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Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Weighing My Options
★。＼｜／。★VANESSA DAVIS★。／｜＼。★The road back to Silver Ridge Farm was even worse now than when I left it. The bike rattled under me with every bump and rut, every patch of churned-up mud grabbing at the tires like hands trying to pull me down. My jeans were soaked up to the knees, my boots caked and heavy, but I kept going, forcing the wheels to spin.By the time I made it to the edge of the land, my thighs were screaming and my lungs burned from the cold air.And then I saw him.Colton.Leaning against the hood of his truck like he’d been planted there — arms folded tight across his chest, head lowered so that the brim of his hat shadowed his face. He didn’t move when I coasted closer, didn't call out. He just stayed there, like a statue carved from stubbornness and worry.Guilt stabbed deep into my gut. I told him i wasn’t leaving the house today, but that’s me. I can make a split second decision, and go for it. It doesn’t take much for me to follow a lead. I slowed the bike awkwa
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-28Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 131
★。＼｜／。★VANESSA DAVIS★。／｜＼。★Morning came slowly and pale through the windows, slipping past the heavy curtains in thin ribbons of light. I blinked awake to the scratchy fabric of the couch under my cheek and the familiar, comforting weight of a blanket draped over me. Colton must have gotten up when he woke up in the night, and he’d done this, which is nice, but I was supposed to be caring for him. For a moment, I didn't move.Just breathed.The room was cold. The fire in the hearth had burned down to embers during the night, but there was a kind of peace in the stillness that made me want to stay frozen there forever. This small place that’s meant to be hot as balls is turning into a colder place, which makes me feel like I’m a bad omen. Then a soft sound broke the quiet.I lifted my head blearily to find Colton still asleep, sprawled halfway across the couch, one arm hanging off the edge. His breathing was slow, steady, his face relaxed in a way I hardly ever saw. It made someth
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-29Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 132
▄︻デ══━一 COLTON HAYES💥 Vanessa worked like a woman possessed.The area of the kitchen filled with the sharp scent of alcohol and something bitter and chemical as she laid out the supplies I’d picked up. Plastic containers. Droppers. A bag of strange powder, she explained, was essential for the reaction. She had a focused, stubborn set to her mouth as she moved — no hesitation, no second-guessing. It was impressive as hell. She’s like an incredible hybrid who can do so much. Sure, I’m not happy that part of the ingredient calls for her blood. But what can I do? I got the first aid kit and laid it on one of the stools.I leaned against the counter, arms crossed, trying to ignore the throb in my side. It wasn’t bad. Not like it had been. Just a reminder that pushing my body harder than it could handle had a cost"Hey," Vanessa said without looking up. She was grinding something down into finer powder with the back of a spoon. "While I’m working, can you check out the Fa-derico twins? I
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-29Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 133
★。＼｜／。★VANESSA DAVIS★。／｜＼。★The last of the mixture swirled thickly in the glass jar, settling into a cloudy, pale gold.It didn’t look like much — just cloudy water, harmless if you didn’t know better — but if it worked the way it was supposed to, it would tear the shapeshifters' disguises apart in seconds.I tightened the lid, setting the jar carefully down on the counter. My hands were steady, but everything inside me buzzed with nervous energy."Alright," I said, stepping back and wiping my hands on a rag. "We’re doing this old-school."Colton, sitting at the edge of the couch with my laptop still balanced beside him, lifted a brow. He’d moved from the kitchen when the smell got too bad. It is not a pretty thing. The smell fades after the final ingredient is added."Old-school?""Yeah," I said, pulling a second, smaller container from my bag — this one filled with individual vials of the concoction. "We’re calling everybody out. Every single person living on the Silverridge farm
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-29Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 134
▄︻デ══━一 COLTON HAYES💥 The morning sun was climbing higher, burning the mist off the fields, but it couldn’t burn away the heavy feeling pressing against my chest.There was a tension in the air so thick you could chew it — the kind that got in your lungs and made it hard to breathe.I pulled my jacket tighter around myself as I headed toward the field.Ahead, a long line of our people stretched out, the entire pack spilling across the open grass like soldiers waiting for orders.Mothers rocked babies against their hips, murmuring soft reassurances into tiny ears.Toddlers clung to their fathers' pant legs.The older ones stood stiff, their gazes darting around nervously, like they could feel the edge of something coming too.Dad was up front, clipboard in one hand, glasses slipping down his nose as he called out names with military precision. He doesn’t wear- when did he get glasses? I thought... well, i guess old age caught up to him. Beside him, Ross scribbled notes, checking eac
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-29Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 135
★。＼｜／。★VANESSA DAVIS★。／｜＼。★The sun was brutal overhead, baking the field until the air shimmered faintly. I suddenly missed the cloudy, cooler weather. It was nicer. It was yesterday, but I’m already missing it. This heat is back with a vengeance. But at least the roads will clear up soon enough. Even with the buzz of voices and the shuffle of feet, there was a strange, heavy stillness — like the whole pack was holding its breath.I stepped out of the house, clutching the jar tight in one hand, the small, delicate brush in the other.All eyes shifted to me.The glass jar was filled with the concoction I had spent all night perfecting — a near-invisible liquid that would do what no simple test ever could.It wouldn't force the imposters to shift.Wouldn't burn them or cause a dramatic scene.It would just mark them.Subtle. Effective. And then force their skin to react. If this isn’t their real form they’ll shift into the real one. That’s how this is supposed to go. I tested it on
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-29Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 136
▄︻デ══━一 COLTON HAYES💥 The crowd buzzed with quiet confusion as Vanessa moved down the rows, brushing that strange liquid over skin and fabric with a quick, practiced hand.Parents murmured. Kids fidgeted. Men and women cast wary glances, but no one fought it.They trusted me enough to obey, even if they didn’t fully understand.At first, everything stayed normal.People are shifting awkwardly under the sun.There was nothing out of the ordinary except the heavy, simmering tension in the air. Once she was done, she came toward me, a look on her face that told me to be alert. I nodded; of course, I would be alert. Ross and my father stood close to each other.They looked at us, wondering what was happening. I was wondering whether Vanessa should have checked my brother and father. Just to be sure they weren’t the imposters. I stood beside Vanessa, arms folded across my chest, my senses peeled raw with focus.Seconds bled into minutes. It was taking far longer than I thought it would.
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-30Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 137
★。＼｜／。★VANESSA DAVIS★。／｜＼。★The field buzzed with leftover tension — the kind that clung to your skin and made every breath feel heavier.Children whimpered quietly against their mothers' legs.Men who hadn’t joined the chase and women stood frozen in place, casting nervous glances toward the trees where snarls and crashing sounds echoed in the distance.No one knew if they should stay or run.I stepped forward, heart pounding, but kept my voice soft, steady."Everyone," I called out gently, enough to draw their wary eyes to me, "please — head home. Take the little ones. The elders, too. There's nothing else you need to see. Get everyone to the safest place you can. Thank you for your time today."The pack hesitated, the weight of their fear holding them still. I noticed people squinting at the distance. They didn’t want to move, just in case there were more attackers. I softened my tone even further. "You're safe. Colton and the others have it under control. It would do them a gre
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Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 145
★。＼｜／。★VANESSA DAVIS★。／｜＼。★We rode the horse all the way to our next destination after leaving the diner, the sky still dipped in twilight shades of purple and gold, dust kicking up behind us as we passed a few shuttered storefronts and the odd resident walking their dog or heading home. It was peaceful, the kind of calm that settled into your bones if you let it.Colton reined the horse in front of the mechanic’s shop—a squat, sun-bleached building with a rusted sign that just said Steve’s Auto. The kind of place that didn’t need Yelp reviews to survive, just old men with busted pickups and nowhere else to go. I thought it was thriving earlier, Colton had brought me here, but things must have changed.Steve himself stepped out as we pulled up, wiping his hands on a rag that had long given up the fight to stay clean. “Thought I heard hooves,” he said, giving a nod to Colton. “She yours?”“The horse or the woman?” Colton asked with a smirk.Steve snorted. “Whichever’s gonna sass me
Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 144
★。＼｜／。★VANESSA DAVIS★。／｜＼。★I don’t know what I expected when Colton said we were going somewhere not on the map, but it sure as hell wasn’t a water tower. Not one with a view that made the whole damn world feel like it was holding its breath.The town looked like a miniature version of itself from up here—soft, sun-drenched, unreal. Like someone had pressed pause and we were sitting above time itself. I leaned back against the blanket he laid out, stretched my legs out, and let the warmth of the sun and his body beside mine lull me into a kind of weightless joy.God, when was the last time I felt like this?Carefree. Safe. Wanted.Colton was lying next to me, one arm propped under his head, the other draped across his stomach. His shirt had ridden up a little, exposing a sliver of sun-kissed skin, and I had to force myself not to stare too long. Or touch. Or climb on top of him right then and there.Which was ridiculous, because we were literally on top of a damn water tower.“I ca
Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 143
▄︻デ══━一 COLTON HAYES💥 After a good breakfast and wrestling a cup of caffeine from Vanessa, I grabbed the keys to one of my Jeeps, tossing them once in the air and catching them with a grin.“C’mon,” I said to Vanessa, watching her follow with that curious tilt of her head I’d grown addicted to. “Thought we’d take a little ride into town.”“I didn’t even know you had a Jeep,” she said as we walked down the path to where the whole family keeps their cars.“I’ve got a few things tucked away,” I said with a shrug. “Come on, I’ll show you.”We rounded the back of a big building, where a few of our vehicles were kept under tarps or shade roofs. Trucks, bikes, the old Jeep I’d learned to drive in for the first time. A bunch of other really clean and expensive-looking cars. I gestured at the line-up. “Told you.”She gave me a little side-eye. “Are you secretly a car fanatic?”I laughed. “Yeah, but that’s not the only reason we have alot of cars. I just grew up in a family where fixing thing
Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 142
★。＼｜／。★VANESSA DAVIS★。／｜＼。★I woke up warm.Not just physically—though that was part of it, tucked into the soft weight of Colton’s arms, his chest rising and falling behind me like the tide—but something else, too. Safe. Anchored.For a second, I didn’t move. I just blinked slowly at the soft light filtering through the curtains, breathing in the scent of soap, pine, and something distinctly his. Then I tilted my head back slightly and looked up.He was still asleep.His face was peaceful in a way I rarely got to see. No furrowed brow. No guarded jaw. Just Colton, unburdened. His mouth twitched a little, like he was dreaming about something mildly annoying or mildly funny—it was hard to tell with him.I laughed under my breath. Quiet and breathy.What a strange life.I used to wake up to sirens and honking cabs. Now I was waking up in a quiet room on a ranch, wrapped up in a man whose idea of rest was plowing half a field before breakfast.And yet… this didn’t feel strange at all.
Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 141
▄︻デ══━一 COLTON HAYES💥 We couldn’t keep them here, that was a thought i couldn’t shake from the moment i showed up here. I stood in the barn, arms crossed, watching the twins—Fabian and Derico, or whatever they called themselves—slumped against the wooden post, weak and sullen but still dangerous. Ross had tied them good, and Abel was pacing like he wanted an excuse to break something. I think my father wants to hit someone. I’d let him, but I can’t risk him accidentally killing them. We need them.Vanessa’s concoction was still doing its work. She hadn’t lied—whatever she’d made, it drained the strength right out of their bones and soul as well. Enough of it could ruin a shifter’s ability to ever turn again. I’d seen that look in their eyes now. They understood what was at stake. She did say it was like wolfsbane. I should send a general message to everyone in the pack to wash the concoction off their skin. “We should move them,” I said finally, turning to face my father. “Take ’
Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 140
★。＼｜／。★VANESSA DAVIS★。／｜＼。★I shut the lid of my laptop and stared at it for a long second. The screen was black, but I could still see the echo of everything inside it—files, photos, confessions that might change the course of this pack’s future. I backed it up to several places. The first backup was easier than the others after it. Ugh, I’m actually super tired. I feel like crashing but i have one more thing to do. I gotta make that call I’ve been avoiding.My thumb hovered over my phone before I picked it up and scrolled to a number I’d been avoiding for days.Maya (Editor-in-Chief)The moment it started ringing, I regretted it. But there was no turning back now.She picked up before the third ring.“Jesus Christ, Vanessa. You’re alive. I’ve been calling you, emailing you, and texting you. You practically live on your phone, so why haven’t you been answering?”Her voice was sharp, loud, clipped. Familiar. And also tired. Everyone’s got shit that they’re dealing with.“I’m sorry,
Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 139
★。＼｜／。★VANESSA DAVIS★。／｜＼。★I checked on my phone and the recording. Thank fuck for the apps i use. That long confession would have needed to be divided into two parts, or more. I turned to Ross and Abel.“I’ll go get Colton, he can help you guys with this.” I said, slipping the last of the vials into the worn canvas of my bag.“You want us to just watch them while you’re gone?” “Yeah, just think of them as wild, untamed STDs. You don’t have it, but you gotta watch out for it.”Abel gave a curt nod, jaw set and eyes still on the twins, who were slumped and breathing heavily against their restraints. Ross, on the other hand, let out a quiet little hum — not disapproving, not questioning. Just… amused.“STDs?”I glanced at him briefly, and sure enough, he was fighting the corner of a smile.“Yeah.”His lips pressed together, and he took in several breaths to calm himself. “You do that,” he said, like he was letting me walk off with some private joke I’d never understand. “Don’t be to
Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 138
★。＼｜／。★VANESSA DAVIS★。／｜＼。★I set my vials down carefully on a dusty old table by the door, arranging them neatly, almost deliberately slow.Fabian and Derico — the Fa-derico twins — were chained and fidgeting against the beams, their faces tight with pain and hatred.Good.Let them stew.I turned to Abel and Ross, keeping my voice even, business-like.“We’re going to do this properly,” I said. “I’m going to need to take some photos and videos.” I glanced at Ross. “If they confess anything — especially anything about a woman named Alina — we’re going to need proof.”Ross raised an eyebrow, but nodded. Abel grunted his approval. They didn’t know that name, I’m guessing colton didn’t really tell them the name of the woman who scammed him. I’d like to punch her. Not out of jealousy though. I’m classier than that- It’s maybe partly jealousy. Still, colton is a nice guy. And girls like me and alina use nice guys. I’m not proud of those past conquest but I’m also not ashamed of it.I loo
Resisting The Alpha Cowboy Chapter 137
★。＼｜／。★VANESSA DAVIS★。／｜＼。★The field buzzed with leftover tension — the kind that clung to your skin and made every breath feel heavier.Children whimpered quietly against their mothers' legs.Men who hadn’t joined the chase and women stood frozen in place, casting nervous glances toward the trees where snarls and crashing sounds echoed in the distance.No one knew if they should stay or run.I stepped forward, heart pounding, but kept my voice soft, steady."Everyone," I called out gently, enough to draw their wary eyes to me, "please — head home. Take the little ones. The elders, too. There's nothing else you need to see. Get everyone to the safest place you can. Thank you for your time today."The pack hesitated, the weight of their fear holding them still. I noticed people squinting at the distance. They didn’t want to move, just in case there were more attackers. I softened my tone even further. "You're safe. Colton and the others have it under control. It would do them a gre
