The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate novel Chapter 108

Chapter 108: Elara Tackled A Demon. Hale Punched It.

Dexmon hooked Serena around her waist, pulling her to his chest.

She looked up at the sky, eyes and hair flaring even brighter gold.

"They are coming," she said in Draken-Vorah, voice not her own.

The voice sounded so familiar to Dex, it made his chest ache. But he’d never heard that voice before from her.

At this same moment, Serena’s arm slipped free of Dexmon’s grip and she raised it.

"I don’t like that," Hyran called, not bothering to lower his voice.

He moved to where Dexmon was and created a portal. Zero fucks that it was in the middle of the camp.

A gold light beam exploded from her palm into the sky. The shockwave blasted everyone back, including Dexmon.

A fae horn blew from the forest. Then a giant rift cracked the sky open.

Dex was up, back to Serena before she could move. "Serena. Baby, try to fight it."

She didn’t seem to hear him.

"What the..." Hale breathed, just now arriving.

"It’s a portal," Hyran answered everyone’s unasked question. "A very powerful portal. Only fae magic can bend laws of nature like that."

The portal cracked open wider, stretching to the ground. And on the other side was a battalion of Dark Fae. Their eyes flared black in a single, synchronized pulse. In perfect, terrifying unison, they began to chant. Their voices were so aligned it sounded like one monstrous entity speaking from the dark.

"What has she done." Hyran said, eyes wide.

Serena jerked out of Dex’s arms aggressively, and made a run for the rift.

Fin was ready, grabbing her by the leg before she made it two steps. He yanked her off her feet, but caught her before she hit the ground. Then he dove through the portal.

Mid fall, he twisted them so he wouldn’t land on her.

Bad idea. As soon as she was on top, she pushed off of him, breaking free. And she was back through the portal before he hit the ground.

Fin lay there for a beat. He’d just been outmaneuvered by a woman half his size who he’d been carrying three seconds ago. Noted.

On the other side of the portal, Dexmon was waiting for exactly that. He locked his arms around her tightly and moved at Alpha speed past the portal until they were at the wall of the underground chamber beneath the library.

Her gold magic surged brighter, and the fire on her hands flared hotter.

The moon and stars on the ceiling flashed brighter with her.

"Why isn’t she going back to normal?" Dexmon called.

Hyran didn’t answer.

Then something odd happened. Her gold magic turned pink. Like a flip of a switch.

Hyran’s eyes widened. "That ... is ..." He didn’t finish his sentence.

Dexmon held Serena’s waist so she couldn’t break free, which made her even more angry. Her irritation bled through their matebond with clarity. She was Agnes-level enraged.

"I’m sorry, baby," he said softly.

She did not accept the apology.

But her magic turned back gold. Dex and Fin made eye contact. A rare ceasefire moment of what the fuck is happening.

Then everyone’s golden cuffs vibrated and didn’t stop.

Garrett Darkhowler appeared on the rune, bleeding out. Then Hale appeared. Tiberon next. Again and again.

Hale looked down at his hands, then around the room, then at Serena, and wisely chose not to ask any questions.

More and more people appeared in the room. Most bleeding. Some were fine just dazed, unsure how they got there.

Serena stopped struggling, and glowed brighter gold. The room flooded with her magic, wrapping around everyone.

Every wound started to heal. No one spoke or moved. It was both surprising, and not surprising.

Her gold magic stayed around the rune, healing as people arrived.

Garrett Darkhowler stood up, looking down at his blood-soaked armor, then back up at Serena.

He didn’t seem surprised in the slightest.

He tilted his head in an almost inhuman way, and gave a chilling smile.

His eyes didn’t blink. Not once. They stayed fixed on Serena, and when he spoke, there was a second layer underneath his voice, something that vibrated wrong, like two sounds stacked slightly out of sync.

He spoke to her in Glaciovox from across the room. Unbeknownst to him, it heavily overlapped with Draken-Vorah.

Serena’s head snapped to him the instant he opened his mouth.

"Axis." "Duel." "Wolf." "Marked." "Heat."

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