《A Dorm With My Alpha Mate 》全部章節：第 41 章 - 第 50 章

Kai’s POVI’ve heard of phantom limbs. How a soldier could lose an arm but still feel it, how one could still reach for things with fingers that no longer existed. I used to pity them, imagine the frustration and grief of reaching for what isn’t there.But now I understand.Only that this was worse.Mine was a phantom soul.Aria laid beneath me, her chest rising and falling too quickly, pupils wide with the same terror clawing its way up my spine. She was right here. Right beneath me. I could see her, touch her. Hear her breathing.But I couldn’t feel her. Not a whisper of her through the bond. Not the faintest pulse of the golden thread that had held us together. Not her pain or her joy. Not even the bond tugging at us, leaping in joy. It was cut. Silenced. Severed.I rolled off her, my limbs trembling as the aftershocks of our release twisted into something cold and wrong. “Aria—”She jerked upright, clutching the sheet around her like armor. “I can’t feel you.” Her voice cracked.

Kai’s POVThe silence was the worst part.The bond was gone but my soul kept reaching for it. A limb trying to grasp a ghost every second was a fresh discovery of the emptiness a new kind of pain, her absence was a hole in the world, a constant cold draft on the inside of my ribs. The academy was in ruins, the air thick with the smell of smoke and blood and grief. My body moved through the aftermath like a king surveying a broken kingdom but my mind was trapped in that room under the blood moon in the silence after the severing.We defended the walls. We saved who we could Malrick’s wolves retreated with the dawn, their job done not to conquer but to cripple to distract. They took Luma, they broke us and they left the wounded. The dead were my responsibility. I gave orders, my voice sounded flat dead. The cadets looked to me for strength. I had none. I was a shell echoing with her absence.Finn found me in the courtyard his face streaked with soot and tears. He is gone alpha, we lost

Kai’s POVThe forest edge was a dark mouth and I stood before it, bag on my shoulder, sword at my hip The dawn was grey and cold It matched the silence inside me I took a breath This was the first step The first step into the Ironwood to find herI did not get to take a second step“Alpha”I turned, Finn stood there He was not alone Behind him were five others: Jax with his big arms crossed, Mira with sharp eyes, Leo, Ben, Coby. They were the cadets, The ones she trained They stood in a line, faces dirty, clothes still torn from the battle But their backs were straight“Go back, Finn” I said, voice flat “This is not your task”“She is our Alpha Queen” Finn said, no blink “You taught us to protect the pack She is part of the pack The best part”“This is a suicide mission” I said, trying to make the words hard “Malrick is waiting The woods are cursed You saw the cost”“We saw” Mira spoke up, voice quiet but clear “We saw her run into the dark alone We will not watch you do the same”Jax

Kai’s POVThe world was pain and motion, Malrick’s fist crashing into my ribs again. I felt a crack, a hot blossom of agony, and threw my own punch, catching his jaw. He staggered back, his icy eyes wide with fury—we were two animals, tearing at each other in the moss.I could not feel her; my soul kept reaching, a blind man grasping at empty air. But my eyes could see: I saw her break free, I saw Luma run to help the cadets, I saw Aria pick up a stone and run toward us.My heart roared inside my silent chest—she was free.Malrick saw my look, followed my gaze, and his face twisted in pure rage. “No,” he snarled, “no, you do not get to win.”He lunged at me, not to punch but to wrap his arms around me, to drive me to the ground. His strength was immense, fueled by a lifetime of cold hatred, and we fell, wrestling in the dirt. His hands went for my throat.“You see,” he gasped, his breath hot on my face, “this is it. Your choice ends here—under my hands.”I fought, pushing against him,

Kai's POVThe world was quiet, a soft quiet, the kind that comes after a storm. We were back in our room at the academy, what was left of it. The walls were still scarred, the air still smelled faintly of smoke, but it was ours. Aria was asleep beside me, her head on my chest, her breathing slow and even. My fingers traced gentle patterns on her bare shoulder.The silence inside me was familiar now. It was not the screaming void it had been. It was a room I had learned to live in. I looked at her face in the moonlight, the curve of her cheek, the dark sweep of her lashes. My heart did not need a magical pull to know its home. It just knew.She stirred, her eyes fluttering open. They found mine in the dim light.“You are staring,” she whispered, a small smile touching her lips.“I am memorizing,” I said, my voice low.“Memorizing what?”“This,” I said, my hand moving to cup her face. “The way you look in the moonlight when you are safe. The way your skin feels under my hand. The sound