Lahat ng Kabanata ng Alpha's Blood Contract: Kabanata 131 - Kabanata 140

ELARAWhatever that meant sounded like exactly the kind of magic I should not experiment with at three in the morning while hiding from an Alpha sleeping in my bed.I should close the diary.Go upstairs.Sleep.Pretend I had never read any of this until morning.Instead, I turned the page. Of course I did.There was a small symbol drawn in the center, surrounded by words written in the same old language as the mantras. I couldn’t understand all of them, but beneath the symbol my mother had written an explanation in ordinary language.“To find what remains of you. ” I mumbled. “ In the end, they will turn dark with your blood, and will return every drop of it. ”My stomach tightened.What remained of me where?I couldn’t make sense of all the words for a long time. In the end, I thought about reading the mantra that appeared.But no. Right now, it would be stupid to attempt this crazy mantra.In the end, I lost the conflict and whispered the words under my breath, but nothing happened.

ELARA“Besides, you seem to like me terrifying.” He added.“I never said that.” My voice came out quieter than I intended, especially when his gaze dropped towards my mouth.His face was only inches from mine now, yet he did not attempt to close that distance.“ Why are you looking at me like that?” I swallowed.“Waiting.” His answer was simple, but it made the mark beneath my ear pulse warmly. “You brought me back into your bed, Princess. I am not assuming anything else.”Something tightened painfully inside my chest because I knew exactly why he was being this careful.“Then stop waiting,” I whispered before pressing my lips against his.Alaric froze for barely a second before kissing me back, and whatever sleepy softness remained in him disappeared quickly.His mouth became hungry against mine while one hand slid around my waist and pulled me closer, yet he never held me so tightly that I couldn't move.I tangled my fingers into his hair and kissed him harder, only breaking away wh

ALARICI woke with my cock hard against her thigh and her name already on my tongue.Dawn came grey through the curtains. Elara lay curled into my chest, hair spilling across my arm, the mark beneath her ear dark and warm against her skin.‘Mine.’ My wolf turned over at the sight of her and went quiet, and I let myself breathe slow around the size of it — her here, asleep, trusting me enough to go soft in my arms.The bond hummed between us, faint as a struck string, and for the first time in days it did not ache.She was supposed to be angry this morning. I had spent half the night waiting for it, watching shadows move across the ceiling, bracing for the first cold word. Instead she had slept with her face pressed to my shoulder, and that small surrender undid me more than her fury ever could. I had given her reasons enough to hate me. But last night she had handed me her body anyway, and I had been so careful with it I thought I might shake apart. This morning I wanted to earn the s

ELARAThat part of the story matched what the warriors had reported, including Sarah being the only one who told Kael to stop fighting before someone got killed.More importantly, Stephanie refusing vampire territory made it less likely that the three of them had been following some larger plan together.Kael had acted recklessly, Sarah had followed him because she knew they were bound to be found, and Stephanie had wanted to get away from me. Stupidity and anger were beginning to look more likely than conspiracy.“There is something else you need to know.” I watched him carefully because his reaction mattered more than another round of questions. “Three vampires breached the eastern side of North Shield while you were gone. They waited until I was outside the territory, and they came specifically for Elara.”Kael's entire posture changed. He stood so quickly that the bed scraped against the stone behind him, and whatever bitterness had remained on his face vanished.“Is that how she

ELARAHer eyes had landed on the small section of my neck my collar failed to cover, and I immediately knew what she had found.“Oh, that is fucking hilarious… ” Sarah hissed, the disturbed woman from seconds ago disappearing beneath the familiar irritation I knew much better. “You came down here dressed like somebody’s grandmother and still missed one.”I resisted the instinct to cover it because that would only make her more unbearable.“I didn't dress for you, Sarah, and whatever happened in Alaric's bedroom has absolutely nothing to do with why I came here.” I expected another crude comment, but something colder entered her expression instead, reminding me that her interest in Alaric was not a joke simply because he didn't return it. “Besides, he already told me about you two, so you can save whatever dramatic revelation you were planning.”That genuinely caught her off guard, and the surprise disappeared too slowly for her to hide it.“He told you we slept together?” She asked, a