All Chapters of Tempting My Best Friend's Alpha Father: Chapter 141 - Chapter 145

~DAMIEN~I felt death.Not the idea of it. Not the fear of it.But the actual moment it takes you.The way everything goes quiet.The way your body stops belonging to you.The way the world… just ends.I remember the last breath leaving my lungs.I remember the weight of my body hitting the ground.I remember thinking….. so this is it.And then, something dragged me back.Not gently. Not naturally.But with force so ancient and commanding that it overrode death itself.My chest burns as air slams into my lungs.My back arches off the ground as I gasp….violent, desperate, and alive.Alive.That realization hits me like a blow.No.That’s not possible.I know I died. I felt it. I accepted it.So how the hell am I…It hits me before I can even finish the thought.A power.It crashes into me like a tidal wave….. ancient, overwhelming, and terrifying.My wolf howls inside me, not in dominance…..but in submission.Every instinct I have screams the same thing.Bow.

~HOLLY~I wake slowly.Not the kind of waking where your eyes snap open and your body jerks upright.No.This is soft and gradual.Like I’m being pulled up from somewhere deep and quiet… somewhere warm and safe.For a moment, I don’t move.I just lie there, breathing and feeling alive.My lashes flutter open, and the first thing I see is the ceiling above me.Too familiar.My brows knit slightly as my gaze drifts across the room… the walls, the curtains, the faint scent of cedar and something darker that always lingers in this place.My chest tightens.Damien’s house.My room.I’m… here?I push myself up slowly, my heart beginning to race as memory crashes into me all at once….the forest, the cold, Nicholas, the war, and Damien….My breath catches sharply as I recall the memory of Damien on the ground, still and not breathing.A shaky exhale leaves me as I press a hand to my chest.“No…” I whisper, looking around again as if confirming it. “I’m not there any