Lahat ng Kabanata ng Mated To My Ex’s Stepbrother, The Alpha: Kabanata 211 - Kabanata 220

The silence that followed Damon’s words felt wrong… not quiet, wrong, like the entire ballroom had forgotten how to breathe.I stood frozen in the center of the hall, my pulse hammering so violently I could feel it in my throat. Around me, hundreds of eyes stayed locked on us in stunned disbelief, b

Aria’s POVI didn’t remember how I got out of the ballroom, only that my legs kept moving even after my mind stopped cooperating. The corridors of the packhouse blurred past me in pale streaks of gold and stone, torches flickering like distant warnings I couldn’t quite interpret. My hands were sti

Damon’s POVThe silence after her words didn’t feel like silence, it felt like an impact.“I reject the bond.” Aria’s voice still echoed through the corridor, bouncing off stone walls and sinking into places I couldn’t immediately reach. For a moment, nobody moved… not the guards, not the Elders be

Aria’s POVThe Council Hall felt colder than usual, even though the torches along the stone walls burned bright and steady. I stood near the back, hands folded tightly in front of me, forcing my breathing to stay even while every instinct in my body screamed at me to leave. Damon was at the center

Aria’s POVThe corridor outside the eastern training hall smelled faintly of iron and polished stone, the kind of sterile scent that always clung to places where warriors passed through too often. I had just stepped out with a stack of sealed archive reports in my arms when I felt the shift in air p