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Enough

Author: Angel Cole
last update publish date: 2026-05-30 04:27:33

The smoke hit me before the heat did.

Wolf-sense made it worse — every particle alive with information I didn't want: burning pine, burning thatch, burning meat, and underneath it all a chemical sharpness that didn't belong to any cookfire. Accelerant. Someone had come prepared.

I ran low along the valley's eastern tree line, letting the dark work for me. Around me the pack had erupted — wolves mid-shift stumbling over their own changing bodies, children being passed hand to hand toward the tun
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  • I Accidentally Became the Alphas' Mate    What Tomorrow Would Bring

    River stood with me, his forehead resting against mine in silence.Then he kissed me deeply.When he pulled away, he locked forearms with his brother. The two men held each other's gaze for a moment before River gave a single nod and turned back toward the village.Next, Brianne said her goodbyes beside the vehicles.She didn't make it long. That wasn't her way — she was already half-turned back toward the valley before her parting words were fully out, her mind on the people she was moving to deeper ground, the structures that needed shoring up, the children who needed somewhere safer than where they'd been last night. She gripped my arm once, hard, said nothing else, and walked back into the smoke-grey morning.I watched her go longer than I should have."Mount up," Cade said quietly.Three vehicles waited for us.The first carried two of our guards and two village guards. Its sole purpose was to lead the convoy and protect us as we made our way out of the valley.Cade, Shianne, and

  • I Accidentally Became the Alphas' Mate    Enough

    The smoke hit me before the heat did.Wolf-sense made it worse — every particle alive with information I didn't want: burning pine, burning thatch, burning meat, and underneath it all a chemical sharpness that didn't belong to any cookfire. Accelerant. Someone had come prepared.I ran low along the valley's eastern tree line, letting the dark work for me. Around me the pack had erupted — wolves mid-shift stumbling over their own changing bodies, children being passed hand to hand toward the tunnel entrances Brianne had shown us that afternoon.A shot cracked off the ridge to my left. Then another, closer.I found the pattern in three seconds. The shots came in a sweep, consistent intervals, driving from the western slope down toward the valley floor. Pushing people east. Toward the old granary where Brianne had quietly mentioned, just once, that the archive was kept.They're herding."Cade." I threw it back over my shoulder."I see it." Already moving parallel, fifty meters upslope. "

  • I Accidentally Became the Alphas' Mate    The Valley Burns

    The cabin Brianne had given us smelled like cedar and old smoke, and someone had left a jar of wildflowers on the table that I hadn't touched. It felt too much like a gift I hadn't earned yet.River sat on the edge of the bed, forearms on his knees. Cade had taken the chair by the window — a habit, always orienting toward exits and angles of approach. I was on the floor with my back against the bed frame because sitting still in furniture felt wrong tonight, with everything that valley had poured into me.Outside, the pack had settled into its quiet. Cookfires burned low. Children had been called in. The whole mountain breathed slower after dark, like it was keeping a secret it didn't want to wake."It's not them," I said.Neither of them argued."The water, the food supply — that kind of sustained, systematic poisoning takes infrastructure. Connections inside our packs. Someone who knows the distribution routes, the schedules." I drew my knees up. "These people have been hiding under

  • I Accidentally Became the Alphas' Mate    Things Hidden in Plain Sight

    The trail stopped being a trail about an hour in.After that, it was just mountain — loose shale, dense tree cover, the kind of climb that doesn't apologize for itself. My guards had gone quiet. Even River, who ran fifty miles on a bad week, was conserving breath.I didn't ask for help.I didn't need to.That was the thing about the two of them — I'd stopped noticing exactly when it happened, but somewhere in the last hour they'd positioned themselves without discussion or signal. River ahead, Cade behind. Not hovering. Not making a show of it. Just — there. Every time the shale shifted under my boot, one of them was already in position. A hand at my elbow before I'd registered losing my footing. A shoulder within reach before I'd thought to look for one.Sentries. That's what they were.I had two sentries who happened to love me, and they were doing their jobs like they'd been born to it.I didn't say anything about it.Neither did they.And then the mountain opened up, and everythin

  • I Accidentally Became the Alphas' Mate    The Unnamed Heir

    “Please… It’s a long story, and I am not a threat to anybody,” I said, pausing before adding carefully, “Who is not a threat to me and mine.”I looked at both my mates before gesturing toward those standing behind me.She waited. Watched. Calculated.Then the air softened again, settling into that uncanny stillness around her that felt unnatural, like a predator deciding whether I was worth the effort.I didn’t tell her about Sirus. Not yet.I needed to feel her out first.No matter whose sister she was.A breeding program designed to create and control destroyer wolves.And Korr had been part of it from the beginning."You've seen the files," I said slowly.Brianne nodded."Then you know about the betrothal contract."Her gaze sharpened."You were promised to Korr when you were an infant. Marked. Claimed." She paused. "But you already know that.""I found the letters.""Good." Brianne's voice was approving. "Then you understand what you are.""A bargaining chip.""No." Her tone was f

  • I Accidentally Became the Alphas' Mate    The Ghost Revealed

    "What if they were testing us?" I asked the crew.Both Shianne's and mates expression shifted.But no surprise. Instead of recognition, because that is what she would do.Like they had been waiting for me to say it out loud. She nodded in approval. River and Cade just waited, letting me learn my role as Alpha. Respecting this was my journey. No one had been killed; I suspect they would have guided me more had one of us been seriously threatened. "Testing for what?" one of the scouts asked.I didn't answer.Because Rose was already moving in my mind, restless and alert.She's close, Rose murmured. Right now. Watching.I turned toward the tree line.Nothing moved.But the air had changed.It was heavier and charged with energy.Like the moment before lightning struck."Laney."River's voice.Low.Careful.I looked back.He was staring into the forest, body coiled tight, every muscle locked.Cade had gone still beside him.Not defensive and not aggressive, alert, aware, testing the a

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