Semua Bab The Alpha’s Reluctant Mate: Bab 81

The air within the ruins was heavy, suffocating, thick with a silence that almost seemed alive. It pressed against my lungs, turning every breath shallow, as if the world itself were holding still, listening, and waiting. Broken stone archways rose like skeletal remains of a forgotten temple, jagged and mournful against the bruised sky above. Dust drifted in slow spirals through fractured beams of moonlight that forced their way inside. Somewhere in the distance, faint cracks and pops whispered as shadows slithered restlessly along the walls, licking across the rubble as though feeding off the decay.The Silver Crest ruins had always been a place of sorrow, but tonight they were something far worse. It felt colder than it ever had before— colder since I had left. Colder, as though the land itself mourned my absence, as though even the stones knew that Kane’s unraveling had only quickened without me there to anchor him.Now I stood once more at the threshold, breath trembling, my hands