Semua Bab The Alpha’s Mistake: I Married the Wrong Twin: Bab 21 - Bab 30

Chapter 21: The Fever DreamThe world was not black. It was red.It swirled with the color of blood and fire. I was floating in it, suspended in a thick viscous fluid that smelled of antiseptic and ozone. My limbs were heavy. My roar was silenced by the tube shoved down my throat.But my mind… my mind was still in the woods.I was back in the cabin. The walls were whole again. The fire was gone. The storm was locked outside.Elara was there.She was standing by the bed. She was naked, her skin glowing like moonlight against the dark timber walls. She was holding a bundle in her arms. My son."Kaelen," she whispered. Her voice was a siren song. "Why did you let them take us?""I didn't," I rasped, though in this dream, I had no voice. "I fought for you.""You failed," she said. She turned her back on me. She walked toward the door that had no handle.Panic, primal and terrifying, exploded in my chest."No!" I roared. "You don't leave! You never leave!"I lunged for her. I grabbed her b

Chapter 23: The Silver leashThe warehouse was a cavern of shadows and echoing drips.Vane dragged me to the center of the concrete floor. My bare feet scraped against the rough grit. I stumbled, my legs weak from the potion and the trauma, but he didn't slow down. He gripped the back of my neck, his fingers digging into my hair, forcing me forward."Walk," he hissed. "Your master is coming."He stopped beneath a heavy steel hoist hanging from the ceiling. A rusted hook dangled at eye level.Vane pulled the silver chain from his pocket. It glinted in the dim light like a snake."Silver," he whispered, wrapping it around his fist. "Beautiful, isn't it? It burns us. It purifies us."He hooked one end of the chain to the padlock on my golden collar.I gasped as the weight of the chain pulled at my throat."Please," I begged. My voice was broken glass. "Vane, you don't have to do this.""I do," he said.He grabbed the other end of the chain and threw it over the hoist hook. He pulled.I c

Chapter 25: The Ghost in the SheetsThe rusted truck died a mile from the main gates.It ran out of fuel and sputtered to a halt in the ditch. I didn't care. I pushed the door open and fell out into the mud.My body was screaming.The walk to the estate was a blur of agony. Every step was a battle against the potion raging in my blood. Kaelen’s father had taken my husband and my son but he had left me with this curse. The fertility drug was designed to make me pliable. To make me desperate. To make me a slave to the Alpha’s touch.But the Alpha was gone.I reached the perimeter of the Blackwood Estate. The iron gates were closed. The guard booth was empty. The old man had taken his elite security with him to the airfield. He had left the house to rot. He assumed I was dead in the woods.I didn't go to the front door. I went to the servant’s entrance around the back. I knew the code. I had typed it in a thousand times when I was just Elara the maid.1-9-9-8. My birth year. Seraphina’s

Chapter 27: The Widow’s HeatThe gray sedan sped down the coastal highway like a bullet.I drove with one hand on the wheel and the other clutching my stomach. The road was a ribbon of wet asphalt stretching into the fog. The ocean crashed against the cliffs below to my right. It was a violent sound that matched the chaos in my blood.I had burned the past. The Blackwood Estate was nothing but smoke and ash behind me now. I had killed the Cleaner. I had left Kaelen’s mother to die as she wished.But I could not outrun the curse in my veins.The fertility potion Kaelen had forced on me was a living thing. It did not care that I was grieving. It did not care that my husband was gone and my son was stolen. It only knew that I was empty.My womb contracted with a hunger that bent me double over the steering wheel.It started as a throb between my legs. A heavy, wet pulse that soaked the stolen tactical pants I wore. Then it spread. It moved up my spine like liquid fire. It seized my breas

Chapter 29: The Monster on the ShoreThe fall felt like an eternity.Wind roared in my ears. The rain stung my face like needles. I was wrapped in Kaelen’s arms, crushed against his chest which felt harder than stone. He didn't scream. He didn't flinch. He just held me tight as we plummeted toward the churning black water of the North Sea.We hit the surface.It wasn't a splash. It was a collision. The water was concrete. The impact knocked the air from my lungs. Cold. Freezing, paralyzing cold instantly soaked through my clothes and bit into my bone marrow.I went under. The darkness swallowed me. The salt water burned my eyes.I thrashed, trying to find the surface, but my limbs were heavy. The shock was shutting down my body. I was sinking.Then, a hand grabbed the back of my tactical jacket.It wasn't a human hand. The grip was iron. The talons dug into the heavy fabric.Kaelen hauled me up.We broke the surface gasping. I coughed, spitting out brine. The waves were massive, thirt