Signed to the Alpha

wilight, each one drawing nearer, making

lara screamed, stumbling through the dense

, and her worn shoes barely held together

kin, leaving thin, red trails on h

d from its hastily tied knot

amber eyes when the trees behind h

it. The fleeting hope of escape s

had a chance. But she wasn't twenty-one yet, the

rely on but the faint strength

her father's booming voice thundered through the for

our Alp

nto her bones, mak

ght of the command, but she fought it wi

obbed, eyes stinging as

rolled down a slope, her body b

right-only to see him standing there, flanked by

leader of the Stormfal

own her cheeks as she pleaded, "Father, please. Don't give me

from her? Hadn't they

, obeying every petty order from her stepmother and Kael, a

as a bride to a savage alpha

mate, of love, were

tand, Elara," Tho

s command-comes directly from King Daemon. You

t your family dead? Your siblings? Your friends and

isbelief, but her father'

ve no say," he said with final

the attic that served as her makeshift bedroom for year

roughly, as though she

staring-his breath shallow, pup

uch me, and it'll be your last breath,"

her. The last time he tried something, a sea

he suspected the Moon

e doing?!" Alpha Thorne's voice c

Kael hunched near her, he grabbed him by t

you idiot!" T

. She belongs to Alpha Magnus now. We can

nd staggering, while Thorne tur

ta will come for you. You will go. Y

ind him, the echo th

the cold wooden floor. Her sobs ca

rehead kisses, the way her father once called her his "little flame

ce soft. "Dad... do you really not care about me an

ghter. I'm your blood. But you treat Kael and the oth

rne's voice retur

d died because of you. I kept you out of obligation, nothing more. A pr

nd between grief

But she never came. And I finally accepted the truth-she left you too. Yo

he said the words t

ou will marry Alpha Magnus

the final blow as th

the floor, num

e of the most feared Alphas in the realm-a m

he surv

father's words crushed her spirit. Her mo

not even a whisper on the wind to suggest she rememb

to rage. Her fists clen

treating her like a stranger. This was the first time he ever voiced why. A

whispered. "Why did he blame me

aw, her soul drained. She sat by the attic w

n Goddess... have you forsaken me, too? Why are you se

of the night, she hea