Chapter 184

ALPHA DOMINIC’S POV I was only a few steps away. Only a few painful, blistering steps from her. And yet, it felt like a thousand miles stretched between us, thick with magic, heat, and something that was no longer entirely of this world. The air itself seemed to crackle and warp around her form, pulsing with unnatural energy. Olivia stood at the center of it all like the eye of a raging storm—veins aglow with fire, hair like a whip of molten gold, lashes heavy with ash and unshed tears. And yet... in her eyes, I saw her. The girl I loved. The girl I failed. The mate I still wanted to protect—at all costs. I could feel the bond between us, pulled taut like a string threaded through both our souls, straining beneath the pressure of this storm. It wasn’t just the mate bond anymore. It was something far deeper. Wilder. Ancient. It was like two magnets, hurtling toward each other across space and time. Only this time… something else pulled at me too. Something that wasn’t wolf. And that ter