Semua Bab I Am The Alpha: Bab 121 - Bab 130

“I expected a monster,” a deep callous voice stated coldly above me, dark, seasoned. “Instead I find… a child.”I forced my eyes upward to see who.The woman standing before me had silver hair pulled into a crown braid, strands of it fluttering like ribbons in the wind. Her skin was earthen-dark and smooth, ageless in a way that made you forget what time meant.Her robes were black with lacey lines of royal blue, embroidered in patterns that resembled sigils. Power radiated off her like heat from a volcanic rock.“I nearly didn’t come,” she continued, striding closer as her boots crunched softly over the broken stone. “When the message reached me, I dismissed it. The missing Lupomancer in Springville? Of all bland places.”Heaving rapidly, my chest rose and fell. What did she shoot me with? Why did my sides burn so much?“Then,” she crouched to my eye level, gazing into me with her pearly eyes. Her voice dipped, “I felt it, like rot twisting through the ley lines two days ago. Melbrin

Luckily before I sank too deep, the door creaked behind us. I took the distraction to step out of his embrace to see Khalid stepping inside with a deadpan face. “He’s ready to talk to you.”With that, we followed him to a room downstairs where Harris sat at the long table. His shoulders sagged like a man who hadn’t slept for weeks. His once pristine demeanor hung limp as though the weight of age had settled fast on him these past days.“You wanted answers,” he said without looking up. “I’ll give them.”We sat opposite him. Ethan leaned forward. “Where is Higan?”“If I knew,” The older man's voice rumbled roughly, “he’d be chained in the basement.”“But you should have guessed,” I pressed.He nodded once, his messy hair following carelessly. “There are three places he could have run to. The coast caves in Rivermoore, the northern training sanctum he used to retreat to, or…” he hesitated, “or wherever she took him.”“Becca,” I confirmed.He finally looked at me. “I don’t know what she i

“So, how did you find me?“ I asked simply. I needed holes in their answers to gauge what they were going to mean to me. Allies that could be weaponized or enemies in disguise?One of the younger women, fierce-eyed and wind-bitten rose up just slightly, enough to speak.“We heard,” she began, “of the girl pulling in powerful Melbringers for a cleansing.“She ambled forward, her boots crunching frostbitten moss. “We were hunting one of them. A Melbringer who thought she could pollute the coastlines of the east. She bargained for information for her life.”I raised a brow at that. They were hunting? Melbringers? A joyous grin almost split across my face at the thought. They were experts at being at the end of offensive Sorcery.“She said they were all coming for you. So we all thought to come along too, to meet you and to rid you of those condescending pests,” her teeth gritted at the end. I could almost taste the hate in her words.If they hated Melbringers, did they know what I was? I

Morning came in the blink of an eye, the frost in my body had thawed to leave me numb as I'd wanted. I rose almost mechanically on my bed running my hand through my hair.“What do you want?” I asked groggily.My eyes adjusted to the light in my bedroom, the obnoxiously bright light that couldn't possibly be illuminated by a window.All of my senses began adjusting from the numbness and it took about a minute to realize that the fresh scent of earth and the chirping in the trees was abnormal.“This better be a dream,” My claws sharpened out of my fingertips as I guarded up, squaring my shoulders back.“Sisters,” a pearly smooth voice called out, “She's awake.“My ears listened in to find out where the voice came from in the trees. I couldn't see anyone yet I could feel their presence.“Finally,” another voice, more rough and sickly, followed, “It's been too long.““I for one am still failing to fathom why we had to wait for the thing to wake,” a third voice protested and I veered in th

Footsteps rattled up the stairs before faces appeared behind the broken door frame. Abigail and Khalid spoke in turns.“Reports just came in, South Block’s in flames. Werewolves and humans are being openly attacked by the district,” Abigail narrated.Khalid followed up, breathless with a handheld transceiver held to his mouth. “The road out of Springville has been blocked. They're swarming every corner of the town.“I turned to face Ethan, to really look at him. His palms were still bloody and his mark still burned on my neck. His eyes pleaded I stay, but I had already made up my mind. I was going.“Well,” I rasped, cutting through the panic blooming in the living room downstairs, “it looks like fate has other plans for me.”He grabbed my wrist before I could walk away into the chaos. “If you go out there—”I wouldn't be able to ever take anything back. Every decision I would make from then on would be cemented in my history to become a part of me. Even the ugly decisions. But it didn