All Chapters of Fated to my Alpha nemesis : Chapter 201 - Chapter 210

AVELINE'S POV (Twenty years ago) If someone had told me the greatest mistake of my life would begin with my curiosity, I would have laughed. Now, whenever I look back on those days, I sometimes wonder how different everything might have been if I'd ignored the stories surrounding the Northern Wilds and stayed safely inside the packhouse that morning. If I'd never gone looking for monsters. But I did. And that single decision changed far more than my own life. It put my sister, and eventually everyone I came to care about, directly in the path of a tragedy none of us saw coming. The tales and myths surrounding the Northern Wilds were never as popular in the Winter Pack as they were in the Eastern and Western Packs. That wasn't particularly surprising considering those two territories shared borders with the forest itself, while ours lay comfortably farther away. To most wolves in the Winter Pack, the Wilds were little more than an unsettling story told to reckless childr

AVELINE'S POV As I had suspected, there were no beasts stalking the Northern Wilds. It was, for all appearances, no different from every other forest I'd ever explored. I found myself wondering when, how and, more importantly, who had started the rumours about the enormously dangerous creatures said to dwell there. The fact that those rumours had become accepted as undeniable truth fascinated me. They appeared in research texts, educational materials, historical records and countless other sources. Whoever had orchestrated such an elaborate deception had clearly been someone with extraordinary influence. I never encountered any of the beasts of the Northern Wilds. Not once. Just in case my theory proved wrong, however, I remained prepared for an encounter with the creatures so many insisted were real. Three weeks passed. Still nothing. By then, I was almost certain I was right. Everything we knew about the Northern Wilds might have been little more than propaganda, or perhaps

AVELINE'S POVI waited.I lowered my knees from beneath my chin and straightened where I sat, watching him closely.Nereth wasn't usually the sort to hesitate. If anything, he spoke with an almost irritating certainty, even when I disagreed with absolutely everything coming out of his mouth.Now...He seemed to be arguing with himself.His gaze wandered toward the forest.Toward the stony slope that disappeared beneath the broken wall.Toward anywhere but me."You've gone quiet," I observed."I have.""That's unlike you.""So I've been told.""By who?"A ghost of a smile touched his lips."Myself."A laugh escaped me before I could stop it."That sounds incredibly lonely.""It can be."The smile faded almost as quickly as it had appeared.Silence settled between us again.For the first time since we'd met, Nereth looked... uncertain.He drew in a slow breath before finally turning to face me."Aveline..."He paused."What I'm about to tell you..."The words trailed off.He stopped.I

AVELINE'S POV“What do you mean, Nereth?” I asked, ice sliding down my spine. “What wild ones?”He didn't answer.Instead, he pressed both palms against the sides of his head, squeezing his eyes shut as though he were trying to keep something inside. Every muscle in his body tensed.“Nereth?”The certainty I'd come to associate with him fractured before my eyes.The composure I'd rarely seen him lose slipped away with alarming speed. His breathing turned shallow. His jaw locked so tightly I could see the muscles flex beneath his skin. His silver eyes darted beneath closed lids as though following movements I couldn't see.When they finally opened, they had changed.His gaze had sharpened into something almost feral. He looked like someone listening to a nightmare only he could hear.My pulse lurched.My stomach dropped.Every instinct inside me screamed that something was terribly, terribly wrong.Then...just the silence.The forest swallowed the sound of his anguish and became unnat

AVELINE'S POV I didn't find Stephen. Not at first. Guilt, fear, and grief gnawed relentlessly at my insides as I searched the forest. When I returned to the ruins where I'd left Nereth earlier, I found nothing but moonlight spilling across broken stone. The place was empty, the crumbling pillars standing like silent sentinels around the abandoned chamber. I turned slowly in a full circle. “Nereth?” Only silence answered. A strange ache settled in my chest. I hadn't truly expected him to still be there after everything that had happened. Still... Part of me had hoped. Nereth had a whole lot of explaining to do. There were so many things I needed answers to, and he seemed to be the only person who could provide them. I was beyond confused, surprisingly lost, and quite frankly afraid. I drew in a slow breath and forced myself to think. Finding Nereth would make finding Stephen easier. I was almost certain of that now. He had known my sister had entered the Wilds before eith