The Alpha's Fated Desire のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 51 - チャプター 60

{Lyra}The ring pulsed between my fingers, a slow, living throb that matched the beat of my own heart. Sunlight caught the black metal and made it shimmer faintly, like it was alive.I barely registered Dominic’s voice anymore—it sounded muffled, like I was underwater. My whole world narrowed to the ring and the way it hummed; a whisper slipped into my head, coaxing and tempting.“Put it on,” the voice urged, curling around my mind in the most enticing way possible.My hand moved on its own, slowly bringing the ring closer to my finger. I was a breath away from sliding it on when a sharp slap sent the ring flying from my hand, tumbling to the mossy ground and sinking straight into the dirt like it had never been there at all.I staggered, gasping like I'd broken through the surface of deep water, as the world came back into focus. The buzz in my ears faded, and Dominic’s face snapped into view. His eyes were wild with worry, and his hands gripped my shoulders, his fingers digging in h

{Lyra}No matter how much I tried to occupy my mind with other things, I still couldn’t get the words out of my head.“The ring is the key to everything.” I muttered to myself.It rang through my head like a bell long after Dominic led me into the dining hall. Odessa sat at the far end of the table, bundled in a thick sweater, while Isaac was busy showing her something on his phone, and for a half-second, my heart clenched. I saw flashes of her face, with those glowing green eyes from the dream that clung to my skin like cold sweat.“It’s not real,” I told myself fiercely. “It was just a dream. She’s fine.”Odessa laughed at something Isaac said, tossing her wet hair over her shoulder. She seemed completely normal and not at all possessed by evil.Still, it took everything I had not to stare too long.Dominic vanished sometime after dinner, and I was left fiddling with my spoon and pretending to care about dessert.I wanted, more than anything, to go back to the garden. But then I re

{Dominic}The tires screamed as I whipped the car down the road, with one hand clenched around the wheel, the other gripped my phone so tight it might’ve cracked. Mace’s message flashed on the screen again—an SOS and her live location pinned deep inside the forest.Mace didn’t panic easily. She was easily one of my toughest Deltas, a born fighter with nerves wired out of iron. For her to send a distress call, then something had to be bad. Real bad.I hit Ryker’s contact and put him on speaker.“Alpha?” he answered in a rough voice, like he hadn’t slept.“Mace sent an SOS. I'm heading to her now. I’ll forward her location to you. Get your ass there, fast.”“Shit. On my way,” Ryker barked.I killed the call and floored it. Trees blurred past as I tore toward the edge of the woods. The second I hit the border, I slammed the brakes, killing the engine mid-skid. Gravel and dirt sprayed out behind me.From her location, she was still moving, but barely.I shoved the car door open, kicking i

{Lyra}“The attempt on your life during you and Dominic’s wedding dance wasn’t as simple as you think.” Regina said to me.A part of me had wanted to forget that night so much that it actually did. But as Regina’s words landed, that night came rushing back into my head.“W—What… What are you trying to say?”She took a deep breath and tried to keep her eyes level, but I could see how they wavered ever so slightly. “It was me.”“You?”“Me and my brother actually.” she corrected. “You see Corvin didn’t want the Bloodhound name to die out all because of some…” she squeezed her mouth shut and gestured to me, “...well, you. And neither did I. I couldn’t understand why Dominic would chose you over the countless number of powerful candidates, and so I joined him and we created the resistance, a small number of wolves who believed you have no right to be our Luna.”“You what?” I croaked, my voice trembling slightly.“We didn’t expect it to go that far. We just... wanted you to give up and run

{Dominic}Two whole days. That’s how long it took for Mace’s condition to turn from bad to worse.I and Ryker managed to drag her to Allen’s tower, before the corruption started digging its claws deeper into her. She breathed heavily in gasps, and her body jerked every now and again as if some invisible hand was tearing her apart from the inside.The gash across her stomach had darkened, veins spreading outwards from the wound like black lightning beneath her skin. Her wolf was fighting hard, but it was losing.And it looked far too familiar. I felt like i was looking at Odessa all over again.I felt guilty that I let this happen, watching as Allen adjusted the silver restraints around Mace’s wrists. Her body bucked against them with unnatural strength.“She’s still in there,” I growled under my breath.“Which means there’s still time.” Allen shot me a look as he began gathering supplies. “But not much. Without the pure essence of the magic, I can’t brew a cure, only slow it down.”“H