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Chapter 16: In and Out
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2026-09-12 23:58:52
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The Alpha's Doomed Mate Chapter 19: The Body That Wouldn't Die
Pov: ZadeI hadn't gone near the Forbidden Wing since I left her room, and Xavier hated me for it. He'd been hating me for it since the moment my arms left her waist.His low and furious pacing that hadn't stopped since then pressed against the inside of my skull like a fist against a door he intended to break down eventually, whether I let him or not.Go back, he said, for what felt like the hundredth time that morning.No.She is ours; we have to claim her.That right there is the problem, and what I cannot allow.Instead of answering with words, he continued to pace furiously inside my head. He pushed hard enough that my hands had stopped being steady somewhere around the second morning.I stopped responding to him altogether.She wasn’t only my mate anymore. That fact was something I had been able to carry on with, badly, but I survived it.What I am barely surviving now is the memory of my own fangs lengthening against her throat, of how close I'd come, of how little it would hav
The Alpha's Doomed Mate Chapter 18: Second Chances
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The Alpha's Doomed Mate Chapter 17: Against His Heart
POV: AshaHestia had won the argument earlier, sort of. Zade had refused the longer contact she wanted, agreeing only to brief periods of hand contact while she monitored me.It had worked for a few hours.Until now.The episode came harder that night, well past midnight, dragging me out of sleep with a violent, disorienting jolt.Rylie's presence felt very shaky in my mind, caught halfway between surfacing and retreating, neither fully here nor fully gone.Pain pierced through my skull with every failed attempt, sharp enough that I curled into myself as I held back sounds I didn't want carrying through the walls.A cry escaped me before I could bite it back.Ry, hold on. I gasped, gripping the sheets as the room blurred around me and my heartbeat pounded loudly in my ears.Footsteps pounded in the corridor, and less than a minute or so later, Hera burst through my door. Her expression was tight with alarm at whatever she found on my face. Hestia arrived moments after, moving with th
The Alpha's Doomed Mate Chapter 16: In and Out
POV: AshaTwo days later, Rylie's presence had become unpredictable again. One minute she was there, warm, curled somewhere inside my mind, and the next, she was just gone, hard to reach.I had told Hestia she was still fading in and out while Hera stepped out for a while after bringing me here. I just hadn't told her how often it was happening, or how much the long silences had started to frighten me.“You're distracted today.”I looked toward Hestia, then at the table. “No, I’m fine.”“You’ve put feverfew into the wrong pile twice.”I glanced down and realized she was right.“I think I’m just a bit tired,” I said, though the words came out thinner than I intended. I threw her a smile, glancing at the door. “I wonder when Hera’s coming back.”I reached for another bundle when the room turned upside down, blurring without warning.Sound exploded around me. The scratch of Hestia's quill was unbearably loud, the wooden staffs cracking against each other on the training grounds sounded li
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