All Chapters of THE ALPHA'S CAPTIVE: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

"So, you have him doing what, exactly?" I lock my gaze on him.He notices my expression and pauses. "We needed another pair of eyes."My wolf is gritting his teeth. "You have him watching her.""We didn't know you were even still alive." He lowers his head and moves his gaze away. It was always the idea, but two days later, he's still feeling guilty about it. "So we—"My wolf growls. "Tell me you didn't have Leandro watching Amanda?"SilenceThey abandoned Leandro in a room with Amanda.I walked in alone with the brother to find fucking my mate since she liked a pair of shoes and her father wouldn't buy them for her.Amanda.While she was sleeping.Helpless."Finn."Dan's wariness brings my attention to my low growl filling the room."Oh, hey there, beautiful." Leandro's voice is full with astonishment. "Going somewhere?"Because we intended to be nearby when we bought this house, all of our bedrooms are on the same floor. After living literally in each other's pockets in tiny flats,

"Jade is all talk," Leandro replies, half-shrugging as his familiar emerald-green eyes sweep over me.If I had awoken in the middle of the night to discover him standing at my bedroom door, I would have ordered him to go and go back to sleep. I wouldn't have been paralyzed and holding my breath as I did with Finn."I doubt that." A concept immediately occurs to me. "They only send you to keep an eye on me when they go downstairs." "Do they have any plans?"Maybe it has anything to do with why I'm here with them and not with Darius?"Nothing as interesting as that," Leandro purrs, his stare lingering on my breasts as if he hasn't noticed I'm not wearing a bra.I pretend not to notice his expression as I slide to the side of the bed and push myself up without using my hands because, despite my assurances to Jade that I can feed myself, my palms still hurt when I put pressure on them. "Then you won't mind if I go downstairs and see what they're up to."They must realize they are in dange

Jade leans in and grabs my hips with both hands. My heart is pounding against my chest so strongly that it aches. He and I both freeze. He stares at me for a long time, his gaze fixed on mine. "Angel?"I force my heart rate to return to normal. It's depressing how long it takes. I'm aware that Dan is watching me, possibly with the same amount of concern that Jade is.It's all right, it's just Jade. He will not harm you. There's no reason to panic simply because he moved a bit quicker than you expected.I nod after a long time. "I'm okay."He slowly raises me and places me on his lap. He takes the fork after settling me in. Dan walks around him, scooping up some of the buttery-looking scrambled eggs.I sigh as he presses it to my lips. "You don't have to continue feeding me. "My hands are no longer in pain."At least not enough to warrant noting.Jade's expression remains unchanged. "Open.""You're doing way too much for me," I complain."Open that pretty little mouth, angel." Jade's v

She slept through the night for the first time since we brought her home.It didn't seem to matter that she'd slept for the majority of the day after Jade had brought her into his bedroom. We didn't hear her scream or moan in pain, and the nightmares that had disturbed her every night had stopped. I don't think they're gone for good, but at least she had a nice night's sleep.She never mentioned her nightmares, which were presumably a big reason she slept so little in her room. According to Jade's choice yesterday morning, he'd chosen to do something about it.I run my fingers through my hair. "But you didn't need to do it like that."He looks up from his laptop and gives me a long stare. "How should I have done it, Dan?" "Oh, you poor sweet thing?" I stroked her hair back from her face."Jade."He shakes his head and returns his gaze to his laptop monitor. "She was about to snap." It's better that someone shoved her and we were there to catch her than that it happened while she was a

Seeing the garden is suddenly the last thing on my mind. Crawling back into Jade's lap and having him feed me seemed to be a lot more enjoyable way to spend the morning. He appears to understand what I'm thinking based on the curvature of his lips.But, with Sam presumably staring at me and Jade and wondering what happened, I push myself to resist temptation.I anticipated him to treat me differently after I broke down and wept myself to sleep. I expected to treat him differently because he was the one who compelled me to speak. But he wasn't attempting to harm me. I'm not sure how I know it, but I do, and it feels weird to be furious at him when I've slept better in the previous few nights than I have since I woke up in the hospital."Finn is wandering around out there," Dan says as I move over to Sam, who is waiting for me at the doorway. "So it's safe."I turn to face him and grin. "Thanks, Dan."He returns my grin, and as usual, it makes me want to trust him.I'm still not sure wh