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The Dark Forest: The Lycan King’s Fated Mate 65. Strategy
Amara POV The halls feel different this time, and I cannot tell if it is because the place has changed or that my mate is here. The last time I walked through these corridors, everything felt controlled, watched, and carefully measured. Every step I took felt like it belonged to someone else. Every breath felt borrowed. Now, Sebastian walks beside me, and nothing feels distant anymore. Everything feels sharper, more real, like the world has snapped back into focus. The servants guide us through the long corridors in silence. Their footsteps are soft against the polished black floors, and none of them dare to meet our eyes for more than a passing second. Still, I can feel it. The attention. The curiosity. The tension that lingers beneath the surface of everything here. Sebastian does not speak. His hand remains wrapped around mine, firm and steady, as if he has no intention of letting go. Every so often, his thumb brushes against my knuckles, absent but grounding, like he
The Dark Forest: The Lycan King’s Fated Mate 64. Cassian
Amara POV The room tightens all over again, but not in the same way it did before. Earlier, it was tension, sharp and immediate, the kind that warns of violence just waiting to spill over. This feels different. This feels wrong, like something unseen has slipped into place where it does not belong, something sharp and deliberate settling into the cracks of the moment. No one moves. No one breathes. Even Leviath, who never seems caught off guard, does not speak right away, and that alone tells me everything I need to know. This man.. he was not expected. The man’s gaze drifts lazily across the room, unhurried and entirely too comfortable for someone who just disrupted a room full of predators. His attention passes over the vampires, over the guards lining the walls, over Sebastian and the others, before finally landing on Sybil. And everything about him changes. Not softer. Not warmer. Just focused in a way that feels far more dangerous than anything else. “There you ar
The Dark Forest: The Lycan King’s Fated Mate 63. A test of what?
Amara POV The room does not settle after that. Even with Sebastian’s hand still wrapped around mine, even with the bond steady and warm where it had been strained just moments ago, the tension only shifts into something sharper. He chose me. I felt it, heard it, saw it. But that does not change where we are or who we are standing in front of. Leviath watches us like we are something newly interesting, like a game just took a turn he did not expect. “Well,” he says after a moment, his voice smooth and almost amused, “that went differently than I anticipated.” Sebastian does not respond right away, and he does not even look at him. His attention lingers on me for just a second longer, like he is making sure I am still there, still steady, still with him. Then his gaze shifts, and just like that, the warmth disappears, replaced by something colder and far more dangerous. “Get to the point,” Sebastian says. Leviath leans back slightly in his throne, completely at ease even
The Dark Forest: The Lycan King’s Fated Mate 62. I don’t care
Amara POV “A.. hybr- wha- what?” Sebastian’s voice isn’t loud. It isn’t angry. It just.. breaks. Not in a way I’ve ever heard before. Like something inside him caught on a sharp edge and didn’t come out clean. The room stills. Not gradually. All at once. Even the fire seems to quiet, like the flames themselves are listening. I feel it through the bond before I even dare to look at him. Confusion. Sharp. Jarring. Like the ground beneath him shifted without warning. Like everything he thought he understood just tilted sideways. I don’t look at him. Not yet. I can’t. Because if I see it.. if I see anything close to disgust or hesitation.. I don’t think I’ll recover from it. Not in front of Leviath. Not in front of all these watching eyes. “..A hybrid,” my father says again, louder this time. Slower. “Hybrid..” Sebastian repeats again, like he’s testing the word. Trying to decide if it belongs in this world. If I belong in it. The word settles into the room like smoke.
The Dark Forest: The Lycan King’s Fated Mate 61. She’s leaving.. with me
Sebastian POV The barrier doesn’t just break. It collapses. The cracks splinter all at once, the silver light bursting outward in a violent wave that tears through the forest like a shockwave. The humming stops instantly. Dead. Gone. Like it was never there. For half a second.. Silence. Then the force of it hits us. Wind slams into my chest, ripping through my coat, sending leaves and dirt spiraling into the air. The magic disperses in a rush that makes the world feel.. lighter. Open. Free. I don’t wait. I step through. No resistance. No pain. Just empty air where a prison used to stand. “Sebastian-” Sybil starts. Too late. Amara moves at the same time I do. The moment she crosses that invisible line.. The bond snaps tight. Not painful. Not gentle either. It hits like a pull straight through my chest, something ancient and absolute
The Dark Forest: The Lycan King’s Fated Mate 60. Couldn’t be that easy, could it?
Sebastian POV The barrier hums. It isn’t loud exactly. Not like thunder or crashing waves. But the sound lives in the air around us. A deep vibration that presses against my bones like the forest itself is holding its breath. The three artifacts react the moment we step close. The crown fragment strapped at my belt trembles faintly. The petrified heart Sybil carries pulses like a slow heartbeat in her palm. And the old dagger hangs heavy in my hand, the dark metal humming with that same violent magic we felt the first night we found it. The barrier stretches through the forest like a wall of warped glass. You can see through it. Sort of. Shapes blur and twist behind the shimmering surface. Trees bending slightly wrong. Shadows shifting like the forest on the other side breathes differently. And standing just a few feet beyond it— Amara. My chest tightens the moment my eyes land on her. She stands straight despite the exhaustion lining her face. Her dark hair
The Dark Forest: The Lycan King’s Fated Mate 59. Sissy
Sebastian POV For a moment none of us move. The kid stands there in the firelight like he just wandered into the wrong campsite by accident. Dirt on his cheeks. Bare feet. Torn shirt hanging off one shoulder. And a dagger humming with enough magic to make the hair on the back of my neck sta
The Dark Forest: The Lycan King’s Fated Mate 58. I like not dying
Amara POV For a moment the throne hall feels too quiet. The fire crackles softly beside me, its flames dancing in lazy orange waves that reflect off the polished black desk between us. My father leans back in his throne like a man completely at ease, like the conversation we just had was not
The Dark Forest: The Lycan King’s Fated Mate 57. I’ve heard stories
Amara POV The quiet that follows his words feels heavy. I stare at him across the long stretch of polished black desk, trying to read the expression on his face. But my father seems to be quite good at that. Hiding things. Letting people think they understand the game while he moves the
The Dark Forest: The Lycan King’s Fated Mate 55. Blood and misery.
Amara POV Morning comes slowly. Slower than usual. Not with the sounds of the people waking for training, or the distant echo of warriors sparring in the courtyard like I’m used to. No. This morning arrives in quiet, creeping through the tall windows in pale strips of gray light. F
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