Startseite / Romance / Wanted By The Alpha And His Brothers / Kapitel 161 – Kapitel 170

Alle Kapitel von Wanted By The Alpha And His Brothers: Kapitel 161 – Kapitel 170

172 Kapitel

Chapter 161

Lana's POV In one moment, the lawn is filled with wolves elders, warriors, allies, enemies all frozen in the aftermath of Gideon's chilling declaration. The next, chaos erupts. Voices rise in accusation and fear. Wolves shift, their wolves rising to the surface in response to the threat they sense but don't understand. Someone screams. Someone else shouts for order, for calm, for someone to do something. I don't stay to watch. The moment Gideon disappears into the manor, something inside me shifts. Not gradually. Not gently. It's like a dam breaking, like a wound opening, like every ounce of power I poured into saving that baby suddenly reverses direction and floods back into me all at once. I gasp, my hands flying to my chest. The world tilts. What the hell is happening? The power isn't lightning anymore. It's not Fox fire either. It's something deeper. Older. It feels like the earth itself is flowing through my veins, like the sky is pressing down on my skin, like every truth

Chapter 162

Lana's POV The words have been replaying non stopped in my head. Pregnant. It's not a word I ever associated with myself. Not in the abstract future I sometimes imagined, not in the desperate fantasies I let myself have during those brief, beautiful weeks with Ronan. I was Lana, the human who stumbled into a world of wolves. Lana, the Fox with power she didn't understand. Lana, the woman who walked away from love because it was killing her. Not Lana, the mother. That seemed very different and new. The healer has stepped back, giving me space. Maison stands at the foot of the bed, his face carefully controlled but his eyes betraying a storm of conflict. Kaelia hasn't moved from my side as her hand grips mine with a fierceness that would be painful if I could feel anything beyond the roaring in my ears. And then I feel it. The Fox power that's been surging and retreating, through the body that's been fighting to sustain itself, through the connection I didn't know existed until

Chapter 163

Ronan's POVThis has been an unrelenting nightmare.That is the only word for it. Nightmare. The kind that does not end when you open your eyes, the kind that follows you into waking and sits beside you through every hour of the day, patient and immovable, waiting for you to accept that this is not a dream you get to leave.Thornwood's lawn is in chaos behind me. Wolves arguing in tense, fractured clusters. Council members demanding explanations. Pack elders calling for order that no one is listening to. The alliance that was supposed to hold everything together has cracked down the middle, and the fractures are spreading, and somewhere beneath all of it, Gideon's shadow still stretches over everything, patient and poisonous and utterly without remorse.I am standing in the middle of it and hearing none of it.Because the bond just changed.Not gradually. Not the slow, cautious warming I might have noticed if I were paying attention. It hit me like a physical blow, like something enor

Chapter 164

Lana's POVThe bond doesn't warn me.It announces.One moment I am lying in the healer's quarters with one hand pressed flat against my stomach, feeling the faint, steady flutter of new life beneath my palm, letting myself exist in the strange, quiet miracle of it. The next moment, the connection that has been fragile and wounded and barely alive for weeks suddenly ignites. Not with the tentative warmth of before, not with the careful, cautious pulse of something healing. With the raw, undeniable force of something that has made up its mind.He is coming.I sit up so fast the room tilts. Kaelia reaches for me immediately, her hands steady and sure, but I am already swinging my legs off the bed, already reaching for the clothes folded on the chair beside me, already moving with a certainty that has bypassed thought entirely."Lana, what—""He's here." I pull on the clothes with hands that are not quite steady. "Ronan. He's crossing the boundary right now."Kaelia's face goes pale. "He

Chapter 165

Ronan's POVShe has been through more than anyone should have to survive.I know this. I am not unaware of it. Every conversation I have had since she walked back into Red Creek has carried that awareness underneath it, the knowledge of what she has endured, what has been done to her, what it has cost her to still be standing.I also know that she is stubborn in a way that goes all the way down to the bone, and that if I give her too much space right now, she will use it to rebuild walls I have only just managed to come through. So I find the line between honesty and pressure, and I walk it carefully, and I hate myself a little for how deliberate it is. But she is here, and our child is here, and the alternative is losing them both.The Shield compound's main hall has settled into an uneasy quiet after the tension of our arrival. Maison stands near the door with his arms crossed and his eyes on me with the steady watchfulness of a man who has decided to trust but has not decided to re

Chapter 166

Jessica's POVThe pain is unbearable.Not the physical pain, though that is present too, a tearing, hollow ache that has settled into my body where life used to be. Not that pain. That pain I could have handled. I have been shaped by harder things than physical suffering and I know how to metabolize it, how to press through it, how to keep moving on the other side of it.It is the silence that is destroying me.One moment there was a heartbeat. That fragile, unsteady flutter I had learned to know through everything, through the lies and the schemes and the desperate months of trying to hold together a plan that was already falling apart. It was weak, yes. It was never the strong, certain pulse I had imagined in my better moments. But it was there. A presence. A life. A future.And then it was not.I scream. I do not remember making the decision to scream. The sound tears out of me without permission, raw and primal, the sound of something animal that has nothing to do with the control

Chapter 167

Lana's POVNo one speaks about it openly.The wolves are too disciplined, too careful with their Alpha's grief and Jessica's loss to voice what I see moving in their eyes every time I enter a room. But silence can carry as much accusation as words, and the silence in Red Creek since that night has been very loud. It follows me through the corridors and sits down at meals with me and waits outside my door in the mornings.Whose fault was it?I know the answer. I know it with the clarity of a truth-seer and the certainty of someone who was actually there, who poured everything she had into keeping that small life going, who exhausted herself fighting for a child she had no obligation to fight for at all. Without me, that baby would have been gone weeks before it was. I gave it more time than it would have had. I gave it everything I was capable of giving.It was not enough. But it was not nothing. And it was not my fault.That does not stop the looks.I have grown familiar with the spec

Chapter 168

Lana's POVMy hands are shaking, and I did not notice until I tried to turn the page.The first page of the second file is clinical in the way of documents produced by observers rather than participants. Detached. Precise. The kind of language that has been drained of all warmth on purpose, because warmth would require whoever wrote it to acknowledge that the subject they are analyzing is a person.Subject: Lana Hubbard.Classification: Hybrid Specimen — Fox/Wolf.Designation: Lycan. Theoretical category, previously undocumented.Lycan.The word sits in my skull and refuses to settle. I have heard it before, in whispered conversations in places where people believed I could not hear, in ancient texts Maison showed me when he was trying to explain what I might be becoming, in the frightened stories that pass between wolves when they think they are among only their own. A Lycan is a creature of legend. Something that exists in the histories as a warning, not a possibility. Half Fox, hal

Chapter 169

Ronan's POVI see the files in her hands the moment I enter the room.I see her face, and I know.She is standing in the center of my office surrounded by scattered papers, pale as winter, her eyes blazing with something that is not anger, not grief, not any of the emotions I have developed strategies for managing over the years of my leadership. This is worse than all of them. This is the cold, absolute certainty of someone who has assembled the pieces and seen the picture clearly and will never be able to unsee it.The second folder lies open on my desk. The one I told myself I had not opened because I was afraid of what it contained, which was a lie I had become comfortable telling myself. The truth is simpler and more damning: I did not open it because I did not want confirmation. Confirmation would have required action. Acknowledgment would have required honesty. And honesty, I have spent my entire adult life understanding, is the one thing that cannot be taken back once it is gi

Chapter 170

Bastien's POVThe suppression magic lifted like a hand releasing a throat.I felt it go sometime in the hours after Lana's power tore through Thornwood, after the truths Gideon had spent decades burying came flooding into the open, after the careful architecture of everything he had built began coming apart at its foundations. One moment the constant weight in my chest was there, pressing down on everything, dulling every instinct and sense. The next it was simply gone, and I was gasping with the unfamiliar sensation of being entirely myself for the first time in longer than I want to calculate.I did not run. I was too depleted for running, too wrung out from weeks of suppression, too aware that the chaos beyond the walls of wherever I was being held was only the beginning of something that would require every bit of strength I had left. So I waited. I let the healers assess me with their careful hands and their unreadable expressions. I watched the guard rotations change from Gideon

ZURÜCK

...

13 14 15 16 17 18

WEITER

CODE SCANNEN, UM IN DER APP ZU LESEN

DMCA.com Protection Status