The Witch and Her Four Dangerous Alphas

Chapter 82

Chapter 82: Chapter 82: It Has Always Been You

Selene’s POV ~

The second I heard him, it felt like something snapped inside me.

My mate.

My lungs forgot how to breathe.

My heart, the traitorous, cursed thing, slammed so violently against my ribs, I swore it would tear itself free and confess everything. I stood completely still, but inside, everything shook.

He was looking for me. He didn’t know. But he was looking.

And I—gods—was standing right in front of him.

A thousand thoughts collided in my head, none of them staying long enough for me to grab onto. I could feel the blood draining from my face, the edges of my vision flickering.

But I forced my expression to stay neutral. I’d had a year to prepare for this moment. And yet, I felt as though I were standing at the edge of that damn cliff again.

My voice—when it came—was barely a whisper, but it didn’t shake. I wouldn’t let it.

"What happened to her?" I asked, trying to be as emotionless as possible.

He didn’t answer at first.

His gaze had dropped, the cold mask on his face softening just enough to reveal something raw underneath.

"She fell," he said finally, his voice quieter than before. "From the cliff near our pack border."

My breath caught. That place. That memory. His scent in the air, the wind screaming around me, the bond tearing at me as I leapt to my death.

Or at least, that’s what they thought.

"We searched for days," he continued, his jaw tightening. "But we couldn’t find her. Not even her body. There was no trace left of her."

was pain in his eyes now. But I had never seen Aeron like this, definitely not in the

storm inside me back

testing my own limits, "What if she

A moment of silence.

why she never came

a heartbeat,

Then he snapped.

"No."

a growl nor a shout, but it was

he said, like he was declaring law. "I

like he was speaking to himself, like a chant. A truth he had clung to for too long. The only thing

And I—I couldn’t breathe.

I was the very thing he was

was the ghost

the mate he

wore so carefully—I didn’t know what to do with it. I had spent a

of me ache to be held in his voice like

that he never stopped searching make something warm and dangerous bloom

I told myself viciously. Don’t you dare

there was no life in that world for me. Because they would have torn me apart for what I was.

I couldn’t think.

rivers. Gods, I was suffocating, and it wasn’t from heat. It was from the

as I prepared to say

But then—

Boom.

floor below us. I couldn’t react. There was a loud ringing in

previous one, until

slammed

One by one, like rhythmic death, bombs began to erupt through the building. I could hear the chaos rising. And I knew he had

And then—

Crash!

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