The Alpha's Blood-Bound Prisoner의 모든 챕터: 챕터 31 - 챕터 33

The last witness closed the door behind him.Silence dropped over the south hall like a held breath finally released.Kael's hand was still on her jaw.Sera looked up at him and felt the weight of the past hour settle between them. The table. Caden's eyes finding her window before he even walked through the gate. The surgical precision of words designed to make her doubt every choice she had made since the night her door came off its hinges.She had not doubted.That surprised her. Sitting with it now, in the quiet left behind, she understood something she hadn't fully admitted before. Whatever had built between her and Kael in the weeks inside these walls had not been built on fear or the absence of alternatives.She had chosen it clear-eyed.Every single step of it.Kael's thumb moved across her cheekbone. His silver eyes had not receded. Still lit. Still present. His wolf visible in a way that made her pulse tick up before she could stop it."You didn't flinch," he said."He wanted

Midnight came early.Sera felt it in the bond before Riven's boots hit the study floor. A spike of cold urgency moving through the connection between her and Kael, sharp and directional, his energy shifting from controlled tension to something harder and more immediate.She looked up from the map.Kael was already moving toward the door.Riven pushed through it first. "He didn't wait," he said. "Caden's people are at the inner gate. Eight of them. Armed."The study changed. Kael's presence filling it differently, the Alpha settling over everything else like a second skin, and she watched it happen and felt the pull of wanting to reach for him and knowing this was not the moment."Positions," Kael said. One word.Riven was already gone.Kael turned to her. His silver eyes moved across her face fast and thorough, reading her the way he always did, like he needed to know her current state before he could do anything else."East wing," he said."No."His jaw tightened."You said beside yo