Alpha's STOLEN Mate (by Abigail Hayes) novel Chapter 114

Chapter 114

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The wolves kept coming, faster and more cunning with each wave. Their nearly invisible scent made tracking impossible-I was fighting

blind in this shattered mirror maze.

But the physical battle wasn’t what was breaking me.

Through the mate bond, Kaius’s agony crashed over me in relentless waves. It wasn’t just sensing that he was hurt-I could feel his pain as if it were my own. Sharp, burning sensations across my chest.

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He was dying. Really dying. And every second brought him closer to the edge.

The combination was too much. Enemy wolves tearing at me from all sides, my own body screaming with exhaustion, and the unbearable torture of feeling my mate’s death in real-time through our connection.

Something inside me snapped.

Heat built beneath my skin, volcanic and unstoppable. My vision bled red at the edges, the world taking on a crimson tint. I could feel my body changing-the white fur on my head darkening to vivid scarlet, the color spreading down my neck and shoulders like blood soaking

through snow.

My claws erupted in flames so intense they turned blue-white at the core, heat radiating in waves that made the air shimmer. The fire climbed up my legs, engulfed my entire body until I was a living inferno. The cave walls began to glow from the temperature, stone actually starting to melt and run in rivulets.

Kaius’s pain spiked through the bond-a death cry I felt in my very bones.

I lost myself completely.

Rational thought dissolved. Strategy vanished. All that remained was pure, animal rage and one driving imperative: Destroy. Kill everything.

Reach him.

I launched into the air, and my power exploded outward with no direction or control. Lightning erupted from my body in jagged purple bolts that crackled through the superheated air, while flames spiraled around me in a massive vortex of orange and white fire. The two elements fed off each other, creating a maelstrom of destruction.

I wasn’t controlling it anymore. The power was using me, responding to my fury and pain, amplifying it into something catastrophic.

The detonation was apocalyptic.

Fire and lightning burst outward in a devastating shockwave. Every mirror in the cave shattered simultaneously, the sound like a thousand bells breaking at once. The wolves didn’t even have time to scream-they were consumed instantly, bodies incinerated by flames or torn

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apart by the explosive force. The scent of burning flesh and charred fur filled the air.

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Explosions rippled through the tunnels as my uncontrolled energy tore through stone and crystal. Sections of the ceiling collapsed. Walls

crumbled. The entire cave system shook with the force of destruction.

Then darkness-total, absolute black as the last light sources died.

But only for a heartbeat. My flames illuminated the wreckage, revealing what the mirrors had been hiding all along.

There, in a massive chamber that had been concealed by the maze of reflections-the source. A huge crystal pulsed with sickly unnatural

light, easily twice my wolf form in size. And beneath it, sprawled on the ground, was a massive black wolf being consumed by lightning

and fire.

Kaius. Writhing in agony.

My lightning. My fire. I’d done this to him.

Strangely, I felt nothing-no guilt, no remorse.

Above him hovered the golden-masked witch, her entire body wreathed in dark magic that made the air around her shimmer with wrongness. The crystal’s sickly light seemed to respond to her power, pulsing in rhythm with her magic.

She was laughing.

“Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful!” Her voice echoed with delight. “Look at your berserk energy! Such magnificent chaos!” She gestured at the destruction around us. “Just one small illusion about your mate dying, and you lose complete control! You destroyed my mirror maze, nearly killed him yourself with your rampage, and proved exactly what I’ve always known-”

She leaned forward, her masked face somehow conveying smug satisfaction. “Wolves are nothing but beasts who can’t master themselves. You’re slaves to instinct, to rage, to those pathetic bonds you think make you special. Even the legendary white wolf is just another rabid

animal!”

The word “beast’ penetrated the red haze. It didn’t calm me-it enraged me further.

I couldn’t process her actual words, couldn’t think beyond the burning need to tear her apart. I was barely conscious, operating on pure

feral instinct and bottomless hatred.

I lunged at the witch with supernatural speed, claws extended to rip her throat out. She vanished like smoke, reappearing behind me with

casual, mocking ease.

“Oh, this is precious! Your power doesn’t just destroy my wolves-it’s been hurting your precious mate this whole time!” She gestured at Kaius’s burned and bloodied form. “Every time you lose control, every wild burst of energy, you damage him more! Can’t you feel it through your bond?”

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