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Forbidden Bonds: Secrets of the Alpha's Mate Chapter 115: Sins of the Mother
Lyra's POVThe first sign of Elara's return was a subtle shift in reality - not the violent tears we'd grown accustomed to, but a gentle parting, like silk sliding against silk. She materialized in the center of the pack house, her form translucent and shimmering with otherworldly energy."Sister," she said, her voice echoing strangely. "We don't have much time."My heart twisted at the sight of her. The last time we'd seen each other, she'd been solid, real - now she was something between ghost and cosmic entity, her sacrifice to contain our father having transformed her fundamentally."Mom?" Luna's voice cracked as he stepped forward, his own power resonating with her ethereal presence.Elara's expression softened as she looked at her son, though I caught the flash of pain in her eyes. "You've grown so strong," she whispered. "But that strength has drawn attention. The Void - it's coming for you specifically."Before we could process this warning, Xander burst into the room, his fac
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Lyra's POVReality was coming undone at the seams, and I was the loose thread causing it all. Each world I touched began to fray, cosmic fabric stretching thin wherever my quantum existence brushed against it. Through my fractured perception, I watched a thousand versions of apocalypse unfold.In New York, a skyscraper phased between dimensions, its upper floors existing in multiple realities simultaneously. In Tokyo, gravity reversed itself as fundamental forces lost coherence. In London, time flowed backwards for six city blocks, causing panic as people experienced their own deaths in reverse."We can't keep this contained much longer," Xander's voice reached me across dimensions. He stood in our pack's war room, surrounded by screens showing global chaos. "The human governments are mobilizing. Some want to nuke the areas where reality is thinnest.""As if nuclear weapons could fix a cosmic tear," Selene scoffed, her ancient hands tracing patterns of power that hurt to look at. "We
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Lyra's POVTime moved differently now that I existed partially merged with the Weaver. Each moment stretched into infinity, showing me every possible outcome, every path not taken. I watched Xander rage against fate across a thousand realities, his primal form growing more desperate in each one as he sought a way to save me."You're still fighting it," the Weaver observed, her form shifting between past and future versions of myself. "Still clinging to what you were instead of accepting what you must become."Before I could respond, reality buckled. Void incursions erupted simultaneously across the globe - New York, Tokyo, London, Sydney. Through my enhanced perception, I saw the pattern. They weren't random attacks. They were testing us, probing reality's weaknesses."The pack can't handle this many fronts," I said, watching our forces stretch dangerously thin. Even with the other supernatural factions helping, we were overwhelmed."They don't have to," the Weaver replied. "If you co
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Lyra's POVI awaken to a sky that shouldn't exist—ribbons of aurora dance across a perpetual twilight, where three moons of different colors chase each other through star configurations I've never seen. My head spins as I try to process the impossible vista above me."Lyra." Xander's voice grounds me, and I turn to find him equally transfixed by our surroundings. "What have we done?"The landscape before us defies description—crystalline mountains float suspended in mid-air, their peaks wreathed in clouds that pulse with inner light. Behind them, a desert of silver sand bleeds seamlessly into a forest of trees with luminescent bark, their leaves shifting colors with each breath of wind."We remade it," I whisper, memories of our reality-altering symphony flooding back. "All of it."Luna appears beside us, his young face bearing an ancient's wisdom in his eyes. "Not remade," he corrects. "Merged. Look."He gestures, and I see it then—fragments of the old world woven into this new tapes
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Lyra's POVPower thrums through my veins like liquid starlight, a constant reminder of what we've become. I raise my hand, intending to adjust a minor fluctuation in local gravity, but instead, an entire mountain range rearranges itself. Fragments of alternate timelines bleed through, showing versions where the peaks were valleys, deserts, oceans—all existing simultaneously until my startled gasp collapses them back into a single reality."Careful," Xander calls from where he's mediating a dispute between werewolf packs and Fae courts. "You're making my job harder."He sits at the center of a grand amphitheater we created—or rather, that created itself in response to our needs. The architecture shifts constantly, accommodating each species' traditional formats. One moment it's a werewolf pack gathering circle, the next a Fae high court, then something entirely new that reflects the merged nature of our world."Sorry," I mutter, though the word feels inadequate for nearly rewriting an
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