All Chapters of Mated to My Best Friend's Alpha Daddy: Chapter 171 - Chapter 177

~EMBERI stood frozen beside Amaris's body, unable to understand what I was seeing in front of me.Her face had gone frighteningly still.The warmth that had always seemed to follow her everywhere was fading from her skin, leaving her complexion unnaturally grey beneath the soft ceremonial lights.“Amaris…”My voice barely came out.I stared at her for another second, waiting for her chest to rise, waiting for her eyes to flutter open, waiting for anything that would tell me this wasn't real.Nothing happened.My knees gave out.I fell beside her, catching myself with one hand before immediately reaching for hers with the other.“Amaris, please.” I whispered.Her hand felt so terribly still in mine.“Please wake up.”Tears blurred my vision.I shook her hand gently, as though that could somehow bring her back to me.“Amaris, wake up, for goodness' sake.”Nothing.“Come on. Please.” My voice broke completely. “You can't do this. Not now.”I bent over her, crying so hard that my shoulde

~AMARISThere was nothing.No sound. No warmth.No pain.Just darkness.I couldn't tell whether I was standing, walking, or floating. I only knew that I was moving endlessly, one step after another. Though I couldn't see where my feet were taking me.There was no beginning to the path, and there was no destination waiting ahead. Just an endless stretch of pitch-black darkness that swallowed everything around me.I tried to call out.“Hello?”My voice disappeared into the darkness.I kept moving.I didn't know where I was going. I didn't even know if there was somewhere to go.Then I saw him.Varg.He appeared ahead of me as though he had been standing there all along, his figure gradually becoming clearer against the darkness.My heart leaped.“Varg!”I hurried toward him.He looked at me, and somehow, despite everything about that place feeling wrong, seeing him made me feel safe.“You're here.”He held out his hand. “Come with me.”I didn't hesitate. I took his hand. His touch felt

~AMARIS I noticed Ember before she noticed me. She stood several feet away, surrounded by the noise of the celebration, yet somehow she looked completely alone. The music was playing again, people were laughing, and the pack had finally allowed itself to breathe after everything that had happened, but Ember hadn't moved. She was staring at me. For a moment, neither of us said anything. Then she took a breath. And another. I watched her fingers curl nervously around the edge of her dress before she finally took a step toward me. Then another. With every step, she seemed to lose a little more of the courage she must have gathered. When she finally stopped in front of me, she opened her mouth. Nothing came out. "Ember?" "I'm sorry." The words came so quietly that I almost didn't hear them. Her eyes immediately filled with tears. "I... I don't even know where to start." Her voice trembled. "I've been trying to come to you since you woke up, but I kept thinking about everyth

~AMARISI used to think peace would feel louder.After everything that had happened at Iron-Howl, I had imagined that the day the pack finally became free of fear would come with something dramatic. Perhaps another ceremony. Another announcement. Something grand enough to mark the difference between the life we had lived and the life we were finally allowed to have.Instead, peace looked like sunlight.It was the warm afternoon sun spilling across the pack house grounds, the sound of water splashing against the edges of the pool, and Ember laughing so loudly that I was beginning to regret ever agreeing to spend the afternoon with her.I sat at the edge of the pool, my feet submerged in the cool water while Ember floated lazily a few feet away.Varg was on the opposite side, looking far too comfortable for someone who had spent the last ten minutes being the target of his daughter's relentless teasing.“I still haven't gotten used to it,” Ember said suddenly.I glanced at her.“Used to