All Chapters of TOO WILD TO TAME: Chapter 181 - Chapter 190

Kira’s POVNot human? Is this real?‘I smell black magic,’ Leah pushed on. ‘Ancient black magic. It is choking this place. We need to leave now!’Cold swept over me so suddenly my teeth nearly chattered. What?So I’ve been talking to a non-human thingy?Every hair on my body rose instantly like my body was reacting to something foreign, and my hands went numb immediately.Slowly, I turned back toward the thing in front of me.And suddenly, the girl was gone.In her place stood something tall and twisted.Its limbs were too long with shoulders too broad and odd.Its pale skin stretched tight over sharp bones like it had borrowed a human shape and worn it badly.Its fingers ended in black claws with a mouth that split too wide.And its eyes…Dear God.Its eyes were endless pits of darkness.Smoke curled from its body like shadows leaking from skin.I couldn’t breathe.I couldn’t move.I couldn’t even scream. I just stood there like a statue.The creature tilted its head and smiled with

Kira’s POVI gulped inside.Slowly.Very, very slowly.Leah turned her head around.And I screamed so loud inside her that I was pretty sure birds dropped dead somewhere in the kingdom.It came out as a howl through her…but I was screaming!Standing behind me was not a man.Not a beast.Not anything that should have been allowed to exist.He was tall.No…tall was too weak a word. Long?The scrawny horror towered so high I had to crane my neck all the way back just to find his face. His head nearly brushed the stone arch above us, neck bent at an unnatural angle like he had grown too much for the world to contain him.His limbs were long and thin like dead tree branches.His fingers dragged against the floor.His skin hung loose over jutting bones, gray and stretched tight in some places, sagging in others. Veins pulsed black beneath it.And his face…Dear Goddess of the seas.His eyes were too deep. Too dark.His mouth split far too wide, filled with jagged teeth that looked borrowed

Adrian’s POVThomas moved fast. One second Kira was still arguing, her voice rising in that familiar stubborn pitch, the next her body went limp as he hit his hand against her neck. Not too hard, just enough.Her eyes fluttered once, then rolled back. He caught her before she hit the ground, scooping her up like she weighed nothing.I watched him carry her away, robe and all, her head lolling against his shoulder. Good. She didn’t need to see what was about to happen here. Whatever came next, I wanted her far from it.My hands curled into fists at my sides. The thought of her father…Tristen…being the one who killed my mother still sat like ice in my gut. I wasn’t ready for that conversation. Not even close. But one thing was crystal clear in my head… I wasn’t letting any of this destroy what I was building with her. Not Silas, not her father, not old blood feuds. This time, I was going to be selfish.She almost ran away with Tristen. The image of her slipping through my fingers, d

Adrian’s POVElise’s words hung in the air like a death sentence wrapped in silk as I kept replaying them in my head.To break the curse completely, I had to leave the palace immediately and go with her. No contact with Kira or anyone else. No seeing her, no speaking to her, no scent of her near me until the entire ritual was done. The separation had to be total. She said the royal curse fed on emotional bonds, especially the mate bond. Any connection to Kira would keep the darkness anchored inside me.She told me that her circle told my father about this…about the only way to break the curse…but he didn’t want to leave my mother. And now, the curse has been passed down to me. Isn’t that a little selfish? I mean… I could have been safe from all these drama but no. He didn’t want to leave my mother.I didn’t want to do it either. The thought of walking away from her right now, especially after everything that had just happened, felt like ripping my own heart out. But I had no choice

Kira’s POVI was going to lose my mind.I paced the room so aggressively that even the carpet probably hated me at this point.Back and forth.Back and forth.My heart wouldn’t stop racing.Something was wrong. Something was terribly wrong.Who bites someone and then runs off?Victoria stood near the door like some very stressed-out bodyguard pretending not to panic while I spiraled into emotional destruction.“Your highness—”“Don’t ‘Your highness me right now,” I snapped, dragging both hands through my hair. “Something is wrong with Adrian.”I could feel it. That was the worst part.I could feel him for some weird reason.Not in a metaphorical “I miss him” way.No.I could literally feel him. I could feel this immense pain which is obviously not mine. I could feel grief and fear too.It slammed into my chest in violent waves so strong it made it hard to breathe.What the hell is going on? I stopped pacing abruptly and grabbed the edge of a nearby table before my knees betrayed me.