บททั้งหมดของ The Alpha's Forbidden Flame: บทที่ 31 - บทที่ 40

Camille's POV I built a network in three days.It started with Maya's contacts—the Silver Creek wolves who had watched my livestreamed escape and recognized the truth beneath Holden's propaganda. Pack members who had seen his cruelty firsthand but lacked the power to act. Omegas who remembered the woman who had survived seven years of humiliation with her dignity intact. They became my eyes and ears, passing information through encrypted channels that Maya had established years ago for exactly this purpose."You're good at this," Maya said on the second night, watching me coordinate messages on three different burner phones. "Scarily good.""I'm desperate." I didn't look up from the screen. "There's a difference.""No. Desperate people make mistakes. You're making moves." She leaned back in her chair, studying me with an expression I couldn't read. "Three days ago, you were a runaway Omega with no allies. Now you have a spy network inside enemy territory, a faction forming within Sha

Camille's POV The accusation came at dawn.Elder Casimir stood in the great hall, his weathered face twisted with righteous fury, pointing at James and Cecelia with a trembling finger. Behind him, the watching sigils I had discovered lay spread across a table like evidence at a trial—which, I realized too late, was exactly what this was."Silver Creek wolves," Casimir spat. "Defectors from the pack that hunts us. And we're supposed to believe it's coincidence that someone has been spying on the Bell witch since the day they brought her here?"The hall was packed with Shadow Moon wolves, their eyes moving between the accused and the accuser, fear and suspicion spreading like wildfire through their ranks. I saw James's face—pale, shocked, the expression of a man watching his second chance crumble before his eyes. Cecelia stood beside him, her chin lifted, refusing to show the terror I knew she felt."We didn't do this." James's voice was steady despite everything. "We left Silver Creek

Camille's POV Holden looked smaller than I remembered.I stood at the edge of the neutral clearing, watching my former mate cross the open ground toward the meeting site. The man who had haunted my nightmares for seven years walked with the same arrogant stride, wore the same cold expression, and projected the same aura of absolute authority.But something had shifted in my perception.The monster who had loomed so large in my memory was just a man—broad-shouldered, handsome, broken in ways he refused to acknowledge.I felt nothing.No fear. No rage. No desperate need to run, hide, or make myself invisible.Just a hollow recognition, like encountering a stranger wearing a familiar face.The Silver Creek elders had arrived first—three gray-haired wolves who studied me with undisguised curiosity. They had expected the broken Luna they remembered—the silent, submissive creature who cleaned their halls and endured their Alpha's cruelty without complaint.Instead, they found a woman who s

Camille's POV The seal matched.I stood in Marcus's office, holding the Council summons in one hand and the bounty contract in the other. The documents were different sizes, different textures, written in different hands. But the wax seals were identical—the wolf's head ringed by nine stars, pressed with the same sigil, stamped by the same authority.The Council of Alphas had placed the bounty on my head.The Council of Alphas wanted Luna delivered.The Council of Alphas had been hunting us from the beginning."Ten million dollars." My voice came out strange, detached, as if I were reading someone else's death warrant. "They offered ten million for me alive. Another five for Luna unharmed. And the whole time, they were preparing to summon us legally."Marcus took the documents from my hands, comparing them with the careful eye of a man who had survived decades of political warfare."The bounty was a backup plan." His jaw tightened. "If you couldn't be brought in through official chan

Camille's POV Etienne's car had barely cleared the gates when my phone buzzed.A text from an unknown number, four words: "Meet me at dawn."I stared at the screen, my heart hammering against my ribs. The vampire had just told me my blood contained something ancient, something that had terrified a creature who had lived for centuries. Now he wanted to meet again, barely hours after fleeing like a man who had seen his own death.I should have ignored it. I should have focused on the security layouts in my hands, on the rescue mission that needed planning, on the sixty days ticking away toward the Council's judgment. But something in those four words pulled at me—a thread I couldn't let go."What is it?" Maya appeared at my shoulder, her eyes scanning the phone."Etienne. He wants to meet again.""Absolutely not." Her voice was sharp. "You gave him what he wanted. The deal is done.""He's scared, Maya." I looked up at her. "A four-hundred-year-old vampire just fled from a single drop o