Todos los capítulos de Forbidden Mate, Fated Sin: Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 30

Kade's pov Most of the clash by the entrance escaped me. That remains the honest account even if it seems odd when spoken. My wolf side seized control somewhere past the woods edge and the initial Blackthorn lookout. What stayed after instead were fragments. Fangs. The metallic flavor of blood belonging to someone else. Grier speaking off to one side, calm despite his own growls. The instant those last attackers finally turned and fled toward their lands, leaving three of their number wounded on the ground while carrying away the rest of their fallen. When I regained human form, gray light already spread across the sky edge, and every muscle throbbed in a manner unknown since the blaze along the ridge in the north. "They wanted to measure our strength," Grier remarked as he cleaned blood from a gash on his chin. "Tonight served only that purpose. One blaze meant to scatter our forces, then a probe near the entrance to judge how quickly we could gather and answer." "So what was

Kade's povVivian came around the corner at speed. Her eyes found Wren first. Then they found me. Then they found the study door that still stood open at our backs. The calm she normally wore like a shield had dropped. Something keener and far more threatening sat in its place."What is happening here," she asked. "Wren, why do you stand outside the Alpha study so late at night.""Speak with Edwin," Wren answered. Her tone stayed firmer than I thought it would after all she had just taken in. "He can tell you what he shared with Kade this evening. I am sure he would enjoy saying it a second time."Vivian's eyes jumped to me. They searched and measured. "What did my husband share with you.""The real facts," Wren said before I could reply myself. "About the person I was always meant to stand with. About the plan you and Edwin hid the instant my wolf failed to show."Color left Vivian's face so fast I nearly moved to hold her steady. For one raw second fear showed in her eyes. Then the

Celeste's POBThe pale light in the sky made hard things look soft. That night it tricked me two times before I got to the small house. First it put a calm silver cover on the practice fields. The place looked quiet and whole. Then the small house shone a little through a gap in the wooden covers. It looked warm and good. But behind the thin door waited the exact form of everything I had lost.I only wanted to be alone. The big house felt bad after Father told his secret in the hallway. Mother's anger became sharp and strange. Every wall seemed full of secrets I never heard in a fair way. Sadness moved my feet without asking. I walked with no real plan. My feet took me to the old caretaker's small house because I played there as a child. Back then Wren and I shared secrets. Later we started taking futures from each other.I heard her voice first. It was low and open. It held Kade's name in a way I knew at once. For years I tried to make that same sound in my own voice for him. I never

Celeste's POVI informed my mother that I planned to go to the healer cabin near the forest border. I said a lasting pain in my head had troubled me for several days. She believed the story at once. Her mind stayed fixed on protecting the family's good name so she never asked where her child went in the late day. As I left quietly through the kitchen exit I realized how easy falsehoods become when fear of discovery fades away.I had not deceived every person with the same ease. Wren still held a painful unfinished place in my thoughts. I had opened that wound weeks before at her door and left it open. I recalled standing there in my sleeping clothes. The truth nearly escaped before I stopped it. That partial admission about speaking to someone before it grew too late for all of us. She asked me straight what I meant. I gave her only fright and weeping and a vow I never meant to keep. When I met her again some days later she stayed calm enough to ask once more. I answered that sorrow h

Celeste's point of viewRonan acted at once. He covered the space to the forest edge in three quick steps. His form changed into a mix of person and beast so fast the change looked unclear at the sides. It seemed pure reaction more than planned action. I stayed still by the large rocks. My heart beat hard in my chest. I saw him disappear into the growing dark among the trees where the noise had started.Many minutes went by before he came back. He was fully a person again. His face showed nothing."Nothing," he said in a short sure way. He already put the matter aside. "A deer most likely. There is no scent path beyond the usual animals that walk this part of the woods most nights.""You appear very calm about it.""There is no point in being anything else." He looked at the forest edge a bit longer. He noted details the way a leader checks a chart for soft spots rather than threats. "We should finish this talk in any case. Whatever made that noise I would rather not chance either of