The alpha’s forgotten mate

 The memory hit like a slap.Flames.  Pain.  Silver eyes watching me burn.I staggered back, clutching my chest, but the image faded as fast as it came. I blinked, gasping for air, heart slamming against my ribs.What was that?Kael didn’t move. His gaze pinned me in place, a storm swirling behind his silver irises. Anger. Confusion. Something deeper.“Alpha,” our pack leader finally stepped forward, clearing his throat. “You’re most welcome in Ashridge. May I introduce ........”“Later,” Kael cut him off, eyes still locked on me. “Who is she?”I froze.Harlan scowled. “Just an omega, my Alpha. No wolf. Useless, really.”Kael’s jaw clenched.He stepped closer to me. The air crackled around us. “Your name?”“Lyra,” I breathed.The way he looked at me… it wasn&

The words echoed in my skull like a bell tolling in an empty church.Kael didn’t blink. Didn’t flinch. Like what he said was normal. Like people remembered their past lives all the time.“Are you messing with me?” I asked, forcing a laugh that sounded brittle, hollow.“No.”“You think I’m… reincarnated?”“I don’t think,” he said quietly. “I know.”I swallowed hard, the room suddenly feeling smaller, the walls closing in. “That’s insane.”“So is an omega without a wolf triggering a mate bond.” His eyes sharpened. “And you almost destroyed me yesterday because of it.”I froze. “Destroyed… you?”“Yes,” he said, calm as ice but darker than the shadows in the room. “If you’d lost control fully, the consequences… would have been fatal. Not for me. For you.”My heart slammed against my ribs. “I… I don’t understand.”“You will,” he said, voice low, almost a growl. “But first, you need to see this.”He stepped past me, pulling open a hidden panel in the wall. Behind it, a dusty leather-bound bo

Far from Moonfang territory, beneath the jagged peaks of the Northern mountains, the Alpha Council convened.Twelve Alphas sat in a circle carved from black stone, their eyes sharp as daggers. The air was thick with tension, politics, and something darker...fear.“She’s returned,” Alpha Ryker of the Ironclaw Pack said, voice heavy as stone. His silver hair shimmered in the torchlight, but his presence carried the weight of storms.No one asked who. They already knew.“The Witch Queen,” spat another Alpha, teeth bared. “We ended her a century ago.”“Apparently,” Ryker replied, “the Moon Goddess had other plans. Rebirth. Reawakening.”Another leaned forward. “The prophecy said if she returned, she’d bring war.”“She was war,” Ryker growled. “Magic that defied order. Fire that didn’t burn out. And now… she’s bonded to Kael.”A murmur swept the room. Kael. The youngest Alpha. The wild card.“If he turns on us...”“He won’t,” Ryker snapped. “He fought beside us last time. But mark my words…

 They buried the bodies at dawn.Two hunters dead. One fled. The last unconscious, chained in silver and locked beneath the packhouse.The mark I left on the earth still smoldered long after the flames died. No one dared step near it, not even Kael.I stared at it from my window, heart still pounding. My hands trembled, not from fear… but from adrenaline. From power.I’d fought.  I’d won.  And a part of me had enjoyed it.That scared me more than the hunters ever could.Kael called a meeting with his inner circle that afternoon. I wasn’t invited.So I found my own answers.Back in the old sanctuary, the air still hummed with magic. My dagger sat on the pedestal, untouched. I approached slowly, fingers grazing the stone.“You remember now,” a voice whispered.I spun around but nothing.But the air had changed. Thicker. Buzzing.I st

 The words echoed like thunder in my skull.“She’s been working with us for weeks.”Rhea.The only one in the pack who ever made me feel like I wasn’t completely alone.Kael growled, his claws fully extended. “You’re lying.”The rogue laughed. “Am I? She gave us this charm herself. Said it would help us track the girl.”He tossed it at Kael’s feet.The second Kael picked it up, his expression darkened. “It’s hers.”I felt sick.The rogues stepped back slowly. “We don’t want war, Alpha. Just the girl. You can keep your pack.”“Not happening,” Kael snarled.Without another word, the rogues turned and vanished into the snow, shadows melting into the trees like smoke.I stood frozen.Rhea. The one who brought me food when I skipped meals. Who braided my hair when my hands shook. W