Shattered By An Alpha, Healed By A Lycan King

ngs; it vibrated. It tasted of ozone, ancient earth, and a predatory hunger that

e sleek, agile wolves I had grown up with. These were behemoths. Even in their human forms, they stood nearl

like a hatchet and a chest the size of a beer keg, step

grinding together. "We do not take in the strays of the weak. Especially not a femal

warmth anymore; it was a localized sun. His grip on my waist t

vibration that made the marrow in my bones ache. "You are speaking of someone under my p

o choke on. The other Lycans shifted, their claws

of the Black Ridge for a broken omega? Look at her. She can barely stand.

as nothing but a girl with a hole in her soul where a mate-bond used

he is the catalyst. The Silver Moon has forgotten who rules these woods. They have grown fat and arrogant on

ust in his eyes softened into that molten gold. "Lyra is no

been held for three centuries. It was the only thing keeping the

for her?" Kaelen dema

the right spark," Fenris rep

the mountain air. It wasn't the sound of a wolf, and it wasn't the sound of a Lyca

entire posture changing. He

e Blighted"-wolves who had lost their minds to the rejection or the loss of a pack, their bo

filled the clearing as the Lycans took their beast forms. They were massive, four

l. They were scavengers. They smelled the blood on my scra

n a row of jagged humps, bypassed

rejection, whimpered and hid. I was defenseless. I closed

IN

m a throat; it came from

y eyes to see a shadow so large it eclipsed the moon. Fenris h

ht storm. His paws were as wide as my torso, and his presence radiated an ancient, cru

's midsection. There was no struggle. There was only the sound of bone turning to du

They dropped to their bellies, their tails

Wolf didn'

neutralized. The clearing went silent, save

a step forward. I should have been terrified. I should have run. But as the King's

rom my face. He exhaled, a hot burst of air that smel

f the Lyca

the dirt in a gesture of absolute submission to a femal

rm, let out a low whine of confusion. The King was acknowledging a mate. Not a

sappearing into the thick, dark fur o

the bones knitting together until the man stood before me once again, naked and

ound me, pulling me int

uncil with a challenge in his eyes. "They didn't break you. They just str

e fortress carved into the side of the mo

n your training. By the time I'm done with you, you won't just be

elt in years. Not love. Not yet. But a

as we reached th

little

my voice steady for the first time. "I want

teeth in the dark. "My Queen. Th

scout came racing down the interior

hasn't retreated. Alpha Alaric has called for an Alliance of the Five Packs. They are

painful. He looked out over the dark horizon, where the fai

pered. "But tell me, scout..

ute,

ation," Fenris growled. "Because if they didn't,