The Wolfless Widow: Defying The Enforcer Alpha

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ss, the lowest shadow in the Holland Pack. And tonight, his parents

less, empty womb. You will bear an heir claimed

tap echoing off the limestone walls of the ancestral hall. I stood three paces from the council table, nails biting my palms.

ed through my soles. "I am Casimiro's widow. I swor

leather chair, flicking dust from his sleeve. "You have no wolf. No inner beast. No combat strength. No nob

In the werewolf hierarchy, genes were

th chilling disdain. "We've made an agreement. Tonight, you'll submit

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ck law. Casimiro's childhood companion. A warrior whose reputation made rogue pac

s of my knees. "No! That defies every sacred law. I won

pt a bone-china teacup off the

oss my ankles. I gasped as hot liquid soaked through my sto

Your brother Eber is locked in the deep silver mines of the southern district. Silver toxicity is already eating away at his wolf. O

The air turned bi

who had protected me before he was fra

acked. Tears burned behind my

om. You'll do whatever is necessary to take his seed and secure an heir recorded under the Holland name. If

at as if brushing away an insect. "Get o

ching. Copper filled my mouth, but I swal

squeezed out th

oak doors. Each step sent pain shooting up fro

rk, lit only by sparse, flickering sconces. My night blindness blurred the corridor into deep, t

e air s

d. It was so dominant, so suffocatingly cold, that my instincts screamed at me to drop to th

ps echoed aga

lat against the wall, tryin

Lean waist. Every movement carried lethal grace. On the index finger of his left h

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until my chin touched my chest,

iercing, slate-gray eyes cut sideways. His gaze slid over my tre

p. He didn't

ff rumbled from his chest. Pure contempt. The kind an Alpha reserved

od slicked my skin. I waited until his footsteps faded down the long

ve out. I dropped hard o

en trees like a dying beast. I looked down at the blood dry

ber, I would have to walk straig

I hea

tal against stone. Not foo

turning the corridor into a sea of bl

still there.