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Chapter 7 Cage

Author: Cindy Hayes
last update publish date: 2026-10-12 06:19:12

Elena held the brass badge level with my chest.

The Blackwood crest stared back at me from the wet metal, but I barely noticed it. My attention was on her fingers.

Rain dripped through the hemlocks, plastering dark strands of hair to her temples. She stood with most of her weight on her back foot, perfectly balanced in the mud. It was a small thing, but my wolf reacted the moment I noticed it. A hard jolt hit behind my ribs, less like an animal waking up and more like something inside me had be
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    Cage looked at the knife. Then at me. "You'd really do it," he said. "Burn the whole alliance over one kiss." "Over one mistake." Something shifted across his face and vanished. He turned his head toward the door. "Give me five minutes, Luke." His voice came out wrecked. He cleared his throat and tried again. "Five minutes. Tell the elders I'm coming." "Alpha, Luna Deborah—" "Five." Footsteps retreated down the hall, then stopped, but not far enough. I'm sure he's listening. I kept the knife where it was. Cage didn't seem to mind. He stood with his hands open at his sides, breathing like someone who'd run a long way and hadn't realised he'd stopped. "It's quiet," he said. "What is?" "My wolf." He said it to the floor. "He's been loud since you showed up and now he's just... quiet. Like he got what he wanted." That was the unfair part. The same pull that had settled his beast had left me so restless I couldn't stand still, my own wolf pacing a hole through my ribs. "That's

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    The lock didn't keep him out.Louisa had just uncapped the cedar oil when the latch split with a crack. Cage filled the doorway, soaked to the skin, rain running off his black jacket and pooling on the floorboards.Louisa slid the bottle behind her back and stepped between us. "Alpha Cage, these are guest quarters—""Out."He didn't raise his voice. He didn't have to. The windowpanes shivered in their frames, and my wolf pushed up under my skin, wanting to drop her head. I shoved her back down.Louisa planted her feet. I caught her elbow."Balcony," I said. "Side stairs to the yard.""Elena—""Go, Louisa. Now."She went. The French doors clicked, and the curtain swung shut behind her. Cage never turned his head. He wouldn't have noticed if she'd set the room on fire.He kicked the door shut, and it drifted back open an inch on its broken latch. He ignored that, too. Halfway across the room he stopped and breathed in, long and slow, hunting for me. Wet boots had left dark prints on the

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    Neither of us moved.Rain hammered the roof of the truck. Cage's hand was still locked around my left wrist, pinning it flat against the console.His pupils were blown wide in the dark. He didn't look like an Alpha holding down an enemy. He looked like a man who'd just watched a dead body breathe."What did you say?" His voice came out raw.I didn't answer. I couldn't.*You really don't remember me, do you?*The words were already out, hanging in the space between the seats.His grip tightened. Not hard enough to bruise, but enough that I felt it in my teeth. Heat sank through my wet sleeve, straight into the bone. Underneath the cedar oil and the rain, my wolf pressed against the inside of my skin, whining for him.*Mate.*I looked at his mouth and didn't see the boy who used to drive me to the swimming hole. I saw the marsh. The mud. The silver blades flashing in the dark, and his mother's guards closing in while Cage sat safe behind his gates and let it happen.He thought he was mo

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    I didn't flinch.Cage's thumb was still against the side of my neck, right over the pulse point where Louisa's scent oil coated my skin. He wasn't pressing hard. His hand barely touched me, but his fingers were unsteady, trembling against the hollow of my throat as if touching a phantom. A quiet breath hitched in his chest, his eyes wide and stunned, caught in a daze that looked almost like grief.Before he could lean closer, I brought my forearm up and hit his wrist.The hit broke his contact. In the same breath, I stepped inside his reach and hooked my boot behind his heel.He stumbled back into the map table, caught himself on the edge, and just stood there, staring at his own hand like he couldn't figure out why it had been on my skin in the first place."Whatever game this is," I said, keeping my voice flat, "drop it. My scent isn't your business. Keep your hands off me, Alpha."Cage straightened. The tightness in his mouth hadn't eased. He searched my face like he was trying to

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