All Chapters of Beg For Me, Alpha Kael : Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

The High Council did not take defeat lightly; they panicked. Following the disastrous climax of the Moonlit Hunt, where Lord Corvin’s elite mercenaries were routed and the primary Shadow-Beast core was claimed under the Sovereign’s mark, the subterranean corridors of the Council fortress were in a state of outright frenzy. By midnight, the emergency Directorate chamber was lit by fifty tallow candles. Lord Corvin slammed his heavy signet ring onto the dark oak table, his yellowed eyes bloodshot with rage. "She is a phantom!" Corvin hissed, his voice echoing off the damp stone walls to the gathered elders. "Mask 99 has systematically neutralized every legal mandate, every trial trap, and every biological lure we have set! The final unmasking gala is five days away! If that female stands beside Sovereign Lucien without a verified bloodline record, the High Directorate’s authority over the Northern Territory will be permanently severed!" Sitting at the foot of the table, Seraphina c

The lingering heat of Lucien’s bed chamber still clung to my skin, but inside my chest, a freezing current of dread began to circulate. It was not merely the lingering scent of cedarwood and ozone that haunted me, nor the memory of his heavy, scarred hands mapping every inch of my body in the dark. It was something far more dangerous, a ghost of sensation that refused to remain buried. When he had dragged me to the edge of the oak table hours before, pinning my wrists above my head with a single iron palm, a sudden, terrifying lightning bolt of recognition had shattered my focus. The exact angle of his heavy chest pressing into mine, the lethal, possessive rhythm of his hips, the way his dark baritone rasped low against the column of my throat when he lost control,it was all devastatingly, inexplicably familiar. I have been beneath this man before, my body had screamed in silent panic. Long before the selection. Long before the cliff. It was an impossible thought. Before the