All Chapters of The Alpha's Forbidden Mate: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Marcus pov “I saw you,” she said finally. “In my visions. You’re there in almost all of them. Standing beside me. Protecting me. And in the ones where I survive…” She swallowed hard. “In those, you’re the reason why.” My heart stuttered. “Then why are you fighting this?” “Because in the visions where we…” She looked away. “Where we become more than friends. Those are the ones where you die instead of me. And I can’t… I won’t let that happen.” “So you’re trying to protect me by pushing me away.” “Yes.” “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” Her eyes snapped back to mine. “Excuse me?” “You heard me. It’s stupid. You can’t live your life based on visions that might not happen. You can’t push away everyone who cares about you just because you’re scared.” “I’m not scared.” “Yes, you are. You’re terrified. Not of dying. Of letting someone in and losing them.” She flinched like I’d struck her. “That’s not fair,” she whispered. “Neither is watching you kill yourself slowl

Sylvester pov “I did what I had to do.” “No. You did what your obsession demanded.” I shoved her back. The chair scraped against the stone floor. She was wrong. She had to be wrong. I did love Selene. Everything I’d done was for her. To be with her. To finally have what should have been mine from the beginning. “You’re going to help me whether you want to or not,” I said. “And if I refuse?” “Then I’ll make you.” I pulled out a small vial from my pocket. The liquid inside was dark red. Almost black. “Do you know what this is?” Myra’s face paled. “Shadow essence.” “From those creatures that keep crawling up from the underworld. Turns out they’re very useful when properly contained.” “You’re using underworld magic?” Her voice shook. “Do you have any idea how dangerous—” “I don’t care about danger. I care about results.” I held the vial up to the light. “This essence can force your body to obey my commands. Even if your mind refuses. Your knowledge, your power… it will all be

Selene pov Days blurred together after that. Sylvester kept me close. He kept me locked away. “You’ll learn to love me,” he said. “Eventually, you’ll forget all about him.” But I didn’t forget. I dreamed of Kael every night. I felt him somewhere out there. I felt the real bond between us screaming. Anger flooded me at the thought of being abandoned by Kael. I thought he had left me but that night just as I was about to give into despair he went into Sylvester’s house and found where I was being kept. “I told you I’d come back,” Kael said. There was blood on his clothes. Wounds on his arms. “I’m getting you out of here.” “You can’t. The bond—” “I don’t care about the bond. You’re mine, Selene. You were always mine.” He grabbed my hand. We ran. Made it almost to the forest before Sylvester found us. “ Let her go, Kael she is mine!” Sylvester screamed. “I performed the ritual. I made her mine!” “She was never yours,” Kael snarled back. “She’ll never be yours.” They tore in

Kael POVShe fell asleep soon after the servants finished moving her things, curled on her side with one hand tucked under her cheek and her black hair spilling across the pillow like silk. She looked peaceful, but I could see the toll this was taking on her. Dark circles shadowed her eyes, her skin was too pale, and her breathing came shallow and uneven.Dragging out the mating bond was draining her life force, killing her slowly with each passing day. I didn’t want to sleep with her when she didn’t remember who I was. I didn't want to take advantage of her confusion and pain, but now that she remembered everything? I wouldn’t let her suffer for long.“The smile on your face will make me throw up,” Marcus said from behind me, but I hardly paid him any mind, too focused on watching the steady rise and fall of her chest.“Don’t think I haven’t noticed the way you smile easily these days as well, Marcus,” I said without turning around, and that seemed to shut him up effectively.I hear

Selene POVI paced back and forth in Kael’s room. Our room. Whatever it was now.My bare feet made soft sounds on the wooden floor. Back and forth. Back and forth.I’d made up my mind.The decision settled in my chest like a stone. It was heavy but solid. I couldn’t keep fighting this. The truth that had been staring me in the face for five hundred years.Kael was mine. I was his. And I was tired of pretending otherwise.My body still ached from the heat earlier. It still burned with need that wouldn’t go away. A need so deep that only he could fully satisfy.And I remembered now. Remembered what it felt like to be his. To be whole.I wanted that again.The door opened. Making me stop my pacing.Kael walked in carrying a tray. “Maria thought you might want something light before…Selene? Are you alright?”I didn’t answer, I just kept staring at him. My eyes moved to his green eyes full of concern. At the way his hair fell loose around his shoulders. At the strength in his hands as he s