All Chapters of THE ALPHA'S FORSAKEN SECRET : Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

Isabella's POVThe storm in my chest was reflected in the severity of the outer one. Rain pounded at the windows, the wind roaring like a night predator hunting. I stood by the fireplace, the flickering flames hardly warming the cold knot in my gut."You lied to me," I replied, voice shaky but not cracking. As they sliced through the tight stillness, the words felt sour.With his hands balled into fists at his sides and his mouth tight, Luke stood across the room. Usually friendly, his eyes were harsh and inscrutable. "Isabella, I had nowhere to choose."" There is always a choice!" I snapped and started to approach. "You let me think you were someone else entirely. You "- I stopped, gassing on the words. You used me.He stepped forward with a hushed voice but great intensity. "I never took advantage of you. Everything I did served to guard you.""Protection me?" I threw my hands and laughed . You call pulling me into this dream protection? You still—" understood the risk, Luke, and

I could feel the weight of his words in my chest, his breath hot against my skin. “You can’t walk away from this, Isabella.” His fingers tightened around my wrist, fastening me like a puppet on a thread. "You are now much too deep. You know far more than necessary.I pushed hard, my heart pounding in my ears. Time seemed to have paused, each breath weighing more than the previous. The room was whirling, and for a while I wasn't sure if my wrath or terror would cause me to pass out. My voice shaking, I said, "Let go of me." You are mistaken. I'm not here right now. There is nothing I owe you.His lips twisted into a nasty smile, the sort that made my skin crawl. Don't you? Seeing this through benefits you personally as well. To face what is to come?I yanked my arm away, but he just moved in front of me, pushing me back into the alley's cold stonewall. "Isabella, you are not deserting me. You could, you think? You believe you can discard all this? It is in your blood right now.Every i

Watching the gun's barrel settle itself on me, a frigid, uncompromising glare in the man's eyes, my heart thumped against my chest. My breath was shallow and quick as the world around me appeared to stop. Then, though, his voice pierced the quiet, low and threatening."I said to you earlier, Mia. You cannot avoid me."Luke's body pressed into mine, his presence shielding, yet as he moved to attempt to save me with every last bit of power, there was trembling in his grasp. It came short. Not yet.Though the uncertainty bit his voice, chewing at his assurance, Luke said furiously in my ear, "I won't let him hurt you." I sensed the terror coming from him. I owed it to someone. I had to move.Not some thug, the man Dante was not. He was my nightmare and past. The one I ought to have left behind. And yet here he was, dragging me back into a world I had battled so valiantly. Back to torment me. His eyes glowed with rage, and his lips curled to produce shivers down my spine."You consider yo

Desperate, I said, "Don't you dare leave me now, Max," my palm tightly gripping his, causing me to panic. I could shatter it. His pulse slowed by the second, his skin was cool, and I could hear his laboured, shallow, as though every breath was a fight. The world around us was a jumble of darkness, far-off footfall, and my heart shrieking in my ears."I'm not... leaving...." Max mumbled, his voice strained, but there was something in his speech—something ferocious—that told me he wasn't going to submit—at least not without a struggle. But I could feel the battle depleting him with every second that passed as the blood kept pouring from his wound.Though I could not afford to squander time, I wanted to yell and ask him to hang on. Still out there was Dante, that demon. He can be anywhere observing and waiting for his chance to attack. If I did nothing or failed to get Max out of here, it would be over for us both.Every muscle in my body tensed as a rustling sound to my left caused me t

Ethan's lips barely touch me. Tension permeates the air between us, the type that may burst everything around us or turn into flames. His eyes, those cold, calculated ones, hunt mine for a response, but I can't let him know how deeply his treachery stings. He leans close and momentarily freezes me. Though everything in me cries to flee, I do not. I'm unable."Mia..." his voice is deep, lethal, and absolutely magnetic. "You are not able to decide how this turns out."His hot, frantic breath touches my face and causes my heart to accelerate even though I am calm. This man is not the one I assumed I knew. I used to adore Ethan, not this one.My throat pounds with my pulse. Though every fiber in my body yells at me to rush between and create distance between us, I am unable. My eyes seem to stay fixed on him. I despise him. I have to lose my hate for him. Still, here I am stuck looking into those eyes. Why does he still hang around me?"You made your choice," I bite out, voice shaky but s