The True Alpha of Lupine (Seraphina and Ronan) novel Chapter 269

Mar 269 The Flashes

SERAPHINA

“Sera I found Ryker Wraithe.”

My heart stopped. “Where is he?”

The link was abruptly cut off, followed by Lily’s final scream, a blood–curdling cry that ended as abruptly as it had started. The bond shattered.

No…no, no, no.

Lily…she was gone. She…died.

Her last words echoed in my mind: “He is…always around you-”

I froze dead on my spot. Around me? Always?

The next thing I knew something black slithered around me. It coiled around my legs, slithering up to wrap cold and unrelenting around my chest, like an invisible chain pulling me towards the unknown. The air grew thick with pressure, and the suffocating mist closed in.

That’s when a voice, low and slithering, whispered in my ear from the black thing around me, sending a shiver down my spine.

“Seraphina…” Ryker whispered.

I turned around an instant, only to find myself in an entirely different place. A palace. Unfamiliar and familiar at the same time.

There, I stood before Ryker, my parrot flailing in his grasp, panicked and suffocating.

“How many times do I have to tell you, Seraphina?” Ryker murmured, tilting his head, his voice cold and merciless. “You can only love me. So why do you make me jealous?.” With that, he snapped the parrot’s neck with a sickening crunch.

Shaking in horror, I saw its small dead body falling to the floor in the same way it had been in its cage. My gaze shifted to the floor, my body trembling as I saw the lifeless bodies of three women. One had a rope around her neck, eyes wide open, another’s body was entirely white and swollen from drowning, and the third had died from excessive blood loss from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

Who were they? Why did they look like my nanny, my little best friend, and my mother, each of them dead, their bodies lying cold and still on the floor?

In a blink, Ryker was closer to me, his hand sliding gently against my cheek, his blue eyes filled with an unsettling obsession. “This would not have happened if you had not run,” he breathed against my lips, his touch on my skin leaving a burning sensation that was a violation to my body as if there was not a part of me he had not violated. “You love running so much, don’t you?” he whispered, his voice dripping with malice.

My whole body trembled with fear at the madness in his eyes. He leaned in, his lips brushing against mine, “Today, I’m giving you another chance, Seraphina. Run… His voice dropped to a whisper in my ear. “Run.”

I froze, terror seizing me. His eyes turned darker, and suddenly, he roared, “RUN!!!”

Without thinking, I spun around and bolted across the white ground, the ground that slightly mixed with the forest ground whenever I blinked. His laughter echoed behind me as I ran and ran barefoot, the bloody foot print I left behind on the white floor and the forest floor at the same time while my eyes fixed on the threshold ahead, the promise of freedom. The threshold that mixed with the clearing ahead whenever I blinked

But just as I was about to cross it, Ryker caught me with terrifying speed.

“Not right now… Seraphina, he murmured, his grip unyielding around me.

With a scream, my eyes flew open again, only to find myself in the clearing, surrounded by mist. The black smoke still swirled around me, and 1 heard Ryker’s whisper in my ears, it chilled me to my core: “Be ready i am coming.”

Frozen, I stared at the black smoke encircling me, recognizing it as Ryker’s curse, the very curse that had haunted me since birth. It had always been with me, killing everyone I had ever loved or held dear. Just like the scene I had witnessed moments ago,

“It had all happened before. These deaths…” I murmured to myself in realization, “Everything is repeating. Or…” I choked in horror as Phina finished it for her.

“We were simply…reliving the things Ryker wanted us to know. He wanted us to remember.”

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