All Chapters of Bound to the Alpha King: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

“When you meet yourself at the end of the road, you will finally learn which version of you was lying.”The doors opened.Selene forgot how to breathe.They stood in perfect rows.Hundreds of Kaels.Some wore ancient armor.Some wore royal robes.Some were covered in blood.Some were barely more than boys.Every one of them had the same face.The same golden eyes.The same scar beneath the left eye.And every one was staring at her.The real Kael stood beside her, trembling.“No.”His voice was barely audible.“I know these men.”Selene turned.“How?”Kael's eyes moved across the army.“Because I killed them.”A Kael in black armor stepped forward.“You killed some.”Another smiled.“You loved others.”A third whispered:“You became all of us.”The army moved forward.Kael stepped in front of Selene.“Stay behind me.”One of the older versions laughed.“You still think you can protect her?”Kael raised his sword.“Yes.”The army drew their weapons.Selene's heart pounded.Then somethi

“When the dead return wearing the face you love, do not ask who they are. Ask who remembers loving them.”The bells rang again.Once.Twice.Then every statue in the temple turned its head toward the thing wearing Kael's face.Selene couldn't breathe.The creature climbed higher from the darkness.Kael's face.Kael's body.Kael's voice.But not Kael.The ring on its finger caught the moonlight.Selene knew that ring.She had watched Kael slide it onto her finger.She had watched him bleed when he swore it belonged to no queen before her.Yet the ring had been buried with her.She looked down at her own hand.Her ring was still there.Her stomach dropped.“There are two.”Caelan whispered, “No.”The thing smiled.“There were always two.”The woman beneath the throne screamed.“Don't listen to him!”The creature looked toward her.For the first time, its smile disappeared.“You're still afraid of me.”“I am afraid of what you remember.”Selene stepped forward.“Who are you?”The creatur

“Some children inherit their parents’ blood. Others inherit their parents’ sins.”“Mother.”The word echoed through the temple.Selene couldn't move.Every statue remained kneeling.Even the ancient creature wearing Kael's face had lowered its head.Only Kael remained standing.And he was staring at Julian as though he had just watched the world die.“No.”Julian looked at him.Kael's voice hardened.“Don't call her that.”Julian smiled sadly.“You always hated when she remembered.”Selene turned toward Kael.“What is he talking about?”Kael said nothing.“Kael.”Still nothing.Her chest tightened.“You told me you had never seen Julian before.”“I thought I hadn't.”“You thought?”Kael looked at her.“I have spent too many centuries discovering that my memories were lies.”Julian stepped closer.“But this one isn't.”Selene backed away.“Then prove it.”Julian's expression changed.“How?”“You're saying you're my son.”“I am.”“Then tell me something only my son would know.”Julian's

“A mother can forget the face of her child. But the soul remembers the hand it once held.”“He was my son.”The words remained suspended in the darkness.Selene stared at the scarred man.Kael stood between them, sword raised.Julian struggled in the man's grip.“Let him go.”The man smiled.“You said that before.”Selene's pulse hammered.“Before?”“Before you forgot.”“Stop saying that.”“You want the truth?”He tightened his fingers around Julian's throat.“Then remember.”The backward bell rang again.Once.The world changed.Selene was no longer standing in the temple.She was kneeling in snow.A child was dying in her arms.His silver hair was soaked with blood.His eyes were hers.“Mother…”Selene's younger self was crying.“I can save you.”The child smiled.“You already tried.”Behind them stood Kael.Not the Kael beside her now.An older Kael.Broken.Blood covered his hands.He was holding a sword.Selene screamed at him.“You promised!”Kael dropped the sword.“I couldn't

“If your memories can be stolen, how do you know the person you love ever loved you first?”“I am the reason you have been killing Kael for thousands of years.”Julian's voice was Selene's.The chamber seemed to stop breathing.Selene stared at him.“No.”Julian smiled.Her smile.The same small curve at the corner of her mouth when she was trying not to cry.“No,” Selene whispered again.Kael stepped between them.“Get away from her.”Julian looked at him.“You still protect her.”“I always will.”“Even after she kills you?”Kael's jaw tightened.“Yes.”Julian's expression softened.“That's why she chose you.”Selene looked at Kael.“Did you know?”“No.”“Then why does he sound like me?”Kael shook his head.“I don't know.”Julian laughed.“You never know.”His silver eyes flashed gold.The room shifted.Selene saw herself standing where Julian stood.Same posture.Same clothes.Same scar beneath her collarbone.Then the vision changed.She was older.Her hair was white.She was hold