All Chapters of To Tame The Monster Alpha: Chapter 71

~ Nolan’s POV ~I didn’t sleep.Couldn’t.Her face wouldn’t leave my head. The fire in her eyes when she burned that cage open, the way she didn’t even flinch when I dragged her away—like she’d already been through worse.Aliyana Morwen Hastings.The girl who never broke.I told myself it was irritation that made me restless. That it was anger keeping me awake. But deep down, I knew that wasn’t it. It was her.Every time she refused to bend, she got under my skin a little more. Every time she looked at me like she could see straight through the armor I’d built, something inside me cracked.I hated it.I hated her for making me feel something I swore I buried a long time ago.The fortress was quiet. Too quiet. Elias had gone to handle the council’s mess, and the guards were scattered. The air itself felt strange, thick with the echo of what happened earlier.I found myself by the balcony, staring down at the courtyard below. The moonlight spilled across the stone walls, sharp and cold.