All Chapters of Alpha Step Daddy : Four Mates, One heart: Chapter 151 - Chapter 160

RAVENI regretted coming underground almost immediately.Not because the city beneath the mountain was ugly or dangerous anymore but because every single person down there kept looking at me like I was part of the ruins too.It was deeply irritating.Workers moved carefully through the underground streets carrying lanterns and stacks of recovered records while territory guards stood near the larger entrances pretending they were not openly staring every time I walked past them.I ignored all of them.Mostly because if I acknowledged it, I was going to start throwing rocks at people.The underground city looked different than I expected now that I could actually see it properly. Without the Hollow twisting everything into nightmare fuel, the place almost looked beautiful in a sad kind of way.Massive black stone roads stretched beneath the mountain with silver carvings running along the walls. Old towers disappeared into darkness farther ahead while bridges crossed over lower sections

DOMINICThe painting stayed on the table between all of us like it had personally decided to ruin everybody’s mental stability.Nobody spoke for a while after Raven pointed out the child’s hair because there honestly wasn’t much to say. The entire underground archive room had gone weirdly quiet now. Even the workers nearby looked uncomfortable like they knew they had accidentally uncovered something they weren’t supposed to see.Jax leaned against one of the old shelves with both arms crossed tightly.“I hate ancient people,” he muttered. “Every single thing they did was dramatic and emotionally destructive.”Theo rubbed a hand across his face tiredly. “You say that like our generation is any better.”“We’re at least emotionally destructive with modern communication skills.”“That is not the improvement you think it is.”I barely heard them.My attention stayed fixed on the portrait while something ugly kept turning over slowly in my chest.The child in the painting looked too familia

THEOAfter Marek’s last sentence, nobody really knew how to move forward.You don’t just hear that the Hollow wasn’t destroying things but actively maintaining a cycle and then go back to normal conversation like someone commented on the weather.So we did what everyone does when reality becomes too heavy to hold properly.We kept working.The archive chamber stretched deeper than any of us had originally mapped, and now that we were actively looking instead of just reacting, the place started feeling less like ruins and more like something carefully buried. Not destroyed. Not lost.Hidden.The engineers spread out along the walls again, running their hands over stone seams and old shelving structures that looked decorative until you noticed they didn’t align naturally with the architecture. Jax followed one of them for about ten seconds before stopping at a section of wall that looked no different from the rest.Then he tapped it.Twice.“It’s hollow,” he said.One of the engineers l

DOMINICIt started without warning. One second I was still in Blackridge trying to process what Raven had said, and the next I was standing somewhere that made me confused as hell.It looked like a council chamber.Stone polished smooth in a way that suggested control more than design. Tall pillars lined the room, carved with symbols I didn’t recognize. People were speaking before I even fully realized I was inside it.“The outer territories are destabilizing faster than expected.”“We cannot maintain narrative consistency if they continue asking questions.”“The child cannot remain referenced even indirectly.”That last line made something in my chest tighten immediately.Child.I turned toward the sound without meaning to. A long table stretched across the center of the chamber. Advisors sat on both sides, leaning forward like the weight of their own decisions was physically pressing them down.At the far end sat the First King and he didn't look like the portraits. He looked tired

RAVENI didn’t go back inside after the elder finished speaking.I stayed outside Blackridge longer than I should have, standing near the edge of the upper walkway. Everything he said kept repeating in my head in a way I couldn’t shut off.The Hollow was never hunting your bloodline. It was waiting for it to awaken completely.It didn’t feel like information anymore.It felt like something inside me had been waiting to hear it spoken out loud before it could finally move. I turned back toward Blackridge after a while, but even inside the building it didn’t feel quieter. It felt worse. Too many corridors. Too many eyes. Too many people who now looked at me like I was the next thing they were going to misunderstand.Theo tried to speak to me near the entrance.I walked past him.Jax said something under his breath that sounded like a joke meant to soften the tension.I didn’t answer.Dominic didn’t say anything at all, which somehow felt heavier than the rest. By the time I reached the