Alpha Knight & the Cursed Witch

pproaching spring and the scent of century-old books. It was a bre

or a moment, Knight thought his mi

seemed to amplify in his eyes. The opening was not larger than a fist. It

while he just stood motionless. He wondered why he had never bothered to look up before, even

much stronger. Like it was just near him. C

he enticing scent that kept him from dyi

," she said. "T

e was tickling him. He was certain he had never heard such a voice befor

if anyone else had felt her too. But there was

that's why nobody notices. He laughed then. Am I in so

n. They did not hear her. Maybe because they were witches and warlocks. They did not have the sa

out of his lungs. The scent swirled around Knight until, for a seco

and came to life, and the w

is time. He could feel her running, her resounding

ith fury at whoever was causing the woman's distress. He did not under

e felt the woman's presence nearing him. His bones popped,

But just as quickly as the relief bathed Knight,

at he coughed blood as he knelt on the floor. With hazy vision, he

m the inside. He was so close to giving up. He just w

lone any longer. That even if he was in so much pain

race. It woke him from his deep hopelessness, and for the first time in a

e, encompassing warmth enveloped his drumming heart, and

a

me. It shivered through every nerve ending in his enti

into perfect alignment. Knight thought the p

heavily now, out of breath, trying to outwit someone. Knight could smell her

a

whole world heard its plea. But then he remembered that no

rds were too lazy to chain them. Only one of his arms was chained-the broken arm they had not tied up, thinking it would not heal

"He's wounded and burned.

as attached to the walls, enchanted with magic. No matter what he did, he could nev

Protec

metal chains into pieces,

hitched when he heard her v

to see even a glimpse of her. Just one look. But

Ludwig, hold

a sense of urgency. He tugged his chain again, clenching his jaw, wishing despera

ered walls to the stones that lay before him. There w

int in his eyes, he looked down at himself. There was not

ere, and I'll help

led once more, loude

Beast awoke. He was happy he finally felt it, that it finally showed itself to him. But he

if it would work out, but it had to. He needed it to work out

ul, but it was worth the try. He just needed to b

A

eard his Mate's voice shout in agony, bre

s male. One smelled like a burning candle and the heat of the afterno

un

his Mate's scent got entangled wi

touching what's mine alo

past years suddenly summoned itself. His

. Slowly, the bones in his hands expanded, and his nails gr

Knight got lost in pain again, he clutched his chained hand using his free healed one. And with one swift,

's

kept flowing, bathing him. His hazy vision focused on t

like death once it grew back, but Knight had already experienced what dy

e his scream, but the pai

uard on the other sid

ght to roar in pain, so the

s bones and eating his flesh. The cracking and sn

bent in awkward directions until he could no long

, then his skin was repl

t echoed the same time he

Beast hovering over them. It was standing awkwardly, with one paw in the

its claws. With a sickening snap of its jaw against

light creeping on the wall, telling him it was a weak point. His sense o

s approaching from the north. He heard everything, ev

fangs against all the witches he saw. It was a mas

e, he moved swiftly and roughly, with the intention of

shed everything-the anger, the pain, the s

n earlier on the wall. The disfigured bodies on the floo

scent of his Mate. He could track her again if he

is hellish place was to knock the

fell at his feet. The cold night air from the o

rdly believe that he had finally escaped. He was n

a

e did not care that he stumbled as

looking at him, and for a second, he stopped, thinking someone must be watching him. But w

ground. It was not his Mate's blood, but her scent was la

ad him. Weird croaking and yawning and gasping made him almost growl in surprise, but every time he temporarily lost track, he would

in the Forgotten Fjords. One's

. Another desperate plea from his Mate's sharp voice a few hun

hat had just suddenly materialized in fron

few more leaps and he almost got stuck in quicksand, only to turn lef

omething cold then grabbed Knight's paw, but he bit into it, tasting sour

once, but he eliminated everything th

gle him alive. But he pushed through, he was just a few meters away now. Just a little more. A few more steps

lighter, as if he had just crossed an invisible barrier once he p

nfused by the strangeness of it all be

y on his back also disappeared the same time

blood, but all he saw was the edge of the forsaken forest with

of water, the starlit sky, and the moon hang

tten Fjords, but there was no woman. No on

ace of the voice that guided him to freedom. But there

d deeply, filling his lungs with as much

. But her scent was already fading, telling him she had

ezing it tightly. He could not, did not know what to thin

on darkened. He had failed. He had failed to protect his Mate, the ve

emed to watch him with awe as he stepped to the edge, and th