Todos los capítulos de The Alpha My Sister Wanted: Capítulo 71 - Capítulo 80

Cold air kept rising out of the gap Cassian had opened, carrying the smell of damp earth and standing water, and rust somewhere underneath it. I had one foot toward the opening when Ezra's hand closed hard around my arm."Wait."Boots on stone, more than one set, moving without any effort to stay quiet. More boots stopped further back. I counted at least four sets, maybe more.Cassian went rigid, angled toward the sound.Three figures appeared in the tunnel behind us, spreading out across the entrance to the chamber. Behind them, other shapes shifted in the dark, waiting rather than advancing."Bloodstone," Cassian said, low.The older one, grey through the jaw, let his gaze move from the lit wall to the gap at our feet. The corner of his mouth tightened."Go on," he said. "You opened the way."Nobody moved for a second. I studied him, the set of his shoulders, the way none of the three behind him so much as shifted their weight. None of them looked nervous or impatient. They stood th

The older Bloodstone wolf’s voice followed us into the passage.“Keep going.”I did.The tunnel bent sharply and dropped beneath the weight of the mountain. Cassian’s torch threw a narrow circle of light ahead of us, barely enough to show wet stone, uneven ground, and the same three shallow marks cut beside every turn.Ezra stayed behind me. Boots scraped over rock beyond him as the Bloodstone wolves entered the marked route.They were done waiting.The sound of water grew until it swallowed everything else.The passage opened beside a river running through the cave, black and fast beneath the torchlight. A narrow shelf followed the wall above it, no wider than my shoulders in places. Spray washed over the edge and left the stone shining.Cassian lifted the torch.The shelf continued for twenty feet before widening at another tunnel. Cracks ran through the middle section, thin near the wall and deeper at the outer edge where the current had worn away the rock beneath it.“That won’t h

The guards reached Victor's study minutes after the hearing ended.I went with Darius, though neither of us said why. Part of me expected to find Victor waiting, composed behind his desk, ready to argue that a suspended title changed nothing. He had always been better at staying than at running.The study was empty.Not ransacked. Not overturned. Emptied with the same care he brought to everything, drawers closed, papers squared, the chair pushed in. Whatever he had wanted, he had taken without hurry.Darius stood in the centre of the room and turned once, slowly."His travel case is gone," he said. "The locked one. He kept it beneath the window.""You knew about it.""I knew he never let anyone near it."A younger wolf appeared in the doorway, breathing hard from the stairs."Alpha. The east gate."We reached it faster than my legs wanted to carry me.Two gate guards waited, and I knew before either spoke that something had gone wrong, because neither of them would look directly at D

The black line stopped moving halfway across my wrist.I watched it long enough to be certain.It lay beneath my skin like a vein that did not belong there, dark against the pale inside of my arm. The pain had faded to a low burn, but each time I looked towards the seal, it sharpened.Cassian noticed.“Step back from it.”“I already have.”“Another step.”I moved farther into the water.The burning eased.Ezra stood between me and the wall, studying the black roots that twisted through the old carving. He had returned the moon disc to me, but hi

The wall closed behind me.I kept moving.The passage sloped beneath the seal, narrow enough that the stone brushed both shoulders. The pendant and moon disc remained behind me, fixed into the outer wall. I could still feel their pull, stretched from the seal towards whatever waited ahead.A faint silver light marked the path.It did not come from a torch or a carving. It gathered along the edges of the stone, cold and thin, just enough to show where the floor dropped.The black line beneath my skin burned harder with every step.The passage curved once before opening into a small chamber.There was no altar. No ceremonial carving. No