My Fated Mate Can Have Her-Chapter 145: Flight

Violet

I ran.

I didn’t know where I was going, but I still ran.

My feet barely touched the ground.

The world around me fractured into disjointed fragments. Shocked faces. Wolves pressing themselves against walls as I passed. The thunder of boots and paws as guard wolves racing past me towards the chaos I had left behind.

My power still surged through my veins, and it felt like anyone would rather confront the mess in the castle than stop me.

The outside air hit my face like a slap, cool and sharp and real. For a heartbeat, I faltered, disoriented, before continuing to run.

At some point, I realised just how fast I had been moving.

The world around me stretched and warped, colours bleeding together as I raced through it.

Wolves scattered from my path. Some backed away in terror while others ran in the opposite direction.

Buildings gave way to open land. Then trees. The forest swallowed me whole, and still I ran, barely feeling whatever obstacles were in my path. My lungs burned, my body screamed for rest, but I kept running.

I didn’t know how long I ran, but when I eventually stopped, darkness had fallen, and the forest around me had changed.

The trees here were different.

Taller. Older. Their bark held a deep reddish hue that seemed to glow faintly in the dying light.

The Red Woods.

My chest heaved as I tried to drag air into my burning lungs. My legs trembled beneath me, threatening to give out. The Red Woods were far from the capital. Very far. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Despite the burning pain in my body, I felt a bit of relief in the fact that maybe no one would come for me anytime soon.

I collapsed to my knees, my hands hitting the soft forest floor. The earth was cool beneath my palms, covered in a thick layer of fallen leaves and moss that cushioned my fall.

For a moment, I just knelt there, gasping for breath.

Then the exhaustion hit me all at once.

It was like a weight had been dropped on my shoulders, pressing down with such force that I couldn’t hold myself upright anymore. My arms trembled, then buckled. I fell forward onto my side, curling in on myself as I hit the ground.

The irony wasn’t lost on me.

Here I was again. Back in these woods where everything had changed completely.

Above me, the dense canopy of red-leafed branches filtered out most of the fading sunlight, leaving me in shadow. I should have been actively trying to draw energy from what little light remained.

But I didn’t care about recovering

I hoped I had killed Damon.

I hoped that slap had done more than just break his jaw.

I hoped his head had cracked against that stone floor hard enough to end him.

But I knew it probably hadn’t.

He was a strong wolf. He would survive. He would heal.

I closed my eyes, too tired to even cry anymore. My body felt like it had been wrung out, every ounce of strength squeezed from my muscles and bones. The power I had wielded so absolutely in that hall had left me hollow.

The Supreme Alphas had been struggling against my hold constantly and it had taken everything in me to hold everyone in place while enforcing my will on Palisa the most.

But beneath the exhaustion and emotional turmoil I felt something else.

That same faint pull I had felt during the eclipse.

This was it.

I had to leave the capital. I just couldn’t go back.

Especially not after what I had done.

I had brutally attacked an Alpha in front of everyone, attacked a Supreme Alpha, and subdued the rest in front of their subjects.

The realization settled over me with cold certainty.

A lot of the Supreme Alphas in particular would not let that stand.

I needed to leave.

The thought should have hurt more than it did. Should have torn at me with the weight of everything I was abandoning.

Who I was abandoning...

But it felt necessary.

My selfish reasons aside, I needed to know where this pull was taking me to.

The decision made, I felt some of the tension leave my body. My eyes grew heavier and the exhaustion finally pulled me down into darkness.

[ - ]

When I woke up, the first thing I noticed was that I wasn’t lying flat on the ground anymore. I was propped up against something solid and rough. The bark of a tree pressing into my back through my ruined dress.

The moonlight fell on me like a direct beam having found a gap in the canopy above. I could feel the faint tingle as my body drew energy from it.

A moment later, I immediately stiffened.

Kael crouched in front of me, his face barely a foot from mine.

Those icy blue eyes caught the moonlight, making them seem like they were glowing in the darkness. Concern tightened his jaw and creased his forehead. His hands were clenched on his knees, and for a long moment, neither of us spoke.

My voice was hoarse and cracking as I finally whispered, "I am sorry for the trouble I’ve caused. I—"

"Stop."

The word was gentle but firm. He shifted slightly closer, and I could see his jaw working as he struggled with whatever emotions were churning inside him.

"Nothing that happened today was your fault, Violet. Nothing."

I averted my eyes. They had started to sting.

I didn’t want to cry again.

"You defended yourself against false accusations." His voice trembled with barely controlled anger. "You—"

My lips spread in a bitter smile. "I believe I terrified your wolves as I was leaving."

"I understand." He then drew in a slow breath and seemed to be choosing his next words carefully. "The other Supreme Alphas..." He paused, his expression darkening. "We are still trying to figure out what to do about Palisa. What she, especially in a trial to falsify testimony, is not something we or I can overlook—" His jaw clenched and I saw raw fear, determination, and something deeper in his eyes that made my chest tighten. "I want to keep you hidden while I sort this out—"

"No."

I knew it would come to this.