บททั้งหมดของ The Alpha's Hunted Hybrid Mate: บทที่ 61 - บทที่ 70

When I opened my eyes, cold gray morning light spilled through the tall bedroom windows, washing over my face. In an instant, my mind was dragged back to the chaos of last night.The steam-filled bathroom.The rough, husky growl that had seeped through the door and settled beneath my skin.My heart immediately began pounding against my ribs. Before I could stop myself, my eyes drifted toward the armchair in the corner of the room. He was still there.Cassian sat exactly where I'd left him the night before, wearing nothing but those black sweatpants. His long legs were stretched out in front of him, his fingers loosely intertwined over his chest. He hadn't slept.His eyes were faintly bloodshot, but the sharp, vigilant look of a hunter hadn't faded in the slightest.The moment he realized I was awake, those icy blue eyes locked onto mine. His gaze was so intense that even the blanket wrapped around me couldn't shield me from the way he silently stripped me apart. My throat went dry.Th

After that ice-cold mind-link conversation with Ivy, I had no idea how many hours I spent lying in bed, staring up at the ceiling. My thoughts had turned into an endless maze.On one side, there were two separate enemy factions planning to attack me during the ritual—the most vulnerable moment of my life, when I would finally become one with my wolf.On the other... Axel. Cassian.Running into the darkness after midnight, completely out of control, leaving those heavy, accusing words behind.Every time I rolled over, I could feel the bond between us pulling tight, aching deep inside my chest. The second I closed my eyes, memories came rushing back. His large, warm hand trapping both of my wrists against the hallway wall. His lips claiming mine with a savage, desperate hunger. Cassian still hadn't come back.No matter how carefully I listened to the silence stretching across the estate, I couldn't hear his steady footsteps or feel the calm, commanding Alpha aura that always seemed to s

Behind my eyelids, there was nothing but burning darkness. As my consciousness slowly fought its way back to the surface, the first thing I noticed was the dry, metallic taste of blood coating my throat.It felt like a massive boulder was crushing my chest. Every breath sent a thousand needles stabbing into my ribs. Muffled voices echoed around me, distant and distorted, but none of them made sense.Deep inside my soul, the wound left by that vicious attack was still raw, still throbbing.With painful effort, I forced my eyes open. The dim white light above me burned against my vision. As everything slowly came into focus, the sharp scent of antiseptic mixed with the earthy aroma of rune-infused herbs filled my lungs.The pack infirmary."Bloom? Oh my God... she's awake! Healer!"I heard Ivy's voice, trembling with relief and tears. She was perched beside my bed, as though she hadn't moved from that chair for hours. The skin beneath her eyes was red from crying, and her blonde hair wa

I was exhausted from drifting through the halls of the estate like a ghost, constantly afraid I would turn a corner and run straight into his crushing, ice-cold aura.Thanks to the pack’s ancient healing methods, my physical wounds had already begun to close. The sharp, needle-like pain in my ribs had faded into a dull, lingering ache. But the poisonous anger and resentment inside me kept eating away at my soul with every passing second.The sound of furniture breaking in Cassian’s room upstairs didn’t soften me. Neither did the desperate howls he released into the forest at night, each one traveling through our bond and piercing my consciousness like a poisoned arrow.If anything, they made me colder. They made the walls around my heart even thicker. He might have been suffering while fighting Axel. But I was the one who had been shaken apart by the filthy scent of his betrayal and another woman’s skin.My anger wasn’t because I couldn’t fight. I had spent my entire life taking care

The beast inside me had long passed the point of being calmed behind bars. That evening, after that damn dinner, I couldn’t even remember how I’d climbed the stairs of the estate or locked the heavy door of my room behind me.The only thing I knew was that the freezing silence clinging to my throat, my skin, and my soul was swallowing me alive. Bloom’s ice-cold words, the way she had passed me like a ghost in the dim hallway on the fourth night, careful not to let even the smallest part of her touch me... They spun through my mind like poisonous winds.And Axel...Axel was on the verge of completely losing his mind.“She rejected us! She threw us into those filthy, rotting lies! Go break down that door! Breathe her in. Wrap our mate’s bleeding soul in our skin! Explain it to her!” my wolf roared.His voice was no longer a whisper or a wounded groan hiding in the corners of my consciousness. He was slamming against the walls of my mind with a hammer, howling as though he meant to crack