The Mate's Forbidden Secrets

sweat, and death. The walls were made of scorching silver bars. Th

somewhere in the darkness, with only a fa

pt from the guards to showcase how weak and a mutt they knew I w

the strength that they had. I would have doubted my genes if my foster parents and the Luna

he green lenses I always wore glowing in the dark. I dug my nai

overwhelmed about something. There were momen

pired in the last twenty-four hours, searching d

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for days. I stopped counting after the fou

oes filled my ears, and I stiffened

d, but I did not move. I refuse

I croaked out. Sp

faring myself," Lucas informed me,

spered, turning to face th

st," he said with a casual shrug, and

hat I failed to see, and what was

I stated, my own words star

ingertips. "You're a dimwit. You can barely do anything right, no le

settling deep within me. "You said you were my mate. You said you fel

dimwit, Valeriana. I did it because I could. You made it so easy. I had fun." He thr

I breathed out, feeling

e able to knock the breath out of me any more than it

wild glint of satisfacti

oice lodged up in my chest like a stone.

Alpha. I worked really hard-you know. And they were about to take it all away from me, steal my birthright

ered again, speaking to him lik

ll of a sudden, I was no longer good enough to be Alpha. I had to eliminate them." Lu

est, in pain for the Alpha and Luna's suffering. The Alpha immediately lost his

angrily against the bars, and the next second my face

panting filled

se a scene and just cooperate. We have important guests

ace. I could almost fe

scapegoat that he would use to exercise his authori

thought of the deadliest man in the Kin

rely was the great desire to tear Lucas into pieces for his deceit

guards dragged me across the floor rou

e the moment we got to the open pack gr

l their hateful eyes boring into every inch of

rightly under the night sky as the guards tied me

but I could not curb my trembling body. I was certain they could al

tival ceremony." I heard Lucas's voice bo

ing wa

Something didn't

elt like something needed out. My nails dug painfully into my palm

rong, and it paral

uld smell the lingering doom of the aura that now filled the pack grounds. It was uns

?" I heard Lucas's apprehensive vo

my despair-until I felt it, a pulse

at it was, the most terrifying voice any

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