บททั้งหมดของ The Alpha's Fated Kiss: บทที่ 41 - บทที่ 50

ElaraThe moment we stepped fully out of the forest, the feeling intensified.It wasn’t just a subtle shift anymore.It was wrong.The air felt thinner somehow, like something essential had been pulled out of it. The faint, steady connection I had learned to recognize beneath my feet—the quiet pulse of the ground—flickered.Not gone.But unstable.Like a heartbeat skipping.I stopped walking.“Elara?” Adrian’s voice sharpened immediately.“Wait.”The word came out low, instinctive.Everyone behind us stilled.“What is it?” Darius asked.I didn’t answer right away.Because I was listening.Not with my ears.With something deeper.The connection stretched outward, farther than before, brushing against something I hadn’t noticed earlier.Something new.Something… broken.“It’s spreading,” I said slowly.Adrian’s grip tightened slightly on my arm. “What is?”“The imbalance.”The word felt heavier now.More real.Because I could feel it clearly.The forest had been one thing—contained, con

ElaraThe ground gave way beneath me.One second I was gripping Adrian’s arm, the pull tightening around my leg like a living thing—The next—I was falling.“Elara!”His voice tore through the air as his grip slipped from mine.I reached for him instinctively, my fingers brushing his for the briefest second before the darkness swallowed me whole.Then—Nothing.No impact.No pain.Just… silence.A thick, suffocating silence that wrapped around me as I dropped deeper into something that didn’t feel like earth or air or anything I could recognize.My breath hitched.I should have been panicking.I should have been screaming.But I wasn’t.Because the moment I entered that darkness…The pull changed.It didn’t drag me anymore.It guided me.Slowly.Carefully.Like something didn’t want to hurt me.Like something was… bringing me home.“No…” I whispered.The word echoed, swallowed instantly by the void.Because that thought—That feeling—Was wrong.It had to be wrong.I wasn’t from here

ElaraIt took one step.And the world reacted.The ground beneath us shuddered violently, the trees around the clearing trembling as though something unseen had gripped the earth and squeezed.The thing didn’t move fast.It didn’t need to.Every inch it dragged itself out of the crack felt… wrong.Like reality was resisting it.Like it didn’t belong here.And yet—It kept coming.“Elara,” Adrian said sharply, stepping in front of me again. “Move back.”I didn’t argue this time.I took a slow step back.Then another.But my eyes stayed locked on it.Because I couldn’t look away.It wasn’t fully solid.Not yet.Parts of it flickered in and out, its form unstable, shifting between something almost human and something far less defined.Its limbs were too long.Its movements too slow.Deliberate.Calculated.Like it was learning how to exist here with every step it took.“What the hell is that?” Darius muttered.My throat felt dry.“I told you… it’s part of the source.”“That doesn’t expla

ElaraDarkness didn’t feel empty.It felt heavy.Like something pressing down on me, holding me in place, keeping me from moving, from breathing, from thinking.For a while… there was nothing else.No pain.No sound.No sense of time.Just weight.Then—A flicker.A pulse.Faint.Distant.But there.My chest tightened.Because I recognized it.The connection.Weak.Barely holding.But still there.I clung to it instinctively.And the moment I did—Everything rushed back.Pain slammed into me like a wave, tearing a sharp gasp from my throat as my body jolted violently.“Elara!”Adrian.His voice cut through the haze, sharp and desperate.I forced my eyes open.Light stabbed into them, making me flinch, but slowly, the world came back into focus.The clearing.The crack.The ground—Still broken.Still unstable.And Adrian—Right beside me, his hands gripping mine so tightly it almost hurt.“You’re back,” he said, his voice low, strained.I swallowed hard, trying to steady my breathing.

ElaraWe didn’t stop running.Branches whipped against my arms, roots caught at my feet, and the forest blurred into nothing but shadow and movement—but still, we ran.Behind us, the sounds followedThat same scratching.That tearing.Like the ground itself was being ripped open again and again.“They’re still coming!” someone shouted.“I know!” Adrian snapped.His hand stayed locked around mine, pulling me forward, never letting me fall too far behind even when my legs threatened to give out.I forced myself to keep moving.To keep breathing.To ignore the way the connection inside me kept flaring, reacting to every one of those things behind us.Because I could feel them.All of them.Not clearly.Not fully.But enough to know—There were too many.And they weren’t slowing down.“Left!” Darius shouted.We veered sharply, cutting through a thicker part of the forest where the trees grew closer together.The branches clawed at us, slowing our pace—but also blocking the things behind u