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Chapter Twenty-Eight
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The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate Chapter Twenty-Eight
IVY’S POVThe morning sun should have chased away the shadows. But instead, they gathered, so thick and strange. The light was golden, but it felt cold.I tightened my grip on Kane’s hand.“Those things,” I said quietly, “they’re not wolves, are they?”He didn’t answer immediately. His jaw was clenched, shoulders squared. The weight of his dream still lingered in his eyes.“No,” he said at last. “They’re worse, worse than wolves.”Figures emerged from the trees again. They are tall, fast, and unnaturally silent. Not rogue wolves. Not any kind of shifter I’d seen before. These things were cloaked in darkness, eyes glowing faintly like embers. Their limbs were too long. Their movements, were too smooth.“Spectres,” Kane whispered. “Moonless-born. Shadows summoned by those who’ve severed their bond to the Goddess.”I swallowed hard. “I thought they were a myth.”“So did I.”There were five of them, circling slowly, hunger rolling off them like heat. My power stirred again, uncoiling from
The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate Chapter Twenty-Seven
KANE’S POVThe howl faded, but its echo clung to the trees like smoke. Something about it felt really wrong. Not just rogue. It sounded ancient and familiar in a way that made my blood turn cold.I glanced at Ivy. She stood still, her body taut, eyes searching the darkness like she could see beyond the veil of the forest. Her power still hummed in the air, subtle but alive. Whatever came next, she’d be ready.“We should move,” I said. “Not back to the compound. Probably somewhere they won’t expect.”She nodded silently, still shaken, sill burning. We moved through the forest, fast and quiet, until we reached the edge of a cliff that overlooked the valley. There we stopped, surrounded by silence and stars.Later that night, long after Ivy had drifted into a restless sleep beneath the moonlight, I sat against a fallen log, exhaustion dragging at my limbs.But sleep didn’t come gently.It came like a flood.As I closed my eyes, the world changed.I stood in a field bathed in silver light
The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate Chapter Twenty-Six
IVY'S POVDarkness clung to me like a second skin.I didn’t know how long I’d been unconscious, but when I came to life, the world felt different. It felt sharper and heavier. My body ached, every nerve ending tingling with residual energy. The ground beneath me was scorched, the air thick with the scent of ozone and something ancient.I sat up slowly, wincing as pain lanced through my limbs. Memories of the explosion of power flooded back, the voice whispering, “You cannot outrun the moon,” the blinding light, and Kane’s panicked shout.I turned my head and found him a few feet away, crouched, watching me with a mixture of caution and something else like fear.“Are you okay?” he asked, keeping his voice low.I nodded slowly, though I wasn’t sure if I was telling the truth.“What happened?” I whispered.“You lost control,” he said. “Your power… it surged.”I looked down at my hands, half-expecting to see them glowing. They looked normal, but I could still feel the hum beneath my skin.
The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate Chapter Twenty-Five
IVY’S POV The sky bled into a muted grey as dawn broke over the Nightfall compound, but there was no warmth in the light. The silence was heavier than usual, and I felt it down to my bones that something was changing. I could feel it clawing its way to the surface, just beneath my skin, pulsing like a heartbeat that wasn’t mine.Whispers haunted the corners of the halls as I walked through the compound. My presence sent warriors stiffening, lips tightening, conversations dying mid-sentence. No one said it aloud, but I knew. They were waiting, watching and deciding.I didn’t belong here anymore.Not when Kane’s silence had grown louder than his words. Not when Derick’s threats echoed through every shadow. Not when the council stared at me like I was a storm about to unravel their world.So I made my decision, tonight, I would leave.Not for them, not for Kane, but for me.Because staying was starting to feel like slow death.And I had already made my choice.The forest was quieter at
The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate Chapter Twenty-Four
KANE’S POVLater that night, I found myself outside, walking the perimeter as I always did when my thoughts refused to quiet. The moon hung low in the sky, bleeding silver across the treetops. I thought of Ivy being alone, hunted by whispers, her every step shadowed by doubt. And though my heart didn’t ache for her, not in the way they assumed… something inside me stirred uneasily.I didn’t trust her, not entirely. But I trusted fate even less.The scrolls were clear. The Moonborne were celestial vessels, not mere wolves with gifted magic. They were tied to the fabric of the stars, and their deaths, violent and unjust could rupture the veil between worlds. The last time it happened, our ancestors spoke of rifts in the skies, beasts born of starlight and ash, entire forests swallowed in silence.The elders knew this. They were choosing to forget or they believed they could contain the chaos.Old fools.As I approached the western wall, I caught the scent of something acrid like a burnt
The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate Chapter Twenty-Three
KANE’S POVThe council chamber was colder than I remembered, the ancient stone walls echoing every footstep as I entered. The low hum of whispered voices ceased the moment I crossed the threshold, all eyes turning toward me. The elders sat poised like sentinels of fate, their faces unreadable beneath heavy brows and furrowed lines etched by decades of vigilance.A weight settled in my chest, heavier than any armor I’d worn in battle. They did not call me here to commend my efforts or discuss scouting reports. This was something darker, something that threatened to fracture the fragile peace we had barely begun to stitch back together.“Sit, Kane,” the head elder said, his voice steady but laced with iron.I obeyed, the cold wooden bench biting into my skin, as the council’s gaze bore into me like sharpened blades.“We must speak of the Moonborne girl,” the eldest woman began, her voice calm but urgent. “Ivy’s presence has disrupted the balance of our pack.”I felt a surge of protectiv
The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate Chapter Twenty-Two
The days that followed were a blur of whispered conversations and lingering glances. The Nightfall Pack’s unease was palpable, and I could feel the weight of their suspicion pressing down on me. Even the air seemed heavier, as if the very atmosphere was charged with tension.In the training grounds, the tension was palpable. Warriors moved with a calculated precision, their eyes flicking toward me with a mix of curiosity and caution. Derick’s presence was a constant thorn, his disdain for me no longer veiled.“Moonborne,” he sneered one afternoon, his voice low but carrying. “A title that brings more questions than answers.”I met his gaze, unflinching. “Better questions than blind obedience.”His eyes narrowed, but he said nothing more, turning away with a scoff. Kane remained distant, his presence a constant yet unreachable force. Our interactions were brief, professional, and devoid of the warmth that once lingered between us. I couldn’t help but wonder if the bond we shared was f
The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate Chapter Twenty-One
IVY’S POVI’d never felt more seen… or more alone.The stares weren’t always obvious. Sometimes they lingered a second too long, other times they were so brief I questioned if I imagined them. But I wasn’t imagining it. The whispers, the careful silence when I entered a room, the weight of eyes when my back was turned. The Nightfall Pack was wary of me, wary of what I’d become.Or maybe… of what I’d always been.And Kane, he’d changed too.He no longer sought me out, no longer looked at me like I was the girl who had once crashed into his world. Now, he looked at me like I was the storm itself.He was colder, more measured, always watching but never reaching. Even when we shared the same space, breathing the same air, it felt like a chasm stretched between us. I couldn’t touch him. Not really.And maybe that was the cruelest part of all.The air in the training grounds was thick with tension. Warriors sparred in silence, sweat-slicked bodies moving through precise, calculated motions.
The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate Chapter Twenty
IVY’S POVThe wind had changed.There was no howling or thunder to warn of it. No prophetic murmur from the stars. Just a subtle shift in the way the trees leaned into each other, the way the silence clung too long to every space I walked through in the Nightfall Pack. It had only been days since our return from Silvercrest, but already everything felt… different.Especially him.Kane didn’t touch me anymore. Not even in passing. His presence, once a furnace at my back, now burned at a distance. I’d catch him watching me sometimes, his gaze hard, unreadable, the ghost of some inner war shadowing his expression. But when I turned to meet his eyes, he was already gone. Or worse, he looked through me like I was just another soldier under his command.He’d changed.And I knew why.The truth, the whole ugly, shining truth still echoed in my bones. I was the last of the Moonborne, descendant of a line he had sworn to destroy. A line his father had hunted to extinction. A line that now lived
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