All Chapters of Marked by my father's enemy alpha : Chapter 171 - Chapter 180

Damien's POV One would think my first instinct after what I had just witnessed would be to run into the tent. To go to Alia and ask what had happened. To follow Lord Marco and Lira and see if there was anything I could do.But that was not the solution I was meant to give.They were already doing what they could inside the tent. My place was outside. My duty was to stop Divine before she destroyed everything, including the Blackthornes.I looked out at the march. The Moonblessed had fully set up camp around us. We were surrounded on every side. There was no way in or out without running into the Moonblessed army. And they kept growing. More of Divine’s human guards poured in from different directions, tightening the circle.This war was turning against us.I climbed down from the guard post and turned to my wolves. For the first time since this march began, their eyes were clear. They looked ready. Eager. Every Blackthorne wolf stared at me, waiting. They wanted me to say something.

Damien's POV I opened my eyes.Everything was a blur. The world spun around me, making it difficult to keep my head steady. When my vision cleared, I realized I was on the ground. My betas had formed a tight circle around me. They were fighting, pushing back the Moonblessed who were trying to reach me.I forced myself up.My head throbbed. My balance was off, but I stood anyway. I could not stay down. Not now. I bent, grabbed my sword from the ground, and lifted my head.My eyes immediately searched through the crowd. Then I saw her. Lira.She stood near Lord Marco and Alia. Divine was there too. Lira’s hand was wrapped around Divine’s wrist. Her other hand rested on Alia. Lira’s head was tilted forward, her eyes pure white and her body stiff.She was in a trance.My chest tightened. A trance with Divine never meant anything good. I had to get to them before Divine harmed her.I left the front line of the battle and fought my way toward them. I cut through bodies, pushed past fighti

Damien's POV My gaze stayed on Lira. She wasn’t just crying. Her eyes were red, glowing silver as if they’d been like that for hours. I had never seen her like this. She was always strong.I asked, my voice a whisper. “What’s wrong? I’ve never seen you like this. What’s the matter? Has something gone wrong?”She wiped her eyes, shaking her head. “Nothing has gone wrong… but something will, if I don’t make a decision. The moon goddess… she’s given me an ultimatum. I have to choose. And if I don’t… I don’t know how this will end. I don’t know if her mercy will even favor us. But I have to do something.”I swallowed and asked, carefully, “What are your choices?”Lira’s lips trembled. She swallowed again, lifting her head to look straight into my eyes. “The moon goddess… she’s asked me to make a decision. The only way to stop Divine… is to kill everyone she has touched, everyone she has left fragments of herself in. That includes the general, my father… Alia too. Divine wants Alia’s bod

Damien's POV Desmond moved before I could stop him.One moment he was beside me, breathing hard, blood soaking through his cloth. The next, he was on his feet, sword out, body angled in front of me like he still had strength to spare.“Stay back,” he warned, voice shaking.I heard the lie in it.His knees hit the ground a second later.His hand flew to his ribs, fingers pressing hard, like he could force the pain back inside. Still, he didn’t drop the sword. He stayed in front of me.“Desmond,” I said quietly.He didn’t look back. “I can stand,” he muttered. “Just give me one moment.” I lifted my gaze past him.The new alpha stood where our gates used to be. Calm. Unhurried. Like he was walking into a court, not ruins soaked in the blood of warriors.I straightened, ignoring the unease I felt in my body.“You’re from where,” I asked, “and you want what here?”My voice carried across the broken land.“This is Blackthorne land,” I said. “You claim you came to help me?”“Yes, Alpha Dam

Damien's POV I had to look bold in front of the new Alpha who walked into my land like he owned it. But at the back of my mind, questions kept rising. The kind only an Alpha would ask when everything he built was falling apart.Where would I start from to rebuild everything?Salcan had succeeded. He reduced me and Blackthorne, to a shadow of what we once were. I built this land from nothing. Almost everyone who helped me build it was gone now.The only reason we were not completely wiped out was because the women and children made it into the tunnels before the explosions. If they hadn’t, there would be nothing left to save.Desmond had already gone to the healers. One of them was attending to his ribs. I should have gone too. My body needed it. But too many people were worse off than I was. I could wait.When one of Carlos’s men spoke about seeing Lord Marco and Alia, my first instinct was to go after them myself. To find them. To make sure they were alive.Then I stopped.There we