I Forgot I Loved You Alpha (Ellie and Nolan) novel Chapter 324

Chapter 324

Ellie POV

The fighting didn’t sound the way I expected it to anymore.

It wasn’t louder. If anything, it felt sharper-every clash of steel too distinct, every scream cutting through the air with awful clarity. As if the world had narrowed, funneling everything down to this one place, this one

moment.

Me.

The wards around the staircase were still standing, but they were trembling now. I could feel it through the magic like strain in a muscle pushed too far, too long. Cracks spiderwebbed through the golden light, flaring and dimming unevenly as they absorbed blow after blow.

Below, voices shouted-orders barked, warnings screamed. The sound of Nolan’s voice reached me once, rough with fury and command, and the relief that surged through me was so intense it nearly brought me to my knees.

He’s here.

Alive. Fighting.

I could feel the bond flare when I realized it, responding with an intensity that grounded me enough to bring me back to reality.

I pressed my palm to the ward, grounding myself in the sensation of it. The goddess’s power thrummed beneath my skin, steady but restless, like a storm contained only by will.

I could still feel my mother.

She stood just to my left now, her presence more defined than before. Not fully solid, not entirely here-but close enough that I could sense the shape of her, the way she tilted her head as she watched the chaos unfold below us.

Her expression wasn’t fear.

It was grief.

“Mom,” I whispered, my throat tight. “What’s going to happen?”

She didn’t answer.

I thought of Alaric’s words. He had told me once that my visions couldn’t guarantee an outcome. That they warned me of what could be, but gave me a chance to change things.

It didn’t feel like I had a choice.

I had the warning that danger was coming, but it had still come to this.

I hadn’t been able to stop it.

But maybe that wasn’t what he meant. Maybe the choice wasn’t about what would happen, wasn’t about being able to avert a disaster.

Maybe it was about how I reacted to it. Was there still a chance to make a different choice now?

Her gaze was fixed past me, past the staircase, past even the battle itself-focused on something I couldn’t see.

A future, maybe.

Or an ending. One that I had failed to prevent.

The air shifted.

I felt it before I saw it-a wrongness sliding through the wards like a blade seeking a seam. The goddess stirred inside me, power surging in warning, and I spun just as a shadow detached itself from the chaos below.

Felicity.

She was moving differently now. No longer wild or erratic, but deliberate-her remaining strength coiling inward, focused entirely on one thing.

Me.

She vaulted the banister with impossible speed, landing hard halfway up the stairs. The wards flared violently where she struck them, golden light exploding outward as she tore at them with claw and fang.

Pain lanced through my skull as the backlash rippled through the magic.

“No!” I gasped, bracing myself. “Stop!”

She looked up at me and smiled.

It was the most horrifying thing I’d ever seen. It was wrong. Her lips were spread so wide that all of her teeth were showing and her eyes were wide and crazed. It made my skin prickle with goosebumps.

Blood streaked her face. Her body was twisted between forms again, bones shifting beneath skin in sharp, unnatural jerks. She pressed against the wards again and was shoved back several feet, but it didn’t slow her.

One of her eyes was already clouding over, but the other burned with singular purpose.

“You’re right there,” she rasped. “I can feel you.”

Then all at once, the wards buckled.

The goddess’s power surged instinctively, rushing to reinforce them-but this time, something else rose with it.

My mother stepped forward.

The moment she did, the world seemed to hold its breath.

Her presence expanded, no longer just warmth at my side but a quiet, radiant force that cut through the violence like moonlight through smoke. The goddess didn’t retreat-but she stilled, vast power settling into something almost reverent.

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