The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate novel Chapter 164

Chapter 164: Fin Screamed Her Name & Hit A Goddamn Wall

Every voice echoing across the ice sounded like it was coming through water.

Serena couldn’t answer any of them. Her throat was crushed and her vision kept tunneling, and she could hear Hyran, Hale, Gav, all of them shouting, but the words arrived a half-second after the sounds.

"Is he gone?" Aeron called, his voice managing to cut through.

Gods. She didn’t know when the hell Aeron had arrived. These cuffs were really the worst at keeping things private.

Arms shaking, she tried to push herself up but didn’t get past her hands and knees. Her lungs were operating on what felt like a single teaspoon of air.

She held out her hand and attempted to make a gold portal. No magic came. Instead her insides burned and she immediately stopped.

Fin was moving at Alpha speed. Because of course he was there. If Aeron was, then he would. Golden cuff.

Gav was behind him, running onto the ice. "This is advanced level nightmare fuel, Frostborne."

Him narrating the horror out loud was either a coping mechanism or a personality disorder. Or both. Definitely both.

She didn’t know if she was relieved or terrified that they were there.

If anything, Fin charging at this thing was exactly what the Emperor wanted. But his jaw set and his eyes burned molten at the edges. His wolf was close to the surface and not asking permission.

For a split second, she felt a moment of relief. She wasn’t alone.

She managed to get her boots under her and upright, and took a step towards Fin.

The second she took that step, a golden wall fabricated, cutting both men off.

Fin hit the barrier at full speed. It didn’t give.

"Take it down. TAKE IT DOWN, SERENA!"

He slammed both fists into it and the sound that came out of him was more wolf than man. She was on the other side of it dying, and he could do nothing but break his fists against the thing keeping him from her.

She glanced down at her hands, knowing full well it was her magic but not having an inkling on how. Mutiny by fabrication.

"Serena..." His voice cracked on the second syllable.

His chest heaved like something inside him was being torn in half. She knew that look. She had seen it once before, when he told her about his first mate. The look of a man who’d already survived losing someone, and understood in his marrow that the universe was capable of doing it again.

His grief flooded into her, stinging her eyes until tears began to fall. If she hadn’t just been choked, she’d be sobbing.

She wanted to tell him she didn’t do it. That she wanted to go to him. That she was just as confused, but the words didn’t come. She wanted to push calm into him through their matebond, but she didn’t have it.

The thought of losing him gutted her too.

She took another step towards him, her legs wobbling.

"Serena under YOU!" Gav yelled.

She looked down, right as the emperor punched through the ice, grabbing her leg.

A scream ripped from her. Or should have. What came out instead was barely a whisper. Maybe that was a mercy because she didn’t want Fin to hear it.

Gold. Kick. Ice. Fire. She cycled through everything, limbs moving on pure refusal even though the math was getting worse with every second.

The runes and stars lighting the chamber dimmed, almost like it was giving up on her too.

She was well aware her fear was feeding it and if she could turn it off she would.

Two portals began to form on the ice next to her, Hyran and Aeron both. Assuming he would do something to one, she could go through the other.

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