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Chapter 6

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After that, Theodore disappeared.

In his name as Alpha, he announced the marking of Lillian.

Praise for Lillian came drifting in.

"Praise the Moon Goddess. Miss Lillian will be a perfect Luna."

"She's beautiful and kind. They say she knows the Alpha's first love is struggling, and she's trying to help her."

"Truly the mate the Moon Goddess chose for him. So kind…"

In all that praise, I heard something else. Something coming for me.

It wasn't until I went to the hospital that the nurse told me. T
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  • Seven Years Later, the Alpha Didn't Recognize His Own Pup   Chapter 12

    The news spread: Lillian had killed Theodore's mother.The pack's warriors were enraged. They howled for revenge.The demand to execute Lillian grew louder by the hour.Theodore led the troops himself. In a small skirmish, he broke the Black Iron Pack's vanguard.A grieving army was unbeatable. Theodore had counted on it.In the forward command post, he stayed up days, hunched over the sand table, running the war again and again.Even I was tired just looking at the blood in his eyes.I asked him. Was any of this worth it?He said: yes.He needed to prove he hadn't changed. He was still the boy of fourteen.He loved me down to the bone. For me, he would go to war with the world.To hell with fated mates. To hell with the war. To hell with the world.He refused every option fate had tried to push on him. He only wanted me.I looked at his exhausted, stubborn eyes, and I remembered.The night we had just run from the orphanage, the two of us curled in an open field.Dawn came. He pulled

  • Seven Years Later, the Alpha Didn't Recognize His Own Pup   Chapter 11

    The Black Iron Pack would not eat this shame.They declared that if Theodore insisted on marking me as his Luna, they would go to war.Troops gathered at the border. The shadow of war fell across both packs.The Crimson Flame elders met for a full day. They came to a decision.They demanded Theodore complete the political mating with the Black Iron Pack. End the war before it started.Theodore smiled. He shifted. He let out the Alpha aura.The pressure made the elders' bones creak.One couldn't take it. He went to his knees. Then another. Then another.Every one of them was on the floor, sweating."War or peace, that decision is mine. Not yours.""I'll say this one more time. The last time.""I am going to mark Emma again. She is going to be your Luna."He looked around at all of them. He smiled, slow and sharp. "If the Moon Goddess herself stood here, my answer would be the same."No one in the world could move Theodore's mind. No one but me.In the end, his mother couldn't take it ei

  • Seven Years Later, the Alpha Didn't Recognize His Own Pup   Chapter 10

    The next morning, speaking as Alpha, Theodore announced that the marking ceremony with Lillian was canceled.The pack erupted. The wolves were talking everywhere.Someone leaked the story: that Theodore had once loved me more than his own life. That I had betrayed him.They said I'd taken three million to abort our pup. That I'd had him in secret. That I'd come back now to blackmail the Alpha.The Black Iron Pack sent envoys. They lodged the harshest possible protest.The wolves cursed me as a vicious she-wolf. A schemer. Greedy for status. Willing to start a war between packs to get it.I let them curse. I treated their words like meaningless noise.I owed them no explanation. I didn't need them to like me.I knew what I had done.But Theodore couldn't stand it. He called a pack-wide tribunal himself.He stood there, swore on the Moon Goddess, and told them everything.The three million was a loan I had begged his mother for. Every cent of it went to his medical care.He arrested seve

  • Seven Years Later, the Alpha Didn't Recognize His Own Pup   Chapter 9

    Lucas was out of immediate danger. But he wouldn't wake up. The doctors didn't know when, or if.Moonlight came through the window onto his pale face, like a thin layer of snow.I sat staring at him. From the corner of my eye, I saw Lillian. She couldn't hide her smile.She untied her scarf and wrapped it gently around my neck."Since Lucas is the Alpha's son, I'll take on the Luna's duty. I'll adopt him.""Don't worry. I'll treat him like my own. He can even call me Mommy."She smiled. The smile of someone who had already won.She thought she had.Lucas was alive but might as well have been dead. Between Theodore and me there was now another wound that wouldn't heal.She had finally covered the mark on my neck. Theodore would mark her next. She would officially be Luna.She didn't know what kind of she-wolf I was.The world had bared its teeth at me since I was small. It had never finished me off.What hadn't killed me had only made me harder.I'd been hiding from Theodore because I w

  • Seven Years Later, the Alpha Didn't Recognize His Own Pup   Chapter 8

    I shoved him off and made my way to the emergency room doors.They were sealed shut. Lucas was on the other side.Theodore came up behind me. He reached out, trying to pull me into his arms.Something inside me snapped.I turned. I threw him to the ground. I went for his throat with my teeth.My fangs broke his skin. Then I stopped, sobbing.There were two old scars on his neck. The mark I had left on him seven years ago.The scars were round, like a pair of eyes. They were looking through me.I couldn't bite down. I couldn't bear what those eyes saw.His blood ran into my mouth. It was bitter.I shot upright. I grabbed him by the collar and hauled him up."Theodore. Do you have to keep chasing me? I just wanted a clean break. I was fine on my own —"Theodore set his jaw and pressed his neck against mine. Hard.Each of our marks, left there years ago, pressed against the other.Between them, my new bite was bleeding fresh."Why am I chasing you? You don't know? Emma, I've been about to

  • Seven Years Later, the Alpha Didn't Recognize His Own Pup   Chapter 7

    Theodore's hand closed on my throat like a clamp. I couldn't breathe.Lucas heard the commotion. He ran out barefoot.His eyes were already red. He started beating his small fists against Theodore. "Let go of my mommy!"Theodore glanced down at him, shoved him aside, and said flatly, "You're as foolish as your mother."Then Theodore let me go. I crashed onto the floor.Lucas threw himself into my arms. His little hands flew to my face.I saw the tears welling in his eyes and pulled him in tight.His heart had to be breaking right now.Under his pillow, he kept a photograph of Theodore. He had always known. He had always known Theodore was his father.Daddy was a powerful Alpha. A hero with endless strength.He was a hero's son. He wouldn't bow to his sickness.On every night the pain came, he would curl into me and whisper his father's name under his breath.In his dreams, his father had come back.His father told him he was brave. As brave as his father. A little man.His father said

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