All Chapters of His Human Mate, His Greatest Threat: Chapter 251 - Chapter 260

DAMIENAva was still holding the letter when I realised there was no point pretending the words had not affected me. She had read the sentence aloud, and now she was watching my face with that sharp, stubborn attention she usually reserved for catching me hiding something, which meant I had perhaps three seconds before she started asking questions I wasn't prepared to answer.I took the paper from her and read the line again, although I had understood it perfectly well the first time.Lucian Blackthorne had not been my original name.The person who wrote that sentence knew something most people had never known, something buried beneath centuries of records, false identities, and carefully maintained histories. Even Garrick knew me as Lucian Blackthorne, and he had served beside me long enough to understand that my past contained things I did not discuss.Ava folded her arms. "You are doing that thing again, Damien, where your face becomes completely unreadable because you think lookin

DAMIENAva's hand remained against my cheek, warm and annoyingly gentle, while I stood there trying to understand why speaking about my mother had become harder than facing an army of hostile Alphas. I had told her things I hadn't spoken aloud in centuries, yet the worst part wasn't remembering the attack or the blood that had covered the passage. It was the memory of my mother's hands pushing me away, her voice ordering me to run, and the knowledge that I had obeyed.I had survived.She hadn't."You keep looking at me as though you expect me to tell you that everything happened because you made the wrong decision," Ava said, her thumb moving slowly along my cheek. "Damien, you were a child running through a forest while people were trying to kill your family, and you're punishing yourself for not behaving like the powerful Alpha you became centuries later."I pulled away from her hand and walked towards the desk, picking up the silver pendant again. Its chain had been repaired at som

AVAAurora came towards us with her little arms stretched out, her dark hair sticking up in ridiculous directions, and an expression that suggested we had committed a serious crime by sitting together without inviting her.Damien wiped his face quickly, but our daughter had already noticed him, and she immediately changed direction, practically stumbling over her own feet as she hurried towards his knees."Daddy, carry me! I want to sit with you and Mummy!"He leaned forward and lifted her, settling her against his chest while she grabbed his face with both hands, apparently checking whether her father was still in working condition. I watched him kiss her little fingers, and something inside me twisted because a few minutes earlier, this same man had been crying over a mother he had lost centuries ago, and now he was holding the daughter he had nearly lost before she was even born.Aurora touched his cheek again, rubbing her small palm over the place where his tears had been."Daddy,

AVAElena was still examining the faint mark on Aurora's arm when Damien moved closer, his eyes following every movement of the doctor's fingers as though he expected the smallest touch to hurt our daughter. Aurora, meanwhile, had absolutely no interest in the seriousness of the room. She was busy trying to grab Elena's pen, twisting her little body against my chest and making an offended noise whenever I moved it beyond her reach.“She's perfectly comfortable now, Ava,” Elena said, carefully putting the examination notes aside. “The irritation has disappeared, and her readings haven't changed since the last examination. I'll continue monitoring the healing response, but I don't want either of you jumping to conclusions.”Damien's jaw tightened as he looked at the little arm where the mark had been.“Could it happen again?” he asked.“It could, although we don't know what triggers it yet. Your daughter is developing unusually quickly, and the connection I observed between Ava's touch

AVAI hadn't expected those words to come out of my mouth so easily, especially after everything Damien and I had dragged each other through, but there they were, sitting between us like a promise I wasn't willing to take back. I wanted forever, and the frightening part was that I wasn't saying it because I was desperate to keep him or because the mate bond had wrapped itself around my life so tightly that I couldn't imagine breathing without him.I wanted him because he was Damien, the infuriating bastard who could make an entire room shut up just by walking into it, the man who had once mistaken control for love and was now learning that sometimes the hardest thing he could do was let the people he loved make their own decisions.He was still holding my waist, his eyes moving over my face as though he was checking whether I meant what I'd said. His wolf was close beneath his skin, and I could feel its restless presence through the bond, not demanding anything from me but reacting to