Semua Bab The Alpha’s Forbidden Hybrid : Bab 21 - Bab 28

The next morning came too quickly. Seraphine had not slept. She remained in the ritual room until dawn, staring at the pendant resting in her palm. It was finished. But the cost of creating it was already visible. Her skin looked paler. Her lips had lost their color. Even breathing felt heavier than it should. Yet when she heard footsteps approaching, she immediately closed her fingers around the pendant. Elias entered. He stopped the moment he saw her. “You look terrible.” Seraphine gave him a tired smile. “I feel worse.” His eyes dropped to her hand. “The pendant?” She opened her palm. The dark silver pendant rested there, its tiny crescent glowing faintly. Elias stared at her while feeling her temperatur

⸻ 11:42 PM. Kaelen stepped through the weakened Veil after ordering his omega to wait outside. The scent hit him immediately. His entire body went rigid. His breath caught. His wolf surged violently beneath his skin, awakened by something deeper than instinct. Mate. The word thundered through his mind. His pupils narrowed as the scent wrapped around him—warm, intoxicating, unmistakably supernatural. For one dangerous second, his control nearly shattered. His fingers curled into fists. His jaw clenched. He lowered his head slightly, forcing himself to breathe through it. His eyes scanned the compound.

The mansion had been unusually quiet that afternoon.Aria had assumed the staff had simply disappeared for their break.She hadn’t expected to be the only person wandering the corridors.She had woken from a nap hungry and, after realizing she had only one full attire and nothing to walk around in, she had reluctantly thrown on the only thing within reach.One of Kaelen’s oversized black shirts she had picked mistakenly when she insisted on doing her laundry herself. It fell over her body like a dress.Barely.Aria stopped in front of the mirror before leaving her room.She looked down.The shirt reached just below her butt. Her legs were almost completely bare.She immediately tugged at the hem.It didn’t help.“Great.”She looked around her empty room.She needed food.She could either stay hungry or make the embarrassing walk to th

That night, Aria couldn’t sleep.She lay beneath the covers, staring at the ceiling.Her mind kept returning to the same moment.Kaelen’s eyes.The sudden gold.The way his entire expression had changed when she mentioned the pendant.And his question.Why did he care so much about it?She turned onto her side.“Professor Nightbane…”Even saying his name made something strange flutter inside her.She frowned at herself.This was ridiculous.He was her professor.Her chairman.And, somehow, now the man she was living with.There were far more important things she should be thinking about.Her missing parents.Her lost memories.The strange pendant around her neck.Instead, she was thinking about the way Kaelen had looked at her.Aria pulled the blanket over her head.“I need sleep.”