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

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le my knees. Every instinct screamed at me to obey, to lift the goblet and drink. But the

. "The pup... the healers say wine is b

in his eyes. He didn't care about the pup's health, but he couldn't be s

sweet concern. "Oh, Kaelan, don't be so harsh," she cooed, placing a

ed it with another goblet, this one fille

her eyes. "Drink this instead. Simple mountain spr

g worse, a relentless, tearing pain that threatened to bring me to my knees. I had

mumbled, and drank the wate

A strange, unnatural heat bloomed in my core, spreading like wildfire through my veins. M

ught me, his arms wrapping around me. His hands immediately began to roam, his fingers

hat water?" I slurred,

ing from the Eastern lands," she said, her voice dripping with malice. "They call it Puppet Poti

ed every last ounce of my will, reaching out through the sacre

al voice a desperate, terrified cry

ection. He heard me. But then his face hardened into a cold, g

y detached. "Don't damage the little bastard. I

nd, which should have been a conduit for love and prot

u will pay for this," I choked out, the words barely au

command. I was forced to my knees in the center of the

the air. My vision blurred, the torchlig

s consumed me was Seraphina's smiling f

linding pain between my legs, and a deeper, hollow agony in my

s al

g in a pool of