All Chapters of Alpha’s Blood Mate: Chapter 251 - Chapter 260

"Oh, this?" She held up the glass jar. "You've got some wonderful fungi growing on a few of these pine trees. Its scientific name is Croartia Quercuum. Most people call it Fusiform Rust. In Wiccan circles, it goes by Heart Skin. Deadly to the trees but incredibly useful for attack potions. Poison, essentially. If you administer it to someone and perform the right spells over the mixture, their hearts will literally burst right inside their chests. Like pop, you know?"She puffed out her cheeks and made an explosive bursting sound like a balloon meeting a sharp pin. Lyanna and I stared at her in stunned horror.Sinthy rolled her eyes at us. "Ugh, no imagination whatsoever. It can also be combined with other ingredients to treat things like heartburn, arrhythmia, and heart attacks , anything related to the heart, really , but honestly, the bursting chest thing? That's where the real thrill is."I waved my hands to stop her. "Okay, great, understood. Evil tree fungus. Got it. Can we ta

Since the strange meditation session in the woods, there'd been something different about Leo. It wasn't any one particular thing I could point to, but he seemed more assured of himself. He'd always been a self-assured man—something that came with being a pack alpha, I was certain. Now though, that confidence radiated from him. It touched everyone around him as well. Each person who spent time with him said the same thing. It was as though his confidence reached out to them, lifting their own in return.My wolf felt it too. Being close to Leo calmed and settled her more now, like she was entirely at ease around him and trusted him even more than she had before. Something had shifted, and I was grateful for whatever it was. Leo had needed it. He'd struggled so much beneath the burden of everything happening around him. He took so much upon himself and wanted to be the one in control, the one who absorbed all the pressure. It was good to see that whatever power he'd accessed in the fore

None of us had gotten much sleep the night before, but we couldn't afford to sit around and recover. I was out of bed when the first rays of sunlight came through the window. Careful not to disturb Lyanna, I dressed and went straight to the Moon Mate building. Tiago and his men were already awake. He'd said his son was taking over as alpha, but from everything I'd seen and heard, it looked like that had been reversed or put on hold until the crisis was over. Tiago was completely in charge.He and some of his men were taking stock of the food his pack had brought along. When Tiago spotted me, he raised a hand in greeting."Did you even sleep?"I laughed. "I could ask you the same thing. I got about three hours."Tiago nodded. "Same here. Too much to do."Glancing at the large pile of supplies, I asked, "What do we have?"Tiago took a clipboard from one of his men. "Two hundred pounds of flour, a hundred pounds each of salt and rice. A dozen cans of condensed milk, two dozen cans of fru

I stared in stunned silence at the TV screen in the living room. Donatello had texted me to put on the news. Leo must have received the same message. Sinthy glared at the screen, and Gabriella had her face buried in her hands, a deep growl rumbling from her throat.This was bad, but not the worst that could have happened.Leo burst through the front door with Valerian, Rowan, and Atlas right behind him. "Lyanna? Lyanna? Have you seen the news?" His voice carried a barely contained tremor."Yes, calm down, Leo. It's gonna be all right.""How is it going to be all right?" he said, gesturing at the TV. "She told everyone where to find you."I was surprisingly composed, given the circumstances. I shook my head. "No. She said my name and that I lived in Florida. She didn't say Clearidge. She didn't give an address or anything like that. It'll take time for them to figure it out.""Lyanna," Gabriella said softly. "We're living in the age of the internet. People will piece it together in a d

She nearly spat her water out as she choked. After coughing and wiping her mouth, she shook her head. "No way. I would have known the moment it happened. Nobody's on your land.""But…" I looked back at Lyanna.She was obviously feeling something. That had to be why she was whimpering and gritting her teeth."Oh," Rowan said, drawing the word out slowly. "I know what that is.""What is it?" I asked, irritated that I had no idea what he was referring to. I glanced around the table, my gaze landing on Gabriella at the far end, seated beside two of my brothers.Lyanna's birth mother was gazing at her with teary eyes and a gentle smile. I turned back to look at my own parents. My mother was also staring at Lyanna, a knowing grin slowly spreading across her face."Okay, what the hell is going on?" I asked. "Can someone tell me⁠—"The scent finally triggered a memory. I knew that smell. The scent of pregnancy."Why is everyone looking at me?" Lyanna asked, shooting uneasy glances around the