All Chapters of Accidentally Fell For My Ex's Uncle. The Dark Alpha: Chapter 191 - Chapter 200

Remi POVI woke before the sun with Nero's arm wrapped heavily around my waist. His breathing was slow against the back of my neck, warm and steady, and the quiet was so complete that I could hear the wind moving through the trees outside.Then memory returned.Everything we had left behind and everything waiting for us when we returned.I turned carefully in Nero's arms and found him already awake, watching me through the darkness.“You're awake,” I whispered.“I have been for a while.” His thumb moved slowly over my waist. “Watching you.”I smiled faintly. “This is becoming a thing.”“I don't see a reason to stop.”I studied his face. There was something different about him this morning. He looked relaxed, but there was a heaviness behind his eyes that hadn't been there yesterday.I pushed myself up slightly. “Nero.”“I promised you two nights.”My heart gave a small, unexpected flutter.“And I've only given you one.”A smile slowly appeared on my face.“I keep every promise I make

Remi Pov Continued Nero looked at her “You know these people?”“I know the woman who lives there.” She dismounted and walked toward the house.I watched her knock. A moment later, an older woman opened the door.They exchanged a few words and the woman smiled. Then Caya returned carrying a small bundle of food and fresh cloth.She handed the cloth to Nero. “For your hand.”Nero looked at it. “Thank you.”Caya shrugged. “Don't thank me. Just stop bleeding on everything.”Nero smiled. “You worry too much.”“Someone has to.I looked away and there it was again. That familiarity. That easy understanding between them.I knew Caya cared about Nero. I'd known that for a while.But watching it was different. She had clearly been hurt before.I had seen the scars on her body, the way she sometimes went quiet when people mentioned the past, the way she slept lightly and always kept one hand close to a weapon.She had survived something. Maybe more than one thing.And somewhere along the way, N

Nero Pov ContinuedI looked toward the mountains again.And this time, I saw the smoke. Not from a settlement. From the mountain.The smoke rose in thin gray lines against the darkening sky, and once I noticed it, I couldn't stop seeing the signs around us. There were more tracks than I had first realized, some fresh and some partially covered by dirt. Heavy carts had passed through here repeatedly, leaving deep grooves in the earth. There were footprints everywhere, but most of them were too small to belong to wolves. Caya walked toward one of the impressions and crouched beside it.“Dwarfs,” she said.I looked at her.She pointed toward another track. “Small boots. Heavy soles. And those marks are from mining carts.”I stared toward the mountain. “Mountain thieves.”Caya nodded.Mountain thieves were what wolves called the dwarfs who lived beneath the mountains and sold whatever they managed to pull from the earth. Gold, precious stones, ancient metals, sometimes things that shoul

Caya POV“Easy. Just keep your damn foot where it is.”I muttered the words under my breath as the stone beneath my boot shifted and tumbled down the mountain. I froze, pressing my body against the rough wall of rock while the loose stones bounced into the darkness below. I waited until I could no longer hear them hitting anything before slowly lowering my other foot. “Wonderful,” I whispered. “Absolutely wonderful.” I had been climbing down this mountain for nearly half an hour, and every part of my body had begun to protest. The path was barely a path at all. It was a narrow trail carved between jagged rocks, steep enough that one careless step could send me rolling all the way to the bottom. My palms were scratched, my boots were covered in dust, and the cold mountain air had turned every breath into something sharp in my chest. Behind me, somewhere far above, Nero and Remi were waiting. I could almost imagine Nero standing there with his arms folded, watching me disappear down

Caya Pov Continued “Yes. Something I can offer you in exchange for information.”One of the dwarfs looked at me with a crooked smile. He leaned closer. “Something valuable under those skirts?”The others burst into laughter.My expression didn't change. Another dwarf looked me up and down. “Whatever you've got under there isn't worth much information.”“We could still pay her for it,” another added.The laughter became louder.I stared at them for several seconds.Then I smiled. It wasn't a friendly smile. “You've misunderstood me.”The head digger lifted his cup. “Have we?”“Yes.”I slowly reached into my pocket. “I wasn't offering you what's under my skirts.”The dwarfs quieted.“I was offering you something much more precious.”I pulled out the ring. The moment the diamond caught the lantern light, the atmosphere around the table changed.Every eye dropped on it.The diamond flashed brightly against the dim cavern. One dwarf stood.Another leaned across the table.The head digger'