All Chapters of The Lycans Twins Hidden Mate: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Alina’s POV I woke to the sensation of drowning in someone else’s heartbeat. It thudded against my skull in violent waves, louder than my own pulse, faster, heavier. I sucked in air so sharply I almost choked. My fingers curled into cold stone, not the soft guest room bed. My cheek scraped against rough tile. When my vision finally steadied, I realized I was on the floor of the Council chamber. Or what was left of it. Chairs overturned. Tapestries torn. Guards pressed against the far wall like they could melt into it. Every torch flickered wildly as though afraid to burn too close. And in the center of the chaos two kings. Kaden crouched beside me, breathing hard, chest rising and falling in jagged movements. His eyes glowed a molten gold that flickered like flames struggling to hold shape. Sweat clung to the sharp line of his jaw. His hands hovered inches above my shoulders, shaking hard enough to blur. Kael stood on my other side, half shifted, half human, caught i

Alina’s POVThe word promised hit me like a blade pressed against the inside of my throat.Promised.Promised to him.Promised by who.Promised when.Promised why.My pulse thrashed so hard my vision wobbled. The chamber swayed around me. Heat washed up my neck, then cold, then nothing at all. My legs felt like wet sand.I could not make sense of the man standing there. His silver eyes were too bright, too intense, too alive. They pinned me in place, not with magic, but with something older. Something raw. Something that woke a sharp ache inside my ribs as if my wolf recognized him even while the rest of me recoiled.I stared at him, breath catching.I should know him.But I did not.Not at all.Kael’s voice sliced through the silence. “Promised by who.”His tone was cold as winter steel. The kind of cold that kills. His claws dug into the stone floor. Blood still dripped from his ribs. He barely felt it.The stranger’s gaze shifted from me to the brothers with a chilling calm. “By th

Alina’s POVThe world slammed back into me like someone dropped me from the top of the palace tower.Cold stone.Burning skin.Screams ringing in my ears.My pulse stumbling so hard it hurt.I wasn’t fully awake.I wasn’t fully unconscious.I was caught in this sick, twisting space where everything moved too fast and too slow at the same time.My body wouldn’t listen.My limbs jerked. My muscles spasmed. My fingers clawed at the ground like I needed to hold on or be ripped away. I tasted blood on my tongue and couldn’t tell if it was mine.Three voices echoed inside my skull.A whisper like smoke.A roar like thunder.A call like a heartbeat I didn’t recognize.All of them saying the same thing.Come.My stomach rolled violently. The air tasted metallic. I pressed my forehead to the cold floor, trying to steady myself but my breaths came in sharp, broken bursts.Stop pulling me.Stop pulling me.Stop.But they didn’t stop.The invisible threads tightened around my ribs, around my thro

Alina’s POVCassandra hit the ground like a dropped porcelain doll.The sound.That awful sound.Soft and final and wrong.Blood spread across the cracked stone under her body, too red, too bright, too real. I couldn’t look away even as every part of me wanted to claw my own eyes out. Her hair fanned around her face, golden strands slick with blood, her chest rising once, twice, then… slowing.My stomach wrenched. My breath tore. A thin, sharp scream scraped up my throat but got stuck there like glass.She was dying.Right in front of me.Because she jumped.Because I shoved her.Because the beast chose her instead of me.My knees buckled.Darius caught me before I fell, grabbing my waist with hands that shook only slightly.Kaden roared, a sound that was not human. His shift tore through him in seconds, golden fur ripping out of his skin as his wolf form slammed into the beast with violent force.Kael shifted next. No hesitation. No mercy. His white wolf collided with the beast, teet

Alina’s POVThe giant wolf filled the entire hallway.Not metaphorically. Literally.His head scraped the cracked ceiling. Dust drifted over his fur like snow. His paws crushed stone with each slow, deliberate step. The air around him vibrated with a terrifying, ancient power that made my lungs seize and my bones tremble like they remembered something my mind did not.The Dark King froze.Actually froze.His hand, still half raised toward me, dropped an inch.The silence that followed was a suffocating thing, dense and heavy, thick enough to feel against my skin. Even the curse inside me stopped twisting.The giant wolf’s molten gold eyes locked on the Dark King.“She is not yours,” he said again. His voice was deep and rough, vibrating through the stone floor. Not human. Not wolf. Something in between.The Dark King’s face shifted. The faintest tremor broke his usual calm. Not fear. Something sharper. Recognition.“You,” he whispered. “I killed you.”The giant wolf bared his teeth. “