All Chapters of Alpha’s Enemy, Alpha’s Mate: Chapter 41

By the third day, the world had gone silent again—just before the screaming started.Governments tried to hide it, but the footage still leaked: waves rising where they shouldn’t, cities losing power, entire ports swallowed by light.The Pulse had begun its next phase.And every new outbreak, every glowing tide, pointed to one place.The Atlantic Trench.⸻Aiden stared at the map on the laptop, the coordinates pulsing faintly in silver. “It’s not just a source,” he said quietly. “It’s a doorway.”Dante paced behind him. “To what?”“Whatever Julian woke up down there.”“We don’t even know if it’s human.”Aiden looked up. “Maybe that’s the point.”Dante frowned. “You really think evolution’s hiding under the ocean?”“I think evolution’s waiting.”⸻They found a boat through an old contact of Dante’s—a rusted research vessel that hadn’t seen real work in years. Its name, half-faded on the hull, read The Dauntless.Fitting, Aiden thought.They stocked supplies: sonar equipment, oxygen tan