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Chapter Sixty-Four

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Aria

The shadows in the corner of my suite where the witch had vanished were still thick with the smell of crushed ozone when the heavy iron deadbolt on my door suddenly snapped open.

I scrambled to my feet, my heart leaping violently into my throat.

Beta Drew stood in the doorway, his armor dented and stained with soot from the border skirmish, but his face was washed with profound, overwhelming relief.

"He's awake," Drew breathed, running a hand over his exhausted face. "The antidote wor
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    Aria "Feral," I repeated, the word tasting like ash in my mouth. I stared at Finn, the bright warmth of the morning sun suddenly offering absolutely no comfort. "What do you mean, feral? He is the Alpha King. His control over his beast is absolute." "Not anymore," Finn said grimly, leaning forward on the iron bench, his hand still pressing against his bandaged stomach. "The Healers are saying the witch’s antidote violently clashed with his mate bond. His mind was wiped, but his wolf refused to accept it. The psychological trauma forced the shift, and now the beast has completely locked the human side away. He is roaming the deepest part of the winter woods, and he is attacking any enforcer who tries to approach him." My heart plummeted into my stomach. Cassius was trapped in his own body, tearing himself apart in the freezing snow because the poison wouldn't let him remember me, but his soul refused to let him go. "Ronan has already called an emergency assembly of the council f

  • Surrogate to the Beastly Alpha    Chapter Sixty Eight

    The last thread of her sanity snapped. She lunged forward, her hand raising high into the air. Her manicured nails elongated into sharp, lethal claws, aimed directly for my face. I braced myself, squeezing my eyes shut for the impact. It never came. A heavy, leather-gloved hand shot out from the archway of the conservatory, catching Selena’s wrist mid-swing with a bone-crushing grip. Selena gasped, her arm jerking to a violent halt inches from my cheek. I opened my eyes. Finn was standing between us. He was pale, his guard uniform hanging loosely over the thick, bulky bandages wrapping his stomach. He was breathing heavily, sweat beaded on his forehead from the physical strain, but his grip on the Luna’s wrist was absolute iron. "Do not touch her," Finn growled, his voice rough and completely devoid of the required subservience. Selena stared at him in absolute shock, her eyes darting from his unyielding face to his hand clamped around her wrist. "Take your hands off m

  • Surrogate to the Beastly Alpha    Chapter Sixty-Seven

    Aria I needed the sun. After spending the rest of the night huddled in the corner of Cassius’s ruined chambers, surrounded by splintered wood and the lingering scent of his agonizing, forced shift, the suffocating darkness of the castle felt like it was crushing my lungs. When the morning enforcers finally came to escort me back to the East Wing, I refused to go to my suite. Instead, I walked straight toward the glass-domed conservatory. The guards, unnerved by the feral blood drying on the doorframes of their King's room, didn't argue. I pushed open the glass doors and stepped into the blinding, crisp winter light. I sank onto a wrought-iron bench, pulling my silk robe tightly across my chest, and just let the morning sun wash over my freezing skin. I closed my eyes, focusing entirely on the heat pressing against my eyelids, desperately trying to block out the horrific sound of Cassius’s bones breaking. Click. Click. Click. The sharp, deliberate sound of heels striking the ma

  • Surrogate to the Beastly Alpha    Chapter Sixty-Six

    AriaThe heavy mattress dipped under the sheer, suffocating weight of the Alpha King.I lay perfectly still against the dark fur blankets, my eyes squeezed shut. I braced myself for the cold, mechanical cruelty he had just promised. I expected the ruthless King who had looked at me like a disposable incubator to take what he wanted and leave me shattered in the dark.But when Cassius’s large, calloused hands finally touched my bare waist, a violent tremor racked his massive frame.The clinical, icy detachment he had projected across the room instantly faltered. He didn't grab me. He didn't force me down. Instead, his scorching palms slid up my sides with a devastating, agonizingly slow hesitation, as if the very friction of my skin was burning right through the dark magic clouding his brain.I opened my eyes, my breath catching in my throat.Cassius was hovering over me, his broad chest heaving erratically. The pitch-black void in his eyes was violently warring with something else—a f

  • Surrogate to the Beastly Alpha    Chapter Sixty Five

    Aria The gilded cage of the East Wing had become a tomb. For two days, I didn't see the sun. I didn't see Finn, who was still recovering in the clinic, and I certainly didn't see the Alpha King. My only company was the deafening silence of my suite and the rhythmic, mocking tick of the grandfather clock in the corner. I paced the floor until my bare feet ached, my mind desperately searching for a way to break the witch’s dark magic. The antidote had burned the venom from his blood, but it had frozen his soul. He had looked at me with such absolute, chilling indifference that the memory alone made my chest physically ache. On the evening of the third day, the heavy iron deadbolt violently clicked open. I stopped pacing, my breath catching in my throat. Two heavily armed royal guards stood in the doorway. They didn't bow. They didn't avert their eyes in respect like they used to when Cassius had claimed me as his own. They looked at me with the cold, detached professionalism rese

  • Surrogate to the Beastly Alpha    Chapter Sixty-Four

    Aria The shadows in the corner of my suite where the witch had vanished were still thick with the smell of crushed ozone when the heavy iron deadbolt on my door suddenly snapped open. I scrambled to my feet, my heart leaping violently into my throat. Beta Drew stood in the doorway, his armor dented and stained with soot from the border skirmish, but his face was washed with profound, overwhelming relief. "He's awake," Drew breathed, running a hand over his exhausted face. "The antidote worked. The venom is gone, Aria. He is asking for you." I didn't wait for him to say another word. I pushed past the Beta and sprinted down the stone corridor, my heavy velvet skirts tearing against the corners of the stone walls. I didn't care about the guards watching me, and I didn't care about protocol. The only thing that mattered was that Cassius was alive. He had fought off the venom. He had survived. I burst through the heavy oak doors of the Alpha’s private wing, tears of pure relief alr

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