Semua Bab Claimed by the Untamed Alpha: Bab 61 - Bab 63

The silence between us didn’t ease when the flames died down to embers. It stretched, fragile and sharp, until I couldn’t bear it anymore. I rose, the chair scraping softly against the wood, and left Kael in the cabin without another word. His eyes followed me as I slipped out into the night, but he didn’t call me back.The cold air bit at my skin, welcome after the suffocating weight of his confession. I walked until the shadows swallowed me, until the sounds of the camp dimmed to nothing but distant murmurs and the crackle of dying fires. My legs ached, but my chest hurt worse.His words replayed, twisting like thorns inside me.She begged me to let him live. And now I wonder if that was her final mistake.I couldn’t decide which part haunted me more, my mother’s desperate plea for Dorian’s life, or the broken guilt in Kael’s voice as he admitted it.When I finally returned to my tent, I sank onto the cot, dragging the blanket around me. Sleep wasn’t what I wanted, not when dreams h

The days that followed blurred into a restless quiet. The marks on my palms hadn’t faded, faint, angry red lines that pulsed as though blood itself had been trapped beneath the skin. I’d tried covering them with cloth, smearing them with ash, even scrubbing them raw until Kael pulled my wrists away with a growl and told me to stop.Still, the marks remained.And yet, life in the camp pressed on as though the world wasn’t unraveling. The air grew cooler, the days shorter, and the scent of autumn rolled in with the sharpness of fallen leaves and damp soil. I should’ve felt comfort in the rhythm of survival, but instead it felt almost cruel, like fate dangling a semblance of normalcy in front of me, just to see if I’d reach for it.The rogues had decided on a Harvest Feast. Drex called it foolish. “Wolves dancing around fires while danger sharpens its teeth out there” but even he softened when Nessa tugged at his hand and insisted, with all the certainty of a child, that they deserved on