All Chapters of Untameable: Enlightened Child Saga: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

ThirtyGavin POVI was jolted awake not by a sound, but by a scream in my head. Frantic, panicked mind links erupted in my mind, a chaotic jumble of terror and pain. All reverberating from the pack link. I couldn’t distinguish one voice from the next, just a wall of raw, primal fear as if they were all in the heat of battle, unable to concentrate enough to form coherent words. Then the first one snapped. It was a white-hot spike of agony, a red-hot poker being driven straight through my chest, searing through the pack bond and cauterizing it in the same instant. A gasp was torn from my lips. Another. Then another. They were ripping away, one after another, each one a fresh wave of blinding, nauseating pain as burning lava flooded my veins. My pack members were dying. The shock of it, the sheer volume of it, was enough to cut through the warm, comfortable fog of Trisha’s presence.

Thirty TwoTrisha POVMy whole body went rigid. “W-what?” The word was a choked whisper, barely audible. *Surely he’s not asking…* My mind skittered away from the thought, a door slamming shut on a room full of fire. “Just… stay with me,” he whispered, his voice cracking. “Please. I can’t… I can’t be alone right now. Being here… with you… it’s the only thing that feels close to her. To Daisy.” A shaky breath I didn’t know I was holding escaped me. Stay. Just stay. Relief washed through me, but it was a thin, watery thing. It wasn’t a request for sex. I knew that with a certainty that went beyond logic. It was a raw, desperate plea for comfort, a lifeline thrown in a storm. My brain tried to grab onto the words, to mak

Thirty FourGavin POVGavin POVLying here, with Trisha’s soft, warm body curled against mine, the world outside this bedroom was a distant echo. But the peace was a fucking lie. A cruel joke played on my senses. The real world was a storm of screaming ghosts inside my head. Roughly fifty pack tethers. Fifty. They hadn’t just snapped—they had been torn out, shredded, and set on fire, and I felt every single one. It was a symphony of silent agony that vibrated in my very soul, a constant, high-pitched hum of despair that made my teeth ache. On top of that, the Tainted attack had left a fire under my skin, a deep, muscular ache that felt like shards of glass grinding against my bones with every breath I took. Beneath it all, the mate bond was a relentless, siphoning drain, a parasite feeding on what little strengt

Thirty SixGavin POV*‘DIE!’* The word wasn't a thought; it was a detonation in my skull. I couldn't stop Eon as he thrust forward, hijacking my body with brutal force. My control shattered. Fur sprouted from my arms, claws erupted, tearing through the wood of the table. My mouth elongated, and my back hunched, enabling me to loom over the table on all fours. I snarled in a half-human, half-wolf voice, the sound ripped from my very soul, “Threaten her again, I dare you!” My brothers were stunned, but none flinched as I allowed my aura to wash over the room in crushing waves. *‘No one threatens our mate!’* The mind-link boomed, a psychic assault that made the warriors in the room flinch. After a moment of frozen silence, Ronan’s lips cur

Thirty EightErik POVDamn the Tainted! A curse that was a prayer, a scream trapped in my own skull. The third human slumped against the alley wall, a pale, confused doll. Useless. The blood was thin, bitter, a fleeting trickle of water on a forest fire. It wasn't enough. It was never enough. Killing those Tainted had torn a hole in my very essence, a gaping wound of weakness that my own reserves couldn't close. I could feel the stores of blood I'd so carefully hoarded, meant to last me decades, now a ghost in my veins. I was burning through a lifetime of caution in a single night. I moved from the shadows, a flicker in the peripheral vision of the next passerby. My hand was a manacle on their arm, pulling them into the alley's maw before their mind could even register the movement. There was no seduction here. No art. Just need. My fangs extended, a sharp, familiar ache, and sank into