Semua Bab The Alpha's Abandoned Mate : Bab 131 - Bab 140

“Do you hear that?” Sienna whispered, turning sharply as the ground trembled beneath her feet. Ryder stepped in front of her instinctively, even though pain rippled through his body with every breath. “Sienna… don’t move,” he muttered, but she was already scanning the tree line, her fingers curling as if the power inside her was trying to escape again. “Ryder, something’s coming.”The wind shifted, cold, metallic, carrying the faint vibration of something ancient tearing through the sky. The trees bowed as though some invisible force pushed them down. Ryder’s jaw tightened. He knew that presence. That weight. That cold, celestial fury. “Lunaris sent another one,” he said under his breath. “Bigger than before. Stronger.”Sienna exhaled slowly. “Then we stand our ground.” Ryder grabbed her wrist immediately. “No. You don’t understand. Your power isn’t stable. The last surge nearly tore your pulse apart.” She shook him off, stepping into the clearing glowing faintly with silver. “I don’t

“Ryder… do you hear that?” Sienna whispered, her voice low, urgent, trembling in a way he hadn’t heard since the night she first wore the crown. Her fingers brushed the stones beneath her, steadying herself as a faint vibration rolled through the forest floor like a heartbeat she didn’t trust.Ryder lifted his head sharply. “Yes.” His reply was stripped down, clipped, edged with a power he couldn’t control anymore. “They’re coming faster this time.”A gust of wind spiraled through the trees, bending the branches like they were bowing to a force far greater than the storm overhead. Sienna pressed closer to the ruined archway as silver mist gathered along the ground, alive and hungry. The moon above flickered in and out like a dying flame, each pulse making her chest tighten.“Stay behind me,” Ryder whispered.“I’m not the same girl you could hide behind before,” she whispered back.“I know,” he said, “that’s what terrifies me.”Before she could answer, the sky split open.A thunderous

“Ryder, if you don’t open your eyes, I swear I’ll drag you back myself.” Sienna’s voice shook through the stillness, too soft to echo, too raw to hide. Her hands cupped his face, her thumbs brushing the cold skin beneath his eyes. She tried to steady her breathing, but every inhale felt like she was pulling ice into her lungs.A faint hum trembled under his skin, too faint to be life. Too faint to promise anything. His pulse was a flicker, then nothing, then a flicker again. It terrified her more than a clean stop. It meant the curse was still moving inside him, choosing what parts of him to keep, and what to erase.“Don’t do this,” she whispered, her forehead resting against his. “Not like this. Not in the dark. Not alone. Not without me.”The forest answered with silence.Then, a rustle, soft, cautious, deliberate.Sienna didn’t turn. She kept her body over Ryder’s, shielding him even when her eyes burned from holding back tears she refused to release. “If you come any closer,” she

“Ryder, get up.” Sienna’s voice broke through the thunder of the clearing as she grabbed his shoulders and tried to pull him to his feet, her palms slipping against the heat pulsing beneath his skin. “Do you hear me? You have to get up right now.”“I can’t,” he managed, the sound low, strained, as if the curse had wrapped fingers around his throat and squeezed. His vision blurred, the world bending at the edges while the celestial beast prowled closer, its glow warping the air around it. “The curse… it’s locking my body down.”“Then unlock it,” she snapped, dragging him back as the beast’s claws tore into the ground where he’d been a heartbeat before. Dirt and sparks exploded upward. “You think I’m leaving without you? You think I’m running into that sanctuary alone? No. Get up, Ryder. Move.”“You have to go,” he rasped.“And you have to stop telling me what to do,” she fired back, breathless with fury and fear as the beast let out a low, bone-shaking growl. “I’m not leaving you. I wo

“Where did he go?” Sienna’s voice cracked through the cold night as she stepped over the broken edge of a trampled sigil, her breath fogging in the air like a warning the forest refused to listen to.The scout beside her swallowed hard, his boots crunching over shattered stone. “My Queen… he was here. Not long ago. The tracks are fresh.”“Show me,” she said, moving ahead before he could finish.The patrol had stumbled on the scene less than an hour earlier. A border outpost reduced to silence. No screams. No smoke. No battle scars except for the bodies, three assassins Renna had hired and a fourth bearing Zane’s sigil scorched into his armor. All of them dead in ways no ordinary wolf could have managed.Sienna crouched beside the nearest body, wiping snow away from a sword sliced so cleanly it looked like light had cut through it rather than steel.“He didn’t hesitate,” she murmured.“Who?” the scout asked.She slid him a sharp glance. “You know who.”Her fingers brushed the snow agai