Fated To My Best Friend's Alpha
"No Chris… you can't fucking kiss me with the same lips that tasted Anna's. You can't… just leave Chris, please leave…” She screamed, her body shaking terribly.
For Anna coming home meant summer nights by the lake, her mother's cooking, and slipping back into the life she left behind. Most of all, it meant Carly, her best friend, her constant, her home.
And Chris, Carly's boyfriend. Who was clearly off limits or at least... he should have been.
Because the moment Anna steps back into Millbrook, something feels wrong. The town is quieter. The air feels heavier. And Chris? He isn't the same boy she remembers.
He's colder, stronger and dangerous in a way that makes her heart race and her instincts scream.
Then come the dreams.
Running through moonlit fields. A voice calling her name. A presence she can't escape... or resist and when the truth finally surfaces, it shatters everything Anna thought she knew.
Chris isn't just her best friend's boyfriend.
He's an Alpha and impossibly she was his mate.
Torn between loyalty and a bond she can't break, Anna must decide, walk away and protect the only family she's ever known or surrender to the Alpha who was never meant to be hers.
Because in a town full of secrets, some fates are more dangerous than others... and loving him might cost her everything.
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Chapter: CHAPTER TENTHE INEVITABLE CONFRONTATION The bonfire at Miller's Field was supposed to be a fresh start. That was Carly's thinking, anyway. She'd spent three days icing Chris out, waiting for him to crack, to explain, to beg forgiveness. Instead, he'd only grown quieter, more distant, his eyes taking on that haunted look she was beginning to hate. So she'd taken matters into her own hands. She'd texted the group, bonfire, Saturday, everyone come, let's reset the summer. She'd watched Anna read the text from across the diner booth, watched her friend's face go pale, watched her make excuses about the fake summer class. Carly had smiled through it and said, "Perfect. See you there." Now, standing by the flames with a warm soda in her hand, Carly wondered what she'd been trying to prove. That they could all be normal? That the thing she kept glimpsing in the corners wasn't real? Because it was real. She knew it was real. She'd seen them at the lake yesterday. She hadn't meant to spy. She'd go
Last Updated: 2026-05-27
Chapter: CHAPTER NINETHE INEVITABLE CONFRONTATION The Whitmore property sat at the edge of the wild country, where the wheat fields gave way to forest and the night belonged to creatures that didn't bother with human names. Chris ran there now, four paws pounding the earth, the wolf finally free after days of caging it behind human manners and careful words. He should have felt relief. The change always brought clarity, the simplicity of scent and speed, of instinct over thought. But tonight, the forest was full of her. Anna's scent clung to every breath he took. Not physically, she hadn't been here, would never trespass without invitation, but in the wolf's memory, in the way his beast-self carried her impression like a brand. Rain on warm skin. Salt and something sweet, like summer peaches. The particular electricity of her fear and want when he'd pinned her against the pharmacy wall. Mine, the wolf insisted, the thought rising from his spine like a song. Ours to claim. Chris threw himself in
Last Updated: 2026-05-27
Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHTTHE WEIGHT OF DESTINYAnna didn't sleep that night. She couldn't sleep at all. She lay in her childhood bed with the quilt pulled to her chin, staring at the ceiling where glow-in-the-dark stars, remnants of a twelve-year-old's decorating phase, had long since lost their charge.The house was silent, her parents' bedroom door closed down the hall, but she could feel them both awake. The weight of revelation pressed against the walls, thick as humidity before a storm.Werewolves are real.She tested the thought, rolling it across her mind like a marble, waiting for it to drop through some trapdoor of denial. It didn't. It sat there, heavy and solid, clicking into place with every memory she'd been dismissing: Chris's eyes in the firelight, the protective stance on Main Street, the way the town deferred to him like he was royalty in flannel. The dreams of running through forests, of teeth and moonlight and belonging.And beneath it all, the bond. The invisible chain that tethered her to
Last Updated: 2026-05-26
Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENFATHER'S PAST The truck wasn't running right. Anna could hear it from the driveway, a rough idle, a catch in the rhythm like a skipped heartbeat. She followed the sound around the side of the house to the detached garage, where her father stood hip-deep in the engine bay of his Ford, a work light clipped to the hood casting his face in harsh shadows. "Bad spark plug?" Anna asked, her voice sounding hollow in the quiet evening. Pete didn't look up. "Worse. Timing belt's fraying. I keep patching it, but she's telling me it's time to let go." Anna leaned against the workbench, her arms wrapped around her middle. The garage smelled of grease and cut grass, of her father's particular scent of sawdust and peppermint. It was the smell of safety, of childhood, and it made the pressure behind her eyes build until she thought her skull might crack. "Dad?" "Mmh?" "I need to tell you something." Her voice broke. She pressed her lips together, hard, until the trembling stopped. "And I need
Last Updated: 2026-05-25
Chapter: CHAPTER SIXWHISPERS AND WORRIESThe hammock in Chris's backyard had always been Carly's favorite throne. She'd claimed it the summer they started dating, draping herself across the woven ropes with the territorial certainty of someone who had never been made to feel unwelcome anywhere. Now, she swayed gently, her bare feet pushing off the oak tree, while Anna sat rigid in the Adirondack chair ten feet away, pretending to be fascinated by a chipped nail.Chris stood at the grill, spatula in hand, his back to them both. Smoke curled around his shoulders, carrying the scent of char and hickory, but Anna could smell something beneath it, that storm-and-pine musk that seemed to thicken in the air whenever she was near him."Earth to Chris," Carly called out. "Those burgers are going to be fossils if you don't flip them."He startled, the spatula clattering against the grate. "Right. Sorry.""That's the third time you've checked out in an hour." Carly's voice held its usual teasing lilt, but Anna hear
Last Updated: 2026-05-24
Chapter: CHAPTER FIVETHE INSTINCTS AWAKENThe Silver Spoon had run out of cherry syrup. It was a small tragedy, the kind that shouldn't have mattered, but Carly had set her heart on a cherry Coke and the denial sent her into a dramatic sulk that required an immediate walk to clear her palate.So they found themselves strolling down Main Street in the bronze light of late afternoon, the sidewalk radiating the day's stored heat up through the soles of Anna's sandals."You're actually pouting," Anna said, bumping her shoulder against Carly's. "Over soda.""I'm pouting over injustice," Carly corrected, shoving a stick of gum into her mouth. "They knew summer was coming. They knew I'd be here. This is a failure of infrastructure.""We could go to Henderson's. They have fountain drinks.""Fountain drinks are not the same and you know it." Carly chewed aggressively, then looped her arm through Anna's, swinging their joined hands. "Chris, back me up. Tell Anna that a summer without cherry Cokes is no summer at al
Last Updated: 2026-05-23
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