บททั้งหมดของ Dreamt My Alpha Mate: บทที่ 51 - บทที่ 60

The night air stank of ash and ozone. Even after Rowan sealed the breach Jace left in our wards, the scent lingered, like he’d left his shadow clinging to Crescent territory. Ivy hadn’t slept, nor had I.She was in my bed, curled on her side, breathing shallow but steady. I’d stayed awake in the armchair across from her, claws half-shifted, every nerve screaming to tear through the forest and end Jace tonight. But I couldn’t, not when the bond between us thrummed like a wire stretched too tight, not when I could feel her fear echoing in every breath she took.And now, I had to leave her.Rowan met me at the stronghold gates, his face unreadable. “The Matriarch waits,” he murmured. His eyes flicked past me to the balcony above, where Ivy’s silhouette glowed faintly in the candlelight of my chambers.“She’ll be safe,” Rowan added, as if sensing the storm in me. “Gemma and Asher are with her, Kara’s still under guard and no one gets near.”“Make sure of it,” I growled, my wolf’s voice bl

The scent of blood hit me before I saw her.Sera sat slumped in a wooden chair, her wrists shackled behind her, her lip split open and dried blood streaking her cheek. She still managed to glare at Kyle like she wanted to rip his throat out with her teeth.That was Sera, broken but not beaten.“Let her go,” I said, smashing the door opened with my hands raised. My heart pounded against my ribs, but I didn’t let it show. “I came alone, like you asked.”Kyle leaned lazily against the desk, arms folded. His expression was calm, but his eyes gleamed with a predator’s interest. “Alpha Damon must be getting desperate, sending his Beta to fetch back a traitor.”“She’s Crescent,” I snapped. “She’s one of us.”He chuckled. “So noble. You’re willing to trade yourself for her?”“Yes.” I kept my voice steady, locking my gaze on his. “You know Damon won’t let this go. Kill me, and he’ll burn the Council Hall to the ground.”Kyle’s smirk deepened. “That’s the problem, Gemma. You all think threats k

The room hadn’t gone silent, it had dropped into something worse.Every wolf in the chamber went still, hackles raised, eyes locked on Ivy. The air thrummed with an energy so sharp it rattled my teeth. I felt it through the bond, wild and uncoiled, her aura flaring like fire that didn’t know if it wanted to burn or blind.And then it happened, the first wolf bowed, not in reverence but out of fear. One by one, they followed. as though their spines were being snapped by invisible hands. Dozens of bodies bent before her. Even Gemma’s eyes widened.Ivy’s chest heaved, her pupils blown wide, violet light spilling faintly from her skin. She stumbled back a step, her voice breaking.“Damon….what’s happening to me?”Kyle’s poison rang in my ears. Hybrids are diseases. Hybrids are dangerous. He had primed them for this moment, for the day her blood refused to stay hidden. Now they were seeing it, proof made flesh. And the fear in their eyes was everything he wanted.I moved, instinct, not st

The ward recognized me. Ash-mist peeled back in coiling ribbons, revealing the ossuary bones stacked high against black stone walls. Each rib, each skull, glimmered faintly with old sigils, as though etched by the marrow itself. Violet light bled across the chamber like veins under skin. The air tasted of smoke and rusted iron, thick enough to scrape my throat raw. It was suffocating for them, but not for me. To me, it was welcome. Home.And at the center of it, she stood. Ivy Morrin.Her aura sparked and flared like a star trying to collapse. I could feel it even across the ward, every pulse of her hybrid blood humming through my bones. She looked at me with silver-lit eyes that trembled with fury, fear, and something she didn’t want to admit. Her hand hovered over the kin-mark bone, the marrow still glowing with her touch. It had sung to her, and she couldn’t deny it.Rowan stepped between us, a living wall of steel and shadow, blade raised so high the ash-mist curled around it. H

The air split with fire and stone, and suddenly Damon was gone from my side. One heartbeat we were together, his hand gripping mine, the next a wall of violet ash ripped us apart, throwing me against the jagged cavern wall.Pain lanced my shoulder, but it didn’t matter. The circle Jace had carved into the earth was alive, pulsing like veins under my skin, drawing at my blood through the bond.And in the center of it all, Damon and Jace collided.Claws against steel, growl against mocking laughter. Damon’s wolf surged through him, half-shifted, silver light blazing in his eyes. Jace moved like smoke and fire, the Severing Blade singing with every strike. Sparks flew as claw met steel, the cave trembling with the force of them.“Stay down, little queen,” Jace taunted between blows, his blade carving a line across Damon’s forearm. “or watch your Alpha bleed dry.”“Over my dead body,” Damon snarled, driving him back a step, his claws raking sparks off the blade.The circle under their fe