The Alpha's False Mate, The Omega's Silent War

d Mate to Alpha Kaelan. For a year, I believed our love was a legend, and

et me, he had performed a blood ritual to make h

e and his warriors had a betting pool o

s they used me

, kick my swollen belly for fun. Then he offer

sed, was nothing but a sick, twisted

d broken, my heart didn't j

orbidden herbs to en

ot an act

first act

pte

ra

color of dried blood. It was tucked away in the false bottom of Alpha Kaelan's pri

legant, spidery scrip

r his line from the Moon Goddess's whim and bind his life essence to his chosen, Ser

plunged into a frozen lake. My hand instinctively went to my stomach, where our child-his child-had been growi

s his Mate

s. His scent-a storm rolling in over a forest of pine and wet earth-had called to my very soul. My heart had hammered agai

in

Alpha, and I was a lowly Omega, but the Goddess's wil

made himself unable to father a child a yea

A misunderstanding. I had to ask him. I had t

n the cold stone floors of the Gothic castle. The heavy tapestries depictin

rs. The massive oak doors were closed, but I could hear the rumble of deep voices and laughter fro

y ear to th

ecognized as Beta Corvus, Kaelan's second-in-command, boomed.

ruel laught

ut the Goddess cursed him with a Mate anyway. At least he found a u

breath hitched in my ches

d command armies and soothe my soul. But there wa

e thick door. It was an innate power all Alphas possessed, a vocal command that lesser wolves were magically compelled to obey

crashed against the door, so lo

mine," Corvus declared, his voice full of dar

another warrior, shouted. "I'v

s from Corvus, a Mind-Link broadcast to the other warriors in the room. The Mind-Link was a sacred con

tal voice bragged, slick with pride. "She tast

n crumbled into dust and ash. It was all a lie. The loving looks, the tender touches,

, a silent scream trapped in

command brushed against my mind, a

surge of pure, overwhelming heartbreak and betrayal that simply washed his command away as if it w

e the suffocating walls of the castle. I ran until my lungs burned and my leg

ver me. The tears stopped. The shaking subsided. There

hat I ha

d for practicing forbidden magic. She looked at my swollen belly

rb," I said, my voice

olding a flicker of pity. "It will be

," I

hared with the Alpha. But as I reached the door, I saw something was wrong. The intricate silver lines of the blo

open before I

wearing a shimmering silver gown, the one that had been t

e shadows, his face an unreada

his voice void of any emotion. "The seal is now key