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Fated Alpha Stepbrothers: Desire, and Regret 168
Elias’s POVI woke to the sound of birds. For a moment I forgot where we were. Then the hard ground under my bedroll and the faint wrongness in the air reminded me.Liora was already sitting up, looking toward the containment line. Kael and Ronan were stirring.“Did you dream?” I asked her.She nodded. “Pieces. The ritual pattern is clearer. I saw the shape of the sealing circle. I saw the way the packs have to stand. But I still need the exact words for the binding. They’re just out of reach.”Kael rubbed his eyes. “We’ll walk the line again after we eat. Maybe more will come.”We packed the bedrolls and returned to the compound. Breakfast was waiting. Allaric had already received two new messages. One pack to the south had found a fourth small patch of wilting grass. They had burned it the same way we had. The coldness had quieted but not vanished.“It’s consistent,” Allaric said. “Contain, burn, watch. No one has reported sick wolves yet. That is the only real good news.”Liora ate
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Kael’s POVThe morning after the burn felt almost normal. Almost.I woke before dawn and checked on Liora. She was still asleep, breathing evenly. The color had returned to her face. That was enough for me to leave the room and walk the compound.Elias was already at the eastern platform. He handed me a cup of strong tea without speaking. We stood together and watched the first light touch the containment line.“Any change?” I asked.“Not that I can feel from here,” he said. “The scouts will walk it at full light.”Ronan joined us a few minutes later, hair still damp from a quick wash. “Allaric wants a meeting after breakfast. Neighboring packs are sending representatives. They want to know what we know.”I drank the tea. It was bitter and hot. “They deserve answers. We just don’t have many yet.”We walked back toward the main hall together. Liora was awake when we arrived. She sat at the side table with Cecile, eating slowly. When she saw us she smiled, small but real.“You three loo
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Liora’s POVThe sun was already up when I woke. My body felt heavy, but the sharp pain from the ritual was gone. Only a dull ache remained in my chest, like a bruise that went deeper than skin.Kael sat in the chair beside the bed. His eyes were open. He had been watching me.“How long was I asleep?” I asked.“Most of the night and into the morning,” he said. “You needed it. Cecile checked you twice. She said the foreign magic is gone.”I pushed myself up slowly. “And the eastern border?”“They’re still digging the containment line. Elias and Ronan are out there now. Allaric wants us to join them when you’re ready.”I nodded and swung my legs over the side of the bed. The floor felt cool under my feet. “I’m ready.”Kael stood and offered his hand. I took it. His fingers were warm and steady.Outside, the compound looked different in daylight. Broken fences were being repaired. Burned wood was stacked for later. People moved with quiet purpose. When they saw me, some nodded. A few look
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Liora’s POVBy midday I was strong enough to walk the eastern border with the others. Kael stayed on my left, Elias on my right, Ronan a few steps ahead. Allaric and a small group of scouts completed the party.The change in the land was clear as soon as we crossed the old boundary marker. The grass lost its color. Leaves hung limp. The air felt heavier, as if it carried a low fever.“This is it,” I said.Cecile, who had insisted on coming, knelt and pressed her fingers into the soil. “It’s not a normal sickness. The life here is being drained, not just killed.”I crouched beside her and placed my own hand on the ground. A faint echo of the ritual energy answered—cold, hungry, and slow. It recognized the blood in my veins.“It knows me,” I said. “Because my blood helped start it.”Kael’s voice was tight. “Can you stop it the way you stopped the main ritual?”“Not the same way. This is a seed, not a full working. It’s smaller but already rooted.”Elias looked along the strip of damaged
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Ronan’s POVDawn came slowly. The blue moon faded and the normal sun rose over a pack that had not slept. Smoke still drifted from a few burned buildings. The scent of blood and overturned earth hung in the air.I stood on the eastern watch platform with Kael and Elias. Below us, work parties cleared debris and repaired the worst breaks in the border wall. Allaric moved among them, giving quiet orders. Ava coordinated the healers. Cecile had finally sat down for a short rest after working through the night.Liora was still asleep in the main hall. The three of us had taken shifts sitting with her. She had not woken once.“Scouts left an hour ago,” Elias said. “They’ll check the eastern border first. That’s where Cecile felt the coldness.”Kael nodded. “If the seed is real, we need to know how far it has spread and how fast.”I watched a group of younger wolves carry supplies toward the hall. “What do we do about the freed rogues? Some of them fought with us at the end.”“Allaric will
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Elias’s POVThe black pillar rose high above the compound and then collapsed inward with a sound like the world tearing. The force threw dust and broken stone in every direction. I shielded Liora with my body as best I could while Kael and Ronan did the same.When the light and noise finally faded, the center of the open ground was a shallow crater. Lucien was gone. Only scorched earth and a lingering cold remained.Allaric was the first to approach the edge. He tested the air, then the ground. “He’s not here. The blast was real, but I don’t think it killed him.”Kael set Liora down carefully. She was conscious but very weak. The blue glow under her skin had almost completely faded.“The link is broken,” she said softly. “I can’t feel him anymore.”Ronan scanned the trees. “Then where did he go?”“I don’t know,” she answered. “But the plague seed he talked about… I can still feel it. It’s small, but it’s out there.”Allaric turned to the pack members who had gathered. “Secure the bord
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Liora’s pov“You haven’t gotten out of bed since last night, are you sure you are fine Miss Loria?” Cecile asked. I nodded my head momentarily, not able to utter a word. She walked closer to me, still not believing me. “Can I touch you?” She asked, her voice quivering slightly. I sat up immedia
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Chapter ThreeLiora’s POVKale spoke first, leaning back in his chair with a dark smirk. “It was hard to swallow food with a roach at a table.” His words jabbed at me, but I kept my gaze on my plate, the grip on my fork unconsciously tightening. Ronan chuckled, “Looks like our sweet little omega
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Chapter TwoLiora’s POVMy eyes widened. “Mate?”Alpha Alaric nods solemnly, digging into his pocket to pull out an envelope. I hesitantly took it from him, and I was stunned to see that in it was a photo of what seemed like a younger version of my mom in the arms of a man who I guessed was a young
Fated Alpha Stepbrothers: Desire, and Regret One
Chapter OneLiora’s POV“Arrgh!”Pain shot through me as my back slammed against the cold metal of the lockers. The tray of sodas I held clattered at my feet, fizzing into a spreading puddle. “Pathetic.” Kael’s voice rang in my head, his lips curled in disgust. “I told you to have those drinks re
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