Todos los capítulos de Marked by the Alpha Captain: Capítulo 91 - Capítulo 100

The river stopped flowing.The sky above them darkened until the violet clouds became a deep, endless blue.The ancient woman stood beside the water, her reflection absent.Rei watched her carefully.“Who was it?”The woman closed her eyes.“My brother.”Rei felt the answer before she understood it.The boy with the scarred knuckles.Echelon's lost brother.The first person who had left.The one whose name had been erased.But the golden-eyed woman shook her head.“Not that brother.”She opened her eyes.“Before Echelon. Before the first child. Before the first world. I had a brother who chose to leave the place where we lived.”Rei remembered the images in the mirrors.A garden beneath the stars.A little girl holding a woman's hand.A boy running through the grass.“You were the first person who tried to make a choice permanent,” Rei said.“Yes.”“Because your brother left.”“Yes.”“Did he die?”The woman looked at her.“I don't know.”Rei stared.“You don't know?”“He walked beyond

The figures across the bridge began to move.Some approached eagerly, their faces bright with hope. Others stood back, frightened of crossing into a world that had forgotten them.A woman carrying a sleeping child stepped onto the bridge, then stopped.“What happens if we cross?” she called.The boy with the scarred knuckles looked toward Rei.Rei shook her head gently.This was not hers to decide.The man across the bridge answered instead.“Nothing happens unless you choose for it to.”The woman frowned.“What does that mean?”“It means nobody will drag you across. Nobody will erase your memories. Nobody will tell you that you have to become part of a world you don't know.”“And if we don't cross?”“Then you stay where you are.”“What if we want to come later?”The man smiled.“Then you come later.”The woman looked down at the sleeping child in her arms.For a long moment, she did not move.Then she stepped onto the bridge.Halfway across, she stopped again.“Will there be a home f

The staircase seemed endless.The farther they descended, the quieter the world became. The garden sounds faded until Rei could no longer hear the river or the voices of the people gathered above.Only their footsteps remained.At the bottom, they entered a long corridor lined with doors.Unlike the doors beneath the Between, these bore no names.They were marked with dates.Dates that made no sense.Some were thousands of years in the future.Others were centuries before the first world.Some had no numbers at all.Nora stopped before the first door.It was small, painted pale yellow, with a sun drawn above the handle.“What's in there?” she whispered.Rei looked at the door.“I don't know.”Nora reached for the handle, then stopped.“Can I?”Rei nodded.Nora opened it.Inside was a nursery.A wooden crib stood beside a window. A tiny blanket lay folded on a chair. Stuffed animals lay on the floor, and a mobile hung above the crib.But there was no baby.Nora stepped inside.She look

The door opened one inch.Rei forgot how to breathe.On the other side, someone sobbed.Not the distant, echoing sound of a memory. Not the strange imitation of a voice the Origin had once used to lure them into its traps.This was real.Rei knew the rhythm of that sob. She had heard it when she was little and woke from nightmares. She had heard it after the laboratory, when her mother thought Rei was asleep and cried quietly in the kitchen. She had heard it the night Mara finally admitted that protecting her daughter had meant making decisions Rei might never forgive.It was her mother's voice."Rei?" Mara called again.The little girl beside Rei made a strangled noise."Mama."The word came out differently this time.Not as a question.As a plea.Rei turned toward her.The child stared at the door, both hands pressed over her mouth. Her dark eyes were enormous, and the anger that had kept her upright seemed to drain away.She looked six years old.Not like a version of Rei.Not like

The floor split beneath them.A jagged line of silver light tore through the nursery, dividing the cradles into two uneven rows. The wooden frames rattled, and the lights inside them flickered violently.Dominic grabbed Rei's hand."Move!"Rei barely heard him.Her eyes were fixed on Elias.Her father stood beside the open wooden box, still holding the letter. His face had gone pale, but he wasn't looking at the cracking floor.He was looking at the golden-eyed woman."What do you mean I was never supposed to remember?"The woman didn't answer immediately.Instead, she looked toward the ceiling."He's coming.""Who?" Mara demanded.The woman turned to her."The one who made the choice between your daughters."Mara shook her head."No. The First Alpha said—""The First Alpha wasn't there when it happened."The ancient man flinched.Echelon stepped forward."Then who was?"The golden-eyed woman looked at Elias."He was."Everyone turned.Elias slowly lowered the letter."That's impossib