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Chapter 89. Sacrifice and loyalty
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Against All Odds Chapter 91. A Challenge
* Zeina *Dawn came slow.Not in streaks of gold or fanfare of birdsong, but as a hush, soft and sacred, over the keep. The kind of morning born not from peace, but survival. The kind that only comes after something is taken back with blood and fire. I stood at the window of the high tower, where the old Alpha once ruled, the cold stone beneath my feet warmed by the weight of my choice.This was mine now. Not gifted but claimed.Outside, the banners of the Western Pack stirred gently in the wind, deep navy and silver, stitched with the new sigil Donna had sewn herself, a crescent wolf howling over jagged mountain peaks. No longer Robert's sun and serpent. No longer Alpha King Zed's twin blades of unity.Ours.I could feel them, my wolves. Some still slept in their quarters below, others trained at the southern fields, keeping watch along the borders. But there was something else now threading through them, something I hadn't tasted since I was a girl running barefoot through the fores
Against All Odds Chapter 90. Alpha bond
* Cerberus *We didn't descend the mountain that night.We stood atop it like gods risen from the ash, like ghosts returned to reclaim the names stolen from us. The wind howled through the stones, threading through the ancient ruins like it was singing a song it had waited centuries to finish. Around us, warriors still knelt, some with heads bowed, others watching with tear-bright eyes and bared throats.And in her silence, Zeina held the mountain.She didn't flinch. Didn't falter. Her spine was steel. Her eyes, wildfire. And though my body trembled with the aftershocks of the Trial, I found myself standing straighter because she stood beside me.I wasn't just hers now. I was worthy of her.The moment lingered like breath on the edge of winter, fragile, sacred. Then Alpha King Zed approached us again, no crown, no guards, only the weight of legacy pressing into his shoulders."I'm returning to the capital," he said softly, eyes flicking between us. "The Council will follow."Zeina did
Against All Odds Chapter 89. Sacrifice and loyalty
* Zeina *The moment the doors sealed behind him, something inside me splintered.Not in fear. Not in helplessness. But in fury. A quiet, steady kind. The kind that burns slow and permanent beneath the ribs. My hands trembled at my sides, not from doubt, but from restraint. From the battle it took not to scream, not to tear the mountain apart stone by stone until he came back to me.Cerberus. My mate.He'd always been flame and steel and thunder, but now... he was sacrifice. He was loyalty. He was everything I had ever fought to protect, and everything I never believed I deserved.Donna moved beside me, silent as always. Her hand ghosted over mine but didn't press. She knew. She had always known. We stood as still as sentinels, watching the ancient doors like they were a wound carved into the mountain itself. The Circle murmured around us, voices like vultures, some in awe, others in disbelief, some still blinded by tradition. But none of them mattered.Because he was in there. Burnin
Against All Odds Chapter 88. Trial of loyalty
* Cerberus *" No!"The word ripped out of me like a beast breaking its chains. It didn't echo, it stopped. Time. Wind. Voices. Even the mountain seemed to draw in a sharp breath and hold it. Warriors flinched. The wind threading through the trees above stuttered, caught mid-song. The Council's silence, rigid and ritualistic, cracked like old ice.Zeina turned slowly. Her expression was carved from restraint, unreadable, but her eyes? Her eyes were fire and fury and fear.I took a step forward. My pulse was thunder in my ears, but my voice came steady, hoarse with truth. "I'll do it. I'll take the Binding Trial in her place."A shocked breath ran through the Circle like a ripple across a still lake.Roen turned toward me with a smirk that didn't reach his cold eyes. "You would burn in her stead?""She is already worthy," I said, louder now, letting the storm inside my chest build. "You want sacrifice? You want flame? Then I'll give it to you. I will walk into your soulfire and let the
Against All Odds Chapter 87. Rite of binding
* Zeina *The descent toward the Circle of Stone was quiet, too quiet. Even the wind seemed to draw back in deference or dread. My bare feet touched the cold, ancient steps carved into the mountain centuries ago by those who had once held power without question, without love. Their bones were dust now, buried beneath the soil they once bled to rule.Let mine join them if it meant I never became like them.Donna waited at the base, her gaze shadowed but unshaken. She did not speak as I passed, only bowed, not in submission, but in solidarity. Beta Kael gripped the hilt of his sword as if resisting the urge to follow me in, as if he could carve out the path with blood and will. I felt their loyalty like armor I could not wear, but would carry into that circle all the same.The stone ring loomed ahead, its edges lined with sigils scorched into the earth, thrumming with ancient magic, binding, blood-bound, brutal. The center was bare except for a single silver blade driven into the stone.
Against All Odds Chapter 86. Alpha Kong’s Challenge
* Zeina *The storm had a pulse tonight. I could feel it in the bones of the mountain. In the air thick with charged silence. In the way the earth held its breath.Cerberus stood beside me, still as a carved god, his eyes fixed on the path that wound up from the valley below. Donna and Beta Kael flanked us, loyal as the blood that had been spilled on this ridge, loyal as the warriors now lined in ranks below, flame-light dancing across their armor.Then came the sound. Not thunder, not the mountain shifting, but hooves. Marching. Metal clashing in ritual rhythm. The High Guard.And behind them, the Council. Their banners bore the mark of Blackstone Keep, a crown wreathed in flame. The irony stung.At their center, he rode. My brother. The Alpha King. Zed.I did not hate him. That was the worst part. I remembered the boy who taught me to read the stars. Who carried me on his back when I twisted my ankle racing wolves. Who took lashes meant for me when I failed in the trials of our fath
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