He Made Me Kneel, Now He Begs

od Moon pack, forced to scrub floors until

candelabra at the feet of our ruthless Alpha, Kael. But when ou

nally over. Instead, his eyes

and silver to stand at my side. N

forced me to my knees on the freezing

was brutally severed. Then, he bani

with fever and the agony of a broken bond, I was

had played such a cruel joke on me. Why give me the most powerful Alph

ng body didn't die. I shifted into a pure, luminou

. Not as a broken maid, but

it was his

pte

ra

nto the upper darkness. Tonight, the space was thronged with the most powerful of our kind, magnates and predators cloaked

d under the heels of their expensive shoes. We were the receptacles

arsh lye soap. I had been stationed for the evening in a shadowy alcove off the main thoroug

lver candelabra until the

g," a voice, sharp and br

e face of Selene, t

ave her license to orchestrate my misery, a

red, my gaze fixed on the floo

e sent me stumbling back. My body met

doors at the far end of

sh fell over

ael had

f our pack, and in the human wo

d a weakness seized my knees, as if the tendons had bee

ctively bent my head, exposing the s

slick hands lost

oor with a deafening, ringing clang th

gasp went thr

l terror as heavy footfalls a

nd met the cold, burning

it hap

searing spice that made the back of my throat clench. It was an

ting scent I had ever

surging through its channels. The rag in my hand was unco

, my wolf, so long dormant, let

i

a flicker of disbel

oward me before he caught himself. His wolf had recognized me. His wolf wanted me. But the man behind the Alpha was already calculating, already measuring the cost of accepting wh

a single stride and his ha

a violent jolt, like a physician's

my sternum, filling a vast, holl

in my soul, a sense of a

e fate

wit, for she had yoked the most powerful Alpha in