All Chapters of BOUND TO THE FORBIDDEN ALPHA PRINCE • BOOK II: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

🩸WARREN🩸"She's my mate."The words had barely left my mouth before the silence in my study turned thick enough that I could hear the faint crackle of the fire behind me, each pop of burning wood sounding louder than it had any right to sound.My mother stood perfectly still, her lips parted around whatever response she had abandoned halfway through forming, her eyes locked hard on my face. Garrick's brows had climbed nearly to his hairline, an expression I had rarely witnessed cross a man who had buried kings and survived decades of this bloodline's chaos without once losing his composure. Aldric, who had spent the better part of his life studying prophecy and performing rituals in service of exactly this question, looked as though I had just informed him the Moon Goddess herself had walked straight into my bedroom and asked politely for a drink.I looked from one face to the next, unbothered by the silence stretching heavier with every passing second.What the fuck was wrong with

💫RAYNE💫 “Hey!” I flinched as one of the guards stepped closer. “Where do you think you’re looking?” I turned back toward him, my pulse pounding so hard that I could feel it in my throat. “Stay away from me.” He laughed and took another step. I scrambled to my feet, putting as much distance between us as the uneven ground allowed. My knees hurt from the fall, and my hands were trembling, but I forced myself to stand upright. “I said, stay away from me!” “Or what?” he asked, spreading his arms. “What are you going to do about it?” The other guards moved closer, their laughter echoing against the mountain walls. I backed away until my heel struck a stone. “Please,” I said, hating how unsteady my voice sounded. “Whatever you think you’re going to do, just stop. I’m the Alpha’s slave. You can’t do this.” The guard nearest me snorted. “That’s exactly why this is going to be fun.” He reached for me. I slapped his hand away and tried to dart past him, but another guard caught

🩸WARREN🩸 The male who had been reaching for her barely had time to register my presence before I struck him. My jaw closed around his throat, and I drove him into the ground hard enough to crack stone beneath his skull. Before he could recover, I shifted my weight, sank my claws into his chest, and tore his heart free. The still-beating organ rested in my paw. The remaining four scattered. They didn’t get far. I caught the second one before he reached the trees, dragging him backward by the leg. He barely had time to scream before I pinned him beneath my weight. My claws plunged into his chest, tearing through flesh and bone until my paw closed around his heart. I ripped it out and flung his lifeless body aside. The third tried to shift. Too fucking late. I struck him before his transformation was complete, sending him crashing onto the rocks. He struggled beneath me, his claws scraping uselessly against my forelegs, but I had already found the place I wanted. My claws drove

🩸WARREN🩸 I shifted back into human form, and Ronan was already on the floor, bleeding so badly that the ground beneath him had turned dark. Fuck. He was going to die. I stared at the blood spreading beneath his body, at the way his chest rose and fell in shallow, uneven movements. My claws had torn through him before I had even recognized his face. I had been aiming for Emery, and Ronan had thrown himself between us without giving me a second to stop. I hadn’t planned to kill him this way. Hell, I hadn’t planned to kill the one person in this pack who had never bothered to hide his hatred for me. “Ronan!” Rayne dropped beside him, her knees hitting the bloodied ground. She gathered his head into her lap, pressing trembling hands against his face as though she could hold him here through sheer desperation. “Ronan, look at me.” Her voice cracked. “Please, look at me.” Tears streamed down her cheeks, falling onto his face as she bent over him. She was still fucking crying.

💫RAYNE💫 The Queen looked back at the river. “Tell me how you became his personal slave,” she said. “And tell me what happened today.” I swallowed. “I stole vegetables from his farmland.” The confession left my mouth with a shameful little sting. I stared at the ground, wishing I could somehow make that part of my history sound less pathetic. “I was desperate to get some for my stepmother. The guards caught me, and the Alpha said I would work as his slave until I paid my debt.” I pressed my lips together before continuing. “Today, I went into the forest behind his chambers. Five men attacked me. I recognized their uniforms as belonging to the pack guards, but I didn’t know why they wanted to hurt me. The Alpha came and saved me.” “What happened to the guards?” I remembered the enormous wolf, the crimson eyes, and the sound of claws tearing through flesh. My stomach tightened, and I had to force myself to breathe normally. “He killed them all.” The Queen didn’t react immediat