All Chapters of The Alpha’s Unbroken Mate: Chapter 81 - Chapter 84

The world did not break with thunder. It tore with a whisper.Serena felt it long before the horizon split an ache behind her eyes, like someone pushing against the thin skin between dreams and waking. The air tasted wrong, metallic and ancient. Behind her, the remnants of Nightwatch kept silent vigil, their howls long since spent, their faith worn thin. No moon hung above them now. No dawn. Just a bruised sky trembling with things unseen.She knew what it meant. The veil was burning.She stepped beyond the scorched gate, boots crunching over shattered stone and ash. Every breath showed her three versions of the world what was, what is, what could be. In flashes, she saw Nightwatch whole again… and burning again… and swallowed by shadow. The timelines flickered like candle flames, warping her vision.It had begun.“Serena.” A voice, faint Orin, the last seer. His eyes were clouded, his mind half-lost after peering too deep into prophecy. “Do you see it too?”She didn’t answer. She cou

The moment her fingers brushed the chains, Serena felt it an unseen current snapping taut between her and Lucian. Not the mate bond she once knew. Something darker. Warped.Twisted.The Shadowbond.It sank into her like teeth.Her breath hitched, vision splitting for a fraction of a second—one world, two worlds, all at once. She saw Lucian’s pain like it was her own. Saw the shadows writhing through his blood like serpents… and felt them coil toward her.He jerked, violently, as her touch fed power not to him, but to the chains, to the curse drinking from his veins.“No,” she breathed, pulling back.Too late.The bond latched.Their connection, once golden flame, now flickered black-purple, veins of shadow threading through the cord that bound their souls. It pulsed. It fed. Every heartbeat, every emotion hers and his bled into something else.Into him.The Shadow Alpha.Lucian’s head snapped up, breath ragged, eyes blazing with conflict.“Don’t—touch the chains,” he forced out, voice