BOUND TO THE ALPHA I SWORE TO KILL의 모든 챕터: 챕터 101 - 챕터 110

🪷ISORA🪷The door closed behind Adrian and I was alone in his bed with my heart pounding and my hand still raised in the air where I had been reaching for him. I lay there staring at the dark wood of the door, listening to his footsteps fade down the hallway, and I could not decide if I wanted to scream or cry or run after him or bury my face in his pillow and pretend that none of this had happened.My hand fell back to the mattress and I pressed my palm into the hollow where his body had been. The sheets were still warm there, still holding the shape of him, and I could feel the indentation of his back and his shoulders and the curve of his hip. I pulled his pillow against my chest and breathed in his scent. Forest rain and dark musk. The same scent that had been on my skin when I walked out of his bathroom, the same scent that had wrapped around me when he pulled me against his chest, the same scent that made my stomach flip every time I caught it.I should not have asked the questi

🪷ISORA🪷The walk from the hallway to the meeting room felt like walking to my own execution. My bare feet were cold against the stone floor and my thin nightwear did nothing to protect me from the chill that had settled deep in my bones. Nora had disappeared after delivering her message, and I was alone, following the path I had walked a hundred times before but never like this, never with my heart pounding and my hands shaking and my stomach twisted into knots.I pushed open the heavy door and stepped inside.The room was long and narrow, with a table running down the center and chairs lining both sides. The elders were seated in a row, their faces hard and their eyes sharp, watching me like I was something they had scraped off the bottom of their shoes. I recognized some of them from the few times I had served them meals or cleaned their meeting rooms. Elder Voss was there, Esmeralda's father, his gray hair combed back and his hands folded on the table in front of him. The others

🪷ISORA🪷He did not just send men old enough to be his father out of the room like they were nothing but a disturbance.The elders filed out one by one with their faces pale and their mouths shut and their eyes avoiding mine. Elder Voss looked like he had swallowed something sour and could not get it down. The oldest one with the cane moved slower than the others, his knuckles white on the handle, his gaze fixed on the floor. None of them looked at me. None of them dared.Esmeralda was the last to leave. She stood at the door for a moment, her hand on the frame, her back to me, and I watched her shoulders rise and fall with her breathing. She was trying to compose herself, trying to gather whatever dignity she had left, trying to pretend that she had not just been destroyed in front of everyone who mattered. When she turned to look at me, her face was white and her eyes were red and her lips were pressed into a thin line that could not hide how much she was trembling.I let her see t

🐺ADRIAN🐺"Where did you find him?" I asked Garrick as we walked toward the dungeon, my boots echoing off the stone walls and the torches flickering in the corners of my vision."He was actually in his pack, acting like nothing would meet him." Garrick said, and I could hear the satisfaction in his voice, the kind of satisfaction that came from a hunt that had ended exactly the way he wanted it to. "His warriors did not even stand a chance. Our patrols have taken over his pack. They are ours now. His people will probably be happy, at least the sex slavery is gone."I looked at him out of the corner of my eye and watched his jaw flex, watched the muscle jump under his skin, watched the way his hands were still clenched into fists at his sides. He had not told me about the sex slavery. He had not told me a lot of things. He just handled it, the way he always did, the way he had been handling things for me since we were children."You were ruthless about that, were you not?" I asked, an

🗡️ASHER🗡️The hallway was empty now and the silence pressed against my ears like water at the bottom of a deep river. I stood where Isora had left me, my back against the cold stone wall, my arms crossed over my chest, my eyes fixed on the door to Adrian's quarters that she had disappeared behind earlier. She had walked out of that door this morning looking like she had just been thoroughly fucked, and she had looked at me with guilt in her eyes and she had not answered my question and she had not denied that she loved him.She knew my father was alive.The thought sat in my chest like a splinter that I could not dig out, festering and burning and making it impossible to think about anything else. She had not told me until now, until she was throwing it in my face like a weapon, until she was using it to prove that I had been lying to her. I did not know how she had figured it out and I did not know what she had seen or heard or pieced together, but I knew that she knew, and that me