All Chapters of MARKED BY THE ALPHA CEO: Chapter 151 - Chapter 160

Elara's point of view I woke to the feeling of warmth around my hand. For a few seconds, I didn't understand where I was. Then the unfamiliar ceiling came into focus, followed by the cold stone walls and the heavy curtains covering the windows. The fortress.My heart sank. I turned my head slowly and found Henry sitting in the chair beside my bed. He was asleep. His head had fallen slightly to one side, his dark hair messier than usual. One of his hands was still wrapped around mine. I stared at our hands.He hadn't touched me anywhere else. He hadn't tried anything. He had simply stayed. I remembered asking him to remain until I fell asleep because of the storm. I had expected him to leave the moment my breathing became steady. Instead, he had apparently stayed beside me throughout the night.A strange feeling settled in my chest. I didn't trust him. I couldn't. But I couldn't deny that he had respected the boundary I had placed between us.You shouldn't be doing this. Nyra's voice

Elara's point of view Nyra's warning wouldn't leave me alone. You cannot leave the place where you were born. Those words had been repeating inside my head ever since she said them. Born here? In this fortress? That was impossible. At least, I desperately wanted it to be. But lately, my life had developed a terrible habit of making the impossible sound completely reasonable.Ancient crowns. Hidden chambers. Strange visions. A wolf spirit living inside me. A fortress that seemed to recognize me. And now Nyra was telling me I had been born here. Wonderful. Just wonderful. At this point, finding out that I had once been a queen of an ancient kingdom probably wouldn't even surprise me.I sighed and pushed myself off the bed. If Nyra wasn't going to give me answers, I would have to find them myself. I opened the door. The guards standing outside immediately looked at me. I looked at them. They looked at me. I looked at the corridor. They looked at each other."Don't worry," I said. "I'm n

Elara's point of view I nearly jumped out of my skin when the door burst open. “Aren't you ready to explore the fortress yet?” Henry stood in the doorway with that annoyingly relaxed expression on his face, as if he hadn't just invaded my room without warning.I stared at him for two seconds. Then my temper exploded. “How dare you?”His smile disappeared.“You can't just walk into my room like that!” I snapped, getting off the bed. “Do you even know what knocking is? Or is privacy some foreign concept to you?”Henry blinked. I pointed toward the door. “You could have knocked! What if I had been changing? What if I had been taking a shower? What if I simply didn't want anyone coming inside?”His eyebrows slowly rose. I folded my arms across my chest, refusing to back down. “There isn't even a lock on this door, and now you're proving exactly why there should be one!”Henry stared at me for a moment before his expression softened. “I apologize.”That caught me off guard. “I didn't mean

Aéron's point of view I received no answer. Not even a whisper. I remained awake long after everyone else had settled into the camp. The fire had burned low, the warriors had finally fallen asleep, and even Lucian had stopped pretending he was keeping watch over me. But sleep refused to come.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Elara. Her face. Her frightened eyes. The last moment before Henry took her. Fenrir paced restlessly inside my head, circling the same thoughts over and over.Something is wrong.“I know.”Then why are we still here?“Because the army needs rest.”Fenrir growled.I sighed. “You're not making this easier.” He continued pacing. Back and forth. Back and forth.Eventually, I stopped trying to sleep altogether. I sat beneath the dark sky, staring toward the mountains in the distance. The darkness slowly began to fade. A thin line of light appeared beyond the horizon. Morning.The moment the first light touched the mountains, I stood. “We move.”The order travelled q

Elara's point of viewThe sound of the lock sliding into place made my entire body go still. I turned toward the door so quickly that the loose strands of hair around my face flew over my cheeks. For a second, I simply stared at it, refusing to believe what I had just heard.The guards were outside. Henry had told them to lock the door. From the outside.My stomach dropped. “What are you doing?” I demanded, spinning around to face him. “Why did you ask them to lock the door?”Henry didn't answer immediately. He stood a few feet away from me, his expression completely different from the one he had worn while showing me around the fortress. The almost playful smile was gone. The softness in his eyes had disappeared, replaced by something colder and far more difficult to read.He slowly walked toward me. I instinctively took a step backward. “Henry.”He stopped only when there was barely any distance between us. “Did you enjoy it?” he asked.I frowned. “What?”“The tour.” His voice was s