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Chapter 22 – A Mate’s Rage

Author: Danielle Christien
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-30 03:39:22

The scent of blood still clung to the sand. My blood.

My knees shook as the whispers rippled through the arena, their weight heavier than the wounds still burning across my skin. They doubted me. They judged me. Some even looked hungry for me to fall.

Then the ground itself seemed to tremble.

Riven.

He stalked into the Trial ring like a storm given flesh, his eyes blazing with a fury so raw the crowd fell silent at once. The growls in his throat weren’t for the warriors I’d slain. They were for me—no, for what had been done to me. His gaze locked onto mine, and I swore the air itself thickened, every wolf present holding their breath.

I had never seen him look so close to losing control.

“Enough,” his voice cracked like a whip, commanding silence. He didn’t even glance at the elders, or Damien smirking from the shadows. His stride cut through the blood-soaked sand, every line of his body radiating possession, dominance, fury.

Before I could find words, his hand clamped around my arm,
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