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043: The Ring Around the Wound
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2026-05-17 16:10:22
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The Alpha I Saved Ruined Me 044: The Man in the Dungeon
The Man in the DungeonValik’s POVAfter my visit to Rendell’s pack. I had a great deal to think about and the sound of the horses and the road was preventing me from thinking properly. This was one thing why I didn’t like long journeys, now I even added to my troubles because I can’t stop thinking about my wife. Rendell’s situation confirmed patterns I had already been tracking, the age range of the victims, the increasing boldness of the operations, and suggestion of someone operating with a specific objective rather than just opportunistic violence.Magnus was sick and moving faster than a careful man would move. One question I kept asking myself is, what has his sickness got to do with the people dying? Is he looking for something valuable?I was still thinking it over when one of my forward guards came back along the road toward me at a canter, which meant something had happened ahead that required my attention before I reached the gates.“There’s a man,” he said, pulling up bes
The Alpha I Saved Ruined Me 043: The Ring Around the Wound
The Ring Around the WoundTalia’s POVBrett came every morning to treat my wound. He would come, knock twice and come in when I gave him permission to. He didn’t say much beyond what was necessary, but what he said was always useful, and after the first few visits I had stopped bracing for the interaction the way I braced for most interactions in this pack. He was kind hearted and willing to help me heal.“You’re healing faster than I expected,” he said on the third morning, replacing the dressing on my back with the careful attention of someone who understood that speed was less important than carefulness . “The tissue is responding well.”“Thank you… For everything. I have been heeding to your advice.” I said.He paused in his work for a moment.“It’s my job. You are Alpha Valik’s wife, it’s my duty to give you the best I have got” he said. Simply, without deflection, but also without the coldness that some people use when they want to prevent gratitude from landing anywhere.“It mi
The Alpha I Saved Ruined Me 042: The Man Who is Sick
The Man Who Is SickValik’s POVI spent most of my day in the war room. We were talking about strategy session on how to safe guard the pack. Today had been worse than usual because the recent deaths had created gaps in the patrol structure that needed to be filled before they became vulnerabilities that someone with knowledge of the pack’s movements could exploit.I walked back toward my quarters late, tired in the specific way of a day spent making decisions that had consequences, and I was still turning the patrol restructuring over in my mind when I saw Monica in the corridor outside my room.She turned when she heard me coming and her expression arranged itself into something warm and a little concerned, the performance of someone who had been waiting and wanted that noted.“I heard you skipped breakfast,” she said. “I brought something up for you.”She stepped aside from the doorway slightly.I looked past her into the room.Something settled in my gut that was not quite suspici
The Alpha I Saved Ruined Me 041: Almost Nude and Fully Delusional
Almost Nude and Fully DelusionalTalia’s POVI turned around so fast I nearly lost my balance and faced the wall, kept my eyes there and felt the heat move up my neck in a way that I had absolutely no patience for given everything else that was currently happening in my life.Behind me I heard a short, quiet sound that was unmistakably Valik finding something amusing.“Why is your face red?” He asked teasingly.“Nothing, I’m just feeling hot.” I said, fanning my face with my hands.I reached for the door handle but I couldn’t leave because the handle was hooked.I tried it again, properly, and it still didn’t unlock, and I stood there with my hand on a locked door and my back to a man in a towel and the full indignity of the situation pressing down on me from every angle.“You can’t run from me,” Valik said. He sounded entirely too unbothered.“Put your clothes on,” I said to the wall.He didn’t say anything for a moment. Then the sounds of someone moving around, fabric, the particula
The Alpha I Saved Ruined Me 040: The Towel and my Feeling
The Towel and my feeling Talia’s POVValik entered the room immediately. He rushed like someone who had run quickly just to see someone and the room still carried the energy of it. His eyes found me immediately and something in his face shifted, and for one strange, suspended moment I thought he was going to close the remaining distance between us entirely but then he stopped, pulled back and straightened.The softness that had been in his expression rearranged itself into something more contained, and I watched it happen like a door close before you can see what’s behind it.Aurora looked between us and stood.“Brett, can I have the room with my wife? Aurora too,” she said quietly, and Brett gathered his things and they both filed out, pulling the door shut behind them.The room was very quiet.I looked at him from where I was lying and felt every lash as a separate, specific thing whenever I breathed too deeply.“Let me go, huh,” I said.My voice came out steadier than I expected i
The Alpha I Saved Ruined Me 039: The Beast he Needed to Be
The Beast He Needed to BeValik’s POVThe neighboring pack’s meeting had taken too long. I had spent the entire ride back to the pack, restless. I felt so distant from Talia that it bothered me so much. I had tried to hide it but I had done a poor enough job of concealing it that even the pack elders we had met with had begun shortening their points toward the end.Aurora had been quiet beside me on the return journey, which for Aurora meant something was bothering her. She always goes quiet when she has a lot on her mind and is trying to figure it out. I had seen her look back in the direction of our pack twice in the last hour of riding.We came through the gates and she was off her horse before it had fully stopped.“I need to check on Talia,” she said, already moving ahead. “She wasn’t herself when I left. I should have stayed.”I watched her go and told myself it was fine and went to my study.I sat at my desk and looked at the reports that had accumulated in my absence and read
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