All Chapters of Bound To The Cruel Alphas (SPICY): Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

DARREN’S POVIt was Zana.She stood in the center of the practice ground. Around her, she had placed small stones in a rough circle. Each stone had faint chalk marks glowing on it. It was an old method rogue packs used when they trained without electricity. A simple light source. Practical. Smart. I noticed that right away, even while I was noticing everything else.She was moving through a combat sequence I didn’t recognize. It wasn’t from the academy. That much was clear. This wasn’t something learned from a formal instructor or a printed syllabus. This was the kind of training that came from survival. The kind you learned because you had to. The sequence flowed smoothly. It looked unhurried, but only because she had done it so many times it no longer required thought. It had moved from her mind into her body. Every shift of weight meant something. Every turn was clean. She wasn’t practicing.She was inside it.Moonlight spilled down into the open ground and settled over her. I won’

ZANA'S POVI woke up the next morning with dread already sitting in my stomach before I even opened my eyes.It was the kind that had no specific reason attached to it. It was just a feeling of my body that knew something the mind hadn't caught up to yet. I had learned not to ignore that feeling.I laid still for a moment, staring at the ceiling, taking stock.The mark on my wrist was quiet. Outside my window, the sun was rising. I could hear movement in the corridor already, which meant it was later than I thought or the academy was busier than usual.I sat up and got dressed as quickly as I could. I pulled my hair back tightly, checked my collar, looked in the mirror for exactly two seconds. I looked like myself. That would have to be enough.I told myself the day would be fine.I picked up my bag and walked out the door.The corridor was already filling with students heading to breakfast or the main courtyard before classes. I moved through it, trying my best to be invisible. I was

ZANA’S POVI stared at Aisha for so long, wondering what I had done to make her hate me like this.I had just been nominated for tribute and the next thing she could do was to work as a strategist for a rival team.And now, she was looking at me with this calculated look in her eyes.A strategist. A strategist wasn’t someone placed there as an afterthought or a body to fill a slot. This was someone who had stepped deliberately into a role that required planning, information management, and the specific intelligence that worked in the background while other people stood in the foreground.I thought about Aisha in the courtyard that morning, already perfectly positioned in the right social circle, already laughing the right laugh with the right people. I thought about how long she had been building her position here. she did it quietly while I was too busy just staying upright to notice all of what she was constructing around me.She had known this tournament was coming or she had posit

ZANA’S POVWe moved closer.I closed my eyes, preparing for the kiss and so did he.My wolf howled inside me, practically begging me to touch him. She felt this connection to him so bad.Our lips were close enough to touch until….There was a sound in the hallway, probably a student passing. We both flinched and looked back but saw nothing.Great.I cleared my throat and spoke back on the issue, like we weren’t so close to making out seconds ago. "That's not reassuring,""I know," he said. "I'm not trying to reassure you. I'm trying to be honest with you.""Okay”He looked at me. I noticed something. Ken didn’t have his walls up too much around me anymore, not ever since the classroom incident.His wall was further down than I had ever seen it. Not gone - it was never going to be fully gone, that wasn't who he was - but low enough that I could see something real behind it, something that had been there for a while, I thought, something that was not about the tournament or the bloodl

ZANA’S POVMy pleasure kept building and building.I had to lean across the wall for support.My hand reached where it was going.The water ran down my spine and over my hips. Everything was warm inside me.I thought about Darren pinning me against the wall in the training ground, the weight of him, the moment just before he pushed back when neither of us moved. I thought about the specific sound his voice had made then. I thought about the look in his eyes when I had said you're worried and he had denied it too fast.I thought about Percy in the astronomy tower.‘Come here” he had said.I thought of the way he had held me like I was something that mattered, the way he had kissed me like being careful about it was the most important part.The climax built slowly. My orgasm hit me hard and my body shivered with it. I bit down on my lips even harder to stop myself from screaming through the pleasure.I stood still for a moment after. Water still ran down my back. slowly, my breathing re