**Chapter 46**
**ARIA**
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“You honestly believe that just because you’re in your human form, she’ll suddenly fall for you?” Damon sneered, his voice dripping with contempt. “Do you think that standing upright instead of on all fours changes anything? The truth is, she doesn’t love you, Kael. She’s merely settling for you because I turned her down. I was the fool who couldn’t recognize the treasure right in front of me. But make no mistake, she belongs to me, and she always will!”
Kael’s response was a guttural snarl, a sound that was more beast than man. “She bears my mark. She’s my mate, my Luna. Whatever fleeting connection you think you had with her is finished, Cross. Accept that reality and leave before things escalate into chaos.”
“Oh, trust me, it’s already chaos,” Damon retorted, and in an instant, he began to shift, his body contorting as thick fur rippled across his skin, transforming him into a formidable beast.
To my astonishment, Kael moved with a speed that seemed impossible for someone who had only regained his human form a mere day ago. He thrust me toward Nina, his mental voice echoing through our bond, laced with an urgency that sent shivers down my spine.
*Get her out of here. Now.*
“No,” I protested weakly, but Nina’s grip on my arm was unyielding, as if she were a steel vice. She was already pulling me backward, away from the platform, away from the impending clash between Kael and Damon as they completed their transformations.
“We have to leave,” Nina urged, her voice a frantic whisper. “Aria, you’re Luna now. You can’t put yourself in danger during an Alpha challenge. Let the guards take care of this.”
“But Ivory—” I glanced back toward the spot where she had collapsed. A figure was bent over her—Eliza, the head healer, assessing the damage with a look of grim determination. “Is she—”
“She’s bleeding and unconscious!” someone shouted from that direction. “We need to get her to the clinic, now!”
A flurry of wolves rushed to assist, carefully lifting Ivory’s limp body and carrying her towards the pack house. As they passed, I caught a fleeting glimpse of her face—pale, streaked with blood, bruises already darkening across her cheek and jaw.
She had sacrificed herself for me. For us. And now, she was suffering because of it.
Nina tugged me further back just as the two Alphas fully completed their transformations. Kael’s wolf was a massive creature—easily twice the size of his human form, with fur as dark as midnight and those same golden eyes blazing with an intensity that could ignite the very air. Damon’s wolf, though smaller, was no less intimidating, brown and scarred, exuding a palpable aggression as he circled Kael, searching for an opening.


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