LOGINShare
Chapter 5
publish date:
2026-05-02 22:02:26
Latest chapter
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 97
RyanThe lights went out one at a time, and I counted them without meaning to, some old instinct in me needing to measure the dark the way I'd measure a threat, how fast it was coming, how much room we had left before it swallowed the room whole.Twelve...eleven and ten."Ryan." Zara's hand was still locked in mine, and her voice had gone thin in a way I didn't like, thin the way people sound right before their legs stop working. "It's still doing it. Look at her face."I was looking. I hadn't stopped looking since the light flickered and I saw my own mate's features settle over a stranger's bones for half a second, gone so fast I could almost convince myself I'd imagined it. Almost."I see it," I said. "Stay behind me.""That's not going to help.""Humor me."She didn't move behind me. She never did, not once in the months I'd known her, and some part of me that wasn't scared out of my mind found that funny, that I kept saying it anyway, kept hoping this would be the time.The woman
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 96
ZaraThe ground opened like an eye and it was not a crack, not a fissure, an eye, and I understood that the moment it happened, some instinct older than tonight telling me exactly what I was looking at even as my body refused to process it. The stone beneath us peeled back in a slow spiral, wet and dark and gleaming, and beneath it was more dark, except this dark had a shape to it, a depth that pulled at my eyes the way a held breath pulls at your lungs.Ryan's arm came around my waist before I'd even started to fall."I've got you." His voice was strained, ribs screaming with every word, but his grip didn't waver. "Don't look down.""I can't not look down, Ryan, it's everywhere."The floor kept widening beneath us, an inch at a time, patient the way it had been patient all night, like it had already decided this was going to happen and was only waiting for us to accept it too. My boots found less and less stone to stand on. Ryan's found none at all on one side, and I heard him grunt
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 95
RyanThe light didn't so much appear as arrive, like it had always been there and the dark had just been pretending otherwise, and I put myself between it and Zara before I'd even decided to move."Don't," I said, though I wasn't sure who I was talking to. Her. The wall, the thing that had just spoken with her mother's patience and no mother at all behind it."Ryan, I see it too." Her hand was still in mine, and it was shaking, but her voice had steadied out some. "It's not attacking.""Yet.""Yet," she agreed.The seam widened, slow, unhurried, the way a door opens when whoever's on the other side already knows you're not going anywhere. Light spilled through it, pale and wrong, not warm like sun and not cold like moon, just light, like something had described the concept to itself and gotten close but not quite there.My ribs screamed when I shifted my weight, and I let them. Pain was information. Pain meant I was still mine."Talk to me," I said. "What are you feeling right now? No
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 94
ZaraDarkness came and went in waves, and every time it pulled back I was somewhere different, Ryan's arms under my knees, his heartbeat slamming against my ear, the world tilting sideways as he ran."Stay with me." His voice, low, cracked at the edges. "Zara, please.""I'm trying." My own voice sounded wrong to me, thick, like it was coming from somewhere underwater.The heat under my skin hadn't stopped since the stairwell. It moved in pulses, up through my chest, into my throat, and every pulse brought another flash of the thing I'd seen when my eyes went red. A room that wasn't a room. A mouth with no bottom."Where are we going?""East door. Marcus said east door.""Marcus helped us?""Don't talk. Save it."I wanted to tell him I didn't have anything left to save it for, that whatever was happening to me felt less like dying and more like being rearranged, piece by piece, into something that wouldn't need breath the same way. But talking took less out of me than thinking, so I ke
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 93
RyanThe dark took her out of my arms in pieces, her weight sagging, her breath gone ragged against my collarbone, and I did the only thing that made any sense in that moment. I held on harder."Zara. Zara, stay with me.""I'm here." Her voice came out thin, stretched over something enormous. "It's so loud, Ryan, why is it so loud...""What's loud? Tell me what you're hearing."She didn't answer. Her whole body arched against me, and the red light under her skin flared bright enough that I saw my own hands for half a second, saw the stairwell, saw Jude's silhouette standing very still above us like he was watching something he didn't want to blink through."Someone light a torch." My voice came out a snarl I didn't have to fake. "Now.""Patience." Jude's voice, infuriatingly calm. "This part doesn't like light.""I don't care what this part likes.""You should. It's the only reason you're both still breathing."Zara convulsed again, and I dropped to my knees with her, one arm locked a
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 92
ZaraWe ran, and the whole cavern ran with us, a thundering wave of bare feet and dragging boots that filled every inch of dark behind me like water finding the shape of a container."There." Ryan's hand found mine and pulled hard toward a gap in the rock wall, a crack barely wide enough for a body to slip through sideways. "Through there, go.""That's not big enough for both of us.""It's big enough for you so move.""I'm not leaving you behind for a gap in a wall, Ryan.""Then argue with me on the other side of it." He shoved me toward the opening, and the stone bit into my shoulders as I forced myself through, breath scraping out of me in short furious gasps, and behind me I heard him grunt as he wedged his broader frame after me, cursing under his breath the whole way."Ryan, hurry, they're not slowing down.""I'm aware."He tore through a heartbeat later, stumbling into me hard enough that we both went down again, tangled together on cold stone, and for one suspended second neith
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 3
RyanShe was here in flesh and blood. The last living Eserai.When my elders told me about an Eserai at first, I was sure they had gone mad. It was impossible. My seer confirmed that the Eserais had been wiped out by my father’s reckless drinking from them, and his abuse.But the moment I saw her, I
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 2
ZaraWith my hands pinned to my back, I dragged my legs to let them carry as far as I could go, but I was a fool to think they would let me off so easily.Someone was behind me with light steps, almost like they were gliding over the air. Freaking werewolf speed. Everything happened in a blur, and
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 1
ZaraThe email didn’t make sense. I stared at it a few more times, certain there had to be a mistake or some sort of glitch that would disappear if I had to blinked hard enough.Anxiety had me pulling out my phone for the umpteenth time to read through the email, word for word to make sure it wasn’t
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 4
Zara"Rude" I mummured. Judging from the kind of person Alpha Ryan was, it wasn't hard to see that he was a man of pride who didn't beg. He saw begging as a way of being weak and left for me, I was ready to break him until the only thing left for him to do was to beg. I closed my eyes for a bit, th
You may also like
His Plump Mate
BUCHANAN1.2M viewsTHE ALPHA KING'S CLAIM
JMFelic556.1K viewsTHE BETA AND I
Cassandra M511.7K viewsDangerous Desires
Karima Sa'ad Usman595.7K viewsClaimed By The Alpha Twins
Black Queen114 viewsBeneath the cursed moon:The Alpha Rejected Mate
Peace Moon veil63 viewsQueen Luna's Return: I am no longer yours, HUSBAND
Gbemi Writes22 viewsSecond Chance: The Rebirth of the Luna Queen
Author Jessica33 views
