard sent Darleen’s intermediary the requested confirmation. A reply ordered him to keep the gate open for exactly ninety seconds. The precision suggested the kidnappers knew the patrol schedule and had rehearsed the route.
Evie traveled with Paula and Max while Leopold remained visibly at the mansion. Darleen expected his obsession with Evie’s safety to place him beside her; separating them concealed the true route and tested whether the temporary ward could tolerate distance.
The first ten minutes passed without pain. Then a faint pressure traced the edge of Evie’s ribs. Leopold felt it too but did not abandon his position. They used the human protocol, exchanging one coded message: three lights steady. The bond remained intact.
At Stonehearth Design, Evie entered the secure studio and resumed work on the hospitality project. Normal tasks steadied her. She reviewed samples, approved revised components, and spoke with the small suppliers who had broken Blackhart’s monopoly. None knew she was helping run a kidnapping sting from the other side of a reinforced wall. That separation mattered to Evie: Darleen had already dragged too many ordinary employees into a conflict built around one Alpha’s bond.
Outside, Sara approached the north gate wearing Evie’s coat. A dark vehicle appeared exactly when predicted. Evie’s brother stepped out with two strangers and called her name in a falsely gentle voice.
He claimed their mother was ill and begged “Evie” to come closer. When Sara continued walking, one stranger raised a device that released a high-frequency pulse. The sound disoriented the wolf guards and disrupted their radios.
Sara shifted partially, resisting the pulse long enough to seize Evie’s brother. The Blackhart vehicle accelerated through the open gate, but hidden barriers rose from the pavement and trapped it between security teams.
The rear doors opened to reveal no kidnappers. The vehicle had been remotely driven. A black symbol painted beneath the seats activated when Max’s wolves approached, filling the air with a scent that triggered violent territorial instincts.
Pack guards turned on one another before Max recognized the magical provocation. He ordered every wolf back and sent human security officers to disable the vehicle. Darleen had anticipated Stonehearth strength and designed the trap to make that strength self-destruct.
Evie’s brother used the chaos to break free. He ran toward the office rather than away from it, proving he knew Evie had entered through another route. He also carried a visitor badge encoded that morning, even though his name appeared on every security watchlist. Someone inside the operation had leaked the real plan after the decoy was arranged and supplied credentials capable of opening employee corridors. The conspiracy reached beyond one frightened guard.
Paula locked the studio and moved Evie into the reinforced shelter zone created from her own design. For the first time, the concealed security paths she had drawn became more than a presentation. They placed solid walls between the triplets and the approaching threat.
A fire alarm sounded. The access panel displayed an evacuation order authenticated by Leopold’s executive code. Evie knew he would never direct her into an unsecured corridor, so she refused to open the door.
Then Leopold’s voice came through the speaker, strained and urgent. “Evie, the ward is failing. You have to leave now.” The code was correct. The voice was his. Yet through the mate bond, she felt Leopold standing motionless miles away, with no knowledge of the words being spoken in his name.
Darleen had learned to imitate more than his authority. She had found a way to make the bond itself contradict what Evie could hear.