บททั้งหมดของ The Alpha's Hunted Hybrid Mate: บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 20

The next morning, I walked into school carrying the weight of too many unanswered questions. So I built a wall. Around my thoughts. Around my heart. Around everyone.The moment I spotted Ivy near the entrance, she smiled warmly and started walking toward me. I managed a small smile in return. Then I turned into another hallway before she could catch up. For the rest of the day, I practically disappeared.I avoided Kai. I especially avoided Ivy. In a school this crowded, it wasn't that difficult to become a ghost. The hardest part wasn't hiding from them. It was seeing him.Everywhere I looked, Fiona was glued to Cassian's side. She clung to his arm, laughed too loudly at everything he said, and acted like she already owned him. Cassian...He wore that same icy mask all day. There wasn't a trace of the mysterious, protective man who had held me against the hallway wall yesterday. Every time I saw them together, that familiar ache spread through my chest.I forced myself to keep walking

Darkness wrapped around my mind like fog. And once again, I found myself standing in that endless nighttime forest beneath towering ancient trees. I felt everything. The cold damp earth beneath my paws. The sharp scent of pine and moss filling my lungs. The weightless freedom of standing on four strong legs instead of carrying the fragile exhaustion of my human body. I turned my head slightly and looked over my shoulder.My fur was black. Not brown. Not gray. Black as the night itself. But near the tips, the darkness faded into white, as though moonlight had spilled across my coat and refused to leave.The contrast made me look unlike any ordinary wolf. Almost mythical. Unlike the frightened, clumsy steps I'd taken in my first dream, this time I moved with confidence. I lifted my ears. The whisper of wind through distant leaves reached me clearly. So did the beating wings of an owl miles away."Welcome back, my little one." That voice. Soft as velvet. Ancient. Powerful. It rose from t

The blood on my hands had dried hours ago. The beast inside me hadn't. Axel was still tearing at the walls of my mind, desperate to break free, run back to that cabin, and fall asleep wrapped in Bloom's scent. Keeping him under control -keeping my human form intact- felt like it was shaving years off my life.The moment I stepped into the pack house's council room, the tension hit me like a wall. The room was centered around a massive oak table, but it wasn't the furniture that commanded attention. It was the Alpha aura hanging in the air, so dense it felt like it could make the walls tremble.At the head of the table sat my father, Alpha Ronan, as solid and unmovable as a mountain. My mother sat beside him, concern softening her expression without diminishing the quiet dignity she carried. To their right were our Betas, Zane and Nova. Gamma Carter occupied the left side.Kai stood near the corner with his arms crossed, watching everyone in silence. Ivy wasn't here. She'd stayed behin

I spent most of the night tossing and turning, replaying everything Ivy had told me and trying to picture the world she had described. By morning, the sound of an SUV pulling up outside my cabin sent my heart into overdrive.I gave myself one last look in the mirror.The bandage around my shoulder was faintly visible beneath my T-shirt, and the excitement I was desperately trying to hide was written all over my face.Seriously, Bloom... you're an open book.When Ivy and I stepped outside, Cassian was already waiting, leaning casually against the passenger door.Dressed in a black leather jacket with his dark hair still slightly messy, he looked completely at home in the forest—like it belonged to him.Like he belonged to it. Kai waved at us from behind the wheel. The moment Cassian and I made eye contact, the familiar scent of blueberries and juniper drifted toward me, carrying away every ounce of my anxiety for just a second.His gaze lingered on my face before dropping to my injured

Fiona.The promise I'd made to myself echoed through my mind every time I crossed paths with Cassian in the school hallways. He has a girlfriend.I had stepped into a world I barely understood, and I'd spent my entire life respecting other people's boundaries.That meant I had to respect this one too. I had to. But every time his scent reached me... Or those blue eyes locked onto mine...The instinct inside me begged me to shatter every ounce of common sense I had. One afternoon after school, I was playing with the pack's youngest pups in the yard when I spotted Cassian walking toward us.The gray T-shirt he wore stretched across his broad shoulders, and the quiet authority surrounding him seemed to make the air itself heavier. As soon as he reached us, one of the little girls ran over and wrapped herself around his leg.His usual cold expression melted away in an instant. He crouched, gently ruffled her hair, then lifted his eyes to me. The intensity in his gaze stole my breath. It w