Lahat ng Kabanata ng Craved By The Alpha Triplets : Kabanata 51 - Kabanata 60

Raine woke to the sound of whispers. Soft. Urgent. Half-breath, half-growl. Not spoken aloud—spoken through the bond. Her eyes opened slowly. The room was dim, lit only by the faint glow of moonlight spilling through the curtains. She felt warm, held, wrapped in a cocoon of steadiness and scent and heartbeat. It took her only a moment to realize where she was: Kael’s arms were around her. Not caging. Not gripping. Holding. Protectively. Possessively. As if the world could try to steal her in her sleep and he’d tear it apart with his bare hands. For a moment, she simply lay still, breathing in the feeling of him—the quiet rumble of his chest against her back, the steady warmth of his breath against the curve of her neck. She felt…safe. Grounded. Connected in a way that wasn’t physical at all. Then the whisper returned. Not Ka

Winds tore at the manor’s outer walls, rattling the glass panes like something alive. The sky had split open in violent streaks of silver, and thunder rolled across the valley like the growl of some enraged god. Wolves howled in the distance—unsettled, restless, answering a call none of us fully understood.But it wasn’t the storm that woke me.It was the bond.Something hot and sharp twisted beneath my ribs, pulling me out of sleep so suddenly that I shot upright with a gasp. My breath fogged the cold air, my pulse erratic, my palms damp with sweat.Kael was already awake.He stood at the foot of the bed, shirtless, muscles tense, hands clenched at his sides. The marks on his shoulders glowed faintly—a deep burn of red-gold, like embers under skin. His wolf was too close. Too loud.Lucian moved behind him in a blur and steadied him with a hand on his shoulder. “Easy,” he murmured. “Don’t shift yet.”Kael didn’t answer. His jaw was locked so tightly that something cracked.Damon stepp

Raine felt the day stretching long and heavy around her after the events in the courtyard. Even after Aria’s submission, after the pack bowed and accepted her with something deeper than respect… she still felt a strange buzz under her skin. Like her veins hummed. Like something ancient paced inside her chest, restless and waiting.She tried to breathe it away.She tried to ignore it.But it followed her everywhere.Lucian was the first to notice.He always was.“You’re humming,” he murmured as they walked back through the hall. “Not literally… but energetically.”“I feel warm,” Raine admitted quietly. “Like I swallowed lightning.”Fenris, walking on her other side, frowned deeply. “Power shifts feel like that. But yours shouldn’t be shifting this fast.”Kael placed a steadying hand against the small of her back. “It’s tied to emotion. You took command of the pack today. You accepted their submissio

The dawn pressed cold and pale against the windows of their secluded chamber, but Raine did not stir. She lay nestled between them—Kael’s arm across her waist, Fenris’s hand cradling her head, and Lucian’s fingers tracing patterns along her thigh. The bond hummed between them like a living thing, invisible yet impossible to ignore. Every heartbeat, every breath, was synchronized with theirs, and the warmth of it tethered her to a reality she had once feared but now could not imagine leaving.Kael shifted, his body pressing closer, a low growl vibrating in his chest. “Raine,” he murmured, voice thick with need and warning. “Wake. We have to move.”She stirred, blinking against the dim light, her mind foggy with sleep and dreams that had left a lingering heat in her veins. The echo of the voice—the silver-eyed whisper—clung to her thoughts like smoke curling into the sky. Your throne is coming.“I… I can’t,” she whispered, voice barely audible. “I don’t know if I can face whatever that

The river was louder up close.Raine felt it before she truly saw it—the deep, relentless roar of water cutting through stone, ancient and unyielding. It vibrated through the forest floor and up her bones, syncing unnervingly with the pulse of the bond beneath her skin. Each step closer made her chest tighten, as though the river itself recognized her, was calling her forward with a voice older than language.Mist clung to the air like a living veil. Pale silver water churned violently between jagged black rocks, its surface alive with shifting currents and hidden depths. This was no ordinary river. Power radiated from it, raw and wild, threading through the land like a vein through flesh.Kael slowed, lifting a hand. Instantly, Lucian and Fenris stopped. The silence that followed was heavy, deliberate. Even the forest seemed to hold its breath.“This is the place,” Kael said quietly.Raine swallowed. The bond thrummed harder, r