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Strings of the Serpent

Author: Hannah Boniface
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-07 21:52:08

The city didn’t sleep after the tunnels.

Rumours spread faster than blood dried. Two heirs had walked out alive when both packs had expected bodies. Every newsfeed repeated the image of Aiden and Dante side by side, battered and defiant. To the council it looked like defiance; to Julian, it looked like opportunity.

He watched the footage again on a loop, cigarette smoke blurring the screen. “They’re stronger now,” Leo said from the window. “Whatever you tried before only welded them together.”

Julian smiled thinly. “Then we melt the metal.”

He opened a folder: photographs, coded reports, a forged transcript. “You’ll leak this through one of Dante’s men. Make it look as if he’s been feeding the rogues information in exchange for territory.”

Leo frowned. “That’ll put the council on his throat.”

“Exactly,” Julian said. “And when Blackthorn hesitates to defend him again, the trust dies. Wolves don’t survive once the pack doubts the Alpha.”

Across town, Aiden stared at his reflection in th
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  • Alpha’s Enemy, Alpha’s Mate   The Bond That Woke the Canyon

    The blinding light faded slowly, dissolving into a soft violet glow that shimmered along the canyon walls like stardust settling after a storm.Aiden’s body sagged forward.Dante caught him before he hit the ground.“Aiden—hey—stay with me,” Dante whispered, brushing trembling fingers across Aiden’s cheek.Aiden blinked, dazed, pupils still swirling faint violet.“I’m… okay,” he breathed, though his voice shook with exhaustion.“It feels… different.”Dante swallowed.“Different how?”Aiden touched the center of his chest.“It’s like… something inside me stopped fighting. Like the storm finally picked a direction.”Dante kept his arms firm around him, steadying him as Aiden forced himself to stand.A soft hum echoed around them—The canyon walls are glowing in synchronized pulse with Aiden’s breathing.Dante shivered.“It’s reacting to you.”Aiden shook his head weakly.“No.It’s reacting to us.”The bond was faint but present—a subtle warmth threading between them, like their souls w

  • Alpha’s Enemy, Alpha’s Mate   The Forced Pulse

    The canyon lit up in violent streaks of violet as the forced pulse tore through Aiden’s body like lightning ripping through nerves.He would have collapsed entirely if Dante hadn’t wrapped both arms around him and braced their bodies against the canyon wall.Aiden gasped through clenched teeth.The resonance inside him wasn’t pulsing anymore—it was thrashing.Trying to fuse.Trying to latch.Trying to complete the ancient system it had awakened.“Aiden—look at me.”Dante’s voice was sharp, panicked, desperate.Aiden tried—but the world blurred in swirling streaks of light.His muscles spasmed.His vision flickered with flashes of the vault, the rotunda, the star maps the canyon had shown him… all of it tangled with the agonizing present moment.“Dante…” he whispered, breath breaking.“It’s forcing the link.”Dante tightened his hold, practically lifting Aiden into his arms.“No. Not like this. Not while you’re in pain.”Aiden clutched Dante’s shirt, head falling against his shoulder.

  • Alpha’s Enemy, Alpha’s Mate   The Ship in the Chasm

    The hum grew louder, vibrating through the stone beneath their feet.Aiden pressed closer to Dante as the canyon walls rattled with the force of descending engines. The air shimmered with heat, dust swirling in spirals as the ship lowered itself into the canyon like a metal predator sniffing fresh tracks.Dante’s voice dropped to a low, lethal whisper.“That’s not a scout ship.”Aiden shook his head. His voice trembled.“No… that engine signature is heavier.”The ship finally broke through the canyon’s mist—sleek, dark, reinforced with armor plating.Silent except for the deep mechanical thrum shaking the ground.A transport.A carrier.A collection unit.Aiden’s heart plummeted.“They’re here for me.”Dante’s hand gripped the back of Aiden’s shirt tightly, as if anchoring him to reality.“No. They’re here for both of us. And they’re not getting either.”Aiden swallowed hard.“Dante… I can’t fight another wave. The resonance—”“Then I’ll fight for both of us.”Aiden looked up at him

  • Alpha’s Enemy, Alpha’s Mate   The Anchor and the Anomaly

    The canyon shook around them as the three hunters staggered to their feet, armor crackling with sparks from the resonance blast Aiden had unintentionally unleashed.Dante positioned himself in front of Aiden again—blade drawn, stance sharp, every muscle coiled and ready to strike.Aiden grabbed Dante’s shirt weakly.“Dante… they’re not trying to kill us.”“Could’ve fooled me,” Dante hissed.“No. They’re trying to claim us.”Dante shot him a quick, fierce look.“They can try. I’ll rip their arms off.”But Aiden wasn’t looking at the hunters anymore.He was staring at the canyon walls—the violet cracks that had awakened when the hunters triggered the Anchor Protocol.The walls were still pulsing, faint but alive, reacting to him… and to Dante.“Dante,” Aiden whispered, “we activated something. You and I—together.”Before Dante could respond, the hunters fanned out—strategic, coordinated, and silent.The middle one raised its damaged visor toward Aiden, voice glitching.“ANCHOR-PROTOCOL

  • Alpha’s Enemy, Alpha’s Mate   What the Canyon Tried to Warn Us About

    The canyon grew quieter the further they moved from the rotunda.Not calmer—just quieter in the way prey quiets when a predator enters the clearing.Aiden felt the shift immediately.The walls no longer hummed softly with ancient resonance.They throbbed with tension—like something was watching, waiting, listening.Dante noticed too.“Something changed,” he muttered, scanning the shadows. “It feels like this place is holding its breath.”Aiden placed a steadying hand against the canyon wall.“It is.”Dante paused. “What do you mean ‘it is’?”Aiden swallowed.“The memory vault wasn’t trying to lure me in. It was trying to warn me.”“Warn you about what?”Aiden looked at him, eyes wide and troubled.“About what’s coming.”Dante’s jaw tightened. “Then we don’t wait around to meet it.”He took Aiden’s hand and guided him down a winding path—one with lower walls and a slight incline that suggested an exit.But after several minutes, the incline dipped.Then dipped again.Until the path cu

  • Alpha’s Enemy, Alpha’s Mate   The Mouth of the Maze

    By late afternoon, the canyon began to shift again.What had started as narrow, jagged passageways widened into a sprawling network—cracks in the stone splitting into multiple branching paths, some sloping downward, others climbing steeply into shadowed alcoves.It didn’t feel like a canyon anymore.It felt like a labyrinth.Dante slowed to a halt.“…Aiden.”Aiden looked around, pulse quickening. “Yeah. I see it.”The canyon extended in every direction, each path somehow identical—same stone texture, same slanted shadows, same scattered debris.A trick of nature—or something else.The air felt charged.Not violently like the resonance storm.But watchful.Aiden inhaled deeply.The canyon hummed beneath the surface—not an echo of past events this time,but something more deliberate.“Dante,” Aiden murmured, “I think this place was shaped. Not naturally.”Dante’s expression hardened. “By who?”“Not who. What.”Aiden pressed his palm to the canyon wall.“Resonance did this. Ancient res

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