All Chapters of The Forbidden Alpha’s Mate: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

LEVI’S POVThe west wing was still burning when we forced a second entry point, and although containment teams had slowed the spread, the damage was already done. Smoke pressed through the corridor, heat clung to the walls, and the collapse had sealed the path where Ray had fallen.The bond remained absent, not distant or weakened, but completely gone.I stood at the edge of the breach, studying the structure and calculating what would hold and what would fail next, while Daniel and the others waited behind me in silence, already aware that this was no longer just about the fire.It was about what had been taken.“Report.”“Outer sections are stable,” Daniel said. “Inner structure is compromised. We can push through, but not for long.”“How long?”“A few minutes.”That was enough.I stepped forward, but Daniel caught my arm, his grip firm.“If this collapses again—”“It won’t matter.”He held my gaze for a moment, then released me.We moved.The new path cut through fractured stone an

LEVI’S POVThe floor gives beneath me before I can adjust, and the shift is so controlled it feels intentional rather than structural, like something has been waiting for this exact moment. One second I am moving forward, following the sharp return of the bond, and the next there is nothing under my feet and I am already dropping.I twist mid-fall on instinct, reaching for the wall, but the surface is smooth, carved without a single edge to catch, leaving me nothing to slow the descent. The bond slams back into place as I fall, hard enough to knock the air from my chest, and this time it is not distant or muted.Ray is right there.Close enough that I feel it like impact before I even hit the ground.I land hard, roll through it, and push myself up immediately, ignoring the brief disorientation as I take in everything around me. The space closes in quickly, and it becomes clear within seconds that this is not damage from a collapse but something constructed with purpose.The walls cur

LEVI’S POVBreath ripped out of me the moment I hit, pain tearing through my ribs as I forced myself up, my lungs burning as I dragged air back in, my body already moving before the ache could settle because none of that mattered.The bond.I reached for it instantly, and it hit just as fast, sharp, alive, way too strong, dragging through me in a way that made my chest lock because he wasn’t gone, he was right there, too damn close.My heart kicked hard against my ribs as I turned fast, already searching even before I could think straight. “Ray, I can feel you, you’re right here, so where the hell are you,” I said, my voice rough, tension slipping through without control.“I’m here,” he answered, close, too close, and something in the way he said it made something sting in my chest. “Levi… you’re standing right above me, I can see you.”My breath hitched as my gaze dropped slowly to the ground beneath me, my jaw tightening as I stared at solid stone that didn’t match what I was feelin

RAY’S POVThe bond tightened again, not like pressure this time, more like something settling into place, like it had finally found a rhythm it didn’t have before.My chest rose and fell slower as I tried to steady myself, but it didn’t help, because whatever this was, it wasn’t easing up. It wasn’t fading either. It was building in a quiet way that felt worse than impact, like something learning how to exist without making noise about it.It was organizing.“Levi,” I said quietly, my voice rougher now, tension sitting under every word like it had weight of its own. “It’s not just pulling anymore.”His response came fast, too fast. “Then what is it doing.”I swallowed, eyes locked forward even though I still couldn’t properly see it, not like before, not like something physical I could point at and understand. “It’s stabilizing,” I said slower now, like speaking it out loud forced it into reality I didn’t want. “Like it stopped reacting randomly. It’s… holding itself together inside t

RAY’S POVThe bond didn’t spike this time, it just settled, like something inside it had stopped reacting and decided to stay still. And it made my chest tighten, slow and deep, like my body already understood something my mind refused to accept, something about it felt wrong, like quiet that shouldn’t exist at all.I swallowed hard, trying to steady my breath. “Levi… it’s not moving anymore. It’s just there.”A pause hit, heavy, not empty, like something was sitting in it with us, pressing into the silence without making a sound.“Yeah,” his voice came lower than before. “I feel it too.”My stomach twisted, not sharp at first, just slow and uncomfortable, like something shifting into the wrong place.My fingers curled without me noticing. “Wait… what do you mean you feel it too? That doesn’t sound normal at all.”Another pause stretched out, longer this time, and nothing in it moved, not even the air between us felt like it belonged to us anymore.His voice dropped, careful. “Because