Chapter 224 Tristan Through it all, Athena kept holding my hand. Every time I moved, she moved with me. Every time someone else hugged me, she waited right there until she could take my hand again. It was like she was afraid I’d disappear if she let go, and honestly,
Chapter 223 Chapter 223 “I knew you needed to face it,” I said, cupping her face in my hands. “I knew that as long as you were too scared to look at what was really happening inside you, you’d never be able to control it. And I was right, wasn’t
Chapter 222 Chapter 222 Tristan The first thing I felt was Athena’s bands on my chest, warm and steady and alive, The second thing was air filling my lungs without that horrible rattling sound that had been there before. I could breathe, really breathe. I opened my eyes and everything
Chapter 221 I can feel him,” she says wonderingly. He’s so warm and bright, even though he’s hurt. That’s what love looks like, I explain. “That’s what it feels like to care about someone more than yourself p> I want to feel like that,” she whispers with longing. “You will,
Chapter 220 Chapter 220 “They are wonderful. I tell her. And they would care about you too if you gave them the chance. Then I take a deep breath and tell her about the most important person of all. “And there’s Tristan, 1 say, and my voice gets softer, more
Chapter 219 The Biker Alpha Who Became My Second Chance Mate Chapter 219 Athena Understanding starts to dawn on me like the sun rising after the longest night of my life. This little girl, this scared, lonely child, is the power. She’s the source of everything that’s been happening, and
Chapter 218 Cranice Mate But maybe I can change that. “Listen to me,” I say, but I’m not talking to the people in the room. I’m talking to the power itself, trying to reach it through the chaos in my mind. “You don’t have to be afraid. You don’t have
Chapter 217 Chapter 217 Through the haze of the power’s control, I can hear voices around me. Panicked voices getting louder and more desperate by the second. “His pulse is getting weaker, Derek says, and there’s terror in his voice that I’ve never heard before. Derek who’s always so calm
Chapter 216 Athena I look down at Tristan, and his eyes are starting to lose focus. The golden color is fading back to his normal brown, but there’s something distant about them now. Something that’s already leaving. “Now,” Sarah says, her voice thick with tears. “You have to try now,
Chapter 215 The Biker Alpha Who Became My Second Chance Mate Chapter 215 Blood starts spreading across his chest immediately, dark red and too much of it. It soaks into the white sheet under him and spreads outward in a circle that keeps getting bigger. Hold him down, Derek says
Chapter 214 Chapter 214 The clinical way he says it makes me feel sick, like we’re talking about cutting up a piece of meat instead of killing someone I love. But I know Derek is trying to help, trying to make sure we do this right. We only get one
Chapter 213 Chapter 213 Athena’s POV The room we’ve set up looks nothing like the cozy guest room it was this morning. Derek and Orion moved all the furniture against the walls, pushing the bed frame and dresser into the corners like we’re preparing for something violent. Sarah covered everything
Chapter 212 Chapter 212 I nod and stove toward him, wrapping my arms around him in a tight long. His handy tenses, fit and from four, Frp rprise, 1e he didn’t excuaj më të actually touch him. Tll do it, I say into his shoulder. 111 try to heal you
Chapter 211 Chapter 211 Won’t you look at m My white breaks on the last part, and thats what finally gets his attention. ** *w*rd me immediately, and I’m surprised by what I see in his face, There’s an anger there. No frustration or irritation. Just pain and worry and
Chapter 210 Chapter 210 Athena’s POV What, what are you doing here? I stutter, my voice barely above a whisper. How did you get here? My heart is pounding so hard I can feel it in my throat. I thought I was being careful. I thought I was quiet enough,
Chapter 209 Chapter 209 That tuvaks rong thing inside me I move toward him vienly, carefully, like I’m appicaching Maneding wild that holi When I’m close enough, he opens his arme. I hesitate for fost a second before stepping into them. The hug is gentle at first. Both of us
Chapter 208 Chapter 208 Orion moves closer to my chair. “Are you sure about this?” he says Tristan I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life p> I look at Orion with pleading eyes, begging him to talk Tristan out of this. To he the voice of reason.
Chapter 207 Chapter 207 Athena’s POV No. The word comes out of me like a scream. I’m on my feet before I even realize I’m moving, my chair scraping against the floor su fet jump. “No, Tristan. Absolutely not. I won’t let you do this p> But he’s already standing
Chapter 206 Chapter 206 The tingling under my skin gels stronger, like whatever’s inside me is reacting to my emotions: I try to push it doen, but it doesn’t want to go sam The room goes quiet again. Derek shuffles through h his papers, Sarah fidgets with her coffee cup.
Chapter 205 Chapter 205 Athena’s POV I’ve been staring at my hands for what feels like hours. They won’t stop shaking. Theres this constant hum under my skin row, like sety through my veins. Every time I look at them, I see Daxon and Seraphine’s faces. The way they went