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Alpha Maddox's Mortal Temptation Chapter 245
IHOLD MY BREATH. STAY PERFECTLY STILL. MY MUSCLES COIL, AS if to keep my body from breaking open, stop my organs and blood from pouring onto the floor.Then Zane says, “I’ve been suspecting it for a few days,” and I fall apart.“What?” I sound reedy.Maybe that’s why Zane ignores my question. Doesn’t look at me. Continues his conversation with Irene, composed, detached, like the topic is only mildly diverting. Broken boilers. The weather. Him, killing my mother.“And yet you didn’t tell her. How self-serving of you.”“I wanted to be certain, before informing her that one or more of her parents were high-profile figures in a cult with a sky-high body count.”Irene sneers. “Now you know for sure.” She points at me with a flourish. “Tell her what happened that night. The Favored would like to know, too, wouldn’t we, friends? All we had to go by were the rotting corpses.”“Very well.” Zane takes a deep breath. Turns to me. Lifts his bound hands onto the table, leaning over his elbows, and
Alpha Maddox's Mortal Temptation Chapter 244
Zane steps inside. He’s drenched in rainwater, hands tied in front of his body. His forearms and neck are smeared with blood, green swirled with red. Some of it trickles slowly down his temple, where it mats his thick hair.Just below, a deep cut dissects his right cheekbone. He’s wearing a black shirt and black pants, which makes it impossible to tell whether he was injured in any vital spot.I can’t believe he came alone. After what he said about his mother, he made the same mistake. He’s so outnumbered, even he can’t make it out of this.And yet his smirk and “Thank you for having me” fill me with some temporary optimism, even after three more Weres walk inside behind him.It’s Jess and her two friends, clearly proud to be delivering the Alpha of the Northwest. They bend their heads to Irene. When she invites Zane to take a seat, the younger man pushes him and sends him staggering forward.The boy gets to gloat for about three seconds. Then Zane spins around, uses his bound hands t
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The letter is not addressed to me. It’s the first thing I notice— the Dear Irene in unexpectedly round, neat handwriting. Mine is slanted and messy, hard to make out. Looks like an ECG line, Seraphine always says. You make people work for every damn letter. No one should have to expend much effort to know that you want them to buy zucchini. As if she ever once went grocery shopping.But this, this is bubbly. Girly.My mother’s.Dear Irene,I don’t know if or when you’ll receive this letter. I don’t know if you’re alive. It’s been approximately three weeks since we went our separate ways. Like we agreed, I’ll be vague about names and locations, in case the Northwest intercepts our communications. Without going into detail, I dearly hope our time apart has been less eventful for you than for us.Originally, it was just C., P., E., and me. A few days later, we encountered three other Favored on the run and joined forces. A larger group of adults allows for more night shifts to ensure
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I didn’t mean to upset you. I just wanted you to know that you are one of us. Will always be.” Her smile is apologetic. Young. “Irene sent me up to help you prepare for your Heat.”“Prepare?”“She said it’s coming soon.”My stomach drops. My mind races with horrifying possibilities. “Prepare how?”“The ceremonial markings.” She picks up a small jar full of a thick black liquid. When she holds it closer, I realize that it might be closer to a dark blue. Or green. “Don’t worry, the dye will stain lighter.”“Stain . . . what?”“Your skin. Are you not familiar with the tradition?”“I’ve been a Were for about twenty minutes.”“Oh. Well.” She glances at the door, clearly considering getting Irene.“I— I don’t care about traditions, I mean.” I bite my tongue. To punish myself. “No need for the markings.”“But Were customs are important. And if you don’t . . . Irene might be angry.” In the slight tremble of her lips, I hear what Nele doesn’t say. At me. And I don’t want that. Irene is a stan
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AS AWARE AS I AM OF IRENE’S MANEUVERS TO KEEP ME IN THE asscrack of nowhere, I still allow it, and I can’t help wondering why. It’d be a good case study. An interesting dive into hybrid behavior.Unfortunately, my temperature is climbing, and I’m starting to feel too shitty to ponder the wonders of the halfling mind.“You should drink,” Nele tells me, holding out a glass.She’s the youngest of the women I spotted downstairs. When I returned to my room, Irene instructed her to follow me. I assumed she’d be my designated jailer, but Nele doesn’t have the look for it. Could be her homemade cutoffs, or the way her braid reaches nearly past her butt. She seems too sweet and innocent to be part of this mess. “It’s not drugged or anything, I promise.” She takes a seat across from me and swallows a big, performative gulp to prove it to me.But I’m not thirsty or hungry. Layla mentioned that the closer I got to my Heat, the harder it would be to keep food down.She didn’t say anything about h
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“No need to make that face.” Irene’s tone is gentlyreproachful. “She was very happy to become your mother, Eva.” More pictures slide into my field of view.Smiling lips pressed to a baby-fat cheek. A tiny infant foot, much smaller than her palm. A candid, breastfeeding. Sitting in a meadow. Smiling up at the camera while a toddler fists the stem of a columbine.I see the splotch of tears on the mahogany before I even realize I’m crying.“She was very good with numbers. So are you, I am told. And she loved the ocean. Even though she had little access to it.”I look up, unsure of how to deal with all of these— these feelings. Irene, though, seems genuinely sympathetic.“She also kept a diary where she logged all your milestones. First step, first word, favorite foods. I believe it was destroyed, because I couldn’t locate it. We had to be very careful with our records— the downside of being constantly ostracized and persecuted. It was a wise choice, since the Northwest’s inability to kn
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I expected a twenty-hour road trip in the hybrid parked in Lucien’s garage, or maybe a shorter plane ride in economy class with cotton discreetly stuffed in my nose to avoid being bombarded with the smell of Human blood.I did not expect a Cessna.“Honey,” I ask, lowering my sunglasses to the tip
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Lucien has a mate, which is apparently amazing. But his mate is stuck among my people while he’s married to me.“I’m so sorry,” I blurt out.His gaze is calm. Too calm. “You shouldn’t be sorry.”“I can be sorry if I want to. I can apologize. I can prostrate myself and—”“Why are you apologizing?”“
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“May I touch you?” He’s asking for permission, but there’s nothing insecure or tentative about it. I nod. “Weres have scent glands—here.” He brushes the pad of his thumb against the hollow on the left side of my throat. “Here.” The right side. “And here.” His hand wraps around my neck, palm flush a
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“Were those Alphas dealing with internal sedition?” Lucien responds, calm and harsh at once. Mick looks away, more sad than chastised. daisy picks up on it.“Lucien?” Her voice is small. “Where are you going this weekend?”He smiles at her warmly, his tone instantly softer. “To California.”“Wha
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