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Chapter 86
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Marked by the Alpha Chapter 88
RyanJude's blood was everywhere, dark and spreading faster than Petra's hands could stop it, and every second I spent in that room was a second I'd left Zara alone with Marcus and the thing wearing her mother's face, and both of those facts were tearing through me at the same time like two different kinds of drowning."Pressure, here, now." Petra grabbed my hand and slapped it down against Jude's side before I'd fully processed the order, and I pressed until my knuckles went white, until I could feel his heartbeat stuttering weak and fast under my palm."He's not going to make it if we don't get the bleeding closed," Petra said, low, clinical, the kind of calm that only comes from having done this before. "I need the kit from the cabinet...second shelf.""I can't leave him.""Then I'll go, and you keep that pressure exactly where it is, don't you dare let up." She was already moving, already gone, and I was alone with a man who'd betrayed every one of us and was dying anyway, dying l
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 87
ZaraThe thing that stopped my breath wasn't a monster. It was worse than that, because monsters I could at least understand as something separate from myself, something with claws and wrongness that belonged in stories, not in my life. What stood at the far end of the hallway, half-lit by the flickering overheads, wearing an expression I'd know anywhere because I'd grown up watching it across breakfast tables and holiday dinners, was my mother."Mom."The word came out of me broken in half, and I felt Ryan's hand tighten around my wrist like he wanted to hold me back before I'd even moved, and maybe he was right to, because something about the way she stood there was wrong in a way I couldn't name yet. Too still and too straight. Her eyes found mine across all that distance and there was nothing in them, no relief, no fear, nothing that looked like the woman who used to sit up with me during thunderstorms when I was small."That's not her," Ryan said, low, urgent, right against my ea
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 86
RyanThe sound Petra made hitting the floor with Zara still rings in my ears louder than anything else in that hallway, louder than Marcus's voice, louder than my own heartbeat slamming against my ribs like it wanted out.I moved before I decided to move. That's the only way I can explain it. One second I was watching my dead brother wear a stranger's face and tell the truth I'd spent eight months burying, and the next I was airborne, shoulder first, meeting whatever had come through that wall before it could finish landing on the two women tangled together on the floorboards.We hit hard enough that something in the wall behind us cracked. I felt claws, or what passed for claws on a thing with too many joints in its fingers, rake down my forearm, and the pain was distant and unimportant, a problem for later. What mattered was the weight of it on top of me, jaws snapping an inch from my throat, breath that smelled like the inside of a grave."Ryan!" Zara's voice, raw, terrified, not f
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 85
ZaraThe lights came back on all at once, the same way they'd died, no flicker, no warning, just full white brightness flooding the hallway like someone had thrown a switch inside my own skull, and for one blinding second I couldn't see anything at all except the after-image burned across my vision.Then my eyes adjusted, and I wished they hadn't.The hand around my wrist belonged to nothing I had a word for. Grey skin stretched tight over knuckles too long, too many joints where a human hand should only have had two, and it was attached to an arm that rose up into shadow even though the lights were on, like the dark still clung to it in patches no bulb could touch. I followed that arm up, past a shoulder wider than the doorway Ryan had planted himself in, all the way to a face.I wish I could tell you it looked like a monster. That would have been easier. Instead it looked like a man who had been dead a long time and remembered, faintly, distantly, what it had felt like to be one."M
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 84
ZaraRyan's weight came down on me hard enough to knock the air out of my lungs, and for one endless second all I could feel was the heat of him and the wet warmth spreading across his shoulder where the thing had caught him, and I thought, stupidly, clearly, he's bleeding, he's bleeding and I can't get to it from under him.Then I heard the footsteps which was slow and even. Coming down the hallway from somewhere past the creature, past the reach of our lights, and the thing above us went still in a way that scared me more than the lunging had, more than the claws, because whatever it was afraid of, whatever made it stop and turn its ruined face toward the dark like that, I did not want to meet."Ryan." My mouth was right against his ear, barely any air behind the word. "Ryan, move, we have to move.""I know." His voice came out ragged. "On three.""There's no time for three..."The creature let out a sound that wasn't the laugh anymore, something lower, something almost like a whine
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 83
RyanThe thing on the floor used to be a rug, one of those braided oval ones people's grandmothers had, and now it was soaked black in the middle and curled up at one corner like something had been dragged across it in a hurry.Martha's radio sat on top of it, still on. Static hissing low and steady into the empty kitchen.I crouched and picked it up before I let myself think about what that meant, before I let myself think about the fact that Martha didn't go anywhere without that radio clipped to her belt, not for a smoke break, not for anything."Martha, copy." My voice came out steadier than I felt. "Martha, if you can hear this, key the mic twice."Nothing...just the hiss."Ryan." Zara's voice from behind me, thin and stretched tight. "What is it?""Her radio." I turned it over in my hands like that would tell me something the static wasn't. "Just her radio.""Just," Petra repeated, and I heard the word land wrong even from across the room.I made myself keep moving because stand
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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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
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