To Kill Alpha Roderic
No one wants a she-wolf who slaughtered her own family.
Cast aside by her pack and brutally rejected by the Alpha she secretly loved, Ravena Valecrest has nothing left, not even the wolf that once defined her. When a chance to escape her cell finally comes, she takes it... only to plunge into the frozen river of the Hollowland and crash straight into Roderic D’Arden.
Roderic is the most feared Grand Alpha in the northern dominion, currently crippled and hiding a terrifying secret. He is cursed with a volatile, volcanic power that melts everything his skin touches into liquid slag.
But when Ravena lands directly on his lap, she doesn't burn. Instead, her touch sends a sudden, impossible jolt of electricity straight through his dead nerves, awakening a terrifying spark in his spine.
For Ravena, Roderic is more than a dangerous stranger. His name was the very last word her dying mother whispered the night their estate was turned to ash. The night Ravena hid behind the walls, hearing every horrific scream. The night she became a monster in everyone else’s eyes.
Now, with nothing left to lose, she infiltrates Erevale Academy, the elite institution Roderic owns, hiding under a false name. Her plan is simple: uncover his secrets, destroy him, and make him pay for every drop of blood her family has shed.
Ravena is trapped with the Alpha, who allegedly destroyed her world... and the only man alive who might be the reason she survived it.
When the past is finally stoked, she must confront the ultimate truth. Was Roderic her family’s executioner, or her only salvation? And when the truth surfaces, can she still destroy the Grand Alpha... if her heart already belongs to him?
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Chapter: Chapter 72: The Black-Market Cipher- RAVENAThe clinic was dead quiet except for the steady, annoying scratch of Ashton’s quill against heavy parchment.He dipped the nib into the black inkpot, scrawled another rigid line of high-caste administrative wording, and then stopped, rubbing his glasses against his sleeve before glaring at me over the rim of the table."I'm risking my entire medical license, a flogging, and probably a very painful execution by helping you forge a High Council entry warrant, Zavier," Ashton whispered, his voice cracking with panic. "You could at least tell me what you're planning to do with Master Volt's official brass seal.""Relax, Ash," I muttered, leaning against the wooden supply shelf while nervously flipping the heavy brass stamp over in my palm. The metal felt cold, heavy, and entirely too incriminating. "I'm just returning a borrowed office supply.""That's a Council-grade requisition stamp, not a quill!" Ashton hissed, his hands shaking slightly as he held the damp parchment near the
Last Updated: 2026-10-31
Chapter: Chapter 71: Stiff Awkwardness- WILLOWBefore I could slam head-first into the stone edge, Roderic leaned out of his chair, his broad arm shooting around my waist.He yanked me back, catching my entire body weight flat against his chest.I gasped, my hands slamming against his shoulders to steady myself. His dark leather coat was hot, his heavy pulse thudding hard under my palms. He held me locked tight against him, his face inches from mine, his shaky breath mingling with mine in white puffs in the night air."Gotcha," he rasped, his eyes dark, intense, and completely unblinking.I couldn't move or say another word. My chest was heaving, my fingers clutching his coat lapels, my lips parted just an inch from his.Above us, the heavy dark clouds suddenly parted, and the sky exploded into brilliant, dancing ribbons of green and violet light, the northern lights bursting across the mountain peaks, casting a glowing, magical sheen over his bare face and my upturned eyes.Neither of us looked up at the sky. We just sta
Last Updated: 2026-10-26
Chapter: Chapter 70: Midnight Protocols- RAVENAThat night, I pulled out the pendant with the silver chain that I always kept stuffed in the front pocket of my trousers.It was a raw, heavy piece of Crimson Gibcasite, wrapped in a crude silver wire that was already starting to tarnish along the loops. The stone itself looked like a drop of dried blood frozen in crystal, dark and cloudy around the edges. But whenever the torchlight caught it just right, a sharp, fiery crimson pulse seemed to flash from deep inside the core. The stone rested against my palm, carrying a soft, steady thrum that felt eerily familiar.I stared at it in the quiet dark of my room, my thumb tracing the rough edges, wondering if this stupid rock had anything to do with the golden freak-show magic that had erupted out of my hands in the clinic.I didn't get time to figure it out.A heavy fist slammed against my door frame, making the iron latch rattle hard against the wood."Zave! Get your boots on!" Instructor Franz’s loud, rough voice barked from
Last Updated: 2026-10-24
Chapter: Chapter 69: The Healer’s Magic- RAVENARelieved, I let out a heavy sigh. "Ashton, thank God! It's you!"Ashton didn't scream for the guard post. He didn't drop his lantern, either.He just stood there in the dark, icy laundry alley with his jaw working side to side, staring at me through those thick round glasses like he was trying to solve a bad math equation."Get inside before your toes freeze off, Zave," he muttered softly.My breath hitched hard, my heart thudding in my chest, but I didn't get a chance to open my mouth. Before I could pull my boots out of the snow bank, a high, frantic shout echoed across the lower courtyard."Healer! We need a damn healer in the lower ward!"Two wardens came sprinting around the corner, hauling a wooden stretcher slick with mud and fresh crimson blood. On top of the rough canvas lay a young guard, a fresh recruit named Toby, his chest caved in, gurgling on his own breath after a stone archway collapsed during the perimeter wall repairs.Ashton didn't waste a second. He grabb
Last Updated: 2026-10-23
Chapter: Chapter 68: Secret Meeting in the Perimeter- RAVENA"Because I was just born different, Chief," I rasped, yanking my wrist out of his grip before my pulse could betray me any further. "Now put your damn tunic back on before you catch a lung chill."I didn't give him time to question me again. I left Roderic in the damp, cooling steam of the bath chamber, my hands still buzzing with the trace of his skin against mine.Two days passed in a tense, uncomfortable blur. The citadel settled back into its freezing winter, but every time I walked past Roderic's study, I felt his eyes tracking me through the open door. I was running out of lies. I was running out of ways to play the sloppy borderland stray when my own skin kept giving me away.By midnight on the third day, a heavy snowstorm blew in off the northern peaks, howling through the stone arches and burying the courtyard under knee-deep drifts.I was tossing a crate of frozen cabbage heads onto the rear supply porch when a sharp, low whistle cut through the whistling wind.Two
Last Updated: 2026-10-22
Chapter: Chapter 67: The Volcanic Core- RAVENAI remained silent and kept my mouth shut.My heart was still beating furiously as I pulled back from his grasp, forcing a dry laugh out of my throat. "I move like a survivor, Chief. That's all."Roderic stayed pinned in his chair for three intense seconds, his dark eyes scanning every inch of my hood before he let out a long, rough exhale that hit my chin. He released my wrists, leaning back into his iron seat and dragging a broad hand across his damp forehead."Your old man was a sadistic bastard," he muttered quietly."Yeah," I lied, swallowing the tight knot in my throat as I scrambled off the cold floor. "Tell me about it."I thought that was the end of it. I thought I’d dodged the blade for one more day. But three hours later, the entire subterranean level of the citadel started baking like an oven.I was down in the lower laundry room wringing out grease-stained rags when the stone floor beneath my boots went from freezing cold to hot enough to warm a tea kettle. A fou
Last Updated: 2026-10-21
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