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Mark Of Betrayal

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LEAH

The first thing that greeted my consciousness wasn't the sharp smell of hospital medicine, but cold air, cold enough that my breath came out in thin clouds.

I forced my eyes open. My eyelids felt like lead. Instead of the blinding hospital ceiling lights, I found rough wooden beams above me, lit by the dim glow of a fireplace. Wind howled outside, slamming against the wooden walls hard enough to rattle them.

Where am I?

I tried to sit up. Strangely, the pain that should have been crushing
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  • Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid   Mark Of Betrayal

    LEAHThe first thing that greeted my consciousness wasn't the sharp smell of hospital medicine, but cold air, cold enough that my breath came out in thin clouds.I forced my eyes open. My eyelids felt like lead. Instead of the blinding hospital ceiling lights, I found rough wooden beams above me, lit by the dim glow of a fireplace. Wind howled outside, slamming against the wooden walls hard enough to rattle them.Where am I?I tried to sit up. Strangely, the pain that should have been crushing my whole body was gone. The bruises on my face no longer throbbed. When my eyes landed on my wrist, the rope wound had closed completely, leaving only a thin red line behind.But one spot on my body burned.My neck. Right above my pulse, a strange, hot pulse ran through the skin, beating in rhythm with my heart. I touched it with a shaking hand. The texture was uneven. Two puncture wounds, already scarred over.My breath caught in my throat. I threw off the heavy blanket covering me and forced m

  • Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid   Pure Hatred

    KieranMy father didn't waste time. In one clean motion, he set the Obsidian Chalice on the bedside table and tipped a single drop of black liquid into it. The chalice began to shudder, radiating cold that cut straight to bone."Do it now, Kieran," he said. "Your blood. Through the chalice, into her."My hand shook as I drew the silver blade from my belt. I didn't hesitate. I cut across my own palm and let the blood run into the chalice, hot and red. My blood — pure Alpha King blood — met the old energy inside and turned the liquid molten gold.This was the most honest thing I had ever given anyone. My strength, my future, everything I had, traded for one working heartbeat.I leaned over the bed and lifted Leah's head with care. Her face, calm in sleep, was an accusation I couldn't answer. I drew one long breath and pressed my mouth to her throat, over the fading mark the poison had left there.I bit down.Not to hurt her. A bond, not a wound. My teeth broke skin, and I fed the gold

  • Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid   Hanging By a Thread

    Kieran The heart monitor in the Vorreth base ICU kept time like something hammering against my skull. Steady, mechanical, indifferent to what it measured. I stood rigid beside the steel bed, watching Leah under a mess of tubes and wire. Her skin had gone past pale, closer to ash. Black veins crept out from the injection site on her neck, spreading toward her chest like roots. Each time those veins pulsed, her breath caught. "Explain it to me," I said, low, without looking away from her face. "Why is she getting worse after we neutralized the poison?" Dr. Vance stood across the bed, tense, cold sweat at his temples. "Alpha, the chemical those men used wasn't an ordinary poison. It's a synthetic neurotoxin, built to destroy blood cells." Vance's voice shook. "If Miss Leah had a wolf, regeneration would have burned through it already. But she's human. Fully. Her immune system can't fight this. Her organs are failing in sequence. Her kidneys stopped five minutes ago." My jaw locked

  • Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid   A King Kneels No One

    KieranHer body felt too light in my arms, lighter than it should. The ice-water chill on her skin bled straight through my shirt. That wasn't what set my wolf howling.The scent of her blood, throat, wrist, hit me first. Sharp, immediate. It demanded something my instincts recognized on sight: a slaughter, owed and overdue.Against me she felt fragile, her heartbeat thin and uneven behind her ribs. She'd torn her own body apart to save a child who belonged to the man who'd thrown her away."Mate?" Cain's voice caught, like the word refused to leave his throat. "What nonsense is this, Kieran? She's crippled. She has no wolf. You're insane if you think I'll let you take the woman who tried to kill..."I turned toward him slowly. My eyes found Cain Hargrove, still puffing his chest out, still clinging to the illusion that this room answered to him.The man was pitiful. Eight years he held the rarest thing he would ever own, and threw it into the mud for a piece of dirt now cowering behi

  • Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid   The Sacrifice

    CAIN"Stop treating her."The nurse's hands stalled over Leah's wrist like she'd misheard me."Alpha, she's still bleeding—""You heard me."I pushed enough weight into it that she backed off on instinct, not choice. That was the point. In this room, obedience wasn't requested.Leah lay on the tile, gray-skinned, close enough to dead that it barely registered as a person anymore. I didn't feel sorry for her. I felt stupid — for the ten seconds back there where I'd almost respected her. That's what she'd been counting on. Walk in half-dead, save the kid, let everyone watch. Nobody checks the hero's motives. She'd poisoned my son to gut Celeste and then handed herself a stage to do it on camera. Efficient, if nothing else."Get her downstairs. Chains, both wrists and ankles. If she dies before I get answers out of her, I'll find new men to guard my cells.""Yes, Alpha."The two guards moved in. Behind me Celeste adjusted her coat, already composing her face into something photogenic. Or

  • Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid   The Perfect Scapegoat

    CAINBrody's breathing was steady now, no longer blocked or desperate. The color was slowly returning to his skin. The doctor and nurses, who had stood frozen like fools moments ago, now moved quickly to lift my son's small body out of the ice bath, wrap him in thick towels, and carry him back to the hospital bed.My son had survived. My masterpiece was not destroyed after all.But my eyes weren't on Brody. My gaze was locked on the woman lying helpless on the wet, bloodied marble floor of the bathroom.Leah had passed out the moment she confirmed Brody was breathing again. Her body was a wreck. Her clothes were torn, ugly bruises covered her neck, and her wrist was cut deep, as if she'd just pulled it free from a rough rope by force.I looked at her with a feeling I couldn't quite explain. For seven years, I had always seen her as a weak woman who got lucky enough to carry the Hargrove name. But today, when my elite guards and my best doctors were all useless, this "broken" woman was

  • Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid   The Heat

    LEAHThe patter of water was the only sound breaking the silence of my night. I stood under the shower, letting the cold spray pour over my whole body.But the rush of cold water did nothing. My body still burned, like there was some insane fire boiling right inside my blood.The heat crawled up fr

  • Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid   Damaged

    "I lost our pups." "Mm." His thumb kept moving across the screen. "Anyway, Brody hasn't eaten yet. Make him breakfast. Simple is fine." I didn't respond. I was too stunned to respond. What Cain was doing was cruel beyond anything I had words for. After everything I had given up, after walking

  • Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid   Betrayed

    Eight years ago, one day after Abel died, Celeste came to us.Cain and I had just gotten married. We hadn't even had our first night together yet. Celeste showed up at our door holding a pregnancy test with two pink lines, telling us the pup she was carrying belonged to Abel.And from that day on C

  • Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid   Wrecked

    LEAH "I'm so sorry for your loss, Luna." The pack doctor, a middle-aged man with glasses and hair going silver at the temples, looked at me with a pained expression. "We did everything we could. Your future pups... we couldn't save them." "Tell me you're lying. This can't be real." My voice was

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