All Chapters of Bound to the Alpha King: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

> The most terrifying possession is not when something enters your body. It is when it knows your heart well enough to pretend it has always been there.The smile on Selene's face was wrong.Not because it was cruel.Because it was familiar.Caelan had seen that smile before.Three thousand years ago.And the sight of it nearly brought him to his knees."Selene?"Her golden eyes settled on him.She tilted her head."You still call me that."Caelan's breath caught.Kael stepped between them, sword raised."Get away from her."Selene looked at him.For a heartbeat, her expression softened."Kael."The king froze.Nobody had called him that way in years.Not with that particular tenderness.Not with the voice that belonged to someone he had buried twenty-six years ago.His sword lowered slightly."Who are you?"Selene smiled."You used to call me little wolf."Kael's face went white.Selene had never heard that name before.But the voice had."Little wolf," she repeated softly.Kael's fi

“A crown does not make a king. Sometimes it only reveals the monster wearing one.”The voice beneath the floor spoke again.“Bring me my crown.”Selene's blood turned cold.Kael's hand tightened around his sword.“No.”The word came from him before he could think.Something beneath the stone laughed.Not loudly.Worse.It sounded amused.The entire chamber trembled.Cracks raced across the floor, splitting the ancient tiles between them. Silver light leaked through the fractures.Julian grabbed Selene's arm.“We're leaving.”She didn't move.Her golden eyes remained fixed on the floor.“I know that voice.”Kael looked at her sharply.“What?”Selene pressed a hand against her chest.“I don't know how.”The golden glow flickered.“But I know him.”Caelan suddenly seized her wrist.“Don't listen.”Selene jerked away.“You said that before.”His face tightened.“You're remembering too quickly.”“Then tell me the truth!”Her scream echoed through the chamber.“Who am I?”Caelan stared at h

“Sometimes the person you fear becoming is the person you have already been.”“I remember killing you.”Kael's words hung in the chamber.Selene couldn't breathe.His eyes were gold now, but not the warm gold she'd seen in her own reflection.These were older.Colder.Eyes that had watched kingdoms burn.She took one step backward.“Kael?”He looked at her.For a heartbeat, the ancient coldness disappeared.“Selene…”His voice was his again.She almost ran into his arms.Then he whispered,“Don't come closer.”She stopped.Kael pressed both hands against his head.“I can hear him.”“Who?”“Myself.”A laugh echoed through the chamber.The ancient creature stood near the broken floor, staring at Kael with an expression Selene had never seen on him before.Fear.“You're awake too early,” he whispered.Kael's head snapped toward him.“Brother.”The creature went still.Selene's heart pounded.That single word seemed to wound him more than any blade.“You remember me?”Kael smiled.“I reme

“A prison is not always built from stone.Sometimes it is built from a person who loves you enough to stay.”The ninth crown burned against Selene's skull.She screamed.Not because it was hot.Because it was remembering her.Images tore through her mind.A throne beneath the earth.Eight figures kneeling.A child crying.Kael standing before her with a sword.Julian screaming her name.And herself—laughing.“No…”She collapsed.Kael caught her before her head struck the floor.“Selene!”His black eyes flickered gold.For a moment, he was himself again.“Look at me.”She gripped his coat.“I don't know who I am anymore.”His face broke.“You're Selene.”“How do you know?”“Because I know you.”“That isn't enough!”Her voice cracked.“What if I was created too?”Kael pulled her closer.“Then I'll love you anyway.”She went still.The words hurt more than the crown.Because they sounded exactly like something he had once said in another life.Behind them, Julian laughed.Not cruelly.S

“If there are a thousand versions of you, which one deserves to live?”Every suspended body opened its eyes.Selene couldn't move.Thousands of silver faces stared down from the chamber.Her face.A child.An old woman.A warrior.A queen.A corpse.A monster.All of them breathing inside the silver liquid.Kael grabbed her hand.“Don't look at them.”“I can't.”Her voice shook.“They're all me.”“No.”The woman in white stepped forward.“They are what you could have been.”Selene looked at her.“And the one in the center?”The woman didn't answer.That silence terrified her more than any explanation could have.The original Selene stepped out of the silver chamber.Bare feet touched the stone.She wore a simple white dress.No crown.No jewelry.No scars.She looked exactly like Selene.Except her eyes were completely silver.She looked at Kael.“You're late.”Kael's grip tightened around Selene's hand.“Do I know you?”The original smiled.“You used to call me Mother.”Kael froze.S