Semua Bab Claimed By The Twin Alphas: Bab 21 - Bab 30

ROWAN'S POVThe hunting dogs burst through the trees, at least five of them with guards right behind. In the moonlight, I could see more figures spreading through the forest. Twenty wolves, maybe more. All hunting for the woman standing frozen between Cian. "I have to go back," Lara said, panic making her voice shake. "If he thinks I betrayed him, if he believes I came here willingly—" "You're not going back," I cut her off flatly. No way was I letting her walk into Kael's hands after what we'd just heard. The threat in his voice had been clear. He'd kill her. Cian grabbed her hand, pulling her attention to him. "We need to move now. We can argue about this later, but right now we run." "What about Dante?" Tears were streaming down her face again. "If they caught him helping me escape, if Kael hurts him because of me—" The first guard broke through the trees, saw us, and shouted. More would be here in seconds. I grabbed Lara's other hand and started pulling her toward where we'd

LARA'S POVI don't remember most of the ride. Just the roar of the motorcycle engine, the cold wind biting my face, and Cian's solid presence in front of me. I held onto him so tightly my arms ached, pressing my face against his back, trying not to think about what had just happened.Kael. In wolf form was coming to kill me.The look in his eyes, the rage, and the betrayal. He'd been going to tear me apart, and Rowan had thrown himself between us.Was Rowan okay? I'd seen him hit that tree. I saw the way he couldn't get up after Kael threw him with that strange dark power.What if he were dead? What if I'd gotten him killed?The sky was starting to lighten with pre-dawn gray when Cian finally slowed the motorcycle. We turned off the main road onto a barely visible path through dense forest. Branches scraped against us as we pushed deeper into Frostborn territory.After what felt like forever, a small cabin appeared through the trees. It was tiny, made of

LARA'S POVI jerked back from Cian's touch like I'd been burned, my heart hammering so hard I thought it might break through my ribs. The vision vanished the moment his thumb left my wrist, but the sensations lingered. The heat. The pleasure. The overwhelming certainty that what I'd just seen was real somehow."How did you do that?" I demanded, my voice shaking. "Those were my dreams! How did you put them in my head?"Cian pulled his hand back slowly, his storm gray eyes wide with surprise. "I didn't do anything. I just touched you.""But I saw—" I couldn't finish the sentence. Couldn't say out loud what I'd just experienced. The three of us together. Their bodies claiming mine. The intensity of it all.Rowan shifted in his chair, wincing as the movement pulled at his injuries. "What did you see?"My face burned hot. "You know what I saw. You put it there!""We didn't put anything there," Cian said gently. He looked at Rowan, and something passed between

KAEL'S POVThe dungeons beneath Northwind Palace were cold and damp, the kind of place where screams echoed off stone walls and no one above could hear them. Perfect for what I needed to do.Dante hung from chains bolted to the ceiling, his arms stretched above his head, his feet barely touching the ground. Blood dripped from his split lip and the cuts on his face where I'd hit him. Again and again, trying to get him to talk.But the bastard wouldn't break.I circled him slowly, flexing my bruised knuckles. I'd been at this for an hour, and all I had to show for it was bloody hands and a bodyguard who still wouldn't tell me where the twins had taken my Luna."Last chance," I said, stopping in front of him. "Tell me where they took her, and I'll make this quick."Dante lifted his head, his dark eyes defiant despite the pain he must be in. His hands were chained, but he could still move his fingers enough to sign.His lips moved slowly, deliberately, formin

CIAN'S POV The Northwind Palace loomed against the night sky like a dark fortress. Rowan and I crouched in the shadows at the edge of the tree line, watching the guards make their rounds. We'd been observing for twenty minutes, counting patterns, looking for weaknesses. "Something's wrong," Rowan muttered beside me. "There should be more guards. Way more, especially after tonight." He was right. The palace should have been locked down tight after Lara's escape. Instead, there were maybe half the usual number of sentries, and they seemed distracted, almost lazy in their patrol patterns. "It's too easy," I agreed, unease crawling up my spine. "They want us to get in." "Doesn't matter." Rowan's amber eyes glowed in the darkness. "Dante is in there. We're not leaving without him." I nodded. We'd both known this was likely a trap from the moment we left the cabin. But we'd made Lara a promise. And more than that, Dante had prote