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Chapter 7
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Marked by the Alpha Chapter 135
ZaraThe cold reached her first. It came up through the stone and settled between her shoulder blades, and for a few seconds Zara let herself believe that was the worst of it...just a cold floor, a bad dream, a room she would wake up out of.Then she looked at her hands...the tips of her fingers were black. Not bruised, not dirty...black, like ink that had soaked in and decided to stay, spreading toward her knuckles in thin, branching lines. When she curled them, something hummed under the skin, low and steady, like a wire pulled too tight."What happened to my hands?" she asked again, and her voice sounded like it belonged to someone much older."Nothing that wasn't already waiting to happen." The man was crouched in front of her, close enough that she could smell smoke on him. She had been trying not to look at his face. Every time she did, it slid away from her like a word on the tip of her tongue. "Give it time...it gets easier to look at.""Who are you?""Someone who has waited a
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 134
RyanThe dark had a texture. That was the first thing he learned about it...not black exactly, more like a held breath, thick enough to press against his skin. He didn't know how long he'd been lying on the concrete before he understood he was lying on concrete at all. Everything came back to him in pieces, the way a radio station finds itself out of static.His wrists were the second thing. Rope, or something like it, biting a groove into skin that had already given up feeling anything but the ache underneath. He pulled anyway, out of habit more than hope, and the chair he was tied to groaned but didn't move."You're awake." The voice came from somewhere behind him, unhurried, almost bored. "I was starting to think I'd been too rough."Ryan didn't answer. He'd learned that much, somewhere in the blur of the last...hours? Days?...that answering only fed whatever this was. He turned his head instead, trying to find the shape of the room in the near-dark, and found nothing but a thin bl
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 133
ZaraMy foot had already slid forward before I realized I was moving and Mara's fingers clamped around my arm. "Don't.""He said my name.""He's been saying it for a long time." She pulled me back from the top of the stairs, and I noticed how badly her hand was shaking. "Listen to me. He's going to talk to you, he's very good at it. Whatever he says, you do not answer him.""Why not?""Because every answer is a door, and he only needs one of them open.""A long time?" The words snagged in my head like a sleeve on a nail. "Mara, what does that mean? You disappeared. Four years, no calls, no letters, nothing. I thought you were dead.""I know.""That's all you're going to say?""For now, yes." Her voice cracked on the last word. "Please, Zara. Not here.""Oh, don't be so hard on her." The voice rose through the floorboards, warm and easy, like a man talking over dinner."Your sister has been very busy...she's had a lot to keep track of."I pressed my free hand flat against my mouth. I d
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 132
RyanThe dark didn't just take the light. It took the room's shape, the walls, the distance between her hand and Ryan's borrowed body, all of it swallowed whole in the space of a single breath."Petra," Zara said, and her voice came out smaller than she wanted it to. "Petra, are you still there?""I'm here." Petra's voice came from somewhere lower than Zara expected, like she'd already dropped into a crouch, already moving. "Don't move. Don't make a sound if you can help it."Something scraped across the floorboards, slow and deliberate, and Zara couldn't tell if it was Marcus or Damon or the wind finding a gap in the boarded windows. She pressed her back against the nearest wall and made herself breathe through her nose, quiet, the way her grandmother had taught her once for a different kind of fear, a smaller one, before any of this had become her life."You still in the room, sweetheart?" Damon's voice, Ryan's voice, drifted closer than it should have been able to. "I can hear your
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 131
ZaraThe flashlight beam hit the doorway and everything in Zara went very quiet, the way a room goes quiet right before a storm walks through it.A man stood there...not tall enough to be threatening on size alone, but he filled the doorway anyway, the way certain people filled rooms without trying, like the space simply agreed to make room for them. His eyes caught the light and held it, flat, unblinking, amused."Well," he said. "Isn't this cozy."Beside her, Ryan made a sound that wasn't a word anymore. Zara didn't look at him. She couldn't, not yet, because if she looked at him and saw Damon's face settle into place behind his eyes, she was going to lose the thirty seconds she had left to think."Who are you," Petra said. Not a question...a demand, flat and edged, her blade still catching light at her hip."Wrong question." The man stepped into the room, unhurried, and his boots found the floorboards with a kind of deliberate softness, like he was savoring the creak. "Right questi
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 130
RyanThe dark wasn't like sleep...sleep had edges, a beginning and an end you could feel yourself cross. This was more like drowning somewhere with no bottom, no surface, just Ryan's own name going out ahead of him into nothing, calling for a body he couldn't find.Then, all at once, he had hands again.He knew they were his because they were shaking, and Damon never shook. Ryan lay on something hard and cold... the floor, he understood dimly, the floor of Petra's borrowed house, though he couldn't see it. The dark inside the room and the dark inside his own skull had merged into one thing, and for a long, terrible moment he wasn't sure which one he was trapped in."Zara," he said, or tried to. His mouth felt like it belonged to someone standing three feet away, its motions arriving a half-second late.No answer. Just breathing... his own, ragged, and somewhere close, Simon's, thinner than it should have been."Get up", Ryan told himself. "Get up before he does."He'd learned, over si
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 3
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
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 2
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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