All Chapters of The Alpha's Christmas Sin: Chapter 81 - Chapter 85

Damian's POVI knew before we reached the main road. Not from the wolf bone wound I could feel Ava fighting to stabilize. From my own body, telling me things in the way bodies tell you when you've been asking them to carry more than is sustainable for long enough that the asking has run out its tolerance.The dart compound hadn't been suppression compound. Leo had identified it through a network contact, a wolf-specific toxin targeting bond coherence at the cellular level, developed by a researcher Vincenzo had been funding for over a decade. It didn't sever the bond. It degraded the anchor function. Slowly. Specifically. At the precise physical location where the mate bond anchored in the body.The same location Selene had aimed the wolf bone knife at.Two separate approaches to the same objective. Neither had fully succeeded in isolation. Together, they'd produced something that was currently making its presence known in my chest with the persistence of a thing that wasn't going to

Damian's POVI knew before we reached the main road. Not from the wolf bone wound I could feel Ava fighting to stabilize. From my own body, telling me things in the way bodies tell you when you've been asking them to carry more than is sustainable for long enough that the asking has run out its tolerance.The dart compound hadn't been suppression compound. Leo had identified it through a network contact, a wolf-specific toxin targeting bond coherence at the cellular level, developed by a researcher Vincenzo had been funding for over a decade. It didn't sever the bond. It degraded the anchor function. Slowly. Specifically. At the precise physical location where the mate bond anchored in the body.The same location Selene had aimed the wolf bone knife at.Two separate approaches to the same objective. Neither had fully succeeded in isolation. Together, they'd produced something that was currently making its presence known in my chest with the persistence of a thing that wasn't going to

Ava's POVLuca found me at dawn. I hadn't moved from the garden. The frost had gotten into everything; my clothes, my hands, the wolf bone wound on my arm that had finally begun its slow, painful healing sometime in the early hours when Selene's compound finished its work and my body started catching up. I was aware of all of it, and none of it was the thing I was thinking about.He came across the frozen grass without speaking, his boots leaving dark prints in the frost. He crouched beside me. Luca had an expression for threats, an expression for protocol, an expression for when things went according to plan. He didn't have an expression for this. He was making one up in real time."Ava..." he began."I know."He was quiet for a moment, looking at Damian. "Theo is with Jamie," Luca said. "Elena is inside. Sera has the perimeter." He paused. "Nobody came outside until now.""Because you told them not to.""Yes.""Thank you."He looked at the sparrows for a long moment. Then back at me