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The first move

last update Fecha de publicación: 2026-04-07 23:07:22

Tobias

The message arrived at dawn.

I was in the east corridor when the courier found me — one of our own, not an outsider, which meant it had passed through our hands at the gate and been cleared before it reached mine. The seal on the front was from Aldenmoor, one of the four allied territories that had standing diplomatic communication with Royalfang. Lord Alpha Calder's house emblem pressed into dark blue wax, undamaged, formally correct in every visible way.

I turned it over twice before I
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  • Mated To The Cursed Alpha    Quiet morning

    MIRA'S POVThat was the first thing I registered was warmth, which had not been a given for most of the night. The second thing I registered was the weight at my back. Solid and steady and breathing slowly in a deep sleep.Rowan.I lay still for a moment and let myself stay still in the small space — the warmth, the quiet, the fact that we were both alive and the sounds coming through the vault walls were not alarms or fighting. Distant voices, movement, the faint clang of something in a kitchen somewhere were all heard above us.I shifted carefully, turning toward him without waking him, and looked at his face.Sleep had taken the controlled expression off it completely. He looked younger without it — not soft exactly, but unguarded in the way that only happens when there is nothing left to manage. The damage from the night was visible even now: the wound along his jaw, the shadow of exhaustion, the way his right shoulder was angled slightly to protect the injury he had not let Elar

  • Mated To The Cursed Alpha    The first move

    TobiasThe message arrived at dawn.I was in the east corridor when the courier found me — one of our own, not an outsider, which meant it had passed through our hands at the gate and been cleared before it reached mine. The seal on the front was from Aldenmoor, one of the four allied territories that had standing diplomatic communication with Royalfang. Lord Alpha Calder's house emblem pressed into dark blue wax, undamaged, formally correct in every visible way.I turned it over twice before I opened it.The message inside was brief and appropriately worded. An expression of continued solidarity from Aldenmoor to Royalfang. A note that Lord Alpha Calder had heard rumors of unrest in the region and wished to make clear that his territory's alliance stood firm. An offer of material support should it be needed — men, resources, whatever Royalfang required. The kind of letter one allied territory sent to another during uncertain times.It was diplomatic and completely unremarkable in ton

  • Mated To The Cursed Alpha    Eyes on me

    Rowan Her dress was in my way so I tore it—literally. I ripped the fabric down the front with one sharp yank and she yelped in a half protest, half laugh. “Rowan, that was my only clean—” “I’ll get you a hundred more.” I said as I shoved the ruined cloth aside and bared her to me. Her breasts were fuller now because of the pregnancy, nipples dark and tight, the gentle swell of her belly rising and falling with every quick breath. There were marks from the night’s strain still on her thighs. The bruises were faint where she’d clenched against the pain and I kissed every one of them, slow and reverent, then not so slow. Fuck I missed her body. I had been giving myself stupid reasons to stay away from her since I got her back and I couldn't do that anymore. I needed to have her. Right here and right fucking now. “Rowan,” she protested again, her voice shaky as I settled between her legs. “The door… someone could hear—” “Let them fucking hear baby.” I hooked her thighs ove

  • Mated To The Cursed Alpha    Reclaimed

    ROWAN'S POV The vault felt too small for everything crashing through me. Tobias’s words still hung in the air like smoke after the battle—Elder Matthias, the coordinated betrayal, the larger game none of us had seen coming. My mind should have been on strategy, on the hunt for Theron, on the hundred dead defenders whose names I would have to learn by morning. But all I could see was Mira. She was still on the table, propped up now by Elara’s careful hands, her face pale but her eyes bright with that stubborn fire I loved more than air. My hands wouldn’t stop touching her—tracing the line of her jaw, sliding down to rest over the small swell of her belly where our child still held strong. I could feel the faint, steady thump under my palm when I pressed just right. Alive. Both of them. Mine. I was feral. The word didn’t do it justice. Every instinct I’d shoved down during the long night of fighting roared back to life now that the all-clear had sounded. My wolf was pacin

  • Mated To The Cursed Alpha    Aftermath

    MIRA'S POVThe all-clear came in early in the morning the next day. I heard it from the vault. It was three long signals, the pattern that Kara had described for me hours ago when I asked what we were listening for. The sound moved through the stone and reached us muffled and distant, and then Elara looked up from her monitoring that she was doing and the apprentice exhaled from his corner and the guard at the door let his shoulders drop just a little in relief.I still stayed flat on the table because Elara had not told me I could move and I had learned over the last several hours that arguing with Elara when she had her 'dont make me tell you again' face on was a waste of energy. Energy that I did not have at the moment. The bleeding had stopped two hours ago and I was thankful for that. The cramping had also eased an hour after that. Elara had checked the baby's heartbeat four times since then and each time her face had relaxed more and more. The baby was holding and so was I. W

  • Mated To The Cursed Alpha    Turning point

    *ROWAN'S POV*I had been in worse positions than this.I told myself that while I held the line against four of Finn's warriors with my back to the throne room wall and the corridor to my left blocked and Tobias somewhere behind me where I could no longer see him. I had been in worse positions. I had fought outnumbered before and come out of it and the fact that I was wounded and had been fighting for hours and could feel the damage in my shoulder from where Finn's first strike had reopened the wound from the river did not change the fundamental calculus.What it changed was the margin.The four warriors pressing me were good. They were not exceptional — Finn's exceptional people had been spent earlier in the assault and what remained was the second tier, capable and fresh but not the same quality as what I had fought through to get here. That should have made this manageable. What made it less manageable was that there were four of them and I was running on the kind of exhausted tha

  • Mated To The Cursed Alpha    The wait

    Mira’s POVI heard it before I saw a single soul, the heavy silence of my isolation finally shattering into a thousand jagged pieces.Raised voices echoed faintly through the stone vents of the pack house, sounding much sharper and more frantic than the usual hushed murmurs.Boots struck the floor

    last updateÚltima actualización : 2026-03-31
  • Mated To The Cursed Alpha    Finn’s departure

    Finn’s POVI stopped outside Mira’s door before leaving, the heavy wood of the portal a barrier between my world of power and the woman who refused to submit.The guards straightened immediately when they saw me, the sharp click of their heels hitting the stone floor echoing through the narrow corr

    last updateÚltima actualización : 2026-03-29
  • Mated To The Cursed Alpha    The challenge

    Rowan’s POVI watched Finn carefully, my eyes tracking every twitch of his facial muscles and every shift in his weight.He didn’t move immediately, nor did he speak, but I saw it—the frantic calculation happening behind his eyes as he weighed his dwindling options.I saw the rapid shifting of his

    last updateÚltima actualización : 2026-03-30
  • Mated To The Cursed Alpha    Arrival

    Mira’s POVThe council chamber finally came into view just as the sun began to set, casting long, bloody shadows across the forest floor.I saw the structure first through the thick canopy of the trees as torches burned brightly along the entire perimeter, their orange flames flickering and dancing

    last updateÚltima actualización : 2026-04-01
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