Todos os capítulos de Alpha Kael : Capítulo 11 - Capítulo 14

IVY’S POVI didn’t sleep.Not really.I lay on a bed that wasn’t mine, in a place that didn’t feel real, staring at a ceiling carved from stone instead of cheap plaster, listening to a silence that wasn’t silence at all.It breathed.Shifted.Watched.Every creak of the hall, every distant echo, every whisper of wind slipping through broken doors—it all felt like a countdown.To what, I didn’t know.But my body did.It stayed tense.Ready.Wrong.I turned onto my side, pulling the rough blanket tighter around me.Didn’t help.Nothing helped.Because even when everything else went quiet—He didn’t.The bond pulsed.Slow.Steady.Constant.Kael.Somewhere in the hall. Awake. Moving. Thinking.Always thinking.I squeezed my eyes shut.“I hate this,” I whispered.The bond didn’t respond.Of course it didn’t.It just… existed.Like a second heartbeat I never asked for.After a while—minutes, hours, I couldn’t tell—I gave up.Sleep wasn’t coming.Not tonight.I pushed myself up, swinging my

IVY’S POVI didn’t go back to the room.There was no point.Sleep felt like something from another life—something soft and normal and completely out of reach now. The walls of the Blackthorn hall didn’t make it easier. If anything, they made it worse.Too quiet.Too heavy.Too full of things I didn’t understand.I leaned against one of the cold stone pillars, arms wrapped around myself, trying to steady my breathing. My hands still tingled faintly—leftover sparks crawling under my skin like restless insects that refused to die.I hated it.I hated all of it.The powers.The bond.The way my life had turned into something I couldn’t control.Footsteps echoed behind me.I didn’t need to turn to know who it was.“You should rest,” Kael said.I let out a quiet, humorless laugh. “You really like saying that.”“You really like ignoring it.”“I’m not tired.”“That’s a lie.”“So is ‘everything is under control,’ but here we are.”A pause.Then—“You’re getting sharper,” he said.I glanced ove