All Chapters of Fake Bond of the Lycan Lords : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Betty POV"Go to sleep."The whisper cut through the dark of my bedroom the exact second Leonardo hit the carpet. His large frame went down with a heavy, dead thud, his forehead striking the edge of the wardrobe before he rolled onto his side. He did not blink. He did not breathe. He just stayed there, a limp pile of muscle under the dim light of the ceiling bulb."What are you doing here?" I snapped, my heels digging into the mattress as I backed away from the shadow near the curtains.Audrey stepped into the light, her lips pulled back in a sharp, bitter line. "Well, it is a long story. Let us just say the coven witches want to meet you. So, I am taking you there.""If that is the case, why didn't they just ask me?" I retorted, my fingers clenching into the sheets."Yeah, that was the original plan," Audrey said. She took a slow step forward, her fingers curling into a tight claw. "But I thought this was so muc

Adriel POV"Get out before I tear your throat open," I growled, my voice vibrating through the floorboards.Audrey flinched, her heels clicking rapidly against the polished hardwood as she backed away from my desk. The smug grin she had been sporting all morning finally vanished, replaced by a flicker of genuine terror. She did not say another word. She simply turned and bolted out of my office, slamming the heavy oak door behind her.I leaned back in my leather chair, rubbing the bridge of my nose as the tension in the pack house continued to escalate. The air was thick with the scent of burnt ozone and pure, unadulterated rage."You think you can dictate terms to a future Alpha?" a voice roared from the floor below, followed by the deafening sound of plaster shattering.I froze. That was Mitchell.A heavy thud shook the ceiling structure, accompanied by a sharp splintering sound that could only mean one thing. Someone had just been launche

Betty POV"Wake up, Betty," a voice hisses.The sound scrapes against the inside of my skull. It does not belong to me."Get out of my head," I spit.I slam my hands against my temples. My palms hit slick, cold stone. I am not in the forest anymore. The damp scent of pine and crushed grass is entirely gone, replaced by the suffocating stench of burnt copper and old dust."You think you have a choice?" the voice mockingly laughs.Novalee.The dead witch is a parasitic itch under my skin. The memory pool she forced me into still burns behind my eyes. I saw it all. I saw the way the mate bond forced her into the Lycan King’s bed. I saw her belly swell with his child. I saw the exact moment her obsession with revenge turned her into a monster.She slaughtered her own bloodline. She ripped her own wolf apart just to watch the kingdom bleed."She was blind," I whisper into

 Mitchell POV "You have exactly three seconds to choose, Mitchell," Audrey says. She pulls her collar down. Her skin is pale, smooth, and completely blank. "I am not losing her," I say. My chest feels tight, like an iron band is winding around my ribs. "If I lose Betty, I am done." "Then let me take the mark," Audrey whispers. She steps closer. The scent of her is wrong, all chemical sweetness and no dirt, no forest, nothing like the woman who owns my soul. "It is a transfer. A temporary ink. It tricks the bond for forty eight hours, then it fades. Your connection to Betty stays untouched." "And she will forgive me?" "She will never even know," Audrey says. I look at the trees. The leaves are moving in the wind, a long, low hiss that sounds exactly like a warning. My brother is screaming in the back of my mind. His voice is

 Betty POV “Choose now, Betty,” Diane says, her voice slicing through the thick, unnatural silence of the clearing. “Stay here in the clearing forever, or go back to your body. But if you go back, you go back entirely alone. Tola stays here.” My breath hitches. My hands drop to my sides, fingers digging into the damp dirt. “I won’t be a lycan anymore?” “You never were one,” Diane says, her eyes flat and unblinking. She paces forward, her bare feet making no sound on the grass. “Tola was the lycan. Without her, you are nothing but an ordinary human.” A cold weight drops straight into my stomach. An ordinary human. I stare down at my hands, watching them tremble. If I go back like that, Adriel and Mitchell will tear me to pieces. The bond will snap. The sheer pressure of their world will crush me within a week. I cannot su