Todos los capítulos de Marked by the Alpha Captain: Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 30

Rei couldn't breathe.The voice came again."Rei."She knew that voice.She had heard it in old recordings, in stories her mother told, in the memories buried so deeply inside her that she had convinced herself they were dreams.Her grandmother.Elara.Dead for seventeen years.Rei turned toward Mara."That was Grandma."Mara's lips parted.She couldn't speak.Dominic moved closer to Rei."Don't go anywhere."Rei barely heard him."How can she be alive?"Marcus looked toward the ruined laboratory."She can't."The voice answered from the darkness."That isn't entirely true."Everyone froze.A faint silver light appeared at the end of the corridor.It moved closer.A woman slowly emerged from the shadows.She was older than the woman in Rei's memories, but there was no mistaking her face.The same dark eyes.The same silver-streaked hair.The same crescent-shaped birthmark beneath her left eye.Mara stumbled backward."Mom."The woman smiled."Hello, Mara."Mara covered her mouth.Tear

The screen went black, but Voss’s final words remained suspended in Rei’s mind.You’ll finally learn why Rei was born.For several seconds, neither she nor Dominic moved.The underground chamber seemed to breathe around them. Somewhere beneath the floor, machinery groaned awake, sending a vibration through the concrete beneath their feet. The lights along the walls flickered once, twice, then settled into a dim red glow.Dominic tightened his grip around Rei’s hand.“Whatever that chamber is,” he said quietly, “we go together.”Rei swallowed. “You don't know what it wants from us.”“No.” His eyes remained fixed on the dark screen. “But I know what Voss wants. And I'm done letting him decide where we go.”A metallic clang echoed from the corridor.Rei immediately turned.“Did you hear that?”Dominic stepped in front of her.Another clang.Closer.Then came the unmistakable sound of something dragging itself across the floor.Rei's pulse jumped.“Dominic…”“I heard it.”The sound stoppe

“Daughter.”The word echoed inside Rei's mind.Not through the speakers.Not through the walls.Inside her.She couldn't breathe.Her fingers tightened around Dominic's hand as the Origin Chamber filled with blinding blue light. The sound of millions of voices rose around them, overlapping until individual words became impossible to separate.Some were screaming.Some were crying.Some were begging for help.And some were calling her name.“Rei…”“Rei…”“Rei…”She staggered.Dominic caught her before she fell.“Rei!”“I can hear them.”“I know.”“No.” She pressed both hands against her temples. “You don't understand. I can hear all of them.”The First Bond burned brighter.Every nerve in her body seemed to ignite.Images flooded her mind.A young Omega running through a forest.An Alpha kneeling beside a wounded mate.A child being separated from her parents.A man waking from a nightmare with his hands shaking.A woman staring into a mirror, wondering why she couldn't control the ins

“Mama?”Rei's voice broke on the word.For years, she had imagined hearing it again.Sometimes in dreams.Sometimes in the quiet moments before sleep.Sometimes when she was angry enough to wish she could go back and ask every question she'd been too young to understand.But never like this.Never beneath Blackthorn.Never with the Origin humming around her and Dominic trapped behind a transparent barrier.A figure stepped into the darkness.Rei couldn't see her face at first.Only the outline of her body.The familiar way she held her shoulders.The slight tilt of her head.Then the emergency lights flickered.Rei stopped breathing.“Mama…”Mara stepped into the light.She was older than the woman in the recordings, but Rei recognized her immediately.Her hair was shorter.There were streaks of silver near her temples.Her face was thinner.And there was a scar running from beneath her left ear toward her collarbone.But her eyes were the same.Rei's eyes filled with tears.“How?”Ma

“Me.”The voice came from behind them.Rei spun around.The room was empty.The door remained closed.Dominic immediately moved in front of her.“Who's there?”A soft laugh answered him.“You still do that.”Rei's skin prickled.“Do what?”“Stand in front of her.”The voice sounded young.A child's voice.But there was something ancient beneath it.Dominic's eyes moved around the room.“Show yourself.”The lights flickered.A small figure appeared at the far end of the room.A girl.She looked exactly like the child from the recording.Dark hair.Pale skin.Eyes that seemed almost silver.She wore a simple white dress.Bare feet.A small symbol glowed against her throat.The First Bond.Rei stared.“You're real.”The girl smiled.“Sometimes.”Dominic's expression hardened.“What does that mean?”“It means Blackthorn never figured out what I was.”Rei stepped around Dominic.“Who are you?”The girl looked at her.“My name is Liora.”The name sent a strange pulse through Rei's body.She