INICIAR SESIÓNEpilogueSEBASTIAN POV The training yard was loud in the mornings now.That was the thing I noticed most when I stood at the edge of it and watched. Not the drills themselves, not the way the wolves moved through their formations with the practiced ease of a pack that had learned hard lessons and come out the other side of them. It was the noise between the drills. The laughter. Someone calling out to someone else across the yard. Two of the younger wolves arguing about technique with the comfortable certainty of people who had the luxury of arguing about small things.Six months ago this yard had been quieter. The nightwalkers had done that. The war had done that. Adrian's death had done that, in its own separate way, which sat differently from the rest of it.I looked at the far end of the yard where some of the original damage to the outer wall was still faintly visible under the new stonework. Most of it had been rebuilt. The pack house itself was whole again. The grounds wer
Chapter 140SEBASTIAN POVMy grin turned wicked, eyes bright with challenge and heat. “Anything you want, Daddy.”Darius widened his eyes like someone who’d been hit low in the gut. He stared so hard at me, ready to devour me whole.He didn’t answer with words. Instead, he simply took my hands and pulled me away from the chattering, laughing crowd. We walked toward the private path that led back to our chambers. His intentions were barely covered now.The pack’s cheers and knowing whistles followed us until the garden noise faded behind the heavy wooden doors of our chamber.The moment the door to our rooms clicked shut, the air changed immediately.Darius backed me against the wall. His mouth claimed mine in a deep, hungry kiss. The bond flared wide open between us, raw with our emotions. I could feel his hunger melting my nerves into pure want. My wolf pressed eagerly against his.“Let's move to the bed,” he growled against my lips. “I’m tasty.”We barely made it there. Clothes were
Chapter 139DariusSebastian had been lying on his side staring at the wall for the better part of an hour.He was not asleep. I knew what Sebastian looked like when he was asleep and this was not it. This was the particular stillness of someone who was very much awake and thinking too hard about something.I sat on the edge of the bed. "You need to start getting ready. They will call for us soon.""What if we postpone it," Sebastian suggested.I exhaled. We had been through this the previous night, twice, and once more just after dawn. I reached over and took his hand."Sebastian.""Just hear me out—""You are going to be fine," I rubbed his shoulders slowly. "Postponing it will not make you any less nervous tomorrow or the day after. It will just mean you spend another night lying on your side staring at that wall."He was quiet for a moment. "What if something goes wrong?""Nothing is going to go wrong.""You don't know that.""I know that the entire pack is currently in the garde
Chapter 138Sebastian pov Darius took my hand as we walked back through the pack grounds and did not let go of it.That was the part I kept noticing. Not the wolves stopping to stare as we passed, not the murmur that followed us through the outer yard and towards the pack house entrance. Just his hand around mine, steady and certain, like it had always been there and was not planning on going anywhere.I leaned slightly closer to him and kept my voice low. "They're all staring.""Yes," he said."I can't survive this many people staring at me."He turned his head and pressed his mouth briefly to my hair. "Start getting used to it," he chuckled. "You are the Alpha's mate. They will be looking at you for the rest of your life."My heart did something complicated and fast inside my chest. I did not say anything back because I did not have anything coherent to say. The mark on my neck was warm. A steady, settled warmth that had not faded since he had put it there in the marketplace squa
Chapter 137SEBASTIAN POV My wrists hurt less now that someone had cut the binding off them.I was sitting on the ground where Lance had left me and I had not moved yet because my legs were not entirely ready to cooperate. I was rubbing the marks on my wrists and staring at the ground and trying to arrange my thoughts into some kind of order.Lance's words were still in my head. That was the problem with words delivered that deliberately and that calmly. They did not disappear just because the person who had said them was gone. They sat there and waited.You were never meant to stand beside him. You were never built for it.I knew it was manipulation. I had known it even while he was saying it. Lance had constructed every piece of this situation from the beginning, the rumours, the distance between me and the pack, the night that had started all of it. He had said so himself, plainly, without any apparent concern about admitting it. That was how certain he had been that I was not
Chapter 136Alpha UnleashedDARIUS POV I heard Lance's voice before I cleared the trees.Torren was two steps behind me and the guards were fanning out through the tree line the way I had told them to, quiet and wide, cutting off any exit route. We had moved fast once the trail had opened up. One of Torren's trackers had picked up the scent outside the pack boundary and we had followed it here without stopping.I did not announce myself.I came through the trees and took in the clearing in the space of a single second.Sebastian on the ground, hands bound, upright but still. Two wolves I did not recognize positioned further back. And Lance, standing over Sebastian, something in his hand, his arm already beginning to rise.I did not think.I crossed the clearing in four strides and hit Lance with everything I had.My shoulder drove into his chest and we went back hard, the impact carrying both of us off our feet. Lance hit the ground and I came down on top of him, one hand already
Chapter 086DARIUS The morning sun was barely up when Torren and I started our training session. The air was cool and crisp, perfect for sparring. I needed this—needed to clear my head, to focus on something physical and straightforward after the chaos of the past few days.My muscles burned as I
Chapter 085ADRIAN I laughed, and the sound that came out of my mouth was all wrong. That little guard thought he was so clever. Thought he could hide what was going on between him and Darius. But I'd seen the way they looked at each other when they thought no one was watching. I would catch th
Chapter 084SEBASTIAN I whistled a tuneless melody as my hand gripped the basket of Darius's laundry, the familiar weight settling comfortably against my hip. The morning air was crisp and clean, and for once, I felt almost light. Almost normal. Like I was just another guard doing his duties, not
Chapter 084DARIUS My breath caught. These weren't the massive adult nightwalkers like the one I'd killed earlier. These were younger, smaller. Underaged, if nightwalkers could be called that. They were still dangerous. Their claws were sharp, their eyes that distinctive bloodshot red but they l







