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Chapter Forty Nine: The New Song

Penulis: Milos Beckett
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Arden's/Aria's POV

I woke to the sound of his heartbeat. My head was on his chest, ear pressed to the warm skin over his heart—boom. boom. boom. A steady, solid rhythm. It was the first thing I heard, and for a moment, I just listened. The silence inside me was still there, a quiet room where a symphony used to play. But this… this was a new sound. A real sound.

I shifted, and pain flared in my leg, my back, a dozen little aches. I winced.

His arm tightened around me. “Do not move,” Kai murmured, his voice rough with sleep. “The healer said you need rest.”

We were in a tent, early morning light turning the canvas walls gold. Back at the edge of the Ironwood, in a makeshift camp. I could hear voices outside, the clatter of pots, the sound of life.

“I am fine,” I whispered—but I did not move away. I looked up at him: face bruised, a cut on his lip, shadows under his eyes. He looked tired. He looked beautiful.

His eyes opened, finding mine. For a long moment, we just looked at each other
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  • A Dorm With My Alpha Mate    Chapter Forty Nine: The New Song

    Arden's/Aria's POVI woke to the sound of his heartbeat. My head was on his chest, ear pressed to the warm skin over his heart—boom. boom. boom. A steady, solid rhythm. It was the first thing I heard, and for a moment, I just listened. The silence inside me was still there, a quiet room where a symphony used to play. But this… this was a new sound. A real sound.I shifted, and pain flared in my leg, my back, a dozen little aches. I winced.His arm tightened around me. “Do not move,” Kai murmured, his voice rough with sleep. “The healer said you need rest.”We were in a tent, early morning light turning the canvas walls gold. Back at the edge of the Ironwood, in a makeshift camp. I could hear voices outside, the clatter of pots, the sound of life.“I am fine,” I whispered—but I did not move away. I looked up at him: face bruised, a cut on his lip, shadows under his eyes. He looked tired. He looked beautiful.His eyes opened, finding mine. For a long moment, we just looked at each other

  • A Dorm With My Alpha Mate    Chapter Forty Eight: The Wound in the World

    Kai’s POVThe world was pain and motion, Malrick’s fist crashing into my ribs again. I felt a crack, a hot blossom of agony, and threw my own punch, catching his jaw. He staggered back, his icy eyes wide with fury—we were two animals, tearing at each other in the moss.I could not feel her; my soul kept reaching, a blind man grasping at empty air. But my eyes could see: I saw her break free, I saw Luma run to help the cadets, I saw Aria pick up a stone and run toward us.My heart roared inside my silent chest—she was free.Malrick saw my look, followed my gaze, and his face twisted in pure rage. “No,” he snarled, “no, you do not get to win.”He lunged at me, not to punch but to wrap his arms around me, to drive me to the ground. His strength was immense, fueled by a lifetime of cold hatred, and we fell, wrestling in the dirt. His hands went for my throat.“You see,” he gasped, his breath hot on my face, “this is it. Your choice ends here—under my hands.”I fought, pushing against him,

  • A Dorm With My Alpha Mate    Chapter Forty Seven: The Choice On The Dais

    Aria's/Arden’s POVThe chains were ice around my wrists, the metal biting into my skin, a cold, constant hurt. I hung beside Luma, my feet barely touching the stone dais, my leg screaming, a hot throb that beat in time with my heart. I turned my head, the movement slow and painful.Luma’s eyes were open, focused on me. Blood had dried in a dark line from her temple to her jaw, one of her arms hanging at a wrong angle, but her gaze was clear, fierce.“Aria,” she whispered, her voice a rough scrape, like stones grinding together.“I am here,” I said, my own voice sounding small.“Foolish child,” she said, but there was no anger in it, only a deep, sad warmth. “You walked into his trap.”“He had you,” I said, the words simple, the only truth that mattered.A ghost of a smile touched her cracked lips. “So you came. Like your mother. All heart.”Tears burned my eyes, I blinked them back, I would not cry here, not in front of him. “I am sorry. I failed.”“You are breathing,” she said, her v

  • A Dorm With My Alpha Mate    Chapter Forty Six: The Pack That Remains

    Kai’s POVThe forest edge was a dark mouth and I stood before it, bag on my shoulder, sword at my hip The dawn was grey and cold It matched the silence inside me I took a breath This was the first step The first step into the Ironwood to find herI did not get to take a second step“Alpha”I turned, Finn stood there He was not alone Behind him were five others: Jax with his big arms crossed, Mira with sharp eyes, Leo, Ben, Coby. They were the cadets, The ones she trained They stood in a line, faces dirty, clothes still torn from the battle But their backs were straight“Go back, Finn” I said, voice flat “This is not your task”“She is our Alpha Queen” Finn said, no blink “You taught us to protect the pack She is part of the pack The best part”“This is a suicide mission” I said, trying to make the words hard “Malrick is waiting The woods are cursed You saw the cost”“We saw” Mira spoke up, voice quiet but clear “We saw her run into the dark alone We will not watch you do the same”Jax

  • A Dorm With My Alpha Mate    Chapter Forty Five: The Wraith and The Wolf

    Arden’s/Aria’s POVThe moonwraiths circled the ancient root, their forms shifting like smoke in the predawn gloom, I could not feel my fingers. My leg was a fire, but the rest of me was turning to stone I was going to die here, huddled behind a log, and Luma would die because I failed.One of the wraiths drifted closer, my breath slowed as my mind worked for ideas while my eyes darted searching for something. Anything — then it spoke, it did not speak with a voice the words formed inside my mind, cold and clear as ice cracking.“You persist,” it whispered into my soul. “Why?” my teeth chattered as I forced the thought out. “My aunt.”“Flesh and blood a temporary tie, it will break. All things break.” The wraith’s presence felt like the void between stars. “We were sentinels once guardians of bonds, of the threads between souls. We witnessed the first mate-bond woven by the moon we remember its song.”Another wraith slid closer, the cold deepening. “Then came the severers, they used ma

  • A Dorm With My Alpha Mate    Chapter Forty Four: The Echo And The Empty

    Kai’s POVThe silence was the worst part.The bond was gone but my soul kept reaching for it. A limb trying to grasp a ghost every second was a fresh discovery of the emptiness a new kind of pain, her absence was a hole in the world, a constant cold draft on the inside of my ribs. The academy was in ruins, the air thick with the smell of smoke and blood and grief. My body moved through the aftermath like a king surveying a broken kingdom but my mind was trapped in that room under the blood moon in the silence after the severing.We defended the walls. We saved who we could Malrick’s wolves retreated with the dawn, their job done not to conquer but to cripple to distract. They took Luma, they broke us and they left the wounded. The dead were my responsibility. I gave orders, my voice sounded flat dead. The cadets looked to me for strength. I had none. I was a shell echoing with her absence.Finn found me in the courtyard his face streaked with soot and tears. He is gone alpha, we lost

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