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CHAPTER 13

Autor: SEL Smith
last update Fecha de publicación: 2026-02-13 20:01:08

By the time Lyra finished her evening patrol, her nerves were stretched thin.

The same team that had abandoned her days ago walked ahead of her in a stiff, silent line. No one spoke. No one looked back. No one acknowledged her presence beyond the occasional sideways glance, quick, guilty, and immediately averted.

The tension was suffocating.

Every crunch of leaves beneath their boots felt too loud. Every shift of the wind made her wolf twitch. Every step reminded her of the moment she’d realise
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    Stormfall’s camp felt different now.Not safer. Not calmer. Just… heavier.The alliance had begun, but peace had not. Wolves from both packs moved through the clearing with stiff shoulders and narrowed eyes, their scents sharp with suspicion. Stormfall warriors watched Bloodpine scouts like they expected betrayal at any moment. Bloodpine wolves returned the favour with equal distrust, their gazes cold and assessing.They had agreed to train on Stormfall’s grounds, the space was larger, better equipped, and capable of holding both packs without forcing them into suffocating proximity, but even the open air felt too tight right now. And Lyra felt all of it, the tension, the unease, the fragile threads holding everything together. But beneath it all, something else gnawed at her. Something sharper. Something personal.Talia’s absence.Her best friend had been avoiding her since the pack meeting. Not subtly. Not accidentally. Deliberately. Every time Lyra entered a space, Talia found a

  • The Alpha's Forbidden Flame   CHAPTER 57

    The first morning of the alliance felt nothing like peace.Stormfall’s eastern training grounds stretched wide beneath a pale, uncertain sky, the grass still wet with dawn and the air carrying the faint chill of a night not fully gone. Wolves from both packs gathered in uneven clusters, their stances stiff, their eyes sharp, their bodies angled as though ready to spring at the slightest provocation. Stormfall warriors stood with arms crossed and shoulders squared, jaws tight with suspicion. Bloodpine wolves mirrored them almost perfectly, equally guarded, equally tense, equally ready to snap.Lyra felt the tension like static on her skin, prickling along her arms and settling in her chest. It was the kind of tension that made the air feel too thin, the kind that made every breath feel like a risk.Kaelan stood beside her, posture steady, expression unreadable, but the bond pulsed beneath her ribs, warm and alert, telling her everything she needed to know. He felt it too. The distrust.

  • The Alpha's Forbidden Flame   CHAPTER 56

    The Stormfall assembly clearing had always been a place of order, a place where decisions were made, where wolves gathered to hear their Alpha speak, where unity was expected even when tempers ran high. But today, the clearing felt volatile in a way Lyra had never experienced. The air itself seemed charged, humming with tension so thick it pressed against her skin.Wolves packed the space shoulder to shoulder, Stormfall on the left and Bloodpine on the right, their lines drawn as sharply as if someone had carved a trench between them. The divide was physical, emotional, historical, and painfully visible. Even the trees surrounding the clearing seemed to lean back, wary of the storm gathering between the two packs.Lyra stood at the centre with Kaelan beside her, her father and Talia just behind.She could feel Kaelan’s presence through the bond, a quiet reassurance, but even that couldn’t soften the weight of hundreds of eyes fixed on them.Stormfall wolves glared at Kaelan with open

  • The Alpha's Forbidden Flame   CHAPTER 55

    Moments ago, the clearing had been a battlefield, alive with snarls and blood and the frantic rhythm of survival. Now the silence pressed in from all sides, heavy and unnatural. The rogues lay scattered across the ground, their bodies already cooling, their twisted forms a stark reminder of how close they had all come to losing everything.Lyra stood in the centre of it all, her breath still uneven, her hands trembling despite her attempts to steady them. The Soul-bond pulsed beneath her ribs as it was knitting Kaelan’s wounds faster than nature ever intended. She could feel the bond working, feel the way his pain eased and his strength returned, feel the way his heartbeat steadied in response to hers. He was healing.But none of that eased the tension coiling in her stomach.Her father stood several paces away, his eyes fixed on her and Kaelan with a mixture of shock, fury, and something far more fragile, fear. It wasn’t the fear of a man afraid for his life. It was the fear of a fa

  • The Alpha's Forbidden Flame   CHAPTER 54

    The clearing felt suspended in a fragile, breathless silence, as though the world itself had paused to witness the moment unravelling before them. The air seemed to tighten, drawing inward, waiting for the next heartbeat, the next word, the next fracture that would split everything open.Her father’s eyes were full of heartbreak, the kind of pain she had never seen in him before, the kind that made her chest ache because she knew she had put it there. Talia’s gaze flicked between them, wide with confusion, her expression torn between disbelief and betrayal. Kaelan’s eyes were fixed on Lyra, filled with fear, for what this revelation meant, for what her father might do, for what might come next.And Lyra felt all of it, every jagged edge of emotion, through the bond pulsing beneath her ribs. It throbbed like a second heartbeat, a living reminder of the choice she had made, the life she had tied to her own, the consequences she could no longer outrun.Her father’s voice came out as a

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    Lyra stood between her father and Kaelan, her pulse hammering, her lungs tight.Her father’s voice cut through the air like a blade.“It’s him, isn’t it?”Lyra’s breath caught. She felt Kaelan’s emotions brush her mind.She swallowed hard. “Father… please. Let’s talk.”“Answer me,” he growled. “Is. It. Him?”Kaelan shifted back. His black wolf dissolved into a man, bare‑chested, bruised, breathing hard, but steady. His eyes never left Alpha Thorne as he took a step forward. He didn’t speak. He simply stood there silently… waiting.“Lyra,” Her father said, his voice cracking, “tell me the truth.”Lyra’s throat tightened. She felt Talia’s gaze burning into her.She took a breath that didn’t feel like it reached her lungs. “Yes,” she whispered. “It’s him.”Her father staggered back as if she’d struck him.Talia’s eyebrows furrowed in confusion. “Lyra… what’s him?”Kaelan closed his eyes briefly. The secret was out.Her father's voice broke. “You… you chose him, what, to spite me?”Lyra s

  • The Alpha's Forbidden Flame   CHAPTER 22

    For days, Lyra could still feel the tingling on her lips, a ghost of a moment she kept trying, and failing, to forget. The memory clung to her like a second skin. Every time she closed her eyes, she felt it again. The warmth of his mouth, the heat of his nearness, the intensity in his gaze right be

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  • The Alpha's Forbidden Flame   CHAPTER 26

    Lyra arrived at the neutral clearing just as the sun was setting, their usual time to meet. Talia was already there, perched on the fallen log they always used as a meeting spot.Lyra felt a small, genuine smile tug at her lips. Talia had that effect on her, a brightness that cut through the fog of

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  • The Alpha's Forbidden Flame   CHAPTER 25

    Two days passed, and the uneasy quiet in Stormfall only grew heavier.Lyra tried to lose herself in routine, training at dawn, strategy meetings with her father, patrols in the evening, but nothing felt normal anymore. Not after the waterfall. Not after Kaelan’s confession. Not after she had betray

    last updateÚltima actualización : 2026-03-24
  • The Alpha's Forbidden Flame   CHAPTER 21

    Kaelan continued to walk toward her with slow, deliberate steps, the kind that made the air feel heavier with every inch he closed. His eyes were fixed on her.Lyra didn’t move.She held her ground, even though her pulse was quickening, her wolf rising beneath her skin.When he was close enough tha

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