The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate novel Chapter 231

Chapter 231: She’s Already Pissed. Fuck It.

Dex had done a lot of stupid things in his life. Cocky, reckless things that made his advisors reach for alcohol.

Jumping off a cliff with a woman who was already mad at him was a new one.

As soon as Velkaris landed, he jumped off his back, still carrying her.

Drakenvault Falls. The last time he brought her here, she followed him off a cliff. The odds of her following him this time were zero.

What he was getting through the matebond right now could best be described as a door slamming in every room of a very large house, simultaneously.

Aegon: You know, most males bring flowers.

Dex: She doesn’t like flowers.

Aegon: Yes she does, Dexmon. Every woman likes those.

So he did what any reasonable, self-respecting Alpha would do. He sprinted off the cliff with her in his arms without any warning.

Air screamed past them. Her white hair whipped upward, catching the light in a blaze of gold as they fell, and her body went rigid against his for the first three seconds before instinct took over and her muscles unlocked and she let the fall happen.

She didn’t scream.

Which was more terrifying than if she had. She was too tired to perform fear. Too drained to do anything except let gravity have her and trust that whatever waited at the bottom was survivable because Dex was holding her and Dex had never once let her hit the ground.

Aegon: Mate is not reacting.

Dex: I’m aware.

Aegon: Just confirming you’re aware. You seem to miss obvious things lately.

The water swallowed them.

Cold. Immediate. Total. The impact tore his arm from her waist and the current seized her thin frame and dragged her sideways.

Gold bled from her skin the second the water hit, spreading outward in threads that caught the swirl and pulled downstream.

She let the force take her, not fighting it, until it let up. Then she kicked hard, breaking the surface a moment later.

Dex surfaced beside her. Water streamed down his face, plastering dark hair to his forehead, and he watched her tread water with her jaw set and her green eyes locked on anything that was not him.

"Hold onto me."

She didn’t move.

He tried again. "Please."

The "please" bought him exactly one degree of eye movement. Progress.

Her jaw tightened. Then, with the reluctance of a woman signing a treaty she disagreed with, she wrapped her arms around his neck from behind and locked her hands.

Aegon: Say please again.

Dex: I said it once. That’s my annual limit.

He swam.

The falls roared ahead of them, a wall of white water crashing into the basin with a force that turned the surface into churning chaos. Steam billowed off the impact zone, thick enough to erase the world beyond it.

Dex dove under.

The current hit them like a fist. The force of the falls drove water downward in sheets, and the undertow grabbed at their bodies from every direction, ripping her from him.

One second she was there. The next, his back was cold where her body had been, and the water had her, pulling her into the churn. For two full seconds he reached blind into the dark, his fingers closing on empty current twice before he found her.

Every nerve in his body fired the same signal: find her, find her, find her

Finally, his hand closed around her wrist, then her forearm, then he hauled her against his chest. She wrapped her arms around him and for two seconds it was just the two of them under water with the falls hammering above and the current trying to tear them apart and neither of them letting go.

He swam. Fast. Faster than he had any right to be in water this violent, his legs driving them forward with a power that reminded her, against her will, of another Alpha she knew who moved through water the same way. She wondered, briefly, if it was an Alpha trait or if Dex and Fin just happened to share the same terrifying competence in everything physical and had more in common than either of them would ever willingly admit.

She shoved the thought out before it could settle.

They broke the surface on the other side of the falls.

Air. Silence. The roar of the waterfall muffled behind them, reduced to a low, constant hum that vibrated through the rock.

A cave.

Serena blinked the water from her eyes and looked up.

Aegon: Say something.

Dex: I’m building to it.

Aegon: Build faster. She’s getting colder and angrier.

Aegon: Keep going.

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