All Chapters of The Alpha's Abandoned Mate : Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

“I told you not to move, Ryder. Why can’t you listen for once?”Her voice wasn’t real.It couldn’t be.Ryder jerked upright, breath tearing from his lungs as though he’d been drowning. His vision blurred, then snapped sharply into focus. The corridor around him returned , stone walls, dim torches, the long stretch leading toward Sienna’s chambers.But the pain…The curse still pulsed beneath his skin, clawing like something alive.He pressed a palm to the wall, forcing himself to stay steady even as darkness clawed at the edges of his sight. “You’re not here,” he muttered. “You’re not real.”But he wasn’t talking to Lunaris.He was talking to Sienna.Her voice had been the last thing he heard before the darkness swallowed him. A whisper, fragile, aching , the sound of her saying his name like she still believed he could be saved.He wasn’t saved.He wasn’t sure he was even sane.Another pulse hit. Sharp. Hot. Blinding.Ryder swore under his breath and caught himself before he collapse

“Did you hear what they said about you, Sienna? They’re ready to strip you of the crown.”Her name cracked through the silence like a shard of ice. She didn’t turn immediately. She stood at the high window of the council wing, hands gripping the stone ledge so tightly her knuckles blanched. The moonlight brushed her cheek, softening the exhaustion hiding beneath her calm.“Say it again,” she murmured, though her voice was steady.Mira swallowed hard behind her. “They want to dethrone you tonight.”That did it.Sienna turned.Her silver-gray eyes, once gentle, now glowed with a cold light. She moved toward her sister slowly, her expression unreadable, her long dark hair cascading like a storm cloud around her shoulders.“All of them?” she asked.“Almost,” Mira whispered. “Not everyone agrees, but…” She looked down, unable to meet Sienna’s gaze. “Some are saying your judgment is compromised. That Ryder still has influence over you.”Sienna’s jaw clenched. “They think I’m weak.”“They th

"Do you want to know the truth?" Renna’s voice sliced through the courtyard like a blade, sharp enough to draw blood from the air itself.Her words snapped the murmuring crowd silent. Hundreds of wolves and humans alike turned toward her, their breaths hitching as her pale gold gown shimmered beneath the rising moon. Renna stood on the platform built for announcements and judgments, her posture stiff, regal, and unnervingly calm. Her beauty struck like winter frost, perfect and cold, her dark hair swept high so that her sharp cheekbones caught the torchlight.Sienna felt her stomach twist as she stepped forward from the side corridor. She wasn’t ready for this. She wasn’t ready for Renna’s lies. Not tonight, not while Ryder’s curse pulsed faintly at the back of her skull like a warning heartbeat.But Renna was already raising her voice again."You have all been blind," she declared, her tone bright with performance. "Blind to what the Alpha King has become. Blind to the danger he pose

"Say it, Sienna. Say what the realm needs to hear."Elder Theron’s voice cut through the courtyard like a blade dipped in ice. Sienna didn’t answer him immediately. Her gaze stayed locked on Ryder, on the man trembling against the pillar, fighting visions that tore at his mind until he seemed half-ghost, half-wolf, barely anchored in his own skin.Ryder’s lips moved as if forming her name, but no sound came. She saw it anyway. Felt it. The bond between them was stretched so thin she feared it would snap."Sienna," Elder Theron said again, louder this time. "This is not the moment for hesitation. The realm expects an answer."A murmur rippled through the gathered wolves, fear, curiosity, hunger for direction. They were ready to believe anything, ready to follow whichever voice was strongest. And Renna had been loud. Too loud."Your Majesty," another council member urged. "Look at him. Look at what he becomes when he sees you."She didn’t need to look. She felt Ryder’s pain echoing in h

“Say it again.”Ryder’s voice trembled across the courtyard, low and broken, carrying a kind of pain Sienna had never heard from him, not even in battle, not even when the curse first sank its claws into him. He stared at her as if he hadn’t understood her words the first time, as if repeating them might reveal some hidden mercy.Sienna’s fingers curled at her sides. “Ryder… please don’t, ”“Say it again,” he whispered, taking a small step forward before the curse yanked him back like a chain hooked through his ribs. He staggered, gasping, but didn’t take his eyes off her. “I need to hear it. I need to know… I didn’t imagine it.”The entire courtyard went still.Guards shifted uneasily.Renna smiled like a predator watching its prey fold.Theron waited with the patience of a man who’d already decided the ending.Sienna didn’t answer.Ryder lifted his chin, though even that small movement looked like agony. “You said… I’m not yours to protect.”Her jaw trembled. She didn’t move.For th