Todos los capítulos de The Alpha My Sister Wanted: Capítulo 81 - Capítulo 90

By the second bend, Cassian's full weight hung between us.His legs dragged. His head rested against my shoulder, and every few steps his breathing caught in a way I had started counting without meaning to.Ezra had the heavier side. I had the torch, and there was almost nothing left of it.My marked arm kept failing. Twice my hand stopped closing around Cassian's belt, and both times Ezra took the extra weight without comment.We had been underground long enough for dusk to become deep night.Then the air changed.Cold came down the corridor against us, thin and steady, carrying wet soil, pine and the sour smell of leaves rotting under old snow.My wolf pulled hard to the left."There," I said.Ezra stopped. "The passage goes up.""The air doesn't."We lowered Cassian to the floor. The left wall looked like every other stretch of corridor until I put my palm against it and felt the draught coming through a seam behind a curtain of roots.Ezra tore them away in fistfuls. Behind them t

Vivian did not wait for Ezra to answer her in the courtyard."Not here."She looked past us at the wolves pretending they had not heard every word."I am not giving them the details as well." Her gaze returned to me. "But she comes."Maren opened the small room beside the infirmary. Vivian went in first and shut the door.The room smelled of lamp oil and the blood drying on Ezra's clothes and mine. The lamp had burned low enough to stain the glass black.None of us sat.Vivian put her hands behind her back."I have one question," she said. "The rest is pack business."Ezra faced her."Were you ever going to tell me?"He did not ask what she meant."I don't know."Vivian absorbed that without blinking."You don't know.""No.""We both turned eighteen. We both knew we were not mates." Her voice remained level. "We knew what the pack expected. We were going to do it anyway.""Yes.""Say something else."Ezra looked down at the blood hardened across his shirt."I knew the arrangement had

Ezra POVMy father sent for me before Aurora left the infirmary.The guard found me outside Cassian’s room and delivered the message quietly.“Council chamber. Immediately.”I looked at the closed infirmary door.Aurora had been inside for almost an hour. I had heard no alarm, nothing that gave me a reason to enter.That did not make walking away easier.“Is Cassian awake?” I asked.“I was not told.”I sent a guard to remain outside the room and started towards the council wing.The pack house had not slept properly since we returned. Conversations stopped when I passed and resumed too quickly behind me. Someone had already spread the story of the cave through half the house, though nobody had enough facts to tell it accurately.Aurora had opened Ashvane ground.Cassian Valehart had come to claim Black Moon Ridge.Victor was dead.Victor was alive.The last rumour was the only one I believed.The council chamber doors were open.My father sat at the head of the table. Maren occupied t

By dawn, half of Black Moon Ridge had gathered at the training field to see whether I belonged there. I understood before I reached the gate that the other half had only come to watch me fail.The grandstand was full. Ordinary wolves packed the open benches in coats pulled on too fast, breath fogging in the cold. The covered section held the council, empty chairs waiting at the front for the two names that were about to become official before the whole pack.I had left Cassian an hour ago, still asleep, still breathing. I had washed the blood from under my nails and could not do anything about the tiredness sitting behind my eyes, or the memory of black fur rising through my own skin the day before.Vivian was already there when I arrived, standing near the dais in a grey coat with no silver thread anywhere on it. She looked composed in the specific way that meant she had practised looking composed. I recognised it because I had spent years learning the same trick, just never with an

Darius took the ledger and dismissed us both without much ceremony, already deep in conversation with Harwick about who else needed to see it before nightfall. Vivian left without looking back. I didn't blame her. There wasn't much left to say between us that hadn't already been said with numbers.Ezra was waiting near the east garden, the one with the old stone benches nobody used anymore.He didn't ask how the review had gone. He'd probably already heard, the way everything in this house travelled faster than the people it was about."You stood there," I said, before he could say anything at all. "You told the whole pack I was your mate, and then you stood there like none of it touched you while Harwick tried to take me apart.""It touched me.""It didn't look like it.""It wasn't supposed to look like anything." He kept his voice even, though something moved behind it. "The moment it looks like it touched me, it becomes about what I feel instead of what you did."I understood the l