Alpha Step Daddy : Four Mates, One heart의 모든 챕터: 챕터 41 - 챕터 50

RAVENTobias arrived at dawn, transported in a silver-lined vehicle like a prisoner being moved to maximum security. Which, technically, he was.I watched from my window as guards escorted him inside—the once-powerful Elder now stripped of authority, wearing simple clothes instead of ceremonial robes. He walked with his head high though, pride intact even in defeat."You don't have to do this," Dominic said behind me. "I can question him. Get the information without you having to face him.""No." I turned from the window. "This has to be me. He helped kill my father. If anyone's going to use him now, it should be Alexander's daughter.""Just remember—he's manipulative. Everything he says will be calculated to serve his interests.""I know." I headed for the door. "That's why you're all coming with me."We met Tobias in the same interrogation room where we'd questioned Sarah months ago. He sat calmly at the metal table, hands folded, looking far too comfortable for someone facing his v

RAVENWe didn't stop running until we reached the safe room beneath the compound—the one Magdalene had used for our secret meeting. Fifty wolves made it inside before the reinforced doors sealed, cutting us off from the carnage above."They're killing everyone." I felt pack members dying through the bonds, each death a sharp cut. "We have to go back—""We go back and die." Dominic grabbed my shoulders, forcing me to look at him. Blood streamed from the gash where Varik had thrown him into the wall. "Raven, we can't fight them. Not directly. Tobias was right—we need the blood moon binding.""Which is nine days away!" I pushed against his chest. "How many wolves die while we hide down here?""Fewer than if you die trying to save them." Jax's voice was strained. The throw from Kore had cracked ribs, maybe worse. "You're the Alpha Supreme. Without you, there's no binding. No stopping them. You have to survive."Through the sealed doors, I heard screaming. Howls cut short. The sound of anc

RAVENI spent three days in bed recovering while the compound buried its dead.Forty-seven wolves killed in the Old Ones' attack. Forty-seven pack members whose bonds I'd felt snap, whose deaths I'd carry forever. The funerals happened without me—I was too weak to attend, could barely sit up without help."Stop blaming yourself," Mom said, changing my bandages. The power overload had burned patterns into my skin like silver lightning scars. "You saved two hundred and fifty-three wolves. That's what matters.""Forty-seven died because I wasn't strong enough.""Forty-seven died because ancient monsters attacked us. That's not your fault." She pressed a kiss to my forehead. "Rest. You need strength for what's coming."Six days until the blood moon now. Six days to figure out how to bind the Old Ones without sacrificing one of my mates.Except every piece of research said the same thing. Every text Tobias showed me. Every calculation Chen ran. The magic required willing sacrifice—specific

RAVENThey tried to take Dominic's body from me.I wouldn't let them. Sat there in the ritual circle for an hour, holding him, feeling the empty space where our bond used to be. Like a phantom limb—still reaching for something that no longer existed."Raven." Mom's voice, gentle. "Sweetheart, we need to prepare him. For the funeral.""Not yet." My voice sounded foreign. Hollow. "Just... not yet."Jax and Theo sat on either side of me, their presence the only thing keeping me from shattering completely. Through our remaining bonds, I felt their grief mixing with mine—they'd lost him too. Not as mate, but as brother, packmate, Alpha."He saved everyone," Theo said quietly. His seer eyes were red, maybe from crying or maybe from visions of futures that would never be. "I see the timelines where he didn't volunteer. In all of them, the binding fails. The Old Ones win. He was always meant to be the sacrifice.""That doesn't make it hurt less.""No. It doesn't."Eventually, I let them take

RAVENAsher Blackwood sat across from me in the compound's conference room, looking far too calm for someone being interrogated by an Alpha Supreme and her two mates."Start from the beginning," I said. "Everything. How you survived the fire. What Marcus did to you. Why you're really here.""Fair questions." He leaned back in his chair. "I was nine when the fire started. Marcus Chen—the old Marcus—set it deliberately. My father had discovered something about the Silverfangs, some secret Marcus wanted buried. The fire was supposed to kill our whole family."Theo's hands clenched on the table. "Mom and Dad died. You were supposed to die. I was at a friend's house—that's the only reason I survived.""You survived because Marcus wanted you alive. A seer in training, young enough to mold." Asher's voice was matter-of-fact. "Me, he found in the rubble. Barely breathing. He could have let me die. Instead, he healed me and told me my family was dead because of the Alpha Supreme.""My father."