The Alpha's Cursed Virgin Bride

Arrival at

ra's heart. Outside, the night wrapped itself around the Blackthorn estate like a heavy cloak-dark, silent

very nerve stretched tight, like the

s-was a cage. And inside it waited the man w

ping out onto the gravel path. The chill bit into her skin, but it

of the pack she was leaving behind. But the Elders

lamb dressed

dows was not the monster whispered about in

like a storm barely contained-qui

something unspoken passed between them. A flicker of recognition, or perhap

at had never dared to touch another for eight long year

ller than she wanted, cra

a Dra

ectfully, but the weight be

e said, voice low and rough

een them like a cu

a

and unity, but here it felt like a

steady the tremor in her voi

eadable passing through his eyes. "Your pac

his words crushed s

ngs about her cursed birth. About the danger she

was not just cur

d to be her mate was a fort

eading her through the vast courtyard,

seemed to watch, every breeze whisp

and empty, the silence pres

efore a heavy do

l be your

t, stripped of it

aughter of an Alpha. She was just a frightened girl, des

th me?" she asked, b

cold mask faltered. A flicker of someth

e said quiet

the shadows, leaving her alone with the poun

l, tears she didn't know she w

pawn. A sacrifice. A girl trapped in

r and the pain, a f

t just

t just

m m

oved across the sky, casting shifti

soft

eath c

tood Draven-w

, scarred, and trem

e, his voice l

touch you

w something fragile-an ember of hope, a hint of fear, a d

eyes l

uls trying to find their way through

moment, somethin

tory of survival, of longing, of a

yra knew this was