THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT MATE

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being dragged into the clearing one by one. Each name called out was met with jeers and the cold, merciless voices of Alphas who had come to claim their mate tonight. She pressed a trembling hand to her mouth, stifling

was never

en

t like this. She shrank deeper into the brush, panic clouding her senses. Maybe

chest, the wind knocked from her lungs as she struggled, her nails clawing at skin and cloth. Another hand

. A voice that haunted the

Pack. Ruthless. Unforgiving. The la

le ticking there as though he fought against something inside himself. And then, for the briefest flicker of a second, r

he called ove

r head as tears blurred her visio

aid, his voice a lo

before she could plead, he

them, the pack howled in approval, the noise crashing over her like a wave. And even as she fought it,

he fe

through her veins, a soul-deep conn

mate

her body betrayed her, the way her wolf pressed against his, how every instinc

anyone," she whispe

t was

er itself between them, and nothing in thi

ear, maybe hope. His hand slid beneath her knees, lifting her easily into his arms. She kic

up at him.

st," he corr

iliar she was. Because this wasn't how it was supposed to be. Not like this, not with fury and brokenness between them. He should've felt victorious. Should've

ike he was the monster in ev

ate him. It was

nt. No idea of the curse coiled in his bloodl

the truth, it would be far