The Supreme Alpha's Secret Fated Mate

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the heavy oak door of the Hicks residence slamm

with a wet thud. Worn flannel shirts, fraying denim, and a few faded

y property!" Deidre Hicks's shrill voice cut

ing coat, her breath puffing in angry white cloud

give any emotion. I simply stood straight, my spine

day was coming fo

ite with malice. "Eighteen years of feeding you, clothing you, keeping a roof o

er-tier shifters in our suburban pack territory were almost audible in the biting wind. They lo

kle that sent shivers down the quiet street. "You were nothing more than a spiritual shield. A sacrificial

n my chest. It wasn't heartbreak-it was disgust. The ugly

d, crude binding runes. It was the amulet she had forced me to wear around my neck since t

right before my toes. "Brenda is turning eighteen next week. Her wolf is primed to awaken as a pure high-Bet

raising her hand as if to

gle, deliberate step back, ef

I had kept hidden from them for eighteen years. Thanks to their constant mistreatment, I was still using my baby blanket when I was seven years old. That year, I found it sewn deep inside the blanket-a

onto hers, the sheer, icy stillness in

er features. She had never seen this look on my face. For eighteen years, I had played the silent, submissive orphan

ht they ha

xicity suppressing my spirit, I was slowly dissecting

ledge pulsing beneath my ribs. The debt is paid. The cage is broken.

e cutting through the wind with razor-sharp clarit

as her face mottled with rage. "Get out! You have no wolf, no pack, and no nam

k on her withou

't feel the cold. Deep within my core, a tiny, golden-white spark of lunar warmth flared to lif

phs my true instincts had whispere

enough silver to keep my soul intact. It was a agonizingly slow process-like scrubbing away lead with a silk cloth-

uburban subdivision faded into the dark

ak, I reached into the pocket of my thin canvas co

ce vibra

displayed an incoming encrypted text from

my right index finger against the glass, tra

the garbled code rearranged itself

ra Beaumont. Pre

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my mind like a c

ernatural archives to trace the origins of this mysterious pendant in my hand and the Moon Runes i

odline could possess this pendant and bear the primordial lunar magic of the Valerius seal