Stuck Between Two Alphas のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 181 - チャプター 190

Ivy's POV She smiled like a child giving a list of presents. “I want them executed. But first…I want her.” Her finger stabbed at me with a sweetness that made my blood turn to tar. “I want her arms chopped off before she’s killed. I want to watch it happen.”The words landed like a strike. The king’s voice was soft, flat as a blade. “You heard the queen.”Ezra screamed, a sound ripped from the bones. “My king—”He was already turning, Lila tucked into him like an offering. “Have them executed as a present for the queen at her coronation tomorrow,” Leo growled, his tone a slow thing that promised ruin as he began to leave.I could not breathe in the right sequence. Sounds blurred. Daniel’s hands found my wrist, pulling me into his solidness as the guards closed in, pushing us toward the dungeon mouth that yawned like a hungry thing. The Betas’ cry, the scrape of armor, the distant clatter of a crown being set…all faded into a single, hot pulse.Lila’s eyes found mine as we were hauled

IVY’S POV“Can you stop pacing around already?” I snapped at Daniel, the agitation in my voice barely masking the nervous flutter twisting in my stomach. “You’re making me nervous.”He stopped mid-step, his jaw tightening in a way I hadn’t seen before, the kind of controlled tension that made my chest clench. “You don’t understand. I’m not supposed to be locked in here. I have things to do,” he said, pacing again, each footstep a drumbeat that seemed to echo against the stone walls of our cell.Daniel…the joker, the one who could defuse any tension with a quip or sarcastic grin…was serious. Deadly serious. And now I was starting to feel a chill creep up my spine. Whatever was going on is making him this way, has to be very important.I idly rubbed my chin, pretending to think as I studied him. “Hmmm… weird that you will get serious about something. You’re always the one to throw jokes when things get rough. And now…this? Should I be scared?”His eyes caught mine, sharp and serious. He

Ivy’s POVWhen my eyes fluttered open, I realized I was on a bed. My neck throbbed but it didn’t hurt anymore. The ache wasn’t pain…it pulsed, almost alive, like something beneath my skin had been rewritten.I slowly began getting up, but froze immediately when I felt them.Red, glowing eyes burned from the corner of the room, watching me.My breath hitched.What now?! Is the curse not broken yet? After all the blood he sucked, shouldn’t it have ended? Shouldn’t he have been freed?But strangely, I didn’t feel drained at all. No weakness, no dizziness… nothing like what death would feel like.Instead, I felt more alive.Every nerve, every muscle, every beat of my heart thudded with new force. The air smelled sharper, richer…even the shadows seemed to have shape and breath. My whole body vibrated with a strength I’d never known.And then, just as I tried to make sense of it, I staggered, clutching the side of the bed.A dizzy rush slammed into me, and then…Memories.All of them.Like

Leo’s POVI thought about the first time my fangs found her…how the world split open and the dark that had been my constant companion for so long recoiled as if burned.For months I’d been a hollow thing, a shadow walking the edges of myself. I moved through the cage I was locked in that smelled like ash and old blood, craved things that never satisfied me. When she collapsed earlier, when she’d fallen limp against my hand and the scent of her was a whisper in the wind, I felt a part of me disappear with her…like someone had unplugged a lamp and left me in pitch black. Confusion glazed my mind then; I couldn’t tell whether the void was mine or hers. The shadows inside me fed on that confusion. They hissed and crowded, urging me to finish what they’d already started: end her, drink deep and drown the pain that was never mine to hold.But the wolf… my wolf… was there too. Not roaring, not tearing through me the way he once did…just a low thrum beneath my skin, steady as a heartbeat. Pa

IVY’S POVThe room went dead silent after Daniel’s comment.Cole shifted uncomfortably by the door, pretending not to hear, but his jaw ticked. The priestess kept her eyes shut as though she was meditating, but I could tell she was listening too. Daniel just stood there, arms folded, smirking like an idiot.“You reek of sex, princess,” he repeated, like he wanted to provoke me.I tilted my head and gave him a slow, deliberate smile. “You’ve always had a big mouth, Danny boy. Want me to give you details about it or will you just shut up?”He actually stepped back, blinking, but his nose wrinkled again. “You’re different,” he muttered. “You don’t smell like Ivy anymore.”He wasn’t wrong. I didn’t. Something inside me had changed since Leo. Nyxara was pacing in my head, claws dragging over my skull like sparks. She wasn’t the only one ready to tear someone apart if they messed with us.The king’s beta inhaled sharply, his nostrils flaring as he caught the scent clinging to my skin. His e