All Chapters of FATED TO THE ALPHA I WAS BORN TO KILL: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

Kade's POVI sat with what she'd told me for a long time before either of us spoke again, the weight of it settling slow and terrible through my own chest."He said undoing it would kill you," I finally managed. "That's why you're still here. Because she's already, somehow, tethering you to this world.""Yes.""Then we protect her," I said, the decision arriving with a certainty that steadied something desperate and afraid in my own chest. "Whatever that ancient thing wants from her, whatever price it thinks it's owed, we make certain she never has to pay it alone the way you did."Nyra's hand found mine, and for a long moment neither of us said anything else, simply sitting together in the quiet chapel, absorbing the full shape of everything that had converged to bring us to this exact moment.The council needed to know. Riven needed to know. Draven, most of all, deserved to hear the truth from us directly rather than through rumor, given everything his own grief had already cost in

Draven's POVI heard about the northern movement the same way everyone else did, secondhand, urgent whispers spreading through the stronghold faster than any official announcement could keep pace with. I found myself standing outside the war room door instead of inside it, uncertain whether my presence would be welcomed or resented given everything my own possession had already cost this pack.Kade found me there an hour later, his expression tired but not unkind."You're allowed inside," he said simply. "You don't have to wait at the door like a stranger.""I wasn't certain.""I know." He studied me for a moment, something considering behind his exhausted eyes. "That's exactly the problem I want to fix, if you'll let me try."We walked together toward the training yard instead of the war room, Kade apparently deciding whatever urgent business waited inside could survive a few more minutes while we finally had the conversation neither of us had properly finished since our reconciliati

Mogra's POVI felt her return before anyone brought me confirmation, the same way I'd felt her death, a sudden fullness where absence had lived for five agonizing days, her presence flooding back into whatever remained of the connection between us despite every wall the ancient thing had built around my prison.I did not weep this time. I simply sat very still, absorbing the impossible relief of it, terrified to trust the sensation fully in case it proved as false as every other hope I'd allowed myself since this nightmare began."You're relieved," the ancient voice observed, arriving in the shadows of my cell with its usual patient cruelty. "How curious, given everything you've spent decades pretending she meant nothing beyond her usefulness.""I don't answer to you anymore," I said, and found the words came easier this time, the fury I'd first discovered days ago settling into something colder, more deliberate."You never truly had the option to stop answering," it said. "But I conf

Kade's POVThe bond felt different the moment Nyra returned to my side after the northern figure's brief, unsettling appearance at our walls, retreating back into the tree line without engaging, leaving only its ancient, layered warning echoing in everyone's ears.I noticed it first as warmth, steady and constant where the silver fire beneath my own skin had always carried an edge of restless, uncontrolled heat. Now it simply existed, present without demanding release, present without threatening to consume me the way it had before Nyra's death."Do you feel that?" I asked her, that evening, both of us finally alone after the chaos of the day's events had settled into uneasy quiet."The bond." She nodded, her own expression thoughtful, careful. "It's stronger, Kade. And different. I can feel you now, even when we're not touching. A kind of awareness I never had before."I tested it, deliberately, reaching for the sensation the way I might reach for a muscle I hadn't known existed unti

Nyra's POVWe rode within the hour, no time left for the careful preparation we'd discussed only minutes before, four of us setting out at a pace that left our escort scrambling to keep formation behind us. Kade, Draven, Riven, and myself, an alliance that had been forged through betrayal, possession, near death, and reconciliation, none of it clean, none of it fully settled, all of it now being tested against a deadline that might already have run out."We won't make it before dark," Riven said, studying the darkening sky with obvious concern. "Not at this pace, not with the terrain between here and the Frostspine border.""Then we push harder," Kade said, and none of us argued, though I felt the exhaustion already building in my own still-recovering body, the bond's changed awareness humming faint and anxious beneath everything else demanding my attention.We made camp only when the horses could genuinely go no further, a small, tense fire the only concession to comfort any of us al