Contract Marriage With Alpha Snow novel Chapter 509

Chapter 509: He Didn’t Mark Her

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Chapter 509

~Zara’s POV~

"Oh, and... we know of your little alliance and plans. All I can say is, they’d never see this coming... Besides, we’d be taking them by surprise on the day your powers are taken from you."

Just the thought brought tears to my eyes. Just the idea of the innocents who would die was something that made my insides churn.

This fucking freaking lunatic. What did the werewolves ever do to your kind?

Smiling, Vera turned and walked away. The guards came for me then—silent men in ash-colored robes, their eyes empty, like husks.

They didn’t bind me. Why would they need to?

Because I couldn’t move unless the magic allowed me to, I was trapped inside my own skin and mind, dragged deeper into the belly of a place that reeked of ancient magic, old bones, and death.

Still, I knew that as much as they thought they could control my body, take my voice, it doesn’t change the fact that they hadn’t broken me.

Snow, please... please find me. Find me before they do something we hate.

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~Snow’s POV~

"Have you found her yet?" I asked, pacing across the study floor, my phone pressed tight to my ear, and the words spilled out faster than I could control.

Three different screens lit up in front of me—Jupiter, Dare Devil, and Golden God. Each of their faces stared back, tense and drained.

Dare Devil shook his head slowly, lips pressed into a tight line. "I scouted the borders around your territory. We’ve had eyes in the skies and boots on every road she might’ve taken. Still nothing."

"Same here," Jupiter added, leaning back in his chair, visibly frustrated. "I even tapped into a few rogue networks. Nada."

Golden God glanced to the side like he’d already known what my answer would be, but asked anyway. "What about using your mate bond? Can’t you sense her through it?"

I stopped pacing as silence ensued.

The question hung there, suspended between us. None of them said anything, waiting for my answer.

"Snow?" Jupiter prompted.

My throat felt tight.

That was when Zade finally walked into the room, his face grim, phone in hand. He didn’t wait for me to say anything. He walked in front of me so the others could see him.

"He didn’t mark her," he said simply, his voice like a quiet slap to the face.

Dare Devil blinked. "Wait. What?"

Golden God leaned forward, eyes narrowing. "You’re kidding."

"What the fuck, Snow?!" Jupiter’s voice rose.

I closed my eyes, jaw clenching.

"You had one job!" Dare Devil barked. "You almost lost her once before—after the whole divorce, after all the chaos—and you still didn’t seal the bond?"

Golden God jumped in, his voice sharp and filled with disbelief. "You were given a second chance, a golden opportunity to claim your mate, to mark her. And you waited? For what?"

Zade tried to cut in, lifting a hand slightly. "Maybe he was waiting for the right moment—"

Golden God’s voice snapped harshly again. "Right moment? Right moment? This is the perfect moment. We need it now that she’s gone to find her. That bond should’ve been ironclad when he can’t feel her."

I didn’t speak. I couldn’t.

Every word they said stabbed at something I’d already been beating black and blue inside my chest. And still, I let it in.

Glacier growled in my head, his rage simmering just beneath the surface. "You failed her. You were supposed to protect her, and you hesitated. Again."

"SHUT UP!" I snapped, voice booming through the study.

Everyone went quiet.

"I wanted to," I continued, throat burning. "We were going to—back at my father’s pack, the day after everything settled. We talked about it. But things... kept getting in the way after sex and we got interrupted, then other things occurred. War, councils. Rogue uprisings. Every time I looked at her and thought, now, something dragged us away."

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