Daddy’s Best Friend: My Alpha Mate

Corinne POVI ran away from the school, Mason Carter’s words chasing me like shadows. How could that stranger read me so easily? Was my desire for Glacier really that obvious in my scent? Shame clawed at my insides, as if my small secret no longer belonged to me, but had become common knowledge among the wolves.When I reached the Alpha Palace of Silver Stone, my heart was still pounding like war drums in my chest. I opened the door quietly, but the sight that greeted me made me wish I had stayed in the forest forever.Lumi was there.She stood far too close to Glacier, leaning into him, speaking in a soft voice that felt like poison. When her eyes landed on me, she did not step away. Instead, a victorious, mocking smile curved her lips. Glacier did not even look at me. He was buried in his papers, or maybe he was ignoring me on purpose, like he always did.I rushed up the stairs, tripping over my loose clothes, and slammed my bedroom door shut behind me, as if I were locking the worl

Corrine's POVA deadly silence swallowed the corner of the hall. The only thing cutting through it was the loud, thumping music. Mason Carter had his arm wrapped tightly around my waist. With a smug, annoying confidence, he leaned down and claimed my lips. He kissed me deeply, right there in front of everyone.I froze. My eyes went wide with shock. My body was exhausted from my heat cycle and I couldn't fight him off immediately. My breath came in short, ragged gasps until my chest actually started to hurt. Mason’s kiss felt like a total violation. It was a loud, vulgar statement made for the whole world to see.On the other side of the room, I saw Lumi. She let out a soft, poisonous laugh behind her hand. She whispered to the people around her. "Look at the half-breed. She actually thinks the Alpha’s son will marry her. She doesn't know she’s just a one-night toy. He’ll throw her away like trash."But her laugh died in her throat. A muffled explosion echoed through the room. It was th

Glacier POV"I am not your mate, Alpha Glacier. I decide my own fate, and the man I marry will be the man I love. So, leave in peace!"Those were the words my first mate spoke to me. She threw me away. She turned her back on our bond and chose someone else. In that moment, I realized the mate bond is nothing but trash. Love is a lie. I refused to let the Moon Goddess decide my life ever again.I whispered to myself, the words tasting like ash in my mouth. "I didn’t know history would repeat itself. I didn’t know fate would try to trap me with a mate the exact same way."I know there is no future for Corrine and me. Even so, despite my cold walls, I cannot deny this pull. She is my mate. Now, she is chasing me, trying to win a heart I buried deep inside. But if she ever finds out the dark secrets I hide, she will either run away as fast as she can, or she will come at me with a sharp blade, ready to rip my heart out of my chest.Two days have passed since I told her the truth. Two days

Corinne POVI wanted to go to the Alpha and tell him what Seraphine was doing, but I stopped myself. I wouldn’t ask for his help, not even if I were at death’s door.There was no peace that morning.The corridors were alive with movement, with back-to-back orders, and the sound of equipment being carried from one corner to another, as if the whole village itself was shifting on the ground.Everything in the Silver Stone pack signaled that something extraordinary was about to happen in the central exhibition square. Wings were being set up, screens installed, façades decorated with precision.The work wasn’t festive. It was meticulous, strict, as if they were preparing for battle, not a ceremony.I was one of dozens carrying out orders without pause.I leaned over a glass display table, adjusting the axes of a 3D display device that showed the flowing energy layers in wolves’ bodies.My fingers knew the path, my movements smooth… but I didn’t feel what I was doing.My face was still, m

Glacier POVThree years ago..."You must take her, Glacier!"Vanessa's voice cut through the silence like a sharp knife. She was begging me to take fifteen year old Corrine away, to take her to my pack, Silver Stone."But Corrine cannot live in a wolf society. She has been with humans since she was a little girl!"I answered her as I rushed toward her. My chest was heaving up and down. I was burning with anger. The veins in my neck stood out like tight ropes."Do you want her to die, Vanessa? Why me?"She stepped closer to me and placed her hand on my palm. I felt the coldness of her fingers, but she was steady as always. Then she whispered, and her shaky breath brushed against my face."You made a promise to me in the past, and today you must keep it. Not because Corrine is the daughter of your friend, or because she is my daughter, but because you keep your word!"She continued, and her voice grew even heavier."You need to know that Corrine will not be able to handle the human worl