All Chapters of Alpha, I Won’t Let You Banish Me Again: Chapter 191 - Chapter 193

KaylaI saw him before Viktor said the name.I had been awake for less than an hour, and already my body remembered things my mind had not caught up to yet. The smell of him came first, across all that distance, across the smoke and the blood and the dying light. Cold iron and burnt sugar. That was always his smell, even when we were young, even before he chose what he chose."Valentino," I said.Viktor did not answer me. He did not need to. His hand had gone still in mine, the good kind of stillness gone wrong, the stillness of a man watching a debt arrive that he had spent two hundred years pretending he would never have to pay."He is not Fae anymore," Viktor said. His voice was emotionless, and yet I could see the pain of betrayal in his eyes. "He gave that up a long time ago. What he is now, I do not have a clean word for."I knew the word. I had known it since before Kelly was born, since the year Valentino disappeared into the lower mountains and came back different, came back