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Behind Closed Doors
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Owned for the Alpha's pleasure Pleasure Before Pain
"Read it," Lyra said, her voice steadier than she felt.Draven hesitated, and that hesitation alone told her how bad it was. "Lyra.""I am not going to be protected from this," she said. "Whatever it says, I need to hear it."He held her gaze for a long moment, then turned to see her current self.The girl was always meant for me. Tell her the chains she wears now are gentler than the ones I will give her, when she finally understands what she is. Evelyn was useful. She will not be the last small piece I take from your palace before I take the only one that matters.The handwriting was unfamiliar, but the cold precision of it settled into her stomach like ice."He is taunting you," Lyra said. "Trying to provoke you into doing something reckless.""It is working," Draven said grimly, folding the paper with controlled violence. "Kieran. Assemble a tracking party. I want eyes on that border by nightfall.""My Alpha," the guard who had delivered the message said carefully, "the western r
Owned for the Alpha's pleasure The Servant's Secret
The council chamber felt smaller with so many people. listened gravely as Kieran laid out what they had learned, the western ridge, the hidden paths, the narrow list of senior staff who would have known them. Lyra stood beside Draven, watching faces as names were discussed, reaching for the instinct that had become as natural as breathing over the past week.Most of the room read as worried. Genuinely so. But one face, partway around the circle, held something different.Cassius Ironvale, Captain of the Palace Guards, sat with his arms crossed and his expression carefully neutral, and when Kieran met me. When western ridge specifically, something flickered behind his eyes that did not match the rest of him.Lyra leaned slightly toward Draven. "Cassius," she murmured. "Watch him when the ridge is mentioned again."Draven's gaze shifted, subtle, and Kieran subtly speaking, deliberately circling back to the ridge a second time. Cassius's jaw tightened almost imperceptibly."Captain Iron
Owned for the Alpha's pleasure Draven's Obsession
Evelyn's disappearance changed the texture of the entire palace overnight.Lyra felt it the moment she stepped into the corridor the next morning, the guards doubled at every junction, the staff moving with a wariness that had not been there even after the poisoning attempt. Draven had not slept. She had felt him beside her through the night, tense and awake, his mind clearly working through possibilities he had not yet voiced aloud."You should rest," she said, finding him at his desk before sunrise, parchment spread in front of him covered in his own restless handwriting."I cannot," he said, not looking up. "Every hour Evelyn remains free is an hour she has to reach whomever she has been working for."Lyra crossed the room and set her hands on his shoulders, feeling the knotted tension beneath her palms. He stilled at her touch, some of the rigidity easing slightly, and after a moment he reached up and covered one of her hands with his own."Kieran has scouts on every road leading
Owned for the Alpha's pleasure What the Moon Knows
The realization settled over the study like a held breath."Everyone close to us," Kieran repeated slowly. "My Alpha, that includes the senior staff, the council members, the people who have served this pack for years.""I am aware of what it includes," Draven said grimly. "Which is exactly why it must be considered."Lyra watched the weight of this settle across every face in the room. Zara stood frozen, the discovered evidence still trembling slightly in her hands as the implications of being deliberately framed pressed down on her. Whatever animosity existed between them, Lyra felt a flicker of genuine sympathy for the fear now evident in the other woman's eyes."Evelyn Frostmere," Lyra said suddenly, a memory surfacing. "She was the one who brought Kieran the letter about the leaked information, the day in the training yard.""She has served this palace for years," Kieran said, though his tone carried less certainty than his words."And she would know palace schedules intimately,"
Owned for the Alpha's pleasure Zara's Poison
The revelation about Mira changed everything.By sunrise, the atmosphere within the palace had transformed entirely. What had once been an investigation focused on external threats now felt far more dangerous. The enemy was no longer a shadow lurking beyond the palace walls. The enemy was inside.Draven wasted no time responding to the new information. Before dawn had fully broken, he doubled the guards assigned to both Lyra and Mira. Every entrance to the healing wing was watched. Additional warriors patrolled the corridors, and no servant was allowed near either woman without clearance.The palace felt tense, as though everyone could sense that something had shifted, even if they did not yet know exactly what.While the guards strengthened security, Elara spent the entire night buried beneath piles of records. Missing sedative vials, staff schedules, healer inventories, and servant rotations were spread across tables and desks throughout her workspace.She worked tirelessly, compari
Owned for the Alpha's pleasure Torn Between Duty and Need
The throne room felt different this time, the morning light pale through the high windows as Zara Black was escorted in, flanked by two guards, her composure carefully arranged despite the circumstances.Lyra stood at Draven's side, exactly where Kieran had taught her to stand, and watched Zara's eyes flicker to her briefly before settling on Draven with practiced calm."You said you have information," Draven said, his voice giving nothing away."I do," Zara said. "About the night someone attempted to take her." She nodded toward Lyra without quite looking at her. "I know I am the obvious suspect, given everything between us. Which is exactly why I came forward.""Go on," Draven said."I saw someone near the servants' passage that night," Zara said. "Late, after the horns had quieted but before dawn. A figure I did not recognize, moving carefully, avoiding the main corridors." She paused. "I did not think much of it until I heard what had happened. I assumed, given the chaos of the bo
Owned for the Alpha's pleasure The First Test
She lay on the dark charcoal bedding and stared at the ceiling and listened to the palace breathe around her, the distant footsteps of guards on rotation, the low moan of wind finding gaps in the ancient stone, the occasional crack and settle of the fireplace burning itself down to embers. She cata
Owned for the Alpha's pleasure Iron Walls and Golden Eyes
The chamber was not what Lyra expected.She had prepared herself for a cell. Something cold and bare and deliberately uncomfortable, a room designed to remind its occupant of exactly what they were and exactly what they were not. She had built the image so completely in her mind during the walk thr
Owned for the Alpha's pleasure The Alpha's Command
The throne room was built to destroy confidence.Lyra understood that the moment the doors swung open and swallowed her whole. Everything in it had been designed with a single purpose, to make whoever stood at its center feel small, insignificant, and utterly without options. The ceilings climbed f
Owned for the Alpha's pleasure Sold to the Devil
Nobody tells you what it feels like to be sold. They do not warn you about the silence that follows, the way the world keeps moving around you like nothing has changed while everything inside you is collapsing floor by floor.I found out at dawn.By sunset, I was already gone.The carriage smelled
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