Semua Bab Alpha's Blood Contract: Bab 121 - Bab 130

ELARA“There she is… ” The vampire grinned, beginning to walk toward me.His eyes moved over me with open satisfaction before settling on my face again.“This is easier than I expected.” He added.My feet moved backward instinctively, but I forced myself to stop after the second step. Fear was still twisting inside my stomach, yet underneath it was something hotter.I remembered the diary lying in Linda's hands upstairs and the strange warmth that had moved through my fingertips only minutes ago.‘For those who come against you.’ My mother's words sounded in my head. I lifted my hand.The vampire actually laughed. “What are you going to do with that?”That was an excellent question because I had absolutely no idea.He lunged before I could reconsider what I was doing.I started the mantra, but the first word came out wrong when panic tightened my throat. Nothing happened, and the vampire's hand closed around my arm hard enough to make pain shoot toward my shoulder.“ Shit.” I twisted

ELARAThe courtyard still smelled like blood, and no matter where I looked, there was another reminder of what had happened only minutes ago.Warriors moved between the damaged gate and the Packhouse, carrying the injured inside while others cleared broken pieces of wood and checked the bodies near the wall.The three vampires who had made it through were restrained several feet away, but I still couldn’t make myself relax while they were this close to me.My throat burned every time I swallowed, and the skin around it felt tender where the vampire's fingers had squeezed hard enough to stop my breathing.I had already checked the marks twice with my fingertips, almost expecting them to disappear once the danger was over, but they were becoming more painful instead.I could use the healing magic and heal them instantly, but I had already shown too much of my newly discovered powers in a single night. I didn’t want anyone else to discover more and tell Alaric.Linda came over with my mo

ELARASomeone was going to tell him what I had done. So, it was better for me to tell him myself before one of the warriors turned the entire thing into something worse than it already was.I subtly moved the book farther beneath my arm, keeping the worn cover pressed against my side where Alaric wouldn't pay much attention to it.“I used magic…” I watched his expression carefully as I admitted it, already knowing that those three words would be enough to make him forget the vampire for at least a few seconds. “I had been practicing something earlier, and when they attacked, I tried it on them.”Alaric's eyes immediately narrowed. His gaze dropped toward my hands before returning to my face, and I could almost see another dozen questions forming inside his head. “What kind of magic have you been practicing?” He asked, his voice quieter now as his fingers tightened slightly around mine.“Protection magic.” I kept the answer deliberately simple because it was not technically a lie, and

ALARICElara’s suggestion hung between us for several seconds, but my attention remained on Kael.He stood across the courtyard with his wrists bound, surrounded by warriors who had once taken orders from him without hesitation. Dirt covered his clothes, blood had dried along the side of his face, and anger burned in his eyes as he stared directly at me.Twenty years beside each other, and somehow we had ended up here, with me deciding whether my own Beta belonged in my dungeon for the second time in two days.My jaw tightened. I didn't want to do this.That was the part nobody standing here would understand. They would see their Alpha dealing with a man who had abandoned his position, attacked his own warriors, disappeared with Stephanie, and fought the men sent to bring him back.They wouldn't know that I could still remember Kael standing beside me when we were barely old enough to understand what being Alpha and Beta would eventually demand from us.But memories didn't erase what

ELARAI had been sitting on the edge of my bed for nearly half an hour when I finally heard footsteps outside my room. I had taken a shower and changed out of my dirty clothes and into an oversized black shirt that reached halfway down my thighs, but sleep had been impossible with everything running through my head.Every few minutes, my fingers drifted towards the bruises around my throat before I forced them back into my lap. I really wanted to heal the bruise, but not right now. It was not a good time.My mother’s diary was hidden beneath my pillow. I had even considered reading it while waiting for Alaric, but I couldn't concentrate long enough to understand anything written inside it.Sarah had been taken downstairs with the others, Beta Kael was imprisoned again, and Stephanie was somewhere with the healer after everything Alaric had done to her.The entire Packhouse felt like it was holding its breath, waiting for another disaster before the night could finally end.Suddenly, a