All Chapters of I Fell In Love With Two Rogue Brothers On The Run: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

AldricI didn’t sleep at all after she told me about her father and her mother.The words she said felt like heavy stones sitting at the bottom of my stomach.I just sat there in the dark and looked at the fire until it turned to gray ash.Last night, I told her I wasn’t going anywhere. It was the right thing to say. I didn’t have to think about it or try to make it sound pretty. When she told me Corvus killed her, I felt a part of me click into place. It was a feeling I haven't had in three years. Not since the night Corvus killed Gorin.I was built to protect things. That is what a Beta is. For a long time, I protected Gorin. Then he was gone, and I was just a weapon with no hand to hold it. I stayed sharp, sure. I kept Zane alive. But I didn't have a purpose. Now, looking at the back of Amara’s head as we started the morning march, I knew I had found it. She had been surviving all by herself for nineteen years. That was too long. It was way too long for someone to be that alone."Y

Amara"You can just let things happen," Sela said, appearing right at my elbow. I almost jumped out of my skin because I was too busy thinking about my shoulder.Only a few minutes ago, Zane's arm had been there. The weight of his arm was heavy and warm."I don't know what you’re talking about," I said. I kept my eyes on the dirt road."Yes, you do," Sela said. She was walking with a little bounce in her step that made me want to trip her. "You do this thing with your eyes. You look at every tree like it might try to eat you. You look at every person like they’re a door you’re about to run through.""It’s called being careful," I told her. "I’ve lived three times, Sela. People who aren't careful don't get to live that much.""No," Sela said. She shook her head and her hair flew around. "You plan every exit before you even sit down. You map every threat before you even take a breath. I get it. I really do. Three lives is a long time to learn that good things always get taken away. But

Amara“Three weeks. That was the number running in my head, a quiet hum I couldn’t turn off. And Zane’s hand on my cheek after the fire, leaving a heavy feeling inside me. A feeling that maybe, just maybe, I wasn't so alone this time.”I found Maren by the low fire, the one that never quite went out, before anyone else was even stirring. The air was cool and smelled of damp earth and smoke. I just sat down next to her without saying hello, because she already knew.“I need the practical version,” I told her, keeping my voice low so it wouldn’t carry. “Not the spiritual architecture. What actually changes when the bond completes.”Maren picked up a small stick and poked at the embers. They sparked. “The completed bond between you and both brothers,” she said, her voice raspy, “would restore a balance that Corvus’s dark ability has been suppressing. It would not simply weaken him. It would remove the foundation his power is built on.”My breath caught a little in my chest. Remove the fo

ZaneThe image of Amara, curled against Aldric’s side by the fire, just wouldn’t leave me alone. It wasn’t the kind you could push out. It stuck and every time I thought about it, the quiet hum of that night came with it. I wasn’t jealous, not really. That would be too simple, too easy. I knew what this was, what the design was. Maren had said “three points” a long time ago, and I’d understood it then, deep down. What I felt was something else, something without a good, clean word.The sun was high already the next day, baking the air as we marched. I fell back from my usual spot, letting others pass until I was beside her. She was in the middle of the line, just like always, doing her quiet thinking. I’d learned to read that. I matched her pace, the quiet crunch of our boots on the dry earth the only sound between us. Her scent, the wild, earthy smell that was just her, was stronger now that I was this close, and my breath hitched just a little. My wolf stirred, a low rumble I felt

Aldric"You haven’t closed your eyes once tonight, have you?" Zane asked, his voice a low rasp that cut through the silence of the pre-dawn woods.I didn't turn my head to look at him. I kept my eyes on the horizon, watching the way the gray light was slowly eating the stars. "I didn't see the point in sleeping. My head is too loud for it.""Thinking about what Maren said?" Zane sat up, his bedroll crunching on the dry leaves. He looked tired, but his eyes were sharp."Thinking about Gorin," I said. "We spent years thinking We were the one who walked away from him. We thought being a rogue was a choice we made. But it wasn't a choice, Zane. It was a play. He moved us like a piece on a board."Zane was quiet for a long beat. "He sent them to us. He knew we’d end up exactly here.""He knew everything," I said, and the realization felt like a heavy stone sitting in my gut. "I’m looking back at every conversation, every alliance he made, every pack he visited. He wasn't just leading. He w