All Chapters of Alpha Kazan and his hybrid mate: Chapter 101 - Chapter 103

Chapter 94The Last EyeAstraea’s POVI knew where the woman was taking me before we arrived.I recognized the trees.The bend in the path.The enormous oak with the split trunk.Then I smelled the earth.Old earth.Disturbed once.Long settled now.My feet stopped.“No.”The silver-haired woman turned.“What?”I stared beyond her.At the stone.My stone.The grave my family had built when I was five years old.ASTRAEA BLACKWOODThe letters were faded now.Moss covered the bottom.Seventeen.I was seventeen years old, standing in front of a grave that had carried my name for twelve years.A grave built because my family had needed the world to believe I was dead.I had known it was here.Of course I had.But I’d never come back.I didn’t want to.Some places didn’t deserve another piece of you.The woman smiled.“Appropriate, isn’t it?”“No.”Her smile faltered.“This is where the world believed Astraea Blackwood died.”“But I didn’t.”“No.”She stepped closer to the grave.“And tonig

EpilogueThe ReturningAstraea’s POVSix months later.Orion was terrified of dancing.Not nervous.Not uncomfortable.Terrified.I discovered this at Hannah’s celebration when the musicians started playing and Orion immediately began looking for an escape route.I stared at him.“You’ve crossed worlds.”“Yes.”“You walked through places outside the Separation.”“Yes.”“You followed a supernatural bond into a world you’d never seen.”“Yes.”“You met my father.”Orion’s expression became serious.“That was considerably more dangerous than the other things.”I laughed.“And you’re scared to dance?”“I am not scared.”“You’re backing away from the dance floor.”“I am strategically repositioning.”“That’s called running.”“Astraea.”I grabbed his hand.His stars immediately responded.Six months had changed the Returning.It was stronger now.Not because some ancient law said it had to be.Because we’d fed it.Trust.Time.Arguments.Laughter.Choices.Every day Orion stayed, he chose me.