Semua Bab A Surrogate For The Alpha: His Substitute Bride: Bab 91 - Bab 100

ZANDER“I don’t think you should rush there,” I told Caroline, keeping my hand on her arm. “We need to come up with a plan.”Even as I said those words, I hated myself a lot. I knew this wasn’t the kind of situation where we should be taking things slow. Every second that passed could mean Vivian was in more danger than we knew. However, if we acted blindly. If Caroline just ran there without thinking, we could mess up everything.And I couldn’t afford that. I couldn’t afford to lose her.Caroline’s jaw tightened.She looked at me like she wanted to argue, but then her voice came out sharp and steady. “Then come up with a plan fast, Zander. Because if you don’t, I’ll do what I have to. Even if it means dragging those two bastards to your doorstep myself.”The fire in her voice hit me straight in the chest. She wasn’t bluffing. I knew her well enough to understand that when Caroline made a threat like that, she meant every word of it.Derek, trying to lighten the mood, chuckled. “You

ZANDERI suddenly became scared—really scared.I began to think that what if the child Vivian was carrying got affected by all of this?What if something went wrong and we lost the baby because of Vivian’s condition at that moment?I closed my eyes for a second, trying to steady my breathing, but the fear just kept growing. I could bear the pain.If we lost the baby, I’d find a way to deal with it. It would break me, yes, but I’d survive. We could hope for another child one day—even if that path would be painful.But Vivian… she was different. She was too soft-hearted, too full of love. She was already in pain.Losing the baby was going to destroy her completely. I knew her. She’d blame herself. She’d feel like she failed. And I wasn’t sure she would ever recover from that.That thought hit me like a sword to the chest. I felt breathless. I couldn’t hold it in anymore.I turned to Priestess Tanya and said, “What if the baby… what if it doesn’t make it?”She paused and looked at me car

ZANDERI kept my eyes locked on Isla for a while. Everything about her seemed too calm, too collected. She didn’t flinch or hesitate.Even now, with three of us surrounding her, and all of us on edge, she stood like she owned the room.There was something dangerous about her confidence. I didn’t trust it. I didn’t trust her.“You knew we were looking for you,” I said, keeping my voice even though my chest was tightening with unease. “You’ve been watching us all this while. So why now? Why show up now?”Isla’s smile faded slightly. She sighed and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, her face growing more serious than before.“Because,” she began softly, “Vivian’s condition is getting worse.”Her words hit me like a punch in the gut. I didn’t show it, but my hands curled into fists at my sides.“She’s a witch,” Isla continued. “Like me. I can feel her magic. It’s flickering. Weakening. She’s slipping… and I couldn’t just sit back and watch her die.”Her voice was calm, but I saw som

ZANDERMy whole world stopped after I heard what Priestess Tanya said.For a second, it felt like time had frozen. The only thing I could hear was the sound of Tanya sobbing over the phone and the heavy thump of my heart crashing against my chest.Not breathing? Vivian wasn’t breathing?What did she mean by that?My mind couldn’t process it. I blinked several times, hoping I had misheard her.“Wh—what do you mean she’s not breathing?” I asked, my voice shaky and low.“She just stopped,” Tanya cried. “I was checking on her when I noticed her chest wasn’t rising anymore. I tried to wake her—I tried everything! But nothing is working!”I couldn’t speak for a second. My chest ached like someone had shoved a sword straight through my ribs.Vivian. My mate. The woman I would die for. Wasn’t breathing?This couldn’t be happening.I heard Isla whisper, “Alpha Zander? What is the problem?”But I couldn’t respond to her yet. My hand tightened around the phone as Tanya kept crying while my hand

VIVIANEverything around me was cold and dark.I didn’t know where I was. I could barely feel my own body. I tried to move, but I couldn’t. It felt like the darkness had wrapped itself around me, swallowing me whole.The last thing I remembered was trying to undo the spell from Caroline and then I passed out.I opened my mouth and screamed, “Zander!”But my voice just echoed back at me. A hollow, empty sound.“Priestess Tanya! Lucas! Derek!” I shouted again, louder this time.Still, all I heard was my own voice bouncing back at me. It made the loneliness worse. I felt like I was trapped in a void where nothing existed but fear and pain.Then I realized something.I wasn’t standing. I was… sitting. No, not sitting. I was crouched. Inside something.I reached out and touched what felt like thick, cold iron bars.A cage.I was in a cage. I gasped.Terror gripped my heart. My breathing got faster. My body was shaking. I didn’t know how I got here, or who had put me here, or why… but I kne