All Chapters of Bound by the Alpha's Contract: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Chapter 71Elara's PovThe water rippled a third time. It was still Cassian standing in the middle of his office. This time his hands braced against the desk. The sleeve of his shirt was blood stained and he looked thinner and sickly.The black veins beneath his skin had spread higher along his throat. My chest tightened painfully. I didn't know why I felt pain for him. Then the door behind him opened and a hooded figure stepped inside. He was masked and tall, the same height as Cassian. It was the same man from my dreams.Cassian turned sharply. His mouth moved. He was saying something to the masked man. He was scared. For Cassian to be scared… it meant whoever that thing was, was trouble.I couldn't hear what Cassian was saying. The figure tilted his head slowly and the water exploded upward.I screamed. The vision vanished. The water became still again, but my entire body shook violently, because this time it hadn't felt like a dream. It felt real, like it was happening now.I forc

Chapter 73Elara's PovOn the walk back home, I couldn't help but think about Nicole.The things she had told me and the things she had hidden. I swallowed. But I really needed to know what was wrong with me and my pups.Lily said something to me I would love to find out. But I would have to meet her mother first. Nicole's voice still rang in my mind."My mother was the were-devil. I can't tell you about her, Luna. She's pure evil.""They sold us. Sold us to the Alpha like we were cattle.""The only good thing in my life is my sister. She's innocent. She doesn't know what they are."But Lily spoke about her family like they were saints. I swallowed. Then it only meant one thing. One person between them was lying, or something was wrong and one person was too blind to see what was happening around them.I pressed my hand to my stomach. The pups kicked, they were stronger. That alone pushed me to want to find the truth about what's going on, before it's too late. Why my pups reacted tha

Chapter 75 Rowan's PovThe council lodge was silent now. The elders lay unconscious at my feet. Their bodies were still, their breathing shallow. I had kept my promise. No one was dead.But something else was here. I froze and looked around me."Who's there? Show yourself."No one answered. Just quiet."Rowan." The voice called again and this time it didn't come from the door, the windows or even behind me. It came from everywhere.My Beta suddenly mind linked me. Something was wrong. I couldn't hear him speak. All I heard was static noise. The static cleared. I knew where it had gone. Back to the bodies I left behind.I felt the presence leave the room and knew at that point the spirit had left and was back at the council's lodge. I ran towards the lodge and there, my men were all over the floor. I ran towards Matthias, but he was all bloodied and weak.I felt the presence again and when I turned, the eldest elder's body suddenly jerked. His back arched and his eyes snapped open.Bu

Chapter 77Elara's PovThat was the last thing I remembered. Everything coming down on me. But I didn't remember standing up or walking past the fallen vanity table, neither did I remember the shards of glass cutting my feet. Didn't remember opening the door.But I was moving with my bare feet against the cold wet floor. Someone had spilled water. Or maybe I was bleeding. I couldn't tell. I couldn't see, I just kept walking."Come." The whisper came from everywhere. Inside my head. Outside my window. Beneath my skin, everywhere I turned, I heard the whisper. It followed me."Come." It didn't stop, neither did I. My legs kept moving. I tried to stop, but my body wouldn't listen."Come." It called again when I got to the hallway. And the hallway stretched before me, but I couldn't see it. But I could feel the walls were closer than before and the air was thinner. I expected the guards to stop me from walking, but they didn't stop me.I passed them and heard their breathing, it was very

Chapter Seventy-NineAURELIA EVERDAWNI woke up with the taste of blood on my tongue and the pain of my sister's sword between my ribs.The scent of grey candles and blood orange drifted through my old chambers. I sat up. I was back to the day of the mate-selection, the day I chose my mate.Heaving a sigh of relief, I rubbed my hands on my temple when I heard the loud moans come through the corridor.I sat up fast. The moans came from the guest suite left for the dragon heir, which, in my previous life, had remained empty until after the ceremony.I stepped out only in my thin linen shift, with no makeup. In my previous life, I'd spent an hour fussing over my appearance, desperate to look worthy of Theron, but not now.I pushed the door open without knocking and there lay my sister, Vesper, her hair disheveled, lips swollen, and dress half-torn from her shoulders.Her body sprawled across the broad chest of Theron, the heir to the Pyraxis Dominion. His silver-black hair spilled over t