BOUND TO THE RUTHLESS ALPHA のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 91 - チャプター 100

Soraya's PovI must have fallen asleep at some point because when I opened my eyes it was dark outside and my room was filled with shadows. I felt tired like I hadn't really rested at all even though I had been lying down for hours.I turned over in bed and tried to get comfortable but sleep wouldn't come back. My mind kept replaying everything that happened today with all those whispers and stares from people who thought I didn't belong here.Finally I drifted off again but this time the dream came fast and hard.I was standing in a dark room with stone walls and no windows. The air smelled old and damp and I could hear water dripping somewhere but I couldn't see where.The only light was coming from the floor in the center of the room and it was this dim glow that barely lit up anything.In the middle of that glow was a cage made of silver bars that shined with their own light and inside the cage was a wolf.This wolf was huge with fur that was pure silver and eyes that were the sam

Soraya's PovI woke up before the sun came up and for a minute I just lay there staring at the ceiling. Darius was still asleep in the chair next to my bed where he had stayed all night watching over me. His head was tilted back and his mouth was slightly open, he looked different when he was sleeping. Less scary and more human.I sat up slowly trying not to wake him and looked at my wrist. The mark wasn't glowing anymore but it was still there like always, I touched it gently and it felt warm under my fingers like there was something alive underneath my skin.Last night kept playing over and over in my head. The dream about the wolf in the cage. Waking up to find my mark glowing and then the worst part which was losing control of my own body while something else used my voice to speak.I still couldn't remember what I said but Darius told me it was the wolf inside me demanding to be freed.I shivered and pulled my knees up to my chest. What if the wolf took over completely next time?

Darius's Pov"Stupid" I muttered to myself. "You're being stupid."My wolf growled in disagreement. It didn't think caring about our mate was stupid. I thought caring about our mate was the most natural thing in the world.About an hour into the drive I noticed Soraya was shivering even with my jacket over her. The temperature had dropped as we got deeper into the forest and the car's heater wasn't working as well as it should. I made a mental note to have someone look at it when we got back.I reached back and grabbed a blanket from the back seat that I kept there for emergencies and carefully draped it over Soraya without waking her up. She pulled it closer in her sleep and stopped shivering.My phone buzzed again and this time it was my mother calling. I answered it on speaker so I could keep both hands on the wheel."Darius where are you?" she asked without saying hello first."On the way to see Mira. I told you this morning I was leaving.""I know, but I didn't think you'd actual

Soraya's PovMira looked at me with those unsettling black eyes. "Then the seal will break violently and the backlash could kill her. The magic will tear her apart from the inside."The room went quiet. I could hear my own heartbeat pounding in my ears and I felt dizzy."There has to be another way" Darius said. "There has to be something else we can do.""There isn't" Mira said firmly. "Blood magic doesn't give you options. It gives you one path and you either take it or you don't.""What if I just leave the seal alone?" I asked. "What if I don't try to break it?""Then it will break on its own eventually. I can tell from looking at it that the seal is already weakening. It was probably designed to last until you came of age and then start deteriorating. My guess is you have a few months at most before it breaks whether you're ready or not.""A few months?" Darius said and he sounded angry. "That's not enough time.""That's all the time she has. The seal is old and tired, it's held f

Darius’s PovThe drive back from Mira's cabin was completely silent. Soraya sat in the passenger seat staring out the window at the trees passing by and she hadn't said a single word since we left. She was holding that old book Mira gave her on her lap,her other hand kept touching the mark on her wrist like she couldn't stop herself.I wanted to say something to make her feel better but I didn't know what to say. Everything Mira told us was terrifying and there was no way to sugarcoat it. Soraya's seal was going to break and when it did she might die or lose herself completely to her wolf. And there was nothing I could do to stop it from happening.My wolf was pacing restlessly inside me. It didn't like seeing our mate so upset and it especially didn't like that we were still in neutral territory away from our pack. Being outside pack lands always made my curse worse because I didn't have the familiar territory and pack bonds to anchor me. Out here I was just an Alpha with a violent w