Chapter: RAGRIZ IN ASHESVALEK Words travel faster than fire. By the time I step onto Ragriz soil, my phone keeps vibrating with notifications in their tens. Packs forum, social media, group chats. I peek in maybe once or twice. Alexandra Russo Seen Entering Paxon Territory with Alpha Reid. Ex-Ragriz Center Chooses New Pack? The humans watching from the outside don’t remember who she is yet, but our people do. Every single wolf in this territory knows what it means to see that girl wrapped up in someone else’s colors.She chose them.She chose him.She chose him over me. The alliance might have kept us from open war, but no one ever said the enmity was gone.And now… for the first time since my father died, Ragriz’s loyalty is being questioned.I can feel it under my skin.I slam the car door shut and stalk up the front steps of the estate.And of course, the first person standing in the entrance, coughing, old, and shriveled is Coach Russo himself.He looks like shit. With sunken in eyes, and lungs w
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Chapter: SOME MONSTERS COME WITH PACK MARKSALEX I’ll never forget the look on Valek Deveraux’s face when I make my decision. But I don’t even have time to see it through the blur in my own eyes, or to register it before Reid starts tugging me away."Come on," he mutters smugly. Pain throbs where he holds me, and I hate that I don’t pull away. I hate that I don’t fight.I look back once.Then again.Valek doesn’t move.He doesn’t even look back at me."You're not going to cry, are you?" Reid huffs, half-amused.I don't answer.What would I even say?At this point in my life, it almost feels safer to be in my enemy’s pack than to be in a home where all my packmates do is scorn me. Where my lover says nothing, where my father stays silent, like I’m not his only daughter. Like I don't exist beyond the talent I bring to the game.He promised he’ll never force me to return to the pack against my will, but I’m back in town and the first person he sends my way is the Alpha of the pack.How ironic. And Reid. I don’t ask why he’s
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Chapter: PEACE TREATY OR NOTVALEK I’d recognize that fucking growl from any wolf.Reid Maddox just claimed Alexandra Russo right in front of me. Like I’m not finally standing inches from the woman I’d been dying to touch, to protect, to ruin in ways only I should be allowed.And now? Now I’m supposed to just watch while he sinks his teeth into what I’ve been starving for?I move before I even think. One second I’m still, the next I’ve closed the gap and my hand is wrapped around her arm, dragging her toward me.“Lex,” I grit my teeth. She gasps, stumbling between us, wide-eyed and breathless, her skin is pale and she’s shaking like she’s seconds from collapsing.She doesn’t look like she wants to be with him.Hell, she doesn’t look like she wants to be with either of us.But that doesn’t stop me.Reid’s hold on her tightens immediately. Like he’s daring me.For a second, I’m tired of trying to play nice. My wolf roars inside of me. He’s tearing through me violently, howling in my chest like he’ll rip thro
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Chapter: RUN, RUSSO, RUNALEXIt’s been five years since I left the Ragriz pack and my hometown altogether, that’s about long enough to forget the shame that had led to my decision to leave everything behind. But the sound of my knee popping will forever haunt me. One second I was spinning past the defense. The next, a solid wall of muscle named Reid Maddox rammed me so hard into the boards, the lights flickered. I remember the silence in the rink being louder than the impact. And after that, the whispers started.“She doesn’t even have a wolf.”“Why’d they let her out there in the first place?”“Replacement for Vicky Deveraux.”“Russo’s daughter? Please. They just felt sorry for her.”My pack members were monsters!They didn’t care that I had been rammed to shit by a rival team mate, they cared that a wolf-less girl had made it to the championship. They never acknowledged my years of training, how hard my father made sure, even without my wolf, I could replace any of his team members if it was needed. T
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