The Alpha's Abandoned Mate
“You don’t get to tell me no. Not anymore. Not after everything. I will find you. I will pull you back from whatever hell they dragged you into.”
“You can’t,” he whispered. “The moon… the last moon… when it rises, ”
The air froze.
His voice cracked.
Then stopped.
“Ryder?” She shook her head violently. “Ryder, finish that sentence, don’t you dare disappear on me again.”
For a moment, there was nothing.
Then the ruins shook.
Hard.
The wind slammed through the hall, knocking loose fragments of stone. Vines crawled across the ceiling as if pulled by invisible hands. Moonlight twisted violently around her legs, spiraling upward into a vortex that swallowed the air. The sound of cracking stone thu