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Chapter 14 / Mate
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Alpha Kazan and his hybrid mate Epilogue The Returning
EpilogueThe ReturningAstraea’s POVSix months later.Orion was terrified of dancing.Not nervous.Not uncomfortable.Terrified.I discovered this at Hannah’s celebration when the musicians started playing and Orion immediately began looking for an escape route.I stared at him.“You’ve crossed worlds.”“Yes.”“You walked through places outside the Separation.”“Yes.”“You followed a supernatural bond into a world you’d never seen.”“Yes.”“You met my father.”Orion’s expression became serious.“That was considerably more dangerous than the other things.”I laughed.“And you’re scared to dance?”“I am not scared.”“You’re backing away from the dance floor.”“I am strategically repositioning.”“That’s called running.”“Astraea.”I grabbed his hand.His stars immediately responded.Six months had changed the Returning.It was stronger now.Not because some ancient law said it had to be.Because we’d fed it.Trust.Time.Arguments.Laughter.Choices.Every day Orion stayed, he chose me.
Alpha Kazan and his hybrid mate Chapter 95 Almost Eighteen
Chapter 95Almost EighteenAstraea’s POVThe night before my eighteenth birthday, my father followed me around Blackwood for six hours.He thought I didn’t notice.Everyone noticed.Sam noticed.Mom noticed.Ophelia noticed.Orion definitely noticed.At breakfast, Dad sat across from me staring.I put down my fork.“What?”“Nothing.”“You’re staring.”“No, I’m not.”“Dad.”He looked at Mom.“Am I staring?”“Yes.”He frowned.“You’re supposed to support me.”“I do support you.”“Then lie.”“No.”I laughed.Dad glared at both of us.“Tomorrow is just another day.”“Exactly,” I said.He looked at me.“Don’t agree that quickly.”“Why?”“It feels suspicious.”“I’m turning eighteen. I’m not joining an enemy army.”He grunted.“Same emotional impact.”Mom nearly spit out her drink.I smiled.For years, I’d wondered what eighteen would feel like.Prophecies had once made certain ages seem terrifying.Five.Thirteen.Sixteen.Seventeen.Every birthday had once felt like something waiting to ha
Alpha Kazan and his hybrid mate Chapter 94 The Last Eye
Chapter 94The Last EyeAstraea’s POVI knew where the woman was taking me before we arrived.I recognized the trees.The bend in the path.The enormous oak with the split trunk.Then I smelled the earth.Old earth.Disturbed once.Long settled now.My feet stopped.“No.”The silver-haired woman turned.“What?”I stared beyond her.At the stone.My stone.The grave my family had built when I was five years old.ASTRAEA BLACKWOODThe letters were faded now.Moss covered the bottom.Seventeen.I was seventeen years old, standing in front of a grave that had carried my name for twelve years.A grave built because my family had needed the world to believe I was dead.I had known it was here.Of course I had.But I’d never come back.I didn’t want to.Some places didn’t deserve another piece of you.The woman smiled.“Appropriate, isn’t it?”“No.”Her smile faltered.“This is where the world believed Astraea Blackwood died.”“But I didn’t.”“No.”She stepped closer to the grave.“And tonig
Alpha Kazan and his hybrid mate Chapter 93 The Door That Should Stay Closed
Chapter 93The Door That Should Stay ClosedKazan’s POVThe Black Star appeared three weeks after Orion arrived.I was beginning to tolerate the boy.Barely.He trained with Astraea.They talked.They walked through Blackwood together.He never touched her without asking.Never made demands.Never used the Returning as an excuse to claim anything from her.It was extremely irritating.I wanted a reason to dislike him.He refused to provide one.Then the Black Star appeared over the northern mountain, and suddenly Orion became the least of my problems.Sam found me first.“Kazan.”I knew from his expression.“What?”“You need to see this.”We walked outside.Then I saw it.Black.Enormous.Suspended above the mountain.Exactly as I remembered it.The Black Star.My wolf surged.“Kate!”She came running.Astraea and Orion were behind her.The moment Astraea saw the Star, she stopped.I moved in front of her automatically.“No.”She sighed.“Dad.”“I haven’t even heard the plan yet.”“Th
Alpha Kazan and his hybrid mate Chapter 92 The Boy From Nowhere
Chapter 92The Boy From NowhereAstraea’s POVOrion lasted exactly eleven minutes inside Blackwood before my father threatened him.I counted.To be fair, Orion hadn’t actually done anything.That might have been what bothered Dad most.He couldn’t find a reason to dislike him.So he invented one.“Where are you sleeping?”Orion looked around the main house.“I hadn’t considered it.”“You aren’t sleeping here.”“Dad.”“What?”Mom folded her arms.“Kazan, we have guest rooms.”“We have wolves.”Orion looked confused.“I am aware.”“They bite.”“I assumed.”Dad narrowed his eyes.“He’s mocking me.”“No,” I said. “He’s answering you.”“Suspiciously.”Mom rubbed her forehead.I grabbed Orion’s arm.The moment I touched him, both of us froze.Heat moved through my fingers.Not burning.Recognition.The constellations beneath his skin flared.Mine answered.Dad growled.I released Orion immediately.Not because Dad growled.Because the sensation startled me.Orion stared at the place I’d to
Alpha Kazan and his hybrid mate Chapter 91 The Sound Beyond the Trees
Chapter 91The Sound Beyond the TreesAstraea’s POVMy father said no three times before the stranger even spoke.“No.”The young man stopped at the edge of the moonlight.“No.”“Dad.”“No.”Mom grabbed his arm.“Kazan.”“I know what this is.”“You don’t know anything yet.”“I know enough.”I looked between them.“What do you know?”“Nothing.”Mom raised an eyebrow.Dad corrected himself.“Something.”“What?”“Something Caelum said when you were five.”I stared at him.“That was twelve years ago.”“For you.”Dad’s expression became offended.“For me, it was emotionally recent.”I almost laughed.Almost.But the strange young man standing beyond my father made laughing difficult.Because something was happening to me.Something I didn’t understand.My skin tingled.My heart beat too quickly.The power inside me wasn’t fighting.Usually, when I encountered unfamiliar magic, at least one part of me reacted.Wolf.Winter.Fae.Convergence.Something would warn me.This time—Everything be
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