All Chapters of The Lycans Twins Hidden Mate: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

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CHAPTER 101 THE RITUAL

Kaden stared at the thing in the crater. It had no face. No features. Just a human-shaped void that hurt to look at directly.“That’s the Source?” he asked.“That’s its avatar,” the successor said. His voice was shaking. “The first Revenant never mentioned this. Never said it could manifest.”“So what do we do?”“The ritual. Exactly as planned. Kael walks in. Says the words. Gives himself to it.” The successor pulled against his chains. “But we need to be fast. Before it fully forms.”Kael was already moving. Walking toward the crater’s edge. His steps were steady despite his fear.“Kael, wait!” Kaden grabbed his arm. “We don’t know what that thing will do.”“It’ll take me. Turn me into a seal. That’s what we came for.” Kael pulled free. “Let me go, brother. This is my choice.”“You don’t have to do this.”“Yes I do. You know I do.” Kael smiled. It was sad and tired and completely genuine. “Take care of Alina. Raise Lena well. Live a good life. That’s all I ask.”“Kael…”“I love you.

CHAPTER 102 THE LAST THREAT

They pushed the horses hard. Covered in two days what should have taken three. Reached the settlement at dusk to find it in chaos.Guards were everywhere. People running. And at the center of it all, the main hall was on fire.“Lena!” Alina screamed.She ran before anyone could stop her. Straight into the burning building. Smoke choked the air. Timber groaned overhead. But she didn’t care.She found Vera in the back room. The woman was unconscious, a bloody wound on her head. And beside her, Lena’s basket was empty.“No,” Alina breathed. “No no no.”Kaden burst in behind her. “Where is she?”“Gone. Someone took her.”They searched the building. Found nothing. Ran outside and grabbed the first guard they saw.“What happened?” Kaden demanded.“A woman. Came in through the southern gate. Said she had a message from the Riverrun Alpha. We let her in.” The guard’s face was pale. “She went to the main hall. Five minutes later, the fire started. By the time we got inside, she was gone. And s

CHAPTER 103 FIVE YEARS LATER

Lena was five years old when the nightmares started.Alina woke to her daughter’s screams echoing through the hall. She was moving before consciousness fully returned, Kaden right beside her through the bond.They found Lena sitting up in bed, golden light pulsing from her small hands. Her eyes were open but unfocused, seeing something that wasn’t there.“Lena, wake up,” Alina said, kneeling beside the bed. “Baby, it’s just a dream.”Lena’s eyes focused. The light faded. She threw herself into Alina’s arms, sobbing.“I saw it again,” she gasped. “The thing underground. The hungry thing.”“The Source?”“It’s not asleep anymore. It’s watching. Waiting.” Lena’s whole body shook. “And it’s angry.”Kaden and Alina exchanged looks over their daughter’s head.This was the third nightmare this week. Each one more intense than the last. And each time, Lena described the same thing. The Source stirring. Growing restless.“I’ll send word to the First,” Kaden said. “She needs to know.”The First

CHAPTER 104 NEW PROBLEMS

Two years after Lena’s binding, trouble came from an unexpected direction.A messenger arrived from the Shadowpine territory. Young wolf, barely sixteen, his face pale and frightened.“Alpha Ronan sends urgent word,” he gasped. “Children are disappearing. Three in the last month. No trace. No sign of struggle. Just gone.”“What kind of children?” Alina asked, though she already knew the answer.“Children with power. All of them training to feed the Source.”The council room fell silent.“It’s starting again,” Elder Brann said quietly. “Someone’s hunting power-children.”“Not someone. Some group.” Torren had arrived for a planned visit. “Shadowpine borders our territory. We’ve heard rumors. People in dark robes asking questions. Watching children. Then disappearing before anyone can question them.”“The bone crown?” Kaden suggested.“Maybe. Or something new.” Torren looked troubled. “But whoever they are, they’re organized. Patient. They’re not attacking. Just watching and waiting for

CHAPTER 105 BROTHER AGAINST SISTER

The children moved as one. Not running. Gliding. Their feet barely touching the ground. Silver eyes fixed on Alina and her group.“Don’t hurt them!” Alina shouted. “They’re not in control!”The first child reached them. A girl maybe eight years old. She raised her hand and fire erupted from her palm. Not the golden light children usually showed. This was wrong. Grey-white like the Source itself.Kaden blocked with his sword. The fire wrapped around the blade, melting steel. He dropped it and rolled away.“They’re too strong,” he said. “Whatever Damon did to them, it amplified their power.”“Then we contain them. Separate them from Damon.” Alina looked for her brother. He stood at the valley’s center, hands raised, chanting in that old language.The ground kept cracking. More grey spreading.“The First!” Kaden called. “Can you break his control?”“I can try!” The ancient wolf closed her eyes and started her own chanting. Different words. Older. The air between her and Damon began to sh

CHAPTER 106 TEN YEARS LATER

Lena was fifteen when she met the boy who would ruin everything.His name was Finn and he arrived at the settlement with the spring traders. Tall for sixteen, with dark hair and eyes that saw too much. He helped unload wagons and didn’t talk unless spoken to.Alina noticed him because Lena couldn’t stop staring.“Who’s that?” Lena asked, trying to sound casual. Failing.“A trader’s son. They’re from the eastern territories.” Alina watched her daughter watch the boy. “Why?”“No reason.”But there was a reason. Alina could see it in the way Lena found excuses to be near the market. The way she laughed too loud at nothing. The way she checked her reflection in every window.First love. Or first crush. Either way, trouble.Kaden noticed too. Through the bond, Alina felt his amusement mixed with concern.“Should we be worried?” he asked that night.“Probably. She’s fifteen. Everything’s dramatic at fifteen.”“She’s also powerless in a world where power matters. That makes her vulnerable.”

CHAPTER 107 LENA’S TRAINING

Mira was brutal.She didn’t care that Lena was the Alpha’s daughter. Didn’t care that Lena had no power. She just pushed until Lena wanted to quit. Then pushed harder.“Again,” Mira barked.Lena swung the practice sword. Mira blocked it easily and swept Lena’s legs. Lena hit the ground hard for the twentieth time that hour.“You’re telegraphing. I can see your strikes coming from a mile away.”“I’m trying!”“Try harder. Someone from the Collective won’t give you a second chance.” Mira pulled her up. “Again.”They drilled for six hours every day. Sword work. Hand to hand combat. Tactics. How to fight multiple opponents. How to fight someone with power when you had none.“You use their power against them,” Mira explained. “They expect you to back down. To be afraid. Instead you get close. Inside their range. Where magic can’t help them.”“And if they’re faster than me?”“You be smarter. Use the environment. Use surprise. Use everything except power because you don’t have that.”At night

CHAPTER 108 MARKED

The marking room smelled like copper and herbs. Lena sat tied to a chair while the woman mixed paint in a bowl.“This won’t hurt,” the woman said. “Well, it will hurt. But not permanently.”“I’m not afraid of pain.”“I know. That’s why we’re starting with you.” The woman dipped a brush in the paint. “The Alpha’s daughter. Powerless but brave. You’ll be a perfect example.”“Of what?”“That anyone can be elevated. That the Collective doesn’t discriminate. We give power to those who want it regardless of birth.” She pressed the brush against Lena’s shoulder. “Hold still.”The paint burned. Not like fire. Like ice and acid mixed together. Lena gritted her teeth and didn’t scream.The woman painted symbols across Lena’s shoulders. Down her arms. Across her chest. Each one burned. Each one felt like it was sinking into her skin. Into her bones.“There,” the woman said finally. “The marks are set. Now we activate them.”She chanted in that old language. The same one the Revenants had used. T

CHAPTER 109 SCARS AND SECRETS

Lena’s scars healed wrong.The cuts where she’d removed the marks left raised tissue. Thick. Angry red. They covered her shoulders and arms like a map of pain.She hated looking at them.“They’ll fade,” Mother Elara said, applying salve for the hundredth time. “Give it a year. Maybe two.”“Will they disappear?”“No. But they’ll be less noticeable.”Less noticeable wasn’t the same as gone. Lena started wearing long sleeves even in summer. Avoided the training yard where people could see. Stayed in her room more than she should.Alina noticed. Of course she noticed.“Talk to me,” she said one afternoon, sitting on Lena’s bed uninvited.“There’s nothing to talk about.”“You’re hiding. That’s not like you.”“Maybe I changed.” Lena pulled her sleeves down. “Maybe getting marked and escaping and cutting myself open changed me.”“Of course it did. Trauma does that.” Alina’s voice was gentle. “But hiding doesn’t help. It just makes the fear grow.”“I’m not afraid.”“Then what are you?”Lena w

CHAPTER 110 THE RIVAL PACK

Winter came hard that year. Snow piled against the settlement walls. Food ran low. Hunters came back empty-handed more often than not.Then the Ironwood pack stopped sending their share of resources.“They’re three weeks late,” Elder Brann said at council. “No message. No explanation. Just silence.”“Send a messenger,” Alina ordered. “Find out what’s happening.”The messenger returned a week later looking shaken. “The Ironwood Alpha is dead. Killed in her sleep. Her daughter Mara has taken control and she’s not honoring the alliance.”“On what grounds?”“She says the alliance was her mother’s agreement. Not hers. She wants to renegotiate terms.”“What terms?”“More territory. More resources. And she wants the power children under Ironwood control. No more sharing training with the other packs.”Alina felt cold. “She wants to break the alliance.”“She wants to remake it in her image. With Ironwood on top.”This was exactly what the alliance was supposed to prevent. Five packs working t

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