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Pack Math

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The first pair padded into the clearing like they owned my bones. Patchy coats. Ribs like warped fence slats. Wrong-yellow eyes that caught the light and held it. More shadows slid behind them, low to the scorched grass.

Kael didn’t look at me. He brushed my wrist once, silent, steady. “Count,” he said.

“Eight,” I whispered. My throat clicked. “Ten. No, twelve.”

“Good.” His shoulders rolled loose, like he didn’t have tendons. “They’ll split us. Don’t let them.”

“Sure. I’ll ask nicely.”

His mouth twitched. “You can bite.”

“Ha.”

Silver heat licked my spine like it had been waiting. The burned circle felt smaller than it had all morning, like the ground remembered me. Like it was listening to see if I&rs

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  • Alpha's Rejection, Lycan's Claim    The hollow

    I didn’t tell Kael about the eye. I told myself it was nothing. A leftover blink from nerves. A ghost. I told myself a lot of things while we packed what little we had, while Kael kicked dirt over our prints and made me drink water even though it sloshed in my gut. None of it mattered. The tug in my chest did. Thin as thread. Mean as a hook.“Eat,” he said, handing me a strip of jerky.“You say that like it’s a spell.”“It is.”I chewed. It tasted like salt and leather. My hands had mostly stopped shaking. Mostly.“Where?” I asked.“Upstream. Then east.”“Not north ridge.”“No.”“Because we’re not dancing to his song,” I said.“Because I’m not handing you to him,” he said.I didn’t know what to do with that, so I tucked it with all the other things I wasn’t ready to hold and followed him.We moved. Kael kept us off trail, favoring stone and water, doubling back until even the birds seemed confused. The forest thinned. Light sifted through in tired sheets. When the creek split into thre

  • Alpha's Rejection, Lycan's Claim    Pack Math

    The first pair padded into the clearing like they owned my bones. Patchy coats. Ribs like warped fence slats. Wrong-yellow eyes that caught the light and held it. More shadows slid behind them, low to the scorched grass.Kael didn’t look at me. He brushed my wrist once, silent, steady. “Count,” he said.“Eight,” I whispered. My throat clicked. “Ten. No, twelve.”“Good.” His shoulders rolled loose, like he didn’t have tendons. “They’ll split us. Don’t let them.”“Sure. I’ll ask nicely.”His mouth twitched. “You can bite.”“Ha.”Silver heat licked my spine like it had been waiting. The burned circle felt smaller than it had all morning, like the ground remembered me. Like it was listening to see if I&rs

  • Alpha's Rejection, Lycan's Claim    Teeth and fire

    I woke up with dirt stuck in my hair. Not just a little — full-on gritty clumps. When I sat up, some of it fell in my lap.Everything still smelled like smoke, like the night had been burned into the ground and into me.For one crazy second I thought maybe I’d dreamed it all.Then I saw the big black scorch mark in the clearing and my stomach twisted hard.Right. Not a dream.The rogue bodies were gone, though. Dragged away. Which meant Kael had been awake. Busy. Watching.“You’re finally up.”I jumped and shouted on top of the bed, with my heart beating so fast and loud.Kael was resting his back against a tree, arms crossed over his chest like he’d been waiting for me there the whole time.“You creep!” I yelled, clutching my blanket.

  • Alpha's Rejection, Lycan's Claim    Fire in the Veins

    Everything felt too fast.Kael’s words were still in the air — not Kael, Kaelion, last son of the Lycan throne — when my whole chest just went boom, like BOOM-BOOM-BOOM and suddenly it was all fire, fire everywhere.I couldn’t even scream. My wolf did it for me, howling so loud in my head I thought my skull would crack open.And then it was all silver.Silver light on my arms, silver on the ground, silver everywhere and I was so hot and I thought this is it I’m burning alive I’m actually going to catch fire.“Lena!”Kael grabbed me, and wow he was strong, too strong, I couldn’t even move if I wanted to. His claws dug into my arms — not enough to hurt but enough to make me stop thrashing.“Breathe!” he shouted, and it was so loud it cut through the sound of my wolf screaming. “Hold it together, little wolf!”Little wolf.Why did that make me want to cry?“I CAN’T!” I screamed back, because I really, really couldn’t. My chest was too tight and there was too much fire and I couldn’t get i

  • Alpha's Rejection, Lycan's Claim    I Remember Who I Am

    What did you remember?” I blurted.My voice cracked and echoed too loud in the cave and I instantly wished I could swallow it back down but I couldn’t. The training place was so quiet. The atmosphere felt cold, like the kind of cold that gets stuck in your nose.The fire we left burning from training popped softly, and I stared at it because looking at Kael’s face made my stomach twist.“Kael?” I said again, voice smaller this time. “Why aren’t you talking? What did you mean?”Kael didn’t move at first, just sat there, head down, eyes shining weird in the firelight.Finally, his mouth moved. “I remember who I am.”Then nothing.Like, completely nothing.This made me wanted to scream just to fill the quiet.“Say something,” I whispered, standing from where I knelt down. “Please.”Kael stood up really fast I flinched , caught unaware and my heart nearly jumped out of my chest.“Kael!” I squeaked, scooting back a little. “You’re scaring me!”He didn’t answer. He just paced back and forth,

  • Alpha's Rejection, Lycan's Claim    The weight of betrayal

    CHAPTER 5 — The Weight Of Betrayal.They walked in silence until Lena’s voice broke through, sharp enough to prick.“You want to know what I was doing out there?”Kael glanced, but said nothing.She forced the words out, one by one, her throat tight. “I was running. From them. From him. From everything I thought was mine.”His steps slowed.“My father turned his back on me. My best friend betrayed me. And Damien—” She bit the name like it poisoned her mouth. “The love of my life chose someone else. Chose Selene. In front of everyone. Laughed at me with her lips on his. And the pack…” She shook her head, tears cutting down her cheeks. “They all looked at me like I was dirt. Like I didn’t matter.”Her voice broke into a whisper. “And Selene. She doesn’t just hate me. She wants me gone. She wants me erased.”Kael stopped walking. His silver eyes caught hers in the dark. His voice was steady, without edge or softness. Just truth.“She does want you dead.”Lena’s stomach clinched “Why?”“I

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