All Chapters of The Lycans Twins Hidden Mate: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

The pain came first.Not sharp. Not sudden.Heavy.Like the world had decided to sit on my chest and wait.I dropped to my knees.Stone slammed into my palms, heat biting into my skin, symbols flaring so bright they burned behind my eyes. My breath stuttered out of me in short, useless gasps. Every inhale felt borrowed. Every exhale felt like I might not get another.So this was the cost.The Warden did not touch me.It did not need to.The threshold reacted on its own.Light poured into me, not flooding, not tearing. Stitching. Pulling threads tight where there had never been seams before. I felt borders forming inside my body, lines drawn through my bones, my veins, my heart.My spine arched.I screamed.The sound ripped out of me raw and ugly, echoing through the endless dark above. The curse inside me flared violently, fighting, resisting, then locking into place with a sensation so final it made my vision white out.Anchor.Boundary.Warden.I was becoming all three at once.“Sto

It started with silence.Not the normal kind. Not the kind that settles after chaos. This was hollow. Pressurized. Like the world had inhaled and forgotten how to breathe back out.I felt it before anyone else did.My spine went rigid. My teeth clicked together once, sharp and involuntary.“Stop,” I whispered.Kaden froze mid step. Kael’s head snapped toward me instantly. “What.”“Do not move,” I said, heart stuttering. “Do not breathe loud.”Darius frowned. “Alina.”The awareness spread.Slow. Heavy. Deliberate.This presence did not slide along borders or test seams. It did not poke or prod. It pressed. Like a massive hand flattening itself against the outside of reality to feel where it would crack first.My vision blurred at the edges.“Oh,” I breathed. “That is bad.”Kael shifted fully, white fur rippling, claws scraping stone. “Define bad.”I swallowed hard. “It is not curious.”The cavern darkened.Not abruptly. Gradually. Like light itself was being convinced to step back. The

The boundary screamed like it was alive. Not sound. Not exactly. It was pressure and heat and vibration all at once, ripping through my bones and rattling my teeth until I tasted copper and thought, stupidly, that my fillings might shatter. The glowing line on the ground flared so bright it washed the valley in white, trees bending inward as if bracing for impact. The massive shape in the fog stopped. For half a heartbeat. That was all the time I got. Then it pushed. The ground buckled. Not cracked. Buckled. Like the earth itself had been punched hard enough to lose faith in gravity. I stumbled forward, arms flying out as the force slammed into my chest, a blunt, crushing weight that drove the air out of my lungs in a sound that was more sob than breath. Kaden caught me before I hit the ground. His arms locked around me, solid and burning, his snarl ripping through the noise like a blade. Power rolled off him in wild gold waves, slamming into the boundary from our side. Kael

My name echoed back to me.Not spoken. Returned.It slid along the inside of my skull like a cold finger tracing a promise I had never agreed to make. The hum in my chest shifted pitch, tightening, sharpening, as if something far away had tugged the thread and waited to see if it would snap.I sucked in a breath that felt too thin to count as air.Kaden felt it immediately. His hand tightened around mine, grip going rigid. “Alina.”“I know,” I whispered.Kael stepped closer, eyes scanning the treeline, the sky, the ground like he expected something to burst out of all three at once. “Say it.”“Something answered,” I said. “Not a knock. Not a test.”The valley leaned in.Not physically. The feeling of it. Like the land itself had tilted its attention toward one point and decided to stay there. The packs went still. Even the night sounds backed away, insects cutting off mid trill like they had been warned.Rethan lifted his head slowly. His ears flattened. “That is not one of ours.”“No

I woke up choking.Not on air. On heat. On that thick, electric pressure that crawled under my skin and wrapped around my ribs like it had been waiting for me to open my eyes. My heart slammed hard enough to hurt. For one panicked second I thought the sky had torn again. Thought the cut had come back wider. Hungrier.It hadn’t.The cavern was still intact. Stone walls. Dim morning light bleeding in through the entrance. The smell of damp earth and old magic and smoke that never quite left anymore.But something had changed.I felt it before I saw it. The hum in my chest was louder. Not screaming. Not out of control. Louder in the way a crowd gets quiet right before something important happens.I sat up too fast and immediately regretted it.Pain flared hot and bright behind my eyes, shooting down my spine. I hissed and grabbed the stone beside me, knuckles whitening as I rode it out. My breath came shallow and sharp, each inhale scraping.“Easy.”Kaden’s voice. Right there. Close. His