Todos los capítulos de FATED TO MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA.: Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 40

Scarlett’s POV.I had spent five years running away from everything that had to do with Grimholt.I'd convinced myself that running was my only option yet here I was, right back to the place that had started it all.Looking around the grand foyer now, the polished marble reflecting the warm overhead lighting, I understood that not everyone was happy to see me back here. To the pack, I wasn't just a survivor returning from exile. I was an unresolved scandal walking back through the front door.Every pair of eyes tracking our movement across the hall held a different version of me. Some of the older warriors looked at me with open confusion, remembering the girl who used to trail after Braxton like a shadow, back when we shared a warm, inseparable bond before the bloodline laws tore us apart. Others looked at me with cold calculation, remembering the official story of my death that was supposed to keep the peace."Are we staying in a hotel, Mama?" Micah murmured sleepily against my s

Bram’s pov.I knew Scarlett's father had served Grimholt. I didn't know his name had been erased from our history. Or why?I remember that when we were kids, there was news that someone important to the pack had died mysteriously. It was a faint rumor whispered among the guards in the lower barracks, swept away almost immediately by official council silence. Now, staring at the thick yellowed file Braxton had shoved into my hands, those buried childhood memories began to align in a disturbing, dangerous pattern."Are you going to keep staring at that photo, or are you going to tell me what you found?"I didn't hear Braxton walk into the room, but his deep voice broke through the quiet stillness. He stood near the doorway, his jaw clenched tight and his eyes dark with lingering anger from his brutal session with the council elders."I'm looking at a ghost, Braxton," I said, sliding the faded photograph across the surface of the desk toward him. "Or rather, a man the elders tried ve

Scarlett's POV.For five years, all I did was run.This… whatever it was between Braxton and I had always been forbidden. Always.Maybe we weren't meant to be. Maybe our love was a sin. Maybe this was the Moon Goddess’s way of punishing us for our forbidden affair.I broke eye contact with Braxton and turned to Dorian.“Sure… I’d love that,” I nodded, giving him a genuine smile.I had been locked away long enough, suffocated long enough. I deserved someone who didn't look at me like a problem or a secret, but like an equal. I deserved the kindest, safest kind of love that didn't always have me running or wondering what terrible thing would happen next.Dorian’s smirk broadened into a brilliant, triumphant smile. "Then it's a date.""So," I said, tilting my head as we resumed walking down the gravel path, "tell me more about this crush you had on me. Was it my wild hair?"Dorian laughed softly, his eyes dancing with humor. "Oh, it was definitely the hair first.”“But if you want th

Scarlett's POV.“You threw an Alpha across the room?” Braxton asked.His voice sounded so lethal I couldn't even tell if he was mad, surprised, or both.What the hell did I just do? How the hell did I just do that?Braxton is an Alpha, a Lycan, and one of the most powerful ones in the entire pack continent. So how was I able to throw him across the room like he weighed nothing?I stared down at my trembling hands. My palms were stinging, a strange, burning sensation lingering right beneath my skin.“I… I didn't mean to do that,” I stuttered, my voice shaking uncontrollably.I looked up as Braxton began stalking back toward me. His eyes were glowing an unnatural, fierce amber, shifting with a dangerous light. Panic seized my chest. Was he going into another frenzy? Was his wolf about to snap?I scrambled backward, my heel catching against the rug, but as he kept moving toward me, he didn't shift into his Lycan form. He stayed human, his gaze locked onto mine with a terrifying inten

Braxton's POV.“You're… You're my mate?”My heart pounded violently against my ribcage, and I was pretty sure my expression mirrored Scarlett's frozen, terrified face beneath me.She shook her head in sheer disbelief, her lips trembling as her breathing hitched violently in her throat.“This can't be…” Her chest heaved up and down in ragged, shallow gasps. “This is impossible, Braxton. This can't be happening!”She reached up, her hands slamming flat against my chest as she pushed me off her with every ounce of strength she had left in her body.My cock slid out of her, twitching from the sudden, sharp loss of her internal warmth. The physical disconnect sent a cold shockwave through my spine, but I didn't force her to stay beneath me. I rolled onto my side on the cool marble floor, my breath coming in heavy, uneven bursts as I stared up at the ceiling.The glowing golden thread of the mate bond hadn't disappeared. It hung suspended in the air between us, pulsing with an ethereal l