All Chapters of The Alpha’s Bastard Bride: Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

Kaelen Blackthorne POV"My fangs are staying right here with Daddy!" Simona cries out, her round blue eyes darting from my claws to Victoria's cold face before her little paws slide down from the velvet sofa cushions. She throws her tiny body straight into my chest, burying her wet nose into my leather vest. "Daddy, why didn't Mommy walk through the iron doors with your boots?"Every ounce of my dark alpha rage, my freezing displeasure, and the protective scent blocking out my father's aura melts into nothing the second her sweet pup voice hits my chest. My massive arms tighten around her little ribs, my heavy palm gently stroking her soft hair to calm her trembling form. "Your mother will drive her truck back to the den very soon, little one.""You arrogant, ungrateful bastard!"Jayden roars, his old fists slamming against the oak armrest as his aging alpha body bolts straight up from the host chair in pure fury.Earlier in the evening, Mirelle Ashen had whispered to his ears that my

Thomas trots fast down the stone corridor to swing the massive front doors open for their departure.Inside the main lounge, Mirelle Ashen sits back down on the velvet sofa cushions, her sharp eyes staring straight into Selene Nightbane’s pale face. "Your tongue should have never hidden this royal secret from our pack elders, Selene. Your mouth should have spoken the biological truth the second those babies dropped. Even if your spirit is completely unhappy with Kaelen’s attitude, your fangs should have never hidden a royal lineage for six winters just out of spite," Mirelle complains, her tone biting.Selene keeps her chin dropped toward her chest, her jaw locked. If her own brain had held a single trace of the truth before tonight, her voice would have gladly screamed it to the heavens.Her heart had always prayed that the twins would have a powerful alpha shoulder to protect their growth. However, Lyra’s tongue had sworn that the male who took her heat that night was just a nameles

My inner wolf had already guessed the exact identity of the shadow. "Name the snake.""Maria Herbert," Boyce says, his eyes fixing tightly onto my facial muscles to track my reaction. After all, his brain remembers the old days when the Herbert family tried to force Maria into my bedroom chamber. "The surveillance crystals I pulled from the hallway show Maria Herbert whispering to her cage two suns ago. Her gold resources also bribed a night guard to loosen Beulah's chains. Look at the visual copy yourself, Alpha. Even though her face was hidden behind a dark fur mask, our digital enforcers analyzed the skeletal gait. It is her exactly."Every piece of evidence is tracking straight down the path my beast had calculated.In the past suns, my brain assumed Maria’s vicious attacks against Lyra were simply born from a female's jealousy over our mated name. It wasn't until this exact moment that my wolf realized Maria's lethal hatred ran ten times deeper than a broken marriage scroll.The

Maria looks right into our eyes, her chest rising with sick amusement. She had always known this day of reckoning would hit her territory eventually, but her mind hadn't expected my heavy tracks to find her door quite this fast. "Why does your little badge care what my throat laughs at?" She says, choking back the last giggle.In Boyce’s eyes, her wide grin makes her look completely unhinged."Where did your trucks dump Lyra Nightbane?" A freezing, demonic growl echoes from the deepest shadow of my coat."How would my hands know where your little plaything is hiding?" Maria smiles, her eyes glinting with pure malice. "Why, Kaelen? Can't your supreme alpha nose find her scent? Did her legs decide to elope into the mountains with some rogue hunter—"The mocking sentence is violently cut short as a massive, iron-clad fist whooshes through the air, my thick claws locking around her throat like a steel vise and lifting her entire body off the stone tiles until the remaining words choke out

KAELEN BLACKTHORNE"The high council laws are settled, Selene," I growl, dropping my arms as the tension bleeds from my shoulders. "Lyra is my true mate. I am not letting her go.""I just do not want my girl to suffer anymore," Selene whispers, her voice breaking in the dim light of Ember Hall. "She took all the pain for those pups.""I am taking her to the Duskwild Expanse for a pack summit," I say, shifting the truth to keep her calm. "She needs to run with my wolf under the northern lights. We will be gone for several suns. Keep Orion and Liora safe within the boundary lines. I have heavily stationed my top hockey enforcers and elite pack guards around the perimeter of the Blackthorne Pack Estate. Do not cross the silver-mesh fences without an armed guard.""I will protect our blood," Selene promises, wiping her wet cheeks."Liora..." I begin, looking down the corridor."She is resting in the inner den," Selene murmurs quickly. "The poor pup woke up during the midnight howl crying