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Author: Maia Levone
last update publish date: 2026-04-28 23:37:05

Elaine

Falling asleep was all too easy.

The softness of the mattress I was lying on felt as if I were floating on clouds. The delicate sheets allowed me to wrap myself up right away without fear or feeling suffocated, so I just let myself drift off.

I felt so tired just from being awake that sleep overtook me easily.

I woke up hours later when a loud knock on the door roused me from my deep sleep; when I opened my eyes, the door opened carefully and Selene poked her head in.

“Are you okay?” she
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  • Saved by the Alpha   68

    ArselThe word hung in the air of the waiting room, floating like a curse or a distorted blessing that none of us knew how to process.The silence that followed was so thick I could hear the crackling of the blue-flame torches on the hospital walls.“Oracle?” asked my father, Izan, his voice resonating with a gravity that made the hospital walls vibrate.I stood motionless, staring at the little silver-haired fairy lying on Isaac’s chest. Bless looked at her with a mixture of reverence and utter bewilderment. The leader of the fairies, a man with sharp features and eyes that concealed centuries of secrets, stepped forward, clenching his fists with obvious tension.The impact of the revelation struck us all in the chest.The fairies in the entourage began to murmur in their lilting language, a sound filled with contained panic. The wolves of Eclipse’s guard growled instinctively, sensing the surge of mystical energy that began to emanate from the room.This is crazy, I thought, and Leo

  • Saved by the Alpha   67

    ElaineI woke up with a strange sensation in my body; something was pulling me hard, so I got up carefully and shook my head. Arsel wasn’t beside me, so I figured he was still with his sisters, and I smiled.So I decided to head to the kitchen, walking calmly toward the stairs, when a conversation disrupted the peace and the bed shattered into a thousand pieces, but it was Arsel’s scream that pierced the entire house like a bolt of lightning.I’d left the room thinking I’d go downstairs to get a cup of tea when I heard the chaos erupt on the ground floor.Something inside me screamed so loudly that I couldn’t hold back, and then I realized that what had woken me up was, in fact, the bond between us, perhaps Leo pulling at me.I didn’t think twice; I ran down the stairs.My heart raced when I found the whole family gathered around a figure slumped on the floor.Selene.My heart stopped for a moment when I realized her body lay motionless in her husband’s arms. Izan was completely devas

  • Saved by the Alpha   66

    ArselWhen dinner was over, the family scattered throughout the house.Elaine excused herself to go up to her room for a moment, claiming she was tired, though I knew, through our bond, that she also needed a moment alone to process the day.I waited half an hour before going up after her.I found her by the window, with moonlight streaming in in silvery streaks across the floor, gazing out at the dark forest with her arms crossed over her chest.I didn’t interrupt her right away.I leaned against the doorframe and watched her for a moment, the way she stood so straight even when something weighed on her inside, that stillness I’d learned to read as one of her ways of processing the world.“I know you’re there,” she said without turning around, a barely perceptible smile in her voice.“The bond?” I asked, stepping closer.

  • Saved by the Alpha   65

    ArselCalming Elaine had been a challenge.She had been a source of great calm for me over the past few days, she’d been my anchor, but seeing her distraught over the possibility that she might not be just a human was difficult.She took it all in stride, but with a stoicism that worried me.I let her sleep and got up to go to the kitchen, where I found my father already awake, holding a cup of coffee and staring blankly out the window. He hugged me as soon as he saw me, a tight hug, without saying a word for several seconds, and I let him hold me for a moment before straightening up again.“How are you?” he asked, looking me in the eyes as if he could read directly what lay beneath my skin.“Standing,” I replied, because it was the only honest thing I had to say that morning.I couldn’t lie to either him or my mother.He nodded without pressing further.Tris came down the stairs rubbing her eyes, and as soon as she saw me, she ran toward me without a care in the world, as if she were

  • Saved by the Alpha   64

    ElaineThe meeting with Bless took place at dawn, as Arsel had requested.This time it wasn’t in the map room or the sanctuary.It was in the mansion’s inner garden, the one in the east wing that I had barely explored because I was always busy with the warriors during morning training.Bless arrived alone, without Nora or Pía.That told me something about the nature of the conversation before it even began.Selene and Izan were there. Amelie was there too, with dark circles under her eyes that showed she hadn’t slept. Kiel arrived with a folder, which he placed on the stone table in the garden without saying a word.I sat down next to Arsel, and he glanced at me out of the corner of his eye once—just once—with a question in his eyes, and I nodded slightly to let him know I was okay. I thought I could handle this.He turned his attention back to the table, and he was the one who spoke first.“I need everything I say here to be treated as top-level confidential information,” he said, lo

  • Saved by the Alpha   63

    ElaineI didn’t sleep that night.I didn’t even try.After Arsel and I left the sanctuary and returned home, I went to our bedroom and sat by the window with a cup of tea that Selene had left for me on the nightstand in the hallway without saying a word; I just sat there, as if she knew I was going to need it.Arsel stayed downstairs working.I could sense him on high alert through the bond, with that focused energy he had when something demanded his full attention. It wasn’t anxiety. It was precision. And that difference, which had taken me weeks to learn to distinguish, was one of the things that reassured me most about him, because it meant he wasn’t reacting but calculating.I, on the other hand, couldn’t calculate anything.I was too busy trying to keep the memories at bay.Because the memories kept coming.Not as jarring images this time, but like water that finds a crack in a dam and keeps seeping through, even though no one has opened any floodgates.I stared out the window at

  • Saved by the Alpha   59

    ArselI watched my mate as she slept.She had finally succumbed to sleep, and that put me at ease.In one way or another, her silent devotion to me was so profound that I could feel it. Elaine wasn’t just attuned to my feelings; she made sure to give me the respite and encouragement I needed.Reali

  • Saved by the Alpha   58

    ElaineIt was Amelie who took the conversation in a new direction.She stood up, walked slowly around the table, and stopped in front of the largest reproduction of the symbols. She took a small vial of silver powder from her bag and poured it

  • Saved by the Alpha   57

    ElaineDawn arrived like a white lie.The entire mansion seemed held in check, like a lung that couldn’t quite finish exhaling. After the Conclave, no one had slept well. I knew that because I hadn’t either.Arsel had been standing for hours when I came downstairs.I saw him from the stairs: he was

  • Saved by the Alpha   56

    ElaineGrief had settled over Crescent like an endless storm.The sky remained gray, the winds were cold, and the silence had become a constant presence with a name of its own. Even the children spoke and ran less. Even the wolves seemed to walk more slowly, an unmistakable sign of the collective m

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