All Chapters of Bound by the Triplet Alpha's : Chapter 41 - Chapter 48

Aveline's P.O.VI couldn't sleep. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw that note pinned to Damon's pillow. Someone had been in his room while we slept. Someone had stood inches from us, close enough to kill, and we'd never known. The violation of it made my skin crawl.I sat in the library as dawn broke, surrounded by lists I'd made. Names. Access levels. Opportunities. Trying to figure out who could have gotten into Damon's private quarters undetected. The list was disturbingly short.Beta Silas had keys to almost every room in the fortress. Beta Garrett was already under suspicion for his suggestion to kill me. Elder Morgana had magical abilities that could bypass locks. Kira, my personal guard, had been assigned to watch my door that night and would have known when it was safe to act. And a handful of servants who'd been with the Blackthorne family for decades.Any one of them could be a traitor. All of them had sworn loyalty to the pack. "You're going to drive yourself crazy," Domin

Aveline's P.O.VThe robed figure descended the stairs with impossible grace, his feet barely touching the stone. Dark magic swirled around him like living smoke, and the temperature in the dungeon dropped twenty degrees in seconds.He reached the bottom of the stairs and pulled back his hood. I'd expected a monster. Scars, deformities, something that matched the evil I felt radiating from him. Instead, I saw a surprisingly young face, maybe thirty years old, with sharp features and pale skin. Handsome, even. Except for the eyes.They were completely black. No whites, no pupils, no iris. Just pure, endless black that seemed to swallow light."I am High Priest Cornelius," he said, his voice smooth and cultured. "Voice of Lord Malachar on this plane. We're honored by your presence, True Luna.""The honor's all yours," I said, my hands already glowing with silver magic. "Because I'm about to send you straight to hell."He laughed, the sound echoing unnaturally in the confined space. "Such

Damon's P.O.VI had faced death before. Every Alpha did. It came with the territory, with the responsibility of protecting a pack. But this was different. This wasn't death. This was annihilation.Kha'zor stood in the center of the courtyard like a monument to destruction, its bone armor gleaming in the firelight, its burning sword radiating heat I could feel from fifty feet away. The demon general didn't move with the urgency of a warrior. It didn't need to. Every motion was deliberate, efficient, inevitable."Attack formation!" I roared, my voice carrying across the battlefield through Alpha command. "Flank positions, NOW!"Twenty of our best warriors responded immediately, shifting into wolf form mid-run. They were fast, coordinated, and lethal. We'd trained for years to fight as one unit, one weapon with many teeth. It didn't matter.Kha'zor moved faster than anything that size should be able to move. Its sword swept in a wide arc, and the black flames trailing from the blade cut

POV: AvelineThe forest was quiet except for the sound of our footsteps and the occasional groan from the wounded. Three warriors hadn't survived the battle with Kha'zor. Their bodies were wrapped in cloaks, carried by their packmates who refused to leave them behind. We would give them proper burials when we reached home.If we still had a home to return to. I walked near the middle of the group, surrounded by guards who watched the treeline nervously. After everything that had happened, they were jumpy. Every rustling leaf, every snapping twig made hands go to weapons.Kira walked ahead of me, carrying Mira in her arms despite how her muscles must be screaming. The girl hadn't woken since Lucien expelled the demon. Her chest rose and fell steadily, her face peaceful in sleep, but there was something wrong. I could feel it through my Luna magic, a darkness clinging to her that shouldn't be there.Demon possession left scars. Even when the demon was gone,