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Jessica Chiwendum
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Mated To My Beta Stepbrother

Mated To My Beta Stepbrother

Nineteen-year-old Adele McAllister has a secret crush on her twenty-six-year-old stepbrother, Killian Black, who was the silver-furred Beta of a hidden werewolf pack. Killian has spent months hiding a secret and suppressing a forbidden-love attraction for the girl he considers to be his stepsister until the night he rescues her from a predatory stranger at a club. The ice between them doesn't just melt; it incinerates, revealing the secret that Killian is a member of an undercover werewolf pack. To save Adele from being killed or having her memories erased by the pack’s iron-fisted Alpha, Killian initiates a mating bond with his stepsister, dragging her into a supernatural world of secrecy and jealousy. As Adele undergoes a series of grueling, trauma-filled trials to prove her worth to the pack, the sexual tension between the "step-siblings" reaches a breaking point. Defying the Alpha’s direct orders, they give in to a night of raw, unprotected sex that strengthens their bond but paints a target on their backs. With a jealous rival seeking to sever their mate bond and a conspiratorial uncle plotting their demise, Killian and Adele must choose to uphold the laws of the pack or burn it all down for a love that was never meant to be.
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Chapter: Chapter 184
The damage registered in the way that damage registered in active engagement, which was partially and after the fact, the body providing the information on a processing delay that the immediate requirements of the situation imposed, and what I registered in the seconds after the convergence was addressed was that I was functional, which was the relevant assessment, and that something had connected during the disruption of the northern element’s arc that I would need to assess when the assessment could be afforded.Through the bond I felt Killian’s attention spike toward me with the immediate and focused intensity of a person who has felt something happen at the other end of a connection that they monitor constantly and are now assessing the severity of in real time.I sent him the signal we had established for exactly this, the pulse that meant functional rather than the pulse that meant critical, and I felt him receive it and felt what the receiving produced in him, the specific tens
Last Updated: 2026-07-03
Chapter: Chapter 183
The two hundred meters of ground between the central element’s advance position and the convergence point’s outer defensive perimeter was the most densely defended ground I had encountered in the war, and the intelligence picture I had built from the source network’s three weeks of gathering had been accurate, which meant I had known this before we crossed it and the knowing had not prepared me for the crossing.The operational picture collapsed at this range.Not the intelligence picture in my mind, which I was maintaining with the disciplined attention that the coordination role required, but the analytical remove that intelligence work created between the analyst and the action, the distance that allowed patterns to be visible and decisions to be made from a position that was not inside the immediate radius of what was happening at any given moment. That remove ceased to be available when the immediate radius was where I was standing, and what replaced it was the specific and total
Last Updated: 2026-07-03
Chapter: Chapter 182
The ley line weapons deployed at seven fourteen, and I felt the deployment before the field report confirmed it because the bond showed me the moment Killian’s unit entered the suppression field’s effective range, the specific sensation that the survivor accounts had described in terms I had processed as information and was now processing as experience.The bond did not go silent. It did not sever or attenuate. But the wolf dimension of what the bond carried changed, the pack connection becoming muffled in the way of a signal that was being received through interference, present but reduced, and I understood immediately what I was feeling and I understood it as the suppression field establishing its coverage across the central element’s advance zone.I pulled the tactical display to the coordination center’s primary screen and I looked at the coverage map and I calculated the field’s current range against the countermeasure deployment positions that Mirela’s coven teams were holding.
Last Updated: 2026-07-02
Chapter: Chapter 181
The satellite positions activated at six forty-one in the morning, and I knew it before the field confirmation reached the coordination center because the bond showed me Killian receiving the activation signal and shifting his unit’s posture from preparation to engagement, the change in him that was immediate and complete, the Beta becoming the military unit commander in the transition between one breath and the next.We were in the central element, the force positioned closest to the convergence point that was maintaining the Council’s defensive attention while the three satellite actions divided their command structure, and the central element’s role in the battle’s opening phase was not to advance but to require the convergence site’s defenders to stay focused on the threat in front of them rather than turning to address the satellite positions.What that required in practice was fighting in a way that looked like the beginning of an assault, committed enough that the Council’s def
Last Updated: 2026-07-02
Chapter: Chapter 180
The field quarters were a room in the forward staging estate that the alliance had been using as its operational base for the convergence battle’s preparation, and they were functional in the way of all field quarters, stripped to what mattered and quiet in a way that had nothing to do with the absence of sound and everything to do with the presence of what tomorrow held.We came in from the final briefing session at eleven and the room was dark except for the low light from the window and neither of us moved toward the lamp.I sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the window and Killian sat beside me and we were quiet together in the dark the way we were quiet in the ways that did not require filling.He turned toward me after a while and I turned toward him, and in the turning we were face to face in the dark room with everything the night contained between us, and what it contained was not fear in the way that fear arrived when you did not know what you were walking toward, but
Last Updated: 2026-05-31
Chapter: Chapter 179
The three weeks between the plan’s adoption and the battle’s deployment date were not the quiet of anticipation but the dense and consuming texture of preparation that had too many dimensions to hold entirely in a single person’s attention, and I moved through them with the focused energy of someone whose primary contribution had shifted from planning to enabling, from building the structure to ensuring that everyone who would execute it had what they needed to execute it well.The intelligence confirmations ran continuously, because the Council’s activity at the convergence site was the variable that everything else was adjusted against, and Aria’s network provided daily updates that I reviewed and integrated into the operational picture that the four action point teams were working from. The Council’s timeline was holding, which meant the alliance’s preparation window was what the plan had assumed, and each day that the timeline held was a day that the preparation continued without
Last Updated: 2026-05-31
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