All Chapters of FATED TO THE ALPHA I WAS BORN TO KILL: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

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Chapter 99 - What the Pack Remembers

Kade's POVThe darkness lasted only seconds before the torches flared back to life on their own, as though whatever had reached for us decided sound alone wasn't worth the effort of a direct confrontation. We rode back toward the stronghold in near silence after that, the name Vaerath sitting heavy and unspoken between all four of us, none of us willing to test whether saying it aloud a second time might invite something worse than flickering torchlight.We reached the gates two days later, exhausted, and I felt the shift in the pack's mood before I'd even dismounted. Whatever fragile unity the funeral and Nyra's impossible return had stitched together had clearly frayed further in our absence.Marros met us in the courtyard, his expression carrying none of its usual measured calm. "Alpha. We need to speak. Privately, if possible, though I suspect privacy is no longer something this pack can fully afford."I gathered the council within the hour, exhaustion from the ride still heavy in

Chapter 100 - Ground to Build On

Kade's POVOrlanna had the examination table already prepared when we reached the healer's wing, her hands steady despite the tension radiating off her in waves."Show me," Nyra said, already pulling herself onto the table before I could offer to help.Orlanna pressed her palms against Nyra's abdomen, and for a moment nothing happened at all, just the quiet hum of candlelight and three people holding their breath. Then, faint but unmistakable, silver light bloomed beneath Orlanna's hands, pulsing in a rhythm too fast to be Nyra's own heartbeat."That's new," Nyra said, her voice tight."It started two days ago," Orlanna admitted. "While you were traveling. I didn't want to send word until I understood it better, and I still don't fully understand it, only that the rhythm has been accelerating steadily since you crossed back through the gates tonight.""Accelerating toward what?" I asked, dread building cold in my chest."I don't know," Orlanna said honestly. "I've never attended a pre

Chapter 101 - Weeks, Not Months

Kade's POVI hadn't slept since Orlanna showed us that parchment, and looking at Nyra now, pale in the grey morning light filtering through the war room's narrow window, I understood I wasn't the only one carrying that particular exhaustion."Weeks," Marros said again, as though repeating the word might somehow soften what it meant. "Not months. Alpha, I don't believe this council has ever faced a threat with this specific a countdown attached to it.""We've faced worse odds," I said, though my voice carried less conviction than I wanted it to."With respect, we haven't," Serath said quietly. "Every threat this pack has weathered until now has come from outside these walls. This one is happening inside a body we cannot fully protect no matter how many warriors we station at the gate."I looked at Nyra, and something in her face had already hardened into the particular stubbornness I'd learned to recognize since the courtyard, since Mogra's strike, since every single time she'd decided

Chapter 102 - The Cost of Carrying Her

Nyra's POVI felt it before Orlanna's examinations ever confirmed anything, the particular hollow ache that had settled into my bones since we returned from Ashveil, deeper than ordinary tiredness, deeper than the aftermath of a long ride or a difficult council session.It felt like something was being spent. Slowly, quietly, without my permission, the way a candle burns down faster in a draft than it would in still air.I didn't tell Kade. Not because I didn't trust him, but because I'd watched him carry enough already, the war, the council's fear, Draven's fragile redemption, Vaela's continued absence, Vaerath's patient, terrible design unfolding piece by piece with every passing week. I told myself adding my own uncertain, unconfirmed fear to that weight would only slow him down when he needed to move fastest.So I trained anyway, though my sparring partners had started noticing the way my strikes landed a half second slower than they used to. I attended council anyway, though I'd

Chapter 103 - What the Old Texts Wouldn't Say

Orlanna's POVI had delivered over three hundred children in my life as a healer to this pack. I had lost some of them too, more than I wanted to remember, and I had believed, until this pregnancy, that there was very little left in the practice of bringing new life into this world that could still genuinely frighten me.I was wrong.I spent every spare hour I could steal from my ordinary duties buried in the oldest texts the stronghold possessed, some of them so fragile I had to turn the pages with a cloth wrapped around my fingers to keep the brittle paper from crumbling entirely. I told no one what I was searching for specifically. I told myself, at first, I was simply being thorough, a healer's natural caution applied to circumstances none of us had ever faced before.I understood, within the first few nights of searching, that thoroughness alone would not be enough.There was no precedent for a pregnancy conceived through a god's corrupted bargain, sustained by a bond reshaped by

Chapter 104 - Vaela's Answer

Vaela's POVThe moon had cycled fully since Vaerath's shadow-wrapped messenger first laid out its terms, and I understood, sitting alone in my hollow with the deadline finally arriving, that stalling any longer would simply make the choice for me by default.I thought about Mogra first, because thinking about her made the anger easier to access than the fear underneath it. Years of loyalty, years of believing myself valued, and she had discarded me the moment I stopped being useful, the same casual cruelty Vaerath had already promised me plainly from the very beginning. At least Vaerath hadn't lied about what I was to him. That honesty, however brutal, felt almost like a kindness after everything Mogra's false promises had cost me.I thought about Kade next, and found the anger there sharper, older, worn smooth by years of quiet humiliation. An arrangement made by his father, never truly chosen, never truly wanted, and I had spent years pretending otherwise because the alternative mea

Chapter 105 -The Argument Neither of Them Wins

Kade's POVI found her in the training yard at dawn, exactly where I expected, running Corin and two other recruits through a combination drill despite the fact that her own hands had been trembling over breakfast less than an hour before."Stop for a moment," I called out, and she did, though the look she gave me over her shoulder told me she already knew what was coming."Kade, I'm in the middle of something.""I can see that." I crossed the yard, aware of the recruits watching us both with poorly disguised curiosity. "Corin, take everyone through the footwork drills without her for now."Nyra's jaw tightened as I led her toward the fence line, out of easy earshot. "You didn't need to dismiss them.""I needed a moment alone with you, and you weren't going to give me one voluntarily.""That's not fair.""Maybe not," I admitted. "But neither is watching you push yourself into the ground while insisting nothing's wrong."She crossed her arms, and I recognized the particular stubbornnes

Chapter 106 - Riven's Warning

Riven's POVThe scout reached me before dawn, half frozen from riding through the night without stopping, and I knew from the state of him alone that whatever he carried wouldn't wait for a proper briefing."Speak," I said, pulling him inside before the cold claimed what little strength he had left."Northern ridge," he managed, teeth chattering hard enough to slur the words. "Riven, it's not like before. Not just the mist-soldiers this time.""Then what?""Wolves." He forced the word out despite his shaking. "Real wolves, from packs we've never even had contact with before. Foreign markings, foreign banners, and Riven, their eyes. Their eyes are wrong the same way Draven's were, the same way that thing wore the seer's face at Ashveil."My blood went cold. "How many?""I counted three separate packs before I lost the light. Maybe two hundred wolves total, possibly more I couldn't see from my position." He gripped my arm, urgent despite his exhaustion. "It's not manufacturing an army f

Chapter 107 - I Need You to Be Careful

Kade's POVI found her in our chamber an hour after Corin's warning sent the entire stronghold into motion, the courtyard's mysterious visitor having vanished as suddenly as it arrived, leaving only a fresh wave of dread and a northern army that scouts confirmed was now moving, finally, toward our walls.Nyra sat on the edge of our bed, already dressed for battle, her blade strapped at her hip despite everything Orlanna had confirmed only hours before."No," I said, before she'd even looked up."Kade—""No." I crossed the room and knelt in front of her, taking both her hands in mine, feeling how cold they'd gone despite the fire burning in the hearth. "I need you to listen to me, completely, before you say anything else."Something in my voice must have carried enough weight that she actually stilled, waiting."Orlanna says the countdown might be days now. Maybe less." My voice shook despite every effort to steady it. "Riven's scouts confirmed an army of bound wolves marching toward u

Chapter 108 - She Goes Anyway

Nyra's POVI felt the line break before I saw it, some instinct sharpened by months of training screaming that the pack's defense had just cracked open somewhere it couldn't afford to, and I was moving before I'd fully decided to break my promise at all.I told myself, running, that this was different. That an hour ago I hadn't known the wall would actually fall, hadn't understood how quickly a single creature could tear through wolves I'd personally trained, hadn't felt, with sick certainty through the bond, the exact moment Kade's own strength finally failed against something too vast for even his silver fire to fully match.I told myself a lot of things, sprinting through the chaos toward the breach, and none of them mattered once I actually saw him.He was down. Not dead, I could feel that much clearly through the bond, but dazed, struggling for breath, and the creature bearing down on him moved with a patient, deliberate cruelty that told me it intended to make certain this time.

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