Chapter 21: Beyond the Border
Alpha Thorne’s POV
The night split open around us as we tore through the forest, paws striking earth with the rhythm of war drums. The Bloodridge pack howled at our backs, their fury snapping through the trees, but they were already too late.
Kaia clung to my back, fingers buried in my midnight-blue fur, her heartbeat steady against mine. The bond roared between us, no longer a faint hum but a blazing inferno—fire threading through bone, storm tangled in flesh. Her presence was my anchor, her scent my fury. She was here. She was alive. And she was mine.
Garret’s command rolled over the woods, thick and biting, a whip meant to drag us down. His Alpha power struck like smoke and shadow, coiling, venomous. I felt Kaia tense against me, her breath catching—
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