All Chapters of Chain My Heart Too, Gamma: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

KaelI drive to my mother’s house, and the entire way there I keep wondering why I’m even doing this to myself. It’s not like she ever wants to see me. It’s not like she ever hides how much she hates the sight of me. But I still drive, gripping the steering wheel tight enough that my fingers go numb because I guess some part of me still wants… I don’t even know what I want. Maybe I want her to at least look at me without flinching. Maybe I want her to believe I didn’t enjoy doing what I did. Or maybe I’m just punishing myself again. I don’t know.Her house sits close enough to the pack house that I can still hear faint noises from the training ground behind it, but far enough that she doesn’t have to deal with seeing anyone she doesn’t want to. The windows are shut like always. The curtains never move. It’s the one place that still feels frozen in the past, like every year stopped counting after the day I ruined everything.I park and sit there for a moment because I need to breathe b

KaelI had asked the Northern Pack Alpha during my last visit about any good healer who once handled a bite from a mad rogue. He had initially said I better let the warrior die a peaceful death by my bullet.Yeah, that’s the expected response anyone would give… but my situation isn’t something I can just walk away from. I’ve heard the rumors—there are a few healers who can do things people say are impossible. One of them had actually saved a dying warrior bitten by a mad rogue. That’s who I need now.The Alpha promised to send someone. This morning, I got a call. Tona of Hillsnight, the sorcerer who had done it. My stomach clenches. Sorcerers are forbidden. Anyone dealing with them takes risks, and the penalties aren’t small. But there are only two known alive—one is Rhea Handeth in Blackridge, Lala’s friend. The other is Tona. Nobody really knows her. She’s lived alone on the hills since she was little, an orphan, isolated, unheard of.I look at her now, hair tied neatly into a bun,

Lala"Hey, I believe you are able to walk without the pain now right?" Kael’s voice rips me out of my daze. It’s been a week and somehow I’m still here, stuck in his room like the walls are still my chains.I blink at him and nod slowly, my brows pulling together because I don’t trust whatever he’s suddenly planning. My chest tightens with that stupid familiar fear. Is it time? Is he sending me back? I’m not ready to return to that place. I haven’t even finished gathering the things I need. I haven’t even figured out how I’ll disappear without being caught. I start begging the moon goddess in my head like she’s actually listening today."It’s the full moon festival tonight," Kael says, dropping a branded bag right beside me on the bed. The bag bounces once and settles like it belongs here. "You’re coming with me."My pulse stops. Literally stops. I stare at him, trying to search his face because—no, he can’t be serious. He wants to drag me out there? Me, who is supposed to be hidden?

LalaHis breath fans my lips, is he checking on me or trying to—I don’t even think about it. My body just moves, like something inside me finally snaps after holding back for too long. One second I’m staring at his mouth, the next I’m leaning in, grabbing the front of his shirt to steady myself because my hands won’t stop shaking.My lips land on his, warm and rougher than I expected, and I hear myself breathe out against him. It comes out uneven, almost shaky. I don’t care. I press closer, kissing him again before he can pull away.“I want you,” I say into the tiny space between us. My voice sounds strange to me, thin and bold at the same time. “At least let me taste the man I like before I die.”The words spill out with no filter. I didn’t plan to say them out loud, not like this, but they’re out and hanging between us, and I can’t take them back. My heart thumps so hard it almost hurts, and I feel this tight twist of embarrassment, fear, and something hotter, something that feels a

KaelI can’t hold back anymore, the way her eyes stare brightly at me as her hand wraps around my cock makes my whole body shiver. Fuck, I want to be inside her so bad I feel it in my damn teeth. I don’t even know how I’ve been holding myself together this long. Her touch is soft but desperate, like she’s trying to memorize the feeling of me in her hand, and it just pushes me over that thin line I’ve been tiptoeing since she opened her eyes and said she wanted me.I press down softly on her chest, letting her lie back down. Her hair spreads out on the pillow, her lips already parted, her breathing shaky like she’s been waiting for this longer than she’ll ever admit. My hand catches her breast again, filling my palm, and my mouth sucks on the other one. She breathes out soft little moans that hit my stomach and twist there. I take the remaining moans into my mouth as I lower myself, kissing down her skin, finding her immediately the way my body remembers her even if my mind tries to pr