Chained By Fate

FAITHFire burned through my veins, and my vision swam as I stared at his tanned hand on her still-flat stomach.There were numerous gasps of delight for an heir from the crowd, and I glanced around, wondering if maybe I had heard them wrong. Yet, as the horror and pity-filled faces reached me, I knew I hadn’t. Sable smiled up at me from beneath her lashes, placing a hand atop his on her stomach before leaning into his side and fluttering her lashes at him as if they were newlyweds.“What are you talking about?” I whispered to my mate, praying I had heard him wrong. There was no way he had been with Sable. “That’s impossible. I would have felt it.”“I’m so sorry, Faith. It just happened.” Sable said before pushing her bottom lip out, her wide eyes filling with tears as she stared at me as if wanting my forgiveness. “No! You can’t be pregnant.” I said, turning to Ryan before dropping my glare down to his hand still in hers. “She can’t be pregnant! Did you sleep with my sister?” “Fa

FAITH“Treason! I should kill you right now!” Ryan ordered the guards as I shook my head back and forth, wanting to lift my hands in surrender, but was unable to pull free from the guard behind me.“Ryan! Please! Please don’t leave me!” Sable cried as guards surrounded me, her bloody hands grabbing at his shirt.Ryan glanced between us before returning to me and grabbing her hands. “I’m not going anywhere, Sable, baby. Guards! Arrest her!”“I didn’t touch her! She did it!” I insisted but was silenced by a fist connecting with my face, sending me to my stomach on the concrete. “You expect me to believe that she would try to hurt our baby?” Ryan hissed with anger and disbelief. “How stupid do you think I am?”I was faintly aware of the sound of chains dragging across the patio over the panicked shouting for the pack doctor and Sable’s sobbing. I knew the chains were for me, but I couldn’t move to fight them off. My head was spinning so fast I thought I would be sick. I had never been

Wolves began pouring in through the front door, some dropping in through the windows, causing further chaos as people jumped from the pews, stumbling toward the intruders as if prepared to fight. I cried out in pain as I was dragged backward by a guard, my eyes briefly meeting the black ones of Alpha Reed, and I knew from the slight lift in his eyebrows that I was a sight. Half of my face was severely bruised, and his stare traveled down my body to the bloody chains on my wrists. “You’re making a powerful enemy, Reed.” Alpha Cain growled, but Alpha Reed’s head fell back with a deep laugh, breaking the connection between us just before a door was slammed in my face, muffling the chaos, growling, and yelling from the other side. “Be a good little bitch and stay here.” The guard hissed as a howl rang out, and I let out a deep breath of annoyance through my nose as he locked my chains to a hook in the wall before racing out of the room, not wanting to miss the action. Wrappi

FAITH My stomach twisted painfully at the site of the whip coming down on the prisoner again. He had similar chains around his ankles and wrists as I did, holding him to the post. My stomach rolled, and my eyes flicked over to Alpha Reed, but it didn’t relax me. He, too, was looking at the gruesome scene before us like it were an amusing show. His lips were curled up, and his head was slightly tilted to the side as he watched the horrific scene before us. He was enjoying it. I wanted to ask what the man had done, but I imagined it must have been something terrible from how people all around seemed to watch unbothered. The intimidating woman to my left seemed to be the only one who wasn’t interested in taking a peek, and she pushed the center of my back, sending me stumbling forward as a woman exited a building to our right. “Alpha,” the woman said with a sly smile, dipping into a curtsy as if he were a king instead of an Alpha. I couldn’t resist rolling my eyes as I found m

FAITH I jumped as the bedroom door was thrown open and instinctively tried to cover myself, the hot water splashing from the sudden jolt. Yet, I couldn’t, as the pack doctor told me not to get my wrists wet since they were my deepest injuries. The bubbles were doing a good enough job of keeping most of me concealed, so I relaxed again, trying to act nonchalant even though I was in excruciating pain. I just wanted to melt down into the water and sleep until I could heal and forget everything Ryan and Sable had put me through. Just thinking about them made my stomach turn, and I couldn’t shake the image of my mate coming onto my little sister, or worse, her coming onto him. She had just turned eighteen, so it either hadn’t been happening for long, or not only had they been violating the mate bond but breaking the law. Alpha Reed stormed in, his black hair mused and his jaw clenched, the small muscle above it twitching as he marched forward through the open bathroom door and