All Chapters of Marked by My Alpha's Father: Chapter 81 - Chapter 83

The splintering scream of the iron gates echoed off the jagged stone walls of the keep like a death knell. For weeks, the Silver Ridge pack had prepared for siege, but no one was truly ready for the visual horror of the vanguard currently stepping through the smoking ruins of their defenses. The heavy iron-reinforced wood that had stood for three generations lay shattered into black splinters, still smoldering with an unnatural, greenish-purple oil that hissed against the stone. ​Elena stood frozen for a single heartbeat, her hand locked in Marcus’s. The contrast between them was stark, yet entirely unified. The link between them was a heavy pressure in the air—an invisible, iron-strong tether of golden-silver Alpha dominance that rippled outward, forming a psychic perimeter that made the air around the courtyard buckle. ​But as the heavy smoke from the blast cleared, the courtyard did not fill with the usual roaring, chaotic frontline of the Blood Moon pack’s warrior wolves. ​I

Devon took a slow step forward, the shattered glass covering the stone floor groaning and snapping beneath his heavy leather boots. Every tiny movement looked like a monumentally agonizing battle against gravity itself. His left shoulder was visibly dislocated, the bone jutting out at an unnatural, grotesque angle beneath his torn, blood-soaked leather tunic, but his right arm remained wrapped around the wicker travel basket like an unbreakable vise. The willpower required to keep that grip steady while his body screamed in agony was written in the deep lines etched across his forehead. "Take him," Devon rasped, his voice cutting through the howling wind that danced maliciously through the ruined room. He carefully extended his good arm, presenting the heavy basket to Elena with a trembling hand that threatened to give out at any second. Elena lunged forward, her hands shaking so violently she could barely hook her fingers through the braided handles. She scooped baby Silas out of