Alpha Ruined My Family After Giving Him My Heart

ng my frail body through the doors, I ran

, arm slung lazily around Vanessa's waist-his fi

osty as he nodded to the back

my shirt so hard my k

a cemetery on the

inst my palms, as she traced the line of his jaw wi

their cozy reflection in the rearview mirro

entrance, Ethan s

but the sight before

a ten-mile path was lined with glowing red co

. "Claire, your whole pack's guilty. Your par

nts' grave-on your palms, not your knees. Lick the dust off their hea

new refusing would

he coals, the stench of bu

ts dancing in my vision, but I gri

r rumbled, creeping al

hen he lifted her hand, brushing his lips against her wrist, his gaze lingering on the pulse fluttering there like he was drunk on the sight. Vanessa gig

My knees were a bloody mess, my palms charred black. Swea

the gravestone, I was on

I saw Ethan standing w

is voice soft in a way

ught her to meet you. The ones w

wers at the grave

, don't worry. I'll

d, his eyes locking on

g into the gravel with a sickening crac

one slicing a gash above my eyebrow. By the third time, my vision blurred, blood

d, then turned, arm around

y on the way back, sharp as sha

each step tearing the scabs on my kn

night had swallowed the sky, and my

ch, twirling Vanessa's diamond

-crusted form like I was a stain on the ru

said, tossing the bracelet onto a pi

fro

remony you always talked about," he

emony-champagne towers, white roses blanketing the hall, a band pl

ptic at me, lips curling like the sight of me annoye

heel, not waitin

it in the trash. Dragging my scarred, aching body, I start