All Chapters of Alpha’s Rejected Healer: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

“The storm outside had nothing on the one breaking inside this room.”Kael didn't move.Not when I ignored the screaming in my head telling me to leave.He stood there, shoulders heaving, his body tense as a drawn bowstring. The silence in the room was deafening, broken only by the sound of our labored breathing and the distant rumble of thunder outside. The storm that had been brewing all evening was finally breaking, and somehow it felt like a reflection of everything happening between us.The air was thick with more than just the approaching rain. Magic crackled invisibly around us, the bond that neither of us had asked for pulsing like a second heartbeat. I could feel it in my bones, in the very marrow of me, pulling me toward him even as every rational thought screamed at me to run.I watched him —Watched the way his hands clenched and unclenched at his sides, fighting some internal battle I couldn't begin to understand. The moonlight streaming through the tall windows cast silv

The world shrank to nothing but the space between our bodies — The heat, the tension, the electric charge in the air.Nothing existed outside this moment, this bed, this man hovering above me like he was deciding whether to devour me or flee. The bond between us thrummed with such intensity that I could swear I saw sparks dancing in the air around us, could feel the very fabric of reality bending under the weight of whatever power connected us.His chest rose and fell with each labored breath, and I found myself matching his rhythm without conscious thought. We were breathing the same air, existing in the same impossible space where desire and magic and something deeper than either had collided to create this moment of perfect, terrifying suspension.Kael's storm-gray eyes locked onto mine, wild and feral.There was nothing civilized left in his gaze. Whatever careful control he usually maintained had been stripped away, leaving something raw and primal and utterly dangerous. His pupi

“I should have moved. I should have run. But my body betrayed me—staying still, burning, waiting—for him.”The silence was suffocating.No, not silence—something thicker, heavier, more alive than mere absence of sound. The air itself pulsed with it, vibrating through my skin like a second heartbeat, resonating in frequencies I could feel in my bones until I couldn't tell where I ended and where Kael began. It was as if the very molecules between us had become charged, electric, humming with an energy that made my teeth ache and my fingertips tingle.The bond. It had to be the bond doing this, weaving invisible threads between us that pulled tighter with every breath, every heartbeat, every second I remained here when logic screamed I should run.My body screamed at me to move. To run. To do something—anything. Every rational thought I possessed fired warning signals through my nervous system, reminders of who he was, what he was capable of, what I'd witnessed him do to others who'd cr

Every sound that escaped me only made it worse for him, I could tell. His growls deepened, rougher now, more ragged, as though each one was ripped from his chest against his will. His body trembled with the effort of maintaining even this much restraint, and yet his mouth couldn't stop, wouldn't stop.My fingers dug into his hair, pulling harder now, urging him on even as some distant part of me wondered what we were becoming, what line we were crossing that could never be uncrossed."Kael," I gasped, his name dissolving into a moan when his teeth found the sensitive curve just above my breast and bit down with perfect pressure.That moan—his name wrapped in pure need—did something irreversible to whatever control he had left.He groaned into my skin, a sound so wrecked and raw it vibrated through my very bones. The noise seemed torn from somewhere deep inside him, from places he kept locked away even from himself. And then, with a shudder that rocked through his entire frame like an

“Desire had already stolen my reason—until the door stole it back.”His hand burned like fire against my thigh.Every nerve ending there lit up the moment his touch drifted higher, slow, deliberate, as though he was memorizing every inch of me. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think. My body betrayed me with a soft, shuddering gasp, the sound echoing embarrassingly loud in the silence of his chamber.The gasp seemed to tear something open inside him. I felt it in the way his entire body went rigid above me, in the way his breathing hitched and caught like he was drowning. The sound had stripped away another layer of his control, and I could feel him unraveling thread by thread.The gasp did something to him—something dangerous.Kael's head lowered, his lips still hovering at the hollow of my throat, and his hand traced higher, finding the thin band of my underwear. He paused there, his breathing harsh and uneven, the tremor in his fingers betraying how close he was to breaking.The paus