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The Alpha Who Killed My Family Is My Mate The aftermath
Six dead men lay in the dirt. Donovan walked from one body to the next, his boot sinking into the dirt. He stopped by the scout Kael had killed with his teeth, nudged the man's ribs with the toe of his boot to make sure he was dead, and then looked back at us. His chest rose and fell in quick, ragged movements.“They’re dead,” Donovan said. He wiped his hunting knife on his dark trousers. The blood on his thigh was already beginning to dry. “All of them.”Lilith didn't answer him. She remained on her knees beside the third wolf we had lost today. Her hands were dark, her fingers pressed hard against the side of his neck as if she could force his cold heart to pump again by sheer weight. She stayed like that for a long time, her head down, her shoulders shaking under her coat, before she finally let her hands drop into the dirt. She didn't cry. There was no time to cry, and there was no one left to hold her if she did.Our numbers had shrunk to five.Rylan was leaning against a black t
The Alpha Who Killed My Family Is My Mate The Kill
Magnus lay in the dirt, but he wasn't finished.He spat a mouthful of blood on the ground. His nose was broken, split down the middle by the edge of the spade, and his breathing sounded like water bubbling in a pipe. But his eyes were still clear. He reached out with his left hand, his fingers clawing through the dirt, searching for the heavy iron key he had dropped.I didn't let him touch it.I stepped on his wrist. I brought the heel of my boot down with everything I had. The bone in his arm snapped. Magnus let out a sharp, grunting hiss through his broken teeth, his head jerking back but he still didn't scream.He looked up at me. His face was a mask of red, his left eye already swelling shut.“You’re still nothing but.... a dog,” he wheezed. The words were wet. “A cultivated beast. You think... this changes the anything ?”“It changes everything,” I said.Beside me, Kael was trying to drag himself up. He was clutching his side, his fingers sinking into the torn, bloody shirt. He w
The Alpha Who Killed My Family Is My Mate The Collapse
No one waited for an order.Rowan lunged first, but he didn't go for Magnus. He went for the specialist who was retreating into the woods, his blade catching the light as he sought to cut off the retreat.But the brush exploded before he hit the tree line.Kael’s group came through like starved wolves. They didn't have weapons drawn, they had their teeth.The impact was loud, the sound of bodies hitting the dirt. Rowan was thrown back, his shoulder catching the edge of a rock outcropping with a crack. He scrambled, his face screaming pain, his fingers clawing at the dirt as Kael’s lead wolf pinned him by the throat.“Magnus!” Kael roared.He was bleeding. The bandage on his side was gone, and his shirt was a dark, sodden mess of red and brown. He didn't look like an Alpha anymore, he looked like a wild animal that had been run to the ground and was determined to take everything down with him. He didn't look at me. He looked at Magnus with a raw, desperate hatred that had been building
The Alpha Who Killed My Family Is My Mate Magnus Revealed
The wind died down in the hollow and I didn't have to wait for him to look up. Magnus didn't jump. He didn't reach for a weapon, and he didn't call to the guards who were supposed to be watching the ridge. He simply turned his head toward the rock outcropping where we stood. He was already looking at me. He had been looking the whole time.There was no dramatic reveal. He was exactly what he looked like from fifty feet away.“You’re late, Lyra,” he said. His voice was flat, carrying easily through the cold air.Donovan tensed beside me, his fingers twitching on his knife hilt. Behind us, Rowan’s breath caught, a tiny, sharp intake of air that told me everything I needed to know about his sudden lack of courage. He was already shifting his weight back, looking for a tree to put between himself and the man in the coat.I walked down the slope. The shale slid under my boots, a dry, rattling sound that filled the ravine. I didn't try to hide my approach. I didn't try to look strong. I wa
The Alpha Who Killed My Family Is My Mate The Hunt Reversed
The western slope was a graveyard of dead pine and jagged granite. The air was thin, the kind of cold that didn't just bite your skin but settled into your joints like lead. We moved in a formation that shouldn't have existed. Rowan led the way, his eyes darting between the grey-black horizon and the shale beneath his boots. Donovan and the other two wolves were behind me, hands never more than an inch from their steel.We weren't allies. This wasn't a team. It was a forced alignment of people terrified of the same man. Kael’s group was somewhere in the mist behind us, a ghost pack left in the mud."Stop," I said.The word was quiet, but Rowan pulled up short. He didn't ask why. He just crouched, his boots making a faint, dry crunch on the frosted ground. Donovan moved to my left, his nostrils flaring as he caught the scent of the wind."He’s not ahead of us anymore," I said.Rowan turned, his brow furrowed. He looked at the ridge, then back at me. "The gap is another mile west. Magnu
The Alpha Who Killed My Family Is My Mate The Deal
The mud between us was a graveyard of lines and circles. Rowan’s shale shard dug into the frozen earth, carving out a map of a place I didn't recognize. There was no trust here. No one was pretending. Donovan stood behind me, his hand white-knuckled on his knife, his eyes never leaving Rowan’s throat. If Rowan breathed too loudly, Donovan would open him up. Rowan knew it. He didn't seem to care. “You’re thinking like a victim,” Rowan said, his voice flat. He didn't look up from the dirt. “You’re thinking Magnus wants to take you back to a throne and keep you in a cage. That’s what Kael told you, isn't it? That you’re the prize he needs to protect.” “He said Magnus wanted the bloodline,” I said. My voice was tight. The cold was getting deeper, settling into my marrow. Rowan let out a short, sharp bark of a laugh. It wasn't a happy sound. “Magnus doesn’t want a bloodline to follow. He wants a bloodline to consume. He doesn’t want you alive long-term, Lyra. He wants the power extracte
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