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Tides of Change

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Aviva

I wake with a start to bright, warm sunshine and the smell of salty air. I grope white sheets, blinking several times to clear my vision as an unfamiliar bedroom fades to life around me. Warm white walls. Pale wood finishes and sleek furniture in soft browns and creams. White curtains drift in a salty breeze coming through several open windows, and a glass door opens to a deck with a view of… a view of the ocean. 

I’ve never seen the ocean b

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  • The Alpha King's Breeder   Are We Dead?

    OakleyI can’t remember what I’m doing in our kitchen for a moment. Sunlight drifts through floral print curtains that are oddly unfamiliar. My worktable in the center of the kitchen is covered in scattered flour and the beginnings of… oh, right. Biscuits. To go along with the eggs and bacon sizzling in the pan stationed over the cooking fire. I look down at my hands. A fresh jar of honey is clutched tight, still warm from the sun. Ian walks by outside the window with a shovel resting over his shoulder and disappears from sight, and I expect everything to rush back to me, reminding me of what exactly I’ve been doing all morning, but it doesn’t. My mind feels hazy. I snap out of it when the bacon begins to burn. “That smells great,” Ian whispers against the top of my head, the back door snapping closed behind him, my only clue that he’s nearby. I feel out of body while fixing two plates that seem oddly blurry, and I honestly can’t smell a thing. “How’s the oven working? I added mor

  • The Alpha King's Breeder   Nothing Left to Do

    NaomiSkye runs her fingers over the grooves and notches along the hearth in Fraser’s kitchen. Her inspection of every room we visit in this place is thorough to a scientific extent, but I guess that’s the risk I took when I told her the truth–or when she stole the truth from me. It’s morning. I’ve yet to see a clock here, and our phones are painfully useless this far from modern society. It’s like we’ve dropped through time and are now firmly seated in a place that no longer exists, a place we can’t call Eastonia or Crescent Falls. This castle tucked in the middle of a mountain predates everything. “Alex should see this place,” she muses, crouching to examine hooks meant to hang cauldrons over the fire. “He all but confirmed civilizations this old in Lunaria before we left. He’d have a field day here.”“Fraser would like him, I think. They can nerd out together. I’m sure they’ll never run out of things to talk about.” I don’t think that’s true, but I’ll throw Skye a bone if I must,

  • The Alpha King's Breeder   She Was My Mate

    IanEarlier…Fraser moves from the far side of the room to the other, his golden eyes locked on mine. He’s plainly dressed, casual, but hyperaware of every breath I take while we go about our usual nightly routine. The landing room, one of many in his insanely complicated inner-mountain compound, is colder tonight than it has been since my arrival. Ice crystals shimmer against the moonlight, painting the balcony in shades of silver and white. Inside, a fire roars in the hearth, but it’s not warm enough to stop chills from skittering up and down my spine. A new scar formed an hour ago. It was painless. “Anything?”I shake my head. “I’m not sure.” I scrub my hand over my forearm where the original marks are now smooth, silver scars. “I feel normal.”“Do you feel like you can summon your beasts to the point you can heighten your senses?”“Without shifting?”“Yes.” He paces closer but comes to a stop with at least a dozen yards between us, poised to strike if this experiment goes awry

  • The Alpha King's Breeder   Kidnapping

    Oakley“Rejection?” Mom’s voice is muffled by the door. It’s a hazy outline through my fogged vision while I lie back on my pillows. Blinking takes a tremendous amount of effort and makes me feel on the verge of collapse, but I keep my eyes open to slits, my gaze glued to the golden highlight surrounding my door. “But… that can’t be right. They were–Prince Ian, he was…. They seemed so happy.”I don’t recognize the other woman’s voice. It’s softer, lower, more of a rumble compared to my mother’s pitched whines while they argue back and forth. At least, I think they're arguing. My mind is a blank slate, fueled by a fever that hasn't let up in several days. My arm tingles, then begins to burn, the only sensation I can truly feel beside the ebb and flow of the fever. A sweeping, rolling feeling flows over from the tips of my toes to my head. I'm nearly dragged under into the absolute depths, unsure when I'll wake up again. “We've confirmed my cousin's story to the best of our abilities

  • The Alpha King's Breeder   The Last Resort

    Naomi“No.”The word bounces through my skull with nowhere to land. I grip the edge of Oakley’s bed, my fingers winding around a spire of worn wood in the same shade as her hand-me-down dresser and bedside table. “No?”“No, I will not return to Fraser’s–to his palace.” She waves a hand in dismissal and looks down at her lap. “I’ll make things so much worse for Ian.”My scoff resounds through the room, but Oakley doesn’t even wince. She moves so slowly. Her skin has a sick, gray pallor, and her eyes… Goddess. She is very ill. I’m sure her family is under the impression that she’s just exhausted after being kidnapped by a beast and carted across the kingdom. I’m sure they’re forcing her to drink tea and keep busy. I’m sure everyone in Silverhide has heard the fake tale I’ve spun so eloquently by now to keep not only her, but Ian, and everyone we came in contact with, safe. I thought she’d be feeling better than this. I really believed she’d be improving. “Oakley, you’re dying.”“I’m

  • The Alpha King's Breeder   We Failed

    OakleyCrisp morning air carries the scent of lavender and rosemary. I tuck my sheets in tight, carefully laying out the quilt I just finished and then fluffing my pillows. It’s a familiar morning routine that now feels totally foreign. I used to be able to skip over the squeaky floorboards, having memorized which ones make the most noise, but now it’s unfamiliar, like I’ve forgotten the very layout of my room. I gather my sweat-soaked sheets from the floor and walk into the hallway to toss them down the laundry chute, where busy hands that don’t belong to me will clean them within the hour, and once the sun sets and the laundry is gathered from the line, they’ll be left in front of my bedroom door to repeat the process.Four nights of nightmares. Four nights of thrashing and waking up in a cold sweat. Four nights of echoing pain radiating from the void in my chest where the mate bond used to be.Four nights of fresh scars that continue to carve my skin raw. So, I wear long sleeves

  • The Alpha King's Breeder   Difficult Choices

    *Maddox*My head is ringing as I open my eyes and try to remember where I am and what’s going on. The last thing I remember is a bright light shining in my face and then being thrown. Judging by the pain in the back of my neck and my shoulders, I must’ve hit something hard.Turning around, I see I’m s

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  • The Alpha King's Breeder   Bleeding and Dirty

    *Maddox*I walk ahead of the stretcher carrying Isla and try not to pull my fur out. If I had thumbs, I might’ve already pulled out enough fur around my forehead that I’d look bald.Images of a wolf with a receding hairline come to mind, and I almost laugh. But nothing is that funny right now.What the

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  • The Alpha King's Breeder   How to Be a Breeder

    *Isla*“Can I come in?”I stare at the girl, not quite sure what to say. I’m taken aback that she’s even here. What in the world could she possibly have to say to me?And yet, it’s very difficult for me to tell her to leave. She looks so sad, standing there in the doorway, her bulging stomach protrudin

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  • The Alpha King's Breeder   Stabbed

    *Isla*Maddox gives the signal for the condemned prisoners to be killed, and someone in the back of the crowd watching shouts, “Now!”Immediately, chaos erupts in front of the gallows as dozens of shifters leap up and change into their wolf forms. Women, children, and some men scream and try to get ou

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