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Chapter 76
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2026-07-17 15:55:04
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Marked by the Alpha Chapter 128
ZaraThe knife moves and I don't feel my hand do it. That's the strangest part, the part I'll probably spend the rest of my life trying to explain to someone who wasn't standing in this room... I decide, somewhere far away and very calm, and then my arm is already finishing the decision before I've caught up to it, like my body got tired of waiting for my heart to agree.I'm not aiming for his chest anymore.I don't know when that changed. Maybe it changed the second his voice cracked that half-inch, the second I heard something underneath Damon that sounded like Ryan trying to claw his way up through wet sand, and some animal part of me that's been living on hope and stubbornness for six days recalculated everything without asking permission. I'm not trying to kill the thing wearing my husband. I'm trying to open a door.The blade catches him along the forearm instead of the sternum, a shallow line, not deep enough to matter to a wolf healing at wolf-speed, but deep enough to make hi
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 127
RyanI'm not gone. That's the thing nobody tells you about being buried alive inside your own skin... I'm not gone, I'm just far down, pressed under something vast and cold and patient, and every so often I get close enough to the surface to feel what my body's doing without any say in whether it stops.Right now my hand is closing around Zara's wrist. I feel the exact shape of her bones under my fingers, feel how thin they are, how breakable, and some part of me that used to be a husband and is currently nothing but a passenger screams at a volume that never reaches anyone but me. Six years I spent learning how much pressure this hand could take before it hurt her, gentling myself around her the way you gentle yourself around something you've decided matters more than your own strength. Damon doesn't know that math. Or he does know it and doesn't care, which might be worse, because I can feel him deciding, right now, exactly how close to the edge of breaking her he wants to walk with
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 126
ZaraThe word run doesn't sound like Simon. It comes out low and doubled, like two throats trying to use one mouth, and something underneath his voice answers it before I can, some old animal part of me that knows a command when it hears one and moves before thought catches up.I run and not away... I've never once run away from anything wearing Ryan's face, not in six days of watching my husband disappear behind his own eyes but back, out into the hallway, because the house has rules I understand even when nothing else does anymore, and the nearest room with a lock that isn't a joke is the study, and the study has the box.The box has silver too, more silver...enough, maybe, if I'm fast enough, if my hands stop shaking long enough to be useful.Behind me I hear the table go over. I hear Simon make a sound I've never heard him make, something between a growl and a groan, something halfway to a shape he shouldn't be changing into yet, not for hours, not until the moon actually wants him
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 125
RyanThere's a version of drowning that doesn't involve water at all, and I have been living inside it for six days now, coming up for air in stolen seconds and going back under before I can even fill my lungs. This is one of those seconds. I can feel the shape of it already narrowing, some vast dark hand closing around me again, but for now I'm here, I'm in my own body, and Zara is three feet away with her back against a door that used to open for me."Zara." Her name costs me everything I have left. "Listen to me, you have to..."I don't get to finish. I never get to finish anymore. Damon doesn't yank me under gently, he drags, claws dug into whatever part of a person is actually them, and I go down screaming words I never got to say, and the last thing I see before the dark swallows me whole is her face, and the terror in it, and I think, not for the first time, that I would rather he kill me than make me watch this happen to her one more time.Then there's nothing. There's never a
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 124
ZaraI saw it...I know I saw it, for one second his hand twitched around my wrist, and his voice cracked out of his own throat instead of Damon's borrowed drawl, and I have spent six years learning the difference between the two the way you learn a language... not by studying it, just by living inside it long enough that your body knows before your mind catches up. That was Ryan. That was my husband, clawing his way to the surface of his own skin, and then he was gone again, and I am still standing here with my back three feet from the door he just locked with his own hand."Ryan," I say again, quieter this time, not for Damon...for him. Wherever he is under there.Damon tilts his head... Ryan's head, and God, I hate how easily I still think of it that way, like the body is still on loan and the man renting it is just visiting badly. "I told you...nerves. You're wasting your begging on a twitching muscle.""You slammed the lock shut so fast your hand shook," I say. "Muscles don't shak
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 123
RyanI am screaming and no one can hear it, that's the truest way I can put it. I'm in here... behind my own eyes, behind my own mouth and I can feel every word Damon makes my lips shape, feel my hand close around Zara's wrist like it's still mine to close, and I can't stop a single second of it. I've been trying for six days. Six days of drifting somewhere under my own skin, surfacing for half a breath at a time, just long enough to know exactly how bad it's gotten before I get dragged back down.I know his name now. That's new, that's the last hour's work. Damon. I heard Zara say it once, months ago, in that careful voice she uses when she's talking about pack business she doesn't want me carrying home with me. I didn't know then that I'd end up carrying him instead.I throw it at whatever's left of the space between us, the thin membrane where I still exist. You don't need her. You need me...I'm the one with the bond, I'm the one Simon actually wants dead, so take it out on me.He
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RyanShe was here in flesh and blood. The last living Eserai.When my elders told me about an Eserai at first, I was sure they had gone mad. It was impossible. My seer confirmed that the Eserais had been wiped out by my father’s reckless drinking from them, and his abuse.But the moment I saw her, I
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ZaraWith my hands pinned to my back, I dragged my legs to let them carry as far as I could go, but I was a fool to think they would let me off so easily.Someone was behind me with light steps, almost like they were gliding over the air. Freaking werewolf speed. Everything happened in a blur, and
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 1
ZaraThe email didn’t make sense. I stared at it a few more times, certain there had to be a mistake or some sort of glitch that would disappear if I had to blinked hard enough.Anxiety had me pulling out my phone for the umpteenth time to read through the email, word for word to make sure it wasn’t
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 4
Zara"Rude" I mummured. Judging from the kind of person Alpha Ryan was, it wasn't hard to see that he was a man of pride who didn't beg. He saw begging as a way of being weak and left for me, I was ready to break him until the only thing left for him to do was to beg. I closed my eyes for a bit, th
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