All Chapters of The Alpha's Secret Heir: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

"What do you mean, Grandma? I saw that he wasn't carrying anything. He didn't even touch me, Grandma.""He left a trace." Grandma turned to look at me, her gaze difficult to interpret. "And that trace wasn't left on the ground."Reflexively, I rubbed my own arm. My skin felt warm, even slightly stinging. It wasn't merely ordinary warmth, but there was a subtle vibration that seemed to crawl along my bloodstream, spreading slowly yet steadily throughout my body. It felt like an invisible mark was mapping every inch of my skin, marking it as a newly claimed territory. This warmth was strange, as though it were resisting my desire to hate him."I don't feel anything, Grandma. Maybe this is just the effect of the weather," I said quickly, more as an attempt to convince myself.I was afraid that if I admitted to this feeling, I would truly become trapped in his world.Grandma stared at me for a long time, as though dissecting the lie on my face. "That's precisely the problem, Fay. If you d

I had already realized it even before the sky changed color. Something was wrong with tonight. The air felt thinner, as though the oxygen had been forcibly pulled from my lungs.My skin began to radiate an unnatural heat. This wasn't an ordinary fever, but a burning sensation creeping from deep within my bones, slowly spreading through every vein until it reached my fingertips."Grandma," I called in a voice that trembled violently. "Why do I feel like this? My chest feels so tight, Grandma."Grandma, who had been sitting calmly near the window, immediately stood. Her aged face looked tense as her fingers parted the faded curtain slightly. She froze for a moment, allowing the light from outside to seep into the room.I gathered the courage to look outside as well, and my heart seemed to stop beating. The moon above wasn't silver-white as usual. It looked horrifying, deep red like a pool of blood that had yet to dry on the black canvas of the sky."Grandma." My voice nearly disappeared

Jessi stood behind the branch of a towering pine tree, her body perfectly concealed by the thick fog that covered the edge of the forest. Her black clothes blended with the shadows of the tree trunks there. She did not need binoculars to see the old wooden house at the edge of the village. Her sharp sense of smell was enough to catch the scent she hated.Fay's scent.However, something was different this time. The scent was no longer merely the sweet fragrance of rain flowers. There was a mixture of energy ... so dominant, hot, and strongly pulsing. It was the scent of an Alpha's seed growing at an unnatural rate."Little parasite," Jessi hissed. Her eyes changed to a dim golden yellow as she scanned every corner of the house. "Aaron really has planted his power inside you, Fay. You have no idea how dangerous the burden you're carrying is."Jessi stepped down from the branch with an incredibly smooth movement, making almost no sound on the pile of dry pine branches. For the past few d

The sound of crickets outside the window slowly faded, swallowed by a silence that felt heavy yet familiar to me. I was somewhere between consciousness and unconsciousness. My body felt incredibly light, as though I were floating on a cloud, yet at the same time, an overwhelming exhaustion kept my eyelids closed.Then, I felt it.The air inside the room, which had been cold moments ago, suddenly changed. That scent ... the scent of a forest wet after the rain mixed with an intensely dominant masculine fragrance now filled my senses. My heart, which had been beating erratically, suddenly slowed, miraculously finding a calm rhythm.Aaron.I heard the bedroom door close carefully. For a few seconds, the room fell silent again, as though he were simply standing there, afraid to move.His footsteps finally approached, almost soundlessly.I heard the faint creak of the wooden floor, followed by a chair being gently moved before stopping beside my bed. Even with my eyes closed, I knew he was

"Answer me, Fay."Aaron spoke in a low, calm voice, yet his aura felt as cold as ice, as though it could freeze the air around us. Even so, when he closed the distance between us, the heat radiating from his body spread strongly across my skin, a confusing contrast against the biting night air.That unnatural warmth made it even harder for me to think clearly."I-I'm afraid of you, Aaron," I whispered softly, searching for another excuse I could throw at him. "The way you look at me, the way you seem to know everything about me ... it makes me feel suffocated. I'm just an ordinary human, Aaron. I don't understand your world, and I don't want to get involved in any of the mysteries you're hiding."Aaron fell silent. His jaw tightened, the muscles in his neck tensing as though he were holding back something that seemed close to exploding."Am I really that frightening to you?" His voice cracked, carrying the same frustration I had heard while I was asleep earlier. "Enough for you to tak