Alpha Queen: Fated to Three Alphas

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Chapter 11: The Secret Room

Dana POV

Marcus finally shut the book with a soft thud. “Whether you want it or not… it’s real. And if this book is here, maybe there’s more. Come on.”

He stood up at once and scanned through the shelves almost frantically.

I followed, though I couldn't stop thinking about what the caption read about my mark.

Marcus returned the book to its place, sliding it carefully… and then we both heard it.

We heard a soft click.

Then, the shelf groaned, wood grinding against stone.

Slowly, impossibly, the entire shelf of books shifted sideways, revealing a narrow passage.

What is this place?!

My stomach knotted. “Marcus…”

I slowly turned to him, catching his expression.

His eyes gleamed with both fearand excitement.

I didn't need to guess which one he was going to let take action.

“A hidden door Dana. I knew this place was more than it looked.”

Before I could argue, he slipped inside the room in curiousity.

“.. Fuck.. “ I cursed under my breath before following him inside.

The passage opened into a chamber carved from stone, lit only by the flicker of runes etched into the walls.

The room was filled with shelves of scrolls lining on each side of the wall.

At the far end of the room, there was a mural on the wall, like a big silver crescent moon with claw marks spreading out, and each mark pointed toward smaller crescent moons.

It was my mark…over and over again.

“What the actual f**k.” I muttered to myself, struggling to make sense of anything right now.

“This is…” Marcus stepped foward. “It’s a record. Look at all of them…its like they're marks from previous generations.”

I stepped closer to the mural, my hand trembling as I reached out.

The lines shimmered faintly under my fingertips, glowing as if they recognized me. My mark flared in response, searing hot, and I yanked my hand back with a hiss.

“Dana—” Marcus started.

The door behind us slammed shut.

I whirled around. The bookshelf that had opened was gone, now it was just empty walls.

No, no, no… This can't be happening.

Marcus ran to it, shoving against the wall with his shoulder with force.

“It won’t budge,” he growled.

Then, suddenly I felt it, like the air in the room shifted.

At first I thought it was just me panicking… until I heard it.

I heard a faint trickle of water.

I looked down on the ground under my feet.

No fucking way!

Water was leaking from the cracks in the floor and slowly coming together into a bigger puddle.

“Marcus,” I whispered, my voice breaking.

He turned towards me and then the floor. “Shit.”

The water was gushing fast, in less than five minutes, it was already at my knees.

Marcus rammed his shoulder into the sealed wall, again and again to no avail.

His claws screeched against stone, leaving nothing but scratches. “Damn it, it won’t move!”

My eyes searched the room frantically, looking for anything like an exit.

“There has to be a way out! There has to…”

Nothing! There was nothing but these stoned walls.

The water, soon surged to my thighs. “Marcus, we’re trapped.”

“No,” he barked, though his voice shook. He kept pounding the wall, not minding the blood now on his knuckles.

“Not like this. Not here.”

Taryn stirred in my chest, and I could feel her onw fear as well.

Dana… the air’s running out…

“I know!” I snapped at her.

My legs shook as the water now rose to my waist.

That feeling of hopelessness gradually creeped in as the water continued to rise.

I turned to Marcus, he was slowing too as his strikes were now losing force.

The water just kept rushing in, faster and stronger.

At this rate, the water would consume us in not more than two minutes.

“This is it,” Marcus muttered under his breath.

I saw the defeat flicker in his eyes, and it nearly broke me.

“No!” I shouted, though my voice cracked.

I slowly nodded in agreement as I moved to him, my hands and his now clapped together.

This was it! The library’s secret room had become our tomb.

The water climbed higher, now at my chest now. I could barely keep my footing.

Maybe this was how fate wanted to end me. Maybe the mark was never meant to be a gift but a curse and this was a way of eliminating a curse before it spread.

Just as I slowly shut my eyes in despair, a deafening crash echoed from above.

I saw the stoned walls that trapped shatter into pieces, andas light poured into the room.

“Dana!”

My heart nearly stopped. I knew that voice.

Damian.

Before I could even process it, he dropped down through the broken ceiling like a storm.

His eyes glowed, sharp and feral, locking onto me even as water surged around us.

I never thought in my lifetime at this school that I would be so relieved to see any of the three Alpha's.

Without hesitation, he moved, shoving debris aside with inhuman strength.

“Hold on!” he barked.

Marcus tried to say something, but water filled his mouth, cutting him off.

Damian grabbed me first, his grip firm and strong.

“Don’t let go,” he said, and for a moment, despite the chaos, it felt like the only command that mattered.

He shoved Marcus toward the jagged hole above, boosting him up with raw force. Then he turned to me. The water was nearly at my neck now, choking me and pulling me under.

“I’ve got you,” Damian whispered fiercely.

And then, with a single motion, he lifted me as though I weighed nothing, forcing us both upward toward the opening as the chamber drowned beneath us.

The last thing I heard before breaking through into air was the roar of the collapsing chamber below.

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