Defy The Alpha(s) novel Chapter 675

Chapter 675: Get A Blessing From An Ancestor

The news was not taken well by the cardinal alphas, but Asher was the one most affected.

"This is fucking bullshit!" he exploded, slamming his hand against the table so hard the plates rattled.

He shot to his feet, eyes dark and wild.

"No. Absolutely not," he growled, his voice thick with rising panic. "I will not allow it. You’re not going anywhere."

On a battlefield, he could reach her. Protect her and tear apart anything that threatens her. But the Land of the Dead? How was he supposed to get to her there? What could he possibly do if something went wrong in a realm he couldn’t even step into?

The helplessness — even the mere idea of it — wrapped around his throat like a chokehold.

Griffin said, worry etched across his face.

"Asher. Breathe."

Asher stared down at his hands. His entire arm trembled violently, his chest rising and falling in ragged, uneven pulls of air.

"Fuck," he muttered, turning away quickly as humiliation burned through him.

Losing control like this in front of the Queen... in front of Violet... in front of his brothers... This wasn’t him. This wasn’t the Alpha he’d spent years forging himself into.

But he couldn’t stop it. The tremor wouldn’t ease because the truth was brutal and unforgiving:

This was what fear looked like on him.

The fear of losing Violet.

The fear that no strength, no strategy, and no power he possessed could protect her from this.

The fear that he might not get her back.

It was suffocating and dragged him into a dark, spiraling abyss.

He couldn’t lose Violet.

He couldn’t.

She was the reason he breathed, the reason he clawed through every day of his life, the only light that had ever cut through the shadows he’d lived in since childhood. She was the only person who had ever truly seen him.

If she died in some realm he could not reach, it wouldn’t just break him.

It would end him.

There would be no coming back from that.

And he would never forgive himself for agreeing to this insanity. For letting her step into danger he couldn’t fight beside her in.

The thought alone hollowed him out.

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