All Chapters of Alpha's Blood Contract: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

ELARAI threw myself sideways, my shoulder hitting the stone wall so hard that pain shot through my arm. I barely managed to avoid his hand as it cut through the space where my throat had been only a second ago. My heart was pounding wildly, but I did not give myself time to panic. My eyes landed on the heavy candlestick sitting on a small table beside me, and I grabbed it before swinging it toward his head with everything I had.He caught my wrist before I could hit him. His fingers closed around me so tightly that I cried out, and the next thing I knew, my back slammed against the wall. The air rushed out of my lungs, leaving me gasping as he leaned closer. I kicked his knee as hard as I could, hoping it would be enough to make him let go.It was not. He barely moved.Fear rushed through me, but I refused to stop fighting. I twisted my wrist, scratched at his hand, and tried to push him away, but he was far too strong. His fingers suddenly moved from my wrist to my throat, closing a

ELARA“I am tired of people deciding what I should know and what I should not know,” I whispered, my voice barely carrying across the room. Devon's expression softened slightly as he watched me. “Knowing everything is not always worth the price. ”He was not trying to frighten me anymore. He was genuinely warning me, and somehow that made the decision even harder. If Devon, who had every reason to want answers about me, was telling me to stop, then perhaps there really was something dangerous waiting behind those memories.“Maybe not.” I slowly rose from my spot, my legs still slightly unsteady beneath me. “But not knowing has already cost me enough. I need to know what really happened, Devon. I need to know who I was before everyone decided that I was better off forgetting.”He took a step toward me, his brows drawing together as though he could already see the choice I was about to make. “Elara—” “I need to know,” I repeated, more firmly this time.My gaze dropped toward the small

ELARAThe forest was dark and the only source of light was the moon that shone too brightly. Mommy had taken me to the run down building in the middle of the dark woods. I had asked her where we were going and she only told me that we were going to meet a Goddess. But now, my mother was kneeling in the middle of the broken ceiling. Her hands were pressed flat against the earth, and her whole body was trembling. I stood a few feet behind her, disliking a Goddess I had not even seen because she made my Mommy kneel.“ Please. ” Mommy whispered into the dark. “ Please, I am begging you. Save my daughter. ”The air around the clearing shifted, thickening with a presence I couldn’t see but felt pressing against my small chest like a physical weight. A voice answered in a thick tone. It was like a hundred voices speaking in unison through one impossible throat.“ Your daughter’s blood burns because the bond you forged was never real. ” The voice said. “ You can not undo a lie with more mag

ELARASmoke filled my lungs before I even understood what was happening.It was everywhere, thick and black, covering the night sky and burning my small eyes until tears blurred everything around me.I could hear people screaming somewhere behind us, their voices mixing with the crackling of fire and the terrible howls coming from the woods.My mother held me tightly against her chest as she ran, one arm beneath my legs and the other wrapped around my back so firmly that there was no chance of me slipping from her hold.While she ran for her life, I could only think about one thing. I should have told her the Alphas were coming for us. If only my five-year-old brain had understood what was actually about to happen, I would have told her everything.But I didn’t. And the Alphas came to all of our people unannounced.I buried my face against her neck and coughed, my small fingers desperately holding onto her dress. She smelled nothing like the mother I had remembered only moments earlie

ELARAThe next thing I remember is grass under my back and a boy's face leaning over mine, blocking out the sun.I was lying in a garden. Flowers grew in neat rows all around me, and somewhere close by I could hear water running, but I couldn't turn my head far enough to see where it came from.My whole body ached in a way I didn't understand yet, and my throat felt raw, like I had been screaming for a very long time before I finally stopped.“ Hey… ” The boy said softly.He looked a little older than me, maybe ten, with dark hair falling messy over his forehead. “ Are you okay? Where did you come from? ”I didn't answer him. I couldn't. My whole chest felt hollow, like something important had been scooped out of it and left an empty space behind.“ Mama! ” He shouted over his shoulder, not taking his eyes off me. “ Mama, come quick! There is a girl in the garden! ”Footsteps hurried across the grass, and a woman's face appeared beside the boy's, soft and worried, her hands already re