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RIDE OR DIE: The Alpha's Reckless Queen Chapter 30: Windows Rattling
I've been yelled at before. I've never been yelled at by someone whose voice made the windows rattle."Get out of the car," he said, and even those four words carried a weight that made the hair on my arms rise, something underneath his voice that didn't sound entirely human.I got out slowly, some instinct telling me not to make any sudden movements, though I refused to let the fear show on my face. Behind him, I could see a handful of pack members watching from a careful distance, none of them willing to get any closer to whatever was building between us."Do you have any idea," he said, advancing toward me, "what could have happened to you out there? A Viper enforcer had you cornered, alone, with no backup, no plan beyond whatever you managed to improvise in the moment—""And I got out," I said. "I got out, and I got the intel, and I'm standing right here in front of you completely unharmed, so maybe—""That's not the point!" The words came out of him with a force that genuinely ra
RIDE OR DIE: The Alpha's Reckless Queen Chapter 29: Talking My Way Out
I've talked my way out of speeding tickets. I was less confident talking my way out of this.He was younger than I expected, maybe thirty, lean and watchful with the same low, aggressive posture I'd come to associate with every Viper I'd encountered so far. His hand rested easily near his hip, not quite drawing a weapon, but close enough that the threat didn't need to be spoken aloud. Behind him, his bike sat parked at an angle that suggested he'd pulled over on a whim, or maybe on instinct, some patrol routine bringing him past this exact stretch of tree line at exactly the wrong moment for me."I'm just passing through," I said, keeping my voice level despite the way my pulse had spiked into something close to panic. "Wrong turn. I'll be on my way.""Wrong turn," he repeated, unimpressed, taking a slow step closer. "Funny wrong turn to make, this close to our boundary line, this soon after your Alpha's men came sniffing around our territory a few nights back."He knew who I was. He
RIDE OR DIE: The Alpha's Reckless Queen Chapter 28: First Time for Everything
I've never snuck into enemy territory in my life. First time for everything, I guess.I didn't go back to my cabin. I went to my car instead, the same one I'd nearly wrecked outrunning Viper bikes weeks ago, and drove into town with a plan forming faster than my better judgment could talk me out of it. Every mile put more distance between me and the argument I'd just walked out of, and every mile also made the reckless shape of what I was about to do feel a little more inevitable.My father had kept a small black notebook in his desk drawer for as long as I could remember — names, numbers, notes in his cramped, practical handwriting that I'd always assumed were just supplier contacts. I'd found it again while going through his things after the funeral, tucked it away without much thought, another artifact of a man I was only beginning to understand I'd never fully known.I found it now exactly where I'd left it, and flipped through the pages until I found a name circled twice in faded
RIDE OR DIE: The Alpha's Reckless Queen Chapter 27: Calmer Than This
I've patched up bike engines with more calm than I watched him receive that call.The office filled fast — Killian first, then Mara, then a handful of ranked wolves I recognized from the council chamber, each of them arriving with the kind of grim, efficient speed that told me this wasn't the first hostage crisis this pack had weathered, however much dread hung in the room regardless. Someone had already pulled up a territory map, pinning it to the wall with quick, practiced hands, red string marking boundary lines I was only beginning to understand."They want a trade," Killian said, reading off his own phone, jaw tight. "Dax for territory concessions along the eastern boundary. If we don't respond by dawn, they've made it clear what happens next.""We're not giving up territory," Ronan said, already pacing, already calculating in that focused, fast way I'd watched him do once before, the night of the rescue attempt he hadn't yet told me the full story of. "That sets a precedent we c
RIDE OR DIE: The Alpha's Reckless Queen Chapter 26: A Dangerous Combination
Turns out adrenaline and a werewolf's mouth are a dangerous combination.We'd fallen into a rhythm over the following days that felt almost dangerously close to normal — training in the mornings, meals at the long table in the evenings, the careful, deliberate work of learning each other in the spaces between crisis and crisis. The pack had settled, too, in its own uneasy way — the elder from the council chamber still cool toward me, but no longer openly hostile, and Mara had started, cautiously, to include me in small conversations she'd previously reserved for pack members only.Tonight, after a training session that had left both of us bruised and breathless in equal measure, we ended up sitting on the porch of my cabin instead of parting ways, a bottle of something Killian had smuggled from the pack's private stock between us, neither of us quite ready to let the evening end."Tell me something true," I said, emboldened by the whiskey and the strange, easy intimacy of the night. "
RIDE OR DIE: The Alpha's Reckless Queen Chapter 25: Feathers
I've been threatened by men my whole life. This was the first time the threat had feathers.I stood over that dead bird for a long moment after Ronan's warning settled in, feeling something shift inside me that had less to do with fear and more to do with a cold, clarifying anger. I'd spent weeks now being protected, hidden, moved from cabin to compound to backroad like a piece of luggage passed carefully between hands that all agreed I was too fragile to be trusted with my own defense.I thought about the elder in that council chamber, calling me a liability to my face. I thought about every moment since the fire where someone else had decided, on my behalf, what I could handle and what needed to be kept from me for my own good. I was done being managed. If I was going to be a target either way — to Vipers, to hostile wolves, to whatever came next in this war I'd apparently inherited along with a mate bond — I wanted, at the very least, to stop being a helpless one."I'm done being s
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