Lahat ng Kabanata ng Alpha Salvatore: Kabanata 131 - Kabanata 140

Aria:The balcony was washed in late-morning sunlight, warm against my skin despite the cool air. My mother sat beside me on the cushioned bench, my little brother asleep in her arms, his tiny breaths soft as feathers.For a long while, neither of us spoke. I just… watched him. Watched the little rise and fall of his chest. Watched the peacefulness on her face as she held him.“I can’t believe that you are here.” It felt unreal, having her here. After everything. “I thought that I would never see you again. When I left that day, when they gave me the rules of no family… I thought that I wouldn’t see you again.”“Now, now, I am here by your side. You don’t need to think about anything that happened in the past.” She said, looking at the field ahead of us.When she finally turned her eyes to me, they were soft. “Aria,” she murmured, brushing a stray curl from my face the way she used to. “You’re going to be alright. You and this little one.” Her gaze dropped to my stomach, and she smiled

Aria:Pain.Real, consuming pain, nothing like the training aches, nothing like the wounds of battle, nothing like the torment of fear or heartbreak.This pain was primal. Relentless. Crushing.My old room in the consort hall spun around me. The sheets were soaked. My knees trembled. Sweat coated my face as another contraction ripped through me, stealing my breath, tearing a broken cry from my throat.“Aria, breathe… breathe, sweetheart. You’re doing so well.” My mother’s voice, steady, calm, even though I could hear the panic trembling beneath her words. She held my hand, rubbing circles on my arm, guiding me through each wave. “I just need you to breathe, my beautiful wolf.”“Mama… please…” I gasped, tears blurring my vision. “I… I need Dominic. Please… where is Dominic, please…?”“He’s coming,” she whispered, brushing hair from my face. “He’s coming, baby. Just focus on breathing. He is going to be right here next to you. I just need you to breathe.”But I couldn’t. The pain slam

Aria:The first thing I felt when I opened my eyes was the ache.Deep. Exhausting. Every muscle in my body throbbed with the faint echo of the battle it fought through the night. The second thing I felt… Panic.My eyes snapped open, searching, desperate, heart racing so violently it hurt as I tried to sit up.“Easy.” Dominic’s voice was soft, lower than I’d ever heard it. A warm hand slid over my arm, grounding me back into my own skin.“Our baby…?” I asked, shaking my head. “Where is…?”“She’s fine,” he murmured. “She’s right here, sleeping. I put her in her bassinet. I didn’t move from your side, baby. I wasn’t going to let anyone harm either one of you.”My breath escaped me in a shudder as I turned, following the subtle tilt of his head.There, in a small cradle beside the bed, lay our daughter. Tiny. Wrapped in white. Her chest rising in soft, steady breaths.A wave of relief nearly brought tears to my eyes. “She is so small.”“Yes, she is.” He said, making my heart swell.Domin

Dominic:Aria was asleep beside Lyra when I left the room.For a long moment, I stood in the doorway and watched them, my mate, and our daughter. The two beings in this world capable of breaking me apart with nothing but a breath. It was the sight of them that made my decision for me.If I wanted Aria to walk into our marriage with her head held high, not as someone I claimed, not as someone the elders tolerated, but as someone who belonged, then I needed to face the one man who had made her feel unwanted, the one man that would need to be there in a day like that one.Her father.Which meant I needed to swallow whatever pride I had left and go to him myself.I found him outside, in the training yard, barking orders at the younger warriors. When he saw me approaching, he stiffened, jaw clenching the same way Aria’s did when she was trying not to admit she cared.“Alpha,” he said, wiping his hands on his trousers. His posture straightened, though the guarded expression didn’t fade. “To

Katherine:The car waited at the gates, two deltas standing stiff beside it, sent to “escort” me off pack land.Escort.Exile.Call it what it truly was.They just wanted me out.My bags had already been loaded. My name stripped from the Luna quarters.Dominic didn’t even look at me when he gave the order. He wouldn’t even come to say goodbye. It was as if I was nothing more than an inconvenience that he just got rid of.I stepped outside, chin held high, refusing to let the ache in my chest show. The entire estate seemed to be watching. Whispering. Celebrating.I walked around the place that I once called my home. The place that I arrived so young, naïve, beautiful, passionate… and in love…The place that I, Katherine, vowed to destroy…Then she appeared.Aria.Holding her newborn. Dominic’s newborn. Her hair pulled back, exhaustion softening her features, but her posture was firm. Alpha-born. Mate-mark or not, she carried herself like she belonged beside him.And he… he held her in