Chapter 99

Chapter 99

The rest was a blur. I hardly noticed the flurry of fangs and claws-all I saw was that face. Those lips. My mate kissing me in the alley.

When it was over, I stood panting in the middle of the clearing, surrounded by the bodies of my enemies. Blood dripped from my fur, some of it mine, most of it not. The forest had gone quiet.

“Alpha?” Gabriel’s voice came from the edge of the trees. He limped out of the forest in human form. “The rest have fled. We’ve won.”

I nodded, too exhausted to attempt shifting back to human form just yet. My wounds were already beginning to heal, the deep gashes closing up, leaving behind matted chestnut fur sticky with blood.

As I followed Gabriel back toward the others, my mind kept wandering back to those final moments during the battle. I almost lost. I should have lost. I was exhausted, outnumbered… And yet, I had closed my eyes and there was her face.

Why had I thought of Ella during those moments? Why had her face driven me to push through the pain and fight back?

“Because she’s our mate,” my wolf snarled.

his

my wolf scoffed. “But we

made my fucking heart pound? That I looked forward to our nightly chess games more than

anything to do with my parents’ death, if she was a spy… Besides, she had said she didn’t want me to mark her. She was the one who wanted a divorce.

“Alexander!”


froze as a familiar voice rang through

“Alexander!”

couldn’t be right. Ella was in the hospital, miles away. I was hearing

“Alexander, where are you?”

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his head toward me, his eyes widening in panic, and I knew I wasn’t just

was… here? How? She belonged in the hospital, not in a fucking battle

pounding. If there were still rogues out there, if she

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