บททั้งหมดของ FATED TO THE ALPHA I WAS BORN TO KILL: บทที่ 91 - บทที่ 99

Nyra's POVI hadn't told them everything. Not because I wanted to keep secrets from the people who'd sat vigil over my body for five impossible days, but because some of what I'd seen refused to surface in any order I could make sense of until now, sitting alone in the chapel while Kade argued with the council about troop movements I no longer had the strength to help plan.I closed my eyes and let myself go back there, one more time, determined to finally understand the whole shape of it before I said another word to anyone.The blade had found my chest, and then there had been nothing. Not darkness, exactly. Absence. The particular quality of a room with no walls, no floor, no air to breathe because breathing had stopped mattering.Then the mark had pulled.I remembered that part clearly, a sensation like being caught by a hook sunk deep beneath my own ribs, hauling me sideways out of whatever current had been carrying me toward true, final darkness. I'd opened eyes I didn't fully b

Nyra's POVThe humming stopped as suddenly as it began, leaving only silence and the frantic thud of my own heartbeat in my ears. Kade was already on his feet, blade drawn, scanning the chapel for a threat that never materialized."Nothing," he said finally, lowering his weapon, though his shoulders stayed tense. "Whatever that was, it's gone quiet again.""For now." I didn't believe it was finished. Nothing in this entire war had ever simply finished when it seemed to.We didn't sleep that night, and by morning, word of the chapel's strange vibration had already spread through the stronghold, tangled up with whispers about my return, about the child, about whether the woman who'd walked out of that chapel was truly the same one who'd been carried in five days earlier.I felt the difference in how people looked at me almost immediately.Corin still greeted me with the same open warmth he always had, running to fetch water before I'd even finished asking, but I caught older wolves watc

Riven's POVI waited two days before I finally cornered her alone, giving the chaos of the northern border sighting time to settle into something manageable, giving myself time to decide whether I actually had the right to ask what I'd been turning over since the moment she first opened her eyes in that chapel.I found her in the training yard at dawn, alone, running through slow, deliberate forms despite Orlanna's repeated insistence that she rest."You're supposed to be resting," I said, announcing myself before she could mistake my approach for a threat."I'm resting my mouth," she said, without breaking stride. "My body needs to remember it's still capable of moving properly."I watched her for a while, the same patient, precise technique she'd taught to Corin and a dozen other young wolves, and found myself hesitating over the question I'd come here specifically to ask."Say it, Riven," she said finally, still not looking at me. "You've been building up to something since you wal

Vaela's POVCaptivity had taught me more about myself in weeks than years at Kade's side ever had.I sat in the corner of the cell they'd given me, if it could be called a cell at all, more a hollow carved from something that wasn't quite stone, wasn't quite shadow, and traced the same question I'd been turning over since the night frost first swallowed my consciousness at the stronghold.What exactly had Mogra promised me, and what had she actually delivered.The answer, sitting here in the cold with nothing but my own thoughts for company, had become impossible to avoid any longer. Nothing. She had promised me a crown, promised me Kade's throne, promised me revenge against the woman who'd stolen what I believed was rightfully mine, and delivered instead exactly nothing except this hollow, this captivity, this slow realization that I had spent years serving someone who valued me only as long as I remained useful.The guards here didn't speak often. When they did, their voices carried

Kade's POVThe intrusion withdrew as suddenly as it had arrived, leaving Nyra gasping against my chest, both of us shaking with an adrenaline that had nowhere left to go now that the immediate threat had passed."It's gone," she managed, though her hand hadn't left her own abdomen, protective and trembling. "For now."I didn't sleep the rest of that night. Neither did she. We sat together until dawn, testing the bond carefully, cautiously, relieved to find the intrusion hadn't left any lasting damage behind, only the terrible knowledge that whatever ancient thing pulled every string in this war could reach that deep into something we'd believed, foolishly, was ours alone to explore.By midmorning, I'd gathered everyone who mattered into the war room, Draven and Riven flanking the map table, Nyra pale but resolute beside me, Marros and Serath present at my specific request."We need to name it," I said, without preamble. "Whatever's been orchestrating this entire war, we've spent month