Semua Bab Bound by Blood, Fated to the Two Alphas : Bab 151 - Bab 159

RONAN'S POV Something's not right about that Moon Guard woman.I can't stop thinking about the way she looked at Elara. Not like she wanted to help. Like she wanted to own her.Kael trusts too easily. He always has. It's going to get us all killed one day.That's why I'm sneaking through the forest at two in the morning. That's why I'm following Lyandra's scent trail away from our cabin.I find her by the old stone circle. She's not alone. There are three other people with her. All wearing those white robes. All giving off that creepy ancient vibe.I hide behind a tree and listen."The mother grows stronger," one of them says. A woman with short black hair. "The marks are spreading.""Good," Lyandra replies. "It means the child is almost ready.""And the fathers?""The Alpha is devoted but foolish. He will do whatever it takes to protect her. The other one..." She pauses. "He's more suspicious. We'll need to handle him carefully."They're talking about me. About Kael."What if they r

KAEL'S POV Elara weighs nothing in my arms, but she feels like eike eerything.She passed out right after we left the cabin. The power she used to destroy those shadow things drained her completely. Her skin is pale as moonlight. Her breathing is too shallow."Is she going to be okay?" I ask Lyandra for the tenth time."She will recover. But using that much divine energy... it's dangerous for someone not fully awakened.""Divine energy?""The marks on her skin. They're not just symbols. They're conduits. Channels for the Moon Goddess's power."We're walking through the forest. I don't know where we're going. Lyandra just keeps leading us deeper into the darkness."How much farther?" Ronan asks. He's been quiet since we left. Too quiet."Not far. There's a sanctuary ahead. Warded ground. The shadow walkers cannot follow us there.""And then what?"Lyandra doesn't answer.I adjust my grip on Elara. She stirs a little but doesn't wake up. The baby kicks against my arm. Strong little fig

KAEL'S POVSomething was wrong this morning. The air felt heavy. The forest was too quiet. It felt like everything was waiting.I went to the spot where that thing in the cloak had been. I got on my knees and looked around. The dirt smelled bad. Like old metal and dead things. Not good dead things. Bad dead things."What the hell were you?" I said.I saw a black feather. I picked it up. It turned to dust right away. Great. Even the evidence was useless.My wolf was nervous inside my head. That thing wasn't alive, he said. Not really.I got up. I wiped my hands clean. The wind changed. It brought more of that metal smell from deeper in the woods. The thing was gone. But it left tracks I could follow.I'm good at tracking things. I smell them. I follow them. I catch them. That's what wolves do. But this was different. This was like trying to catch air.I walked into the woods. The trees felt too close together. Every shadow looked like it was hiding something. Every little noise made me

I'm standing in a place I don't know. The ground under my feet is cold and wet. The moon above me is wrong. It's red like blood and too big. Way too big. It takes up half the sky.Trees all around me but they ain't normal trees. They're twisted and bent like they're in pain. Their branches reach down like they wanna grab me.I try to move but my feet won't work right. Like I'm walking through mud that goes up to my knees."Where am I?" I say out loud.My voice sounds weird here. Like it's coming from far away.That's when I hear it. Breathing. Real deep and slow. Coming from everywhere and nowhere."You know where you are," a voice says.I spin around but don't see nobody. Just more twisted trees."Who's there?""You know who I am."The voice comes from the trees. Like the trees themselves are talking."I don't know nothing.""You know everything. You just don't want to see it."The breathing gets louder. Closer."What do you want?""To show you the truth."One of the trees moves. Be

ELARA'S POV My wrist started burning while I fed the baby.It hurt where the first mark showed up. Hot and tingly. The feeling went up my arm. I tried to ignore it. I looked at my son's face instead.The burning got worse.I looked at my arm. The glowing marks were moving. They spread under my skin. New shapes formed while I watched. Swirls and lines that were not there before."What the hell?" I said quiet.The baby stopped eating. He looked at me. His eyes got brighter every day. He seemed smart. Too smart for a baby.I lifted my shirt. I checked my stomach. More marks were there. They glowed like the marks on my baby's skin.My heart beat fast. This was not normal. None of this was normal.I carried the baby to our bedroom. I put him on the bed. I went to the mirror. I looked at myself good.The marks covered my left arm. They were on my chest. My stomach. Some on my neck. They moved with my heartbeat.That was not the scary part.The scary part was they matched my son's marks exa