All Chapters of Lusting After the alpha queen : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Lyra’s POVI took a deep breath outside the heavy oak doors of Nyx’s private suite, trying to steady my hands. The basket I carried felt heavier than it should, filled with all her favorites—jasmine-scented candles that burned slow and sweet, a bottle of rare perfume distilled from midnight blooms in the southern packs, and those little honeyed fruits she used to pop into her mouth during our lazy afternoons. I’d wrapped everything in black silk, tied with a red ribbon. Red like blood. Red like passion.It had been some time since the dining room disaster. it felt like days of pacing my room, replaying her cold words, her indifference. But I knew Nyx. She was fire wrapped in ice. She’d melt for me again. She always did. I just needed to remind her what we had—what no filthy human like Kayden could ever give her.I smoothed my dress. it was deep crimson, low-cut, clinging to every curve. My hair was loose, the way she liked to run her fingers through it. I dabbed a little of the perfum

Kayden’s POVThe words just hung there in the dark room after she left. I’ll die soon.My heart was doing this stupid, frantic drum solo against my ribs. I couldn’t get it to stop. A cold fear, the kind that sits deep in your bones, had me shivering even though the room wasn’t cold. It didn’t make sense. She was the Alpha Queen. She was brutal and hard and unkillable. But she’d said it like she was stating a fact, like the sun would rise. And the look in her eyes… there was no joke there.I couldn’t just stand there. I pulled on my pants and a shirt, not even caring what they were, and ran after her.I caught up to her in the main courtyard. She was a dark shadow moving toward the tree line. “Nyx! Wait!”She didn’t slow down.I jogged to fall in step beside her. “Talk to me. What does that even mean? How? There has to be something—”She walked faster, her boots silent on the grass. Heading into the thicker forest behind the fortress.“Can you just say something? Anything!”Nothing. Ju

Nyx’s POVI stood in the middle of the clearing, cloak half-on, the night air cold against my bare skin. My legs still felt shaky from the run, from the shift, from him. Kayden was on his feet now, looking at me like I’d just slapped him across the face. I probably had, in a way.I pulled the cloak tighter around myself and pulled out the small communicator from the hidden pocket. Pressed the button.“Bring the car. North ridge clearing. Now.”The voice on the other end answered quick. “On the way, Alpha.”I didn’t look at Kayden while we waited. Couldn’t. If I looked, I’d see the confusion in his eyes. The hurt. The want that hadn’t faded even after everything we just did.The black SUV rolled up ten minutes later. Headlights cut through the trees. The driver stepped out, bowed low, didn’t say a word.I climbed in the back. Kayden followed. The door shut with a soft click. The car started moving. Smooth. Quiet.The car ride back was silent. Not the good kind of silent. The thick, hea

Kayden’s POVMy life was a mess. A total, complete mess.For a week, I’d been stuck in my own head, going in circles. Silas, the man I called my father, he was a lie. Everything he ever told me was probably a lie. He didn’t save me. He stole me. He turned me into tool and hid what I really was.Then there’s Lyra. She was playing her own game, and I couldn’t figure out the rules. Was she just jealous? Did she want Nyx all to herself? Or was she working for Silas too, trying to finish the job I wouldn’t do? Every time I saw her in the halls, she’d give me this little smile. A cold smile that said she knew something I didn’t. It made my skin crawl.And then there was Nyx.She’d somehow gotten inside me. I didn’t ask her to. I didn’t want her to. But she was there, in my head, under my skin. The memory of her in the forest wasn’t just about the sex. It was the running. The howling. The way she helped me when my bones were breaking. For a few hours, I wasn’t a liar or a prisoner. I was ju

Kayden’s POVI finished my last round. Checked every door, every window, every shadowy corner on the maps she gave me. My mind was split in two. One part was here, doing the job. The other part was screaming about Silas, about a ledger in a library, about a family I couldn’t remember but was supposed to save.But right now, the job was all I could handle. I had to keep her safe. Even if she hated me.I stood outside her room. Took a breath. Knocked.“It’s done. Security is set.”The door opened.And I just… stopped. My brain shut off. My breath caught.Nyx stood there, and she wasn’t the Alpha Queen. Not right then. She was something from a dream I was too stupid to ever have.The dress was crimson red. The color of fresh blood and dark wine. It was sleeveless, tight at the top, hugging every curve I’d memorized with my hands. The fabric flowed down long, but there was a high slit that went up to her thigh, showing a flash of skin every time she shifted. And the sides… they were open,