The Blood Alpha’s Captive Mate のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 51 - チャプター 60

EMBER The moment I stepped out of Azai's study, the guilt nearly brought me to my knees. I forced myself to keep walking. One foot in front of the other.If I stopped for even a second, I was afraid I would run straight back into that room and confess everything. The vision replayed endlessly inside my head.Red skies. Blood. Three masked figures standing among corpses.The worst part wasn't the prophecy. It was the fact that I had lied by omission, not telling him about what the masked man said.I could still see the look of suspicion Azai had given me. I should have told him. Yet fear had wrapped itself around my throat and squeezed until the words died before reaching my lips. By the time I realized where my feet had carried me, I was standing in the western fields.The farm stretched endlessly beneath the late morning sun. Workers moved between rows of crops while the air shimmered with heat. Someone called my name, but I ignored them.I grabbed the nearest hoe and wal

EMBER Azai's eyes darkened as he looked at me, the last threads of his restraint fraying. He pulled me closer, his large hands sliding down my waist, gripping my hips with just enough pressure to make my breath hitch. His touch was cold at first, but the heat of his gaze was sizzling. I leaned in and pressed my lips to his throat. A low growl rumbled from his chest as his hands tightened on my hips, pulling me flush against him. He kissed me then, slow at first. His mouth moved against mine with care, tasting, exploring, as if he was memorizing every second. I melted into him, my fingers sinking into his long black hair, tugging gently. The kiss deepened, turning hungry. His tongue traced my lower lip before slipping inside, claiming my mouth with a possessiveness that made my core throb. Memories flooded me in fragments. The same bed. The same hunger. His body moving over mine, hard and deep, while I whispered his name. A breathy moan slipped out of

EMBER Athena stood beside me in silence while my fingers hovered inches from the handle. My son was on the other side. Awake. Even so, I was filled with so much fear.The last memory Kora had of his mother couldn't have been of warm arms or bedtime stories. It was me with a dagger. Me trying to kill his father.My hand started shaking."Ember," Athena whispered. "You don't have to rush."I looked at her."I have waited long enough." My voice cracked.I pushed the door open. My son's chamber was brighter than the freezing room I'd first seen him in.Morning light slipped through tall windows covered by thin cream curtains.And there, in the enormous bed near the center of the room, was Kora. My breath hitched.He was tiny beneath the blankets. His long black hair had tangled around his shoulders during sleep, framing a pale little face that looked so much like my husband and a bit of me.His eyes were green. Like mine.They were already staring at me.Kora sat propped against s

EMBER What if the masked man was right?‘The Blood Alpha falls tonight. You will deliver the final blow.'He had been talking to me.The worst part was that I still didn't know whether I had witnessed something that had already happened or something waiting for me in the future.My stomach twisted painfully because I had already hurt Azai once. Apparently, I had nearly killed him, and Kora had been there to see enough of it that even after everything he'd endured, he remembered.What if whatever had made that woman hurt him was still inside me too?Kora trusted me now. He had reached for me.Was letting him trust me selfish?The thought made my chest tighten.I couldn't stay away from him. I already knew that. Loving him felt as natural as breathing even when I couldn't remember giving birth to him, but what if love wasn't enough?What if the safest thing I could do for my son was leave?I slowed as a strange knowledge hit me. That thought had felt familiar. Not because I'd cons

AZAI As it turns out, five hours was enough time to lose a wife, a shoe, and what remained of my fucking sanity. Now she was standing naked beside Selene's lake with silver light dancing across the water behind her, while Deonne watched us from between the trees. My arm tightened around Ember. Deonne's eyes moved from me to my wife, and something about her expression bothered me immediately. She looked unsettled. "I was asleep in my chambers when Mother Selene spoke to me." That caught my attention. "She spoke to you?" "Yes. She told me to come and sanctify her lake." I glanced towards the water. It was still glowing. The light moved beneath the surface in long streams, gathering around the place Ember had been standing moments ago before spreading slowly towards the banks. In all the years I had known this place, I had never seen it do that. "When I arrived," Deonne continued, "Ember was already coming through the forest." My gaze snapped back to her. "She was already