Todos los capítulos de Marked by the Alpha Captain: Capítulo 41 - Capítulo 50

Rei couldn't move.The words carved into the door seemed to pulse with every beat of her heart.REI WAS HERE BEFORE.AND SHE REMEMBERED EVERYTHING.Dominic stood beside her, his hand hovering near hers but not touching.For once, he didn't assume she wanted him to hold on.He waited.Rei noticed.Even now, with the world possibly ending beneath their feet, he waited for her choice.She slowly reached for him.Their fingers intertwined.No bond appeared.No silver light.No supernatural force pulled them together.Just his hand.Just hers.And somehow that meant more.“I remember,” Rei whispered.Dominic looked at her.“What?”“The door.”She closed her eyes.A memory surfaced.Not like the others.This one didn't feel like something she'd discovered.It felt like something she'd been hiding from herself.She was older.Much older.Standing in this exact hallway.Dominic was beside her.Aiden stood behind them.Liora was crying.Orion was there too.And someone else.Someone Rei couldn

For the first time since Rei had discovered Blackthorn, she had no idea what to do.The sky above them had become something impossible.Thousands of enormous silver eyes stared down through the darkness, each one suspended beyond the clouds, too large to belong to anything that could exist on Earth. They did not blink. They simply watched.Across the world, people stood frozen beneath them.Phones were raised.Cars stopped in the middle of highways.Soldiers abandoned checkpoints.Families crowded around windows.Every television station had stopped broadcasting.Every screen showed the same impossible sky.And then the voice returned.“FIRST WORLD.”The clouds rolled backward.Rei saw another Earth.Not a reflection.Not a projection.Another world.A city appeared in the sky, but it wasn't the city she knew. Buildings stood where empty fields existed in her world. Roads curved differently. The coastline had changed. The landscape itself seemed familiar and completely wrong at the sa

The word hung in the chamber.“Mommy?”Rei couldn't move.Her mind refused to understand what she had heard.The voice had been small.Soft.Almost frightened.But it had sounded exactly like her.Not her current voice.Not even her childhood voice.Something in between.Something that shouldn't exist.Dominic stepped closer.“Rei?”She barely heard him.The cry came again.“Mommy?”This time it was clearer.It was coming from the crack in the ceiling.Rei looked upward.Silver light poured through the opening.The figures surrounding them had disappeared. The impossible versions of themselves were gone, leaving only the people who had chosen to remain.But the light above them continued growing.Eve backed away.“No.”Aiden looked at her.“What is it?”“I don't know.”“You said it was the Fourth.”“I was wrong.”Aiden's face tightened.“That isn't reassuring.”Eve stared upward.“The Fourth isn't being born.”“Then what is?”She looked at Rei.“Something the Fourth created.”Rei's st

Nobody moved.The word remained suspended in the darkness.Grandmother.Rei held the baby against her chest, afraid that even breathing too hard might somehow break the impossible moment.Dominic stood beside her, staring at the child's silver eyes.“That isn't possible.”Aiden slowly shook his head.“We stopped trying to understand what is possible a long time ago.”Elara stepped closer.Her expression had changed.She wasn't afraid.She looked devastated.“Oh,” she whispered.Rei turned toward her.“What?”Elara's eyes never left the baby.“I know those eyes.”Rei's stomach tightened.“You've seen them before?”“Not in a person.”Elara swallowed.“In the oldest memory.”Aiden looked at her.“Which memory?”“The one we could never open.”Caelan stepped closer.“You mean the sealed one?”Elara nodded.“What did it show?”Elara looked at Rei.“A woman holding a child.”Rei's heart began racing.“Who was the woman?”“You.”Rei looked down at the baby.“No.”“Yes.”“But I'm not a grandmo

Rei stepped forward.The entire chamber seemed to hold its breath.The enormous hand remained suspended above them, fingers stretching through the impossible white space beyond the ceiling. It wasn't reaching toward Earth anymore.It was reaching toward Hope.The baby whimpered.“Mommy…”“I've got you.”Rei held her tighter.Dominic moved beside her.“What do we do?”Rei stared at the hand.“I don't know.”For once, nobody had an answer.Not Aiden.Not Elara.Not Elias.Not Gabriel.Not even Dr. Vale.The hand moved another inch.The air became so heavy that Rei could barely breathe.Hope began crying.The sound seemed to ripple through the chamber.The hand stopped.The ancient voice spoke again.“RETURN THE CHILD.”Rei raised her head.“No.”The voice answered immediately.“SHE DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU.”Rei's arms tightened around Hope.“She doesn't belong to anyone.”Silence.Then the voice said:“THAT IS WHY SHE IS DANGEROUS.”Dominic stepped forward.“She is a child.”“SHE IS A CH