Todos os capítulos de The Alpha King’s Ruthless Claim: Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 24

I didn’t pause to catch my breath after leaving the Great Hall. I didn’t look back to see if Varek’s elite guard was following me.I knew where I was going.The forbidden lower archives weren't a place one casually stumbled upon during a midnight stroll. They sat beneath the oldest wing of Frostfang Keep, down past the royal war rooms, where the manicured black marble gave way to rough-hewn mountain granite. I remembered Mara once offhandedly mentioning that the keep hadn't been built from scratch, it had been erected directly over the ruins of an older, forgotten stronghold.Frostfang was standing on top of a tomb, and I was about to pry open the lid.As I descended the winding spiral stairwell, my newly awakened senses hit me in violent, overwhelming waves. The cold subterranean air carried a million tiny sounds: the metallic scrape of a guard sharpening his longsword two corridors away, the rhythmic drip-drip-drip of groundwater seeping through the lower foundations, the distant, m

The copper flask hit the frozen dirt with a heavy, hollow thud, dark spirits seeping into the snow. Freya didn’t pick it up. Her scarred hands hung motionless at her sides, her knuckles wrapped in blood-stained linen, her face so pale her freckles stood out like dark ink. Her dark eyes were locked on mine, wide and bright with a raw, primal terror I had never seen in her. The voice was still vibrating through the soles of my leather boots. It wasn't in the air. It was in the granite, in the mountain, in the marrow of the castle itself. “Moonborn.” My silver wolf was dead silent in my chest, her ears pinned flat, her body tensed to spring. I took a slow step toward Freya, keeping my voice low. "You heard it." Freya’s fingers twitched, her throat clicking as she swallowed hard. "I heard the wind." "Don't lie to me," I snapped, stepping into her space, my heightened senses picking up the sudden, frantic double-time of her pulse. "The flask fell because you heard it. It called me