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Forty-Seven

Penulis: Luxie
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-06-29 23:04:34

Vanessa

I double-checked the latch on the bathroom door. Old habit. Olga had taught me never to cry where someone could hear it. I didn’t just learn survival from her. I learned silence. Learned that grief was something to swallow, not spill.

Weakness was always currency to be used.

I was troubled by her threats. She had saved my life, taught me to be strong, and sharpened my hatred into a weapon. I owed her a debt I could never repay and felt the sharp sting of betraying her.

But lately, the lessons felt more like chains. Even thinking that felt like betrayal. I hated myself for it, and hated her more for making me choose.

Without Olga’s cause, who was I? I didn’t know. And maybe that was the real fear.

Maybe she wasn't evil. Maybe she was blinded by her long-nurtured grief. Maybe she hated Alec so much that she couldn't see anything else.

But I was tired.

Because somewhere along the way, I’d stopped fantasizing about Alec’s death. I hadn’t even noticed it happening.

That terrified m
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  • The Alpha's Broken Pet   Eighty four

    Blood, smoke, burnt flesh, antiseptic, sweat, dirt, and death—the smells were overwhelming me. Maya stood there, too numb to act, as they used their stretcher to lift Alec’s body from the vine. My sheets were shaking. Nina was nowhere to be found.From nowhere, Lucas’s face appeared. I rushed to him.“Is he alive? Please tell me he is alive.”“We hope so,” Lucas said, sounding grave, but I knew that was just an act. I rushed toward him, hysterical, and began to hit his chest.“What have you done to him? You killed him, didn’t you? You did this!”The same guards who had yanked me out of the van were back again. I turned to them, my eyes blazing with rage.“I dare one of you to touch me. Touch me, and I swear—your heads will roll.”They looked at me like I was some crazy little girl and chuckled to themselves, but they didn’t come closer. I realized Lucas was behind this. This was his world now.He peeled his gaze away from me and faced Maya.“We’ve sent for the most powerful healing me

  • The Alpha's Broken Pet   Eighty-Three

    Vanessa I ran barefoot through a forest, with my lungs tearing, and my heart rattling so loud it might as well have been outside my chest. The sky above was silver black, and cold. The night was alive and cruel. The trees were off — wrong somehow — taller, hungrier. I knew this place, but not like this. Red eyes flashed between the trunks. My foot slammed a root. I staggered but didn’t stop.No direction felt safe. I spun left, then right, then checked behind me. Every time I looked, I expected something worse. And there it was. A figure. Crimson claws. Above me was screeching. My scream ripped out before I hit a tree. The bark scraped my back.From behind the trunk, a woman in white slipped into view. She didn’t walk. She floated. Alec was behind her, soaked in blood. His head wasn’t upright. “Vanessa,” he whispered. But his voice was two voices, layered. I stumbled backward. He pointed at me. I couldn’t move. I wanted to scream. Then a bird the size of a hawk landed on my shoul

  • The Alpha's Broken Pet   Eighty-Two

    AlecThe air stank of iron and piss and that burnt meat smell that clung to your nose even when you tried to breathe through your mouth. I couldn’t feel the soles of my feet anymore. I didn’t know if it was from the cold or from the bodies I had stepped on, some enemy, some mine. What mattered was movement. Staying still meant dying. We weaved through screams and the crush of limbs, slipping between falling bodies and dodging the heavy clubs of the northern giants. They had come with that strange war rhythm of theirs, no formation, just brute strength and that damn hollering that made the younger warriors flinch. “Do not stop!” I bellowed, voice shredded raw, throat full of dirt and ash. “Kill them all!” I didn’t have the luxury of watching every soldier, but I had seen too many of them fall already. Twenty, maybe more. I would carry the number in my ribs long after this.I lunged, caught an enemy by the collarbone, and slammed his head against a stone slab until the bone cracked.

  • The Alpha's Broken Pet   Eighty-One

    VanessaThe afternoon crawled. Word finally came up: the injured warriors had been brought back. Maya had gone downstairs first, sniffing for answers, with Nina right behind her.I stayed where I was. My legs weren’t listening. My heart thudded in my chest. I pressed my head to the window. The glass had warmed under the sun, and it stuck to my skin.When Nina came back, she didn’t look gutted. Her mouth wasn’t twisted with bad news, and her eyes didn’t have that wet glaze people get when they’re carrying grief.“What’s going on?” I asked, though my throat felt dry.“They’re still fighting,” she said, walking in like she didn’t want to sit still. “I don’t know who’s dead, but Alec is alive. Lucas and Gary too.”That was something. That was more than enough to lift the edge off the weight pressing down on my chest.“I hope the casualties aren’t too much.”“We don’t know yet,” she replied, rubbing her palm against her arm. “But from what the warriors said, we dealt double the damage. Tha

  • The Alpha's Broken Pet   Eighty

    VanessaMy chest would not stay still. Every breath felt like it landed wrong. I tried to sit, but couldn't. I tried lying down; that only made it worse. My arms were tense from gripping the window frame too long. I kept walking from the front window to the side window and back again.It was the same silence, broken only by the distant barking of dogs. It was the kind of barking that didn’t mean anything. Just noise. Not a signal.“Nina, do you know someone we can call? A guard, a neighbor, anyone? We can’t just sit here doing nothing. We need something. A message. A sign. Reassurance. Something.”She looked at the floor.“No word yet,” she said, then leaned back against the wall, her arms crossed. She was starting to worry too.I didn’t even realize my hand was still wrapped around Alec’s signet until I tried to stretch my fingers. It had been there the whole time, pressed into my palm, leaving a mark. I closed my fist tighter.“But I trust them,” Nina said quietly. Her gaze drifted

  • The Alpha's Broken Pet   Seventy-Nine

    AlecI watched Vanessa’s outline shrinking against the dusky stretch of road until she was just a blur swallowed by distance. My fingers stayed on my rifle, brushing along the metal out of habit. Then I scanned the horizon.Gary's boots crunched against gravel as he moved in close, wiping his forehead with the back of his wrist. He had just finished giving the gammas their instructions—stay hidden, don’t move until the signal, watch for anything that breathes wrong. He used that same serious tone he reserved for death talk and last-minute orders.Lucas was across the clearing, shouting into the heads of the beta soldiers, chopping his words hard and fast. He was grouping them into units, spacing them in rows.Even in silence, our bodies stayed braced like we were expecting the ground to split open.Gary gave a small nod toward the direction Vanessa had disappeared into. “Would you call that true love sealed with foolish bravery or just foolishness in disguise?”“Probably both,” I said

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