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CHAPTER 66: THE WATCHERS ABOVE
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2025-07-30 19:00:56The way up was slippery, the snow no longer fluffy but wet and heavy as it clung to rock and skin. Serakha provided a point, her senses strained and acute. The onyx stone throbbed once in her pocket, then muted again, as if answering the horn’s summons.
Next was Lucian, whose eyes, never still. He looked back every couple of steps to check Kael’s progress. The injured man fell in step beside them, jaw set, unwilling to slow them down more. But the wound pulled at him like a buried hook, stealing in every step a little more strength.They climbed, farther up, toward the ridge with the horn. Whatever calmness had once surrounded was gone now, as the snow up on the mountain had been replaced by a nervous energy in the wind, a holding of breath.“Serakha,” Lucian said, “why blow a horn if not to mean to be heard?”She didn’t turn around. “Because we needed to hear i
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Torn Between Alphas CHAPTER 69: THE THING THAT CALLED ITSELF LOCK
The hand grasped around the edge of the glowing fissure, its long fingers curling into the stone like roots burrowing through crusted earth. It tugged again, this time slow, steady, and out of the light, a shape developed.Not a beast, not a man, something else.The air grew hotter. Not the acute heat of fire but the deep, throbbing heat of something alive. It rose up from below, from the very earth under the Vale of Murmur. Kael gasped and stumbled back, resting on his stick. “That thing,” he whispered. “It’s not only a guardian, is it?”“No,” Serakha said softly. “It’s the lock.”The creature stepped completely into the world now. It was taller than all of them. It was with skin like obsidian, red-light veins pulsing through him like a heartbeat. Its face was long, with no mouth initially. Just empty space. Then, before their eyes, it took the shape of a smi
Torn Between Alphas CHAPTER 68: THE VALE OF MURMUR
The pack abandoned them and now the trail dropped lower, winding into narrow chasms in the rock. Steep ridges loomed up around them like spears, and the snow-darkened clouds above deepened with every mile. The air felt heavier too — heavy not just with mist, but with something else. It felt like being watched. Lucian said little. Kael hobbled along next to him, putting more weight on his walking stick. Serakha guided in silence, a hand to the onyx stone in her pouch. It was warm now. Not pulsing — glowing.That meant they were close.They arrived at the cliff’s edge near dusk and the land dropped away abruptly — not softly, but as if wounded on the mountain’s side. Below them lay the Vale of Murmur. It was not what Serakha expected.It had no trees, no rivers, just a broad, flat expanse of dark stone and ancient ash. In places, the surface shimmered like oil or heat, but there were no fires
Torn Between Alphas CHAPTER 67: THE TEETH OF THE MOUNTAIN
When Serakha opened her eyes, the dream still clung to her. She didn’t gasp or sit up. She blinked just once, gazing at the low, gray morning as sleet pitter-pattered on her hood. The fire was out again. Lucian faced away from her, one hand pressed against the hilt of his sword. Kael was awake as well, holding a strip of cloth in his hands and sitting quietly. He was attempting to rewrap his wound without assistance.“You should’ve woke me,” she said.Lucian glanced back. “Didn’t need to. You were dreaming.”She frowned. “How do you know?”“You were saying something quietly.” He paused. “Didn’t sound like any words I know.”She sat up slowly and rubbed the back of her neck. “I wasn’t speaking.”“Then something was.”Kael tied off the bandage. “Did it call you again?”She hesi
Torn Between Alphas CHAPTER 66: THE WATCHERS ABOVE
The way up was slippery, the snow no longer fluffy but wet and heavy as it clung to rock and skin. Serakha provided a point, her senses strained and acute. The onyx stone throbbed once in her pocket, then muted again, as if answering the horn’s summons.Next was Lucian, whose eyes, never still. He looked back every couple of steps to check Kael’s progress. The injured man fell in step beside them, jaw set, unwilling to slow them down more. But the wound pulled at him like a buried hook, stealing in every step a little more strength.They climbed, farther up, toward the ridge with the horn. Whatever calmness had once surrounded was gone now, as the snow up on the mountain had been replaced by a nervous energy in the wind, a holding of breath.“Serakha,” Lucian said, “why blow a horn if not to mean to be heard?”She didn’t turn around. “Because we needed to hear i
Torn Between Alphas CHAPTER 65: THE STILLHOUSE
The wind was quieter now. Not gone — just calmer. It didn’t scream down the mountain ridges or scratch at their clothes anymore. It drifted instead, cold and slow, like breath out of the stone itself. The three of them sank down into a hollow between two peaks, following instinct more than sight.Even where the path was narrow, though, it wound down, down, into a basin of old snow and rock. The sky above was thick with cloud, and the playful red glow of the Ash Spires painted all things in chiaroscuro — rust and coal.Serakha could feel the power still warm in her bones. It had settled, not in a blaze, but like coals in the hearth — steady, thrumming. Not gone. Never gone now.“We’ll wait here,” she said softly.Lucian glanced around. “Feels… still.”“That’s why.” She swept her gaze across the low basin, then pointed to the left, where
Torn Between Alphas CHAPTER 64: THE NAME OF STONE
Serakha walked, the snow whispering under her boots. She didn’t speak. Neither did Kael or Lucian. The air around them, had changed — heavy, humming. The sort of silence that bears upon your skin. The trees thinned ahead. The scorched woods gave way to cold rock, keen wind. A path, once unclear, was now obvious — not because it had been laid, but because something in her knew where to go. She was no longer following footsteps she was now answering a call.Kael had a slight limp, still healing from the wound that would’ve killed him. He had not said much since she had stood up from the snow — since she had said her true name. But he remained close at hand, eyes constantly scanning the shadows, hand never far from his sword.Lucian, by contrast, moved with a quiet sort of purpose. As though all the questions he’d ever had had been filled with resolve. He’d seen the light — seen what Serakha was become — and hadn’t turned away.They climbed higher and the wind grew sharper, thinner.In f
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