All Chapters of The Alpha's dirty game: Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

~KAELRIC~I didn't sleep after Raeliya's eyes glowed.I held her through the remaining hours of darkness, watching her face for any sign that whatever had taken hold of her might return but she slept peacefully, unaware of what had happened, unaware that something inside her was waking up.When morning came, I was exhausted but I couldn't rest.Dante found me in the training yard before sunrise. He watched me for a moment, then took the weapon from my hand."You're going to collapse.""I'm fine.""You're not." He set the sword aside and faced me. "Chase went out again last night. I followed."I waited."He met Morgan. I got close enough to hear some of it this time." Dante's voice dropped. "She's offering him a deal. Help her remove Raeliya from the picture, and she'll make sure he becomes Alpha."The words hit me like a blow. Even knowing Chase was meeting her, hearing the specifics made it real in a way I hadn't prepared for."What did he say?""He didn't agree. But he didn't refuse

~THIRD POV~Three strange weeks passed, caught between peace and the constant awareness that something was coming. The pack went about their daily lives but underneath it all, there was a tension that never quite went away.Kaelric felt it more than anyone.He threw himself into pack work, partly to distract himself and partly because it needed to be done. The building he'd constructed was running smoothly now, the healer's wing always busy, the training space always full. The elders noticed, they started including him in more meetings, asking his advice on matters that had nothing to do with the Alpha competition. Chase still attended, still sat at the table, but everyone could see the shift. Kaelric was the one they looked to when decisions needed making."It's only a matter of time," Dante said one afternoon. They stood at the edge of the training yard, watching young wolves practice. "They're going to name you Alpha soon."Kaelric shook his head. "Not yet, Chase still has support

~CHASE~I was in my room, staring at the ceiling, when a raven landed on my windowsill. It wasn’t a normal raven, its eyes glowed faintly, and when it opened its beak, Morgan's voice came out."Meet me tonight at the empty space near the east border. It's time."The bird burst into smoke and vanished.I sat there for a long moment, my heart pounding. She meant it was time, time to put the plan in motion. Time to do what I'd agreed to.I told myself this was what I wanted. Kaelric would die eventually anyway. The sickness was eating him alive. At least this way, Raeliya would be free of him. At least this way, I could have her.But my stomach churned with something that felt too much like guilt.I pushed it down and got ready.---The east border side looked different in daylight.I'd met Morgan here so many times now, always at night, and always in darkness. Seeing it now, with sunlight filtering through the trees, made it feel almost normal. Just a space with normal trees and a woman

~RAELIYA~I ran until my legs gave out.The forest blurred around me, trees and shadows and moonlight all mixing together into one nightmare. Branches scratched my arms. Rocks cut my feet but I didn't care. I couldn't feel anything except the words echoing in my head over and over.After the mark is retracted, I'll kill her.She's served her purpose.I tripped over a root and went down hard, my palms slamming into the ground, rocks biting into my skin. I stayed there on my hands and knees, gasping for breath, tears dripping off my face onto the cold earth.He never loved me.The thought ripped through me again. Every kiss, every touch, every whispered word in the dark. all of it was fake. All of it was him playing a role, waiting for the moment when I wasn't useful anymore.I thought about the way he looked at me. The way he held me when I had nightmares and the way he said my name like it meant something.Lies.All of it, lies.I crawled to the nearest tree and collapsed against it,

~RAELIYA~I was sitting in my study when the bond snapped.One moment it was there, that warm pull in my chest that always pointed toward Raeliya. The next moment it was gone, just gone, like someone had reached inside me and ripped out a part of my soul.I was on my feet before I knew I'd moved.Something was wrong, terribly wrong. The absence of her was like a wound, a hole in my chest that screamed with emptiness. I ran without thinking, and without anything except the desperate need to find her.The bond was gone but something remained. A faint echo, pointing me toward the forest. I followed it blindly, crashing through trees, my heart pounding so hard I thought it might burst.I don't know how long I ran. Time meant nothing, all that mattered was reaching her, finding her, making sure she was okay. Then I found the cabin.Light flickered through the trees. I ran toward it, burst through the door, and stopped.The scene before me didn't make sense.Raeliya lay on a table, pale and