Alle Kapitel von The Alpha's dirty game: Kapitel 131 – Kapitel 140

~RAELIYA~I sat on the edge of the bed, staring at my hands, trying to process everything.I was a hybrid, my parents were killed, and I was stolen as a child. The people around me were my real family, and Dante, the quiet man I'd trusted for years, had known all of it.He hadn't left after the others did. He stood near the doorway, waiting and watching me with those eyes that always seemed to see too much. I'd thought that was just who he was. Now I knew differently."You should sit," I said, my voice flat.He moved slowly, crossing the room to take a chair near the bed. He didn't sit close and didn't presume comfort. He just sat there, waiting for whatever I would say next.I let the silence stretch, letting him feel the weight of it."How long?" I finally asked."How long have I known?""No." I looked up at him. "How long were you watching me before we ever spoke?"He flinched, just barely, but I saw it."Years," he admitted. "I was sent when you were still young. The elders of our

~KAELRIC~Months passed and I stopped counting the days after the first week, stopped noticing the sun rising and setting after the first month. Time became meaningless, it was just an endless stretch of searching, failing, and searching again.I searched everywhere.Every inch of forest surrounding pack territory. I followed rumors and , chased shadows that always dissolved before I could catch them.Nothing.She was gone, Raeliya was gone, and I couldn't find her.The sickness got worse.Without the mark, without her near me, the poison in my blood spread faster. I felt it every day, that slow rot eating away at me from the inside. My strength faded and my appetite disappeared, sleep came in short, broken bits filled with dreams of her face, her voice, and her laugh.I woke from those dreams reaching for her. She was never there.Dante was gone too. That betrayal cut deeper than I wanted to admit. My most trusted friend, the man I'd trusted with her life, and he'd vanished juat afte

~KAELRIC~The east mountains were our first destination. Chase had gathered information from every source he could find, and the stories all pointed the same direction, strange wolves, faster and stronger than normal, were moving through the woods like they owned them.I held onto that like a drowning man holds onto survival. It was something, anything.We left at dawn on the fourth day. A small group, just as I'd insisted. Chase, myself, and two trusted wolves who knew how to move silently and fight when necessary. Skylar had wanted to come, but I'd refused. Someone needed to stay with the pack, and she was the only one I trusted to do it.The first weeks were nothing but disappointment. We followed rumours that led nowhere, and every place we searched came up empty.I got sicker as the day went by.The journey drained what little strength I had left. Each day was harder than the last and each night I collapsed into exhausted sleep, only to wake and do it all over again. Chase wat

~KAELRIC~The journey took six days. Chase led the way, following the trader's directions through a difficult road. I rode when I could, walked when I couldn't, and refused to stop even when my body screamed for rest.The sickness was worse now. Every breath cost me, and every step sent pain through my chest, but I was close, I could feel it.Skylar had insisted on coming. She walked beside me now, silent and alert, ready to catch me when I stumbled. Chase's group moved ahead, searching the path and watching for danger."We're close," Chase said on the sixth morning. He'd called a stop at the edge of a dense forest. "The informant said the territory is hidden somewhere beyond these trees, and it is protected by magic."I slid from my horse, my legs barely holding me. "Then we walk."The forest was unlike anything I'd ever seen.The trees grew thick and old, their branches weaving together to block the sun. Chase moved cautiously, his hand on his weapon. Skylar stayed close to me, her

~KAELRIC~I made my decision at dawn, Chase found me packing the few things I had left. He stood in the cave entrance, blocking the light, his face a mixture of confusion and concern."What are you doing?""I'm going down there."He moved closer, his voice urgent. "Kaelric, you can't. They'll kill you.""Maybe." I kept packing, not looking at him. "But she won't let them.""You don't know that."I stopped and turned to face him. "Yes, I do. She's angry and she's hurt but she's not cruel. She won't watch me die at the hands of her people."Chase stared at me, searching my face for something. Doubt, maybe or certainty."You're dying," he said finally. "You could spend your last days in comfort, with people who care about you. Instead, you choose a cell?"I thought about it, about dying alone in the pack, surrounded by wolves who pitied me, with nothing but memories of her face. I thought about dying here, close to her, even if she hated me."Yes," I said. "That's exactly what I choose."