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Chapter Thirty-One

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KANE’S POV

The council chamber buzzed with tension, a low murmur of voices thick with suspicion and unease. Every seat was filled, every eye was watching me. Not as their Alpha, but as a man whose judgment they were beginning to doubt.

I felt the weight of Ivy’s presence beside me, even though she didn’t speak. Her silence wasn’t weakness, it was defiance. She stood tall, bandages hidden beneath clean clothes, chin raised despite the bruises that still painted her skin. They’d tried to break her, they’d failed.

I turned to face the pack elders, my voice cold, measured. “Let’s not pretend we’re gathered here for diplomacy. You want blood.”

Derick’s jaw twitched. “We want clarity. Your silence has left this pack confused and vulnerable.”

“Confused?” I echoed, pacing slowly. “Or insubordinate?”

Murmurs within the hall

“She was attacked inside our walls,” I continued, voice hardening. “By someone I trusted, by someone you all trusted.”

“Because she brings chaos,” Elder Meryn snapped. “Sh
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    IVY’S POV“You know they’re still afraid of me.”The words left my mouth before I even meant to say them. They hovered between us in the cooling air, quiet but sharp. Kane didn’t flinch. He just stood there, eyes on the distance where the mountain’s shadow bled into night, his thumb still pressed gently at the mark he’d given me.“I know,” he said. “But fear fades but doubt takes longer.”I exhaled slowly. “They won’t follow someone they don’t trust.”“They followed you today.”I shook my head. “They followed you and they tolerated me.”Kane’s jaw clenched. He turned then, finally, facing me fully. His hand didn’t drop from my thigh, but his gaze was steel.“Ivy, no one tolerates the girl who pulled lightning from the gods and brought a Bloodborne general to his knees.”A bitter smile tugged at the edge of my mouth. “You think that’s what they saw? A savior? A leader?”“I think some saw a threat.” He didn’t sugarcoat it. “And some saw a miracle.”“And the rest?” I asked.“The rest are

  • The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate   Chapter Forty-Eight

    IVY’S POVThe council dismissed quietly after that. No applause, no dramatic declarations. Just nods and silent decisions shifting like tectonic plates under our feet.But something had changed.They didn’t send me away. They didn’t question if I belonged.They asked what I needed.That alone felt like a battle won.Kane stayed behind, speaking in low tones with two of the border commanders. I didn’t interrupt. I slipped out into the dusk-heavy courtyard, the last light of day pooling over stone and ash, a coppery gleam brushing the ruined edges of what had once been clean and whole.My hands trembled slightly.I pressed them to my thighs.Breathe Ivy… just breathe.I didn’t hear Kane approach, but I knew the second he was behind me. His presence was a heat all its own, the one I was beginning to recognize before I saw it.He stopped beside me, hands clasped behind his back. His gaze swept over the broken edges of the field, the faint smoke still curling from where the Bloodborne fell

  • The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate   Chapter Forty-Seven

    IVY’S POVThe next morning, they called an emergency meeting. Not to punish me, but to “review the security risk.” The room was packed with murmuring council members, high-ranking wolves, and curious spectators who smelled of judgment and tension.Kane stood beside me at the center of the stone-floored chamber. His presence was a silent warning: no one touches her.But I didn’t hide behind him.I stood tall. But my legs still ached.Elder Risa, her white braid coiled tightly at her neck, leaned forward. “Luna Ivy… this power. Do you understand it?”“No,” I said honestly. “But I’m learning.”“Can you control it?”“Not yet. But I will.”A few murmurs rippled through the room. Elder Risa’s voice remained calm. “Then until you can prove that, perhaps it’s wise that you refrain from training sessions.”Before Kane could object, I stepped forward. “With respect, Elder… that’s the fastest way to ensure I never learn to control it.”She blinked. Surprised by my steadiness.Kane crossed his a

  • The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate   Chapter Forty-Six

    IVY’S POVI didn’t sleep.Even after the glow faded, even after Kane finally laid beside me, breathing steady and close, I stared at the ceiling, haunted by the quiet crackle beneath my skin. Every blink felt like lightning behind my eyes. Every breath buzzed with something unnatural.I slipped from the bed before first light, silent as shadow.Kane didn’t stir.I wrapped the wool blanket tighter around my shoulders, pulled my boots over the bandaged soles of my feet, and slipped through the quiet halls of the pack house like a ghost.The cold bit deeper the farther I walked from warmth and light.I needed space, I needed answers, and I needed silence.Not Kane’s assurances, not the pack’s stares, not even the warmth of the fire that once comforted me.*************The forest was still damp with dew, the leaves whispering beneath my boots as I moved deeper into the trees. There was an old clearing past the ridge, forgotten and overgrown. The place I could fall apart unseen.I dropp

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    IVY’S POVThe morning sun hadn’t fully crested the treeline when Kane called for training.He said it was to “rebuild morale.”I knew the truth. It was to remind the pack where strength resided, especially after last night.Word of my Trial had spread like wildfire. Some now looked at me with awe, others with thinly veiled suspicion.Kane stood at the edge of the training field, arms folded, his gaze sweeping over the assembled wolves like a blade.“Pair up,” he commanded.I stayed near the back. My feet still throbbed with every step, though I refused to limp. The gauze beneath my boots was soaked through with salve, but I was there present and accounted for.I wasn’t going to be the whisper behind the rumor, I would face it head-on.Derick, cold and expressionless, didn’t even look my way as he sparred with one of the younger Alphas. Elder Merek hadn’t shown at all.Kane called my name. “Ivy, come with me.”A murmur rippled through the crowd of course.I walked forward, standing acr

  • The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate   Chapter Forty-Four

    IVY’S POVThat Night, Kane and I arrived at the trial ground. They called it the Path of Fire. A ritual older than most packs remembered, rooted in pain, spirit, and resilience. A test of loyalty.The firestones weren’t literal flames, but they might as well have been. Each slab of stone was scorched with ancestral magic, forged to burn through weakness and expose the soul beneath.Only those deemed worthy could pass.The crowd gathered like wolves circling blood. Cold air. Sharp whispers. And Merek, standing beside the stones like a vulture in robes.Kane stood at my side, his hand trembling slightly in mine. That single tremor meant more than anything he could say.“You don’t have to do this,” he whispered.“I do,” I replied. “For them and also for us.”He turned me to face him. “I should have shut this down. I should have…”“You didn’t. Because you knew I needed to stand.”His throat bobbed as he looked into my eyes. “If you fall…”“I won’t.”He swallowed hard. Then pressed his for

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