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The Alpha's Hidden Heir Chapter 10
ERINThe young Silver Ridge wolf couldn't have been more than sixteen, but she smiled at Marty like he'd hung the moon. "Thanks for fixing the fence. My mom's been asking for pack maintenance for weeks." She handed him a glass of water, which he accepted with muddy hands and exhausted grace. Day four of his trial, and already cracks were forming in Silver Ridge's united front of hatred.I watched from the brewery porch, my morning sickness finally calm enough to venture outside. Jake sat beside me, close but not touching, while Maya paced behind us like a restless guard. The scene before us was wrong. All wrong. Marty wasn't supposed to be good at this. He wasn't supposed to work eighteen-hour days without complaint, fix things nobody asked him to fix, or remember the names of every wolf child who nervously approached him."They're starting to like him." The accusation in my voice surprised even me. "Four days, and they're already forgetting what he did."Maya stopped pacing. "People
The Alpha's Hidden Heir Chapter 9
ERIN"Your scent has changed." Marcus's words hung in the morning air like a blade waiting to drop. Maya stood between us in the brewery's back alley, her small frame rigid with tension. "I've known Erin for three years. Memorized her scent like every good enforcer should. But now..." He inhaled deeply, his nostrils flaring. "There's something else. Something new growing inside—"Maya moved faster than I'd ever seen anyone move. Her hand clamped over Marcus's mouth, her other hand pressed against his throat. Not threatening. Pleading. "Don't. Say. Another. Word." Her voice shook with fear I'd never heard from her before. "You have no idea what you're playing with. What saying that out loud could cost."Marcus gently removed her hands, his dark eyes serious. "I'm not here to hurt her. Despite what you think, I care about what happens to Erin." He looked directly at me through the window where I watched, frozen. "But Marty isn't the only Alpha with a keen nose. Others will notice soon.
The Alpha's Hidden Heir Chapter 8
ERIN"Promise me you won't tell anyone." My voice cracked as I showed Jake my hands, demonstrating how the claws had extended in my sleep. We stood in the brewery's kitchen at dawn, the coffee maker gurgling between us like a nervous heartbeat. "I don't know what's happening to me, but if Marty finds out, if anyone finds out—"Jake caught my shaking hands in his, his calloused thumbs rubbing circles on my palms. "Old bloodlines do strange things under extreme stress. My grandmother could heal wounds with her tears when she grieved. My uncle's eyes turned gold when he lied." He squeezed gently. "This doesn't make you a monster, Sarah. It makes you... complicated."Complicated. That was one word for it. Another was dangerous. Another was broken. I pulled my hands back, wrapping them around the hot coffee mug like armor. "Your grandmother, your uncle—they had explanations. Family histories. I have nothing. Just a name Clay threw at me like a weapon. Moonblood. What does that even mean?"
The Alpha's Hidden Heir Chapter 7
ERINMoonblood. The word stared up at me from Clay's letter like an accusation. My hands trembled as I read, Jake and Maya pressed close on either side, their breathing the only sound in the broken brewery."The pack elders are asking questions. Where did you really come from? Why did Marty protect you so fiercely for three years only to cast you aside? Some remember stories about a lost bloodline, about a massacre twenty years ago. They're connecting dots that Marty never wanted connected. Half the senior wolves think he's lost his mind. The other half think he's hiding something about you. Either way, Shadowcrest is tearing itself apart. Whatever you are, whatever secret you're carrying, it's destroying everything. Come back and face it, or watch from afar as the pack you claimed to love burns because of your cowardice."I crumpled the letter, my chest tight with anger and guilt. "It's not my fault. I didn't ask for any of this." But even as I said it, I knew Clay was right about on
The Alpha's Hidden Heir Chapter 6
ERINThe morning sun hurt my eyes through the shattered brewery windows. Glass crunched under my feet as I swept broken bottles into a pile, each piece reflecting fractured rainbows across the floor. My hands wouldn't stop shaking. Not from fear. From rage. The rage that Marty thought he could tear apart my new life and I'd just fall back into his arms like nothing happened.Jake's hand touched my shoulder, gentle but firm. "You need to stop. You're bleeding." I looked down at my palm, seeing the thin red line where glass had sliced through. I hadn't even felt it. That's what Marty did to me—made me so numb to my own pain that I couldn't tell when I was bleeding anymore. Jake wrapped his flannel shirt around my hand, his hazel eyes searching mine. "The courting display doesn't have to be real, Sarah. It's just to buy time, muddy the waters. Make him doubt what he thinks he knows."Sarah. My fake name felt like armor now. "And if he calls our bluff? If he can smell the lie on us?" My v
The Alpha's Hidden Heir Chapter 5
ERINI couldn't sleep.Three hours after Marty's dramatic entrance at the brewery, I sat by the window of my tiny apartment, watching the street below. Every shadow could be him. Every sound might be his enforcers coming for me.My phone—a cheap prepaid Maya had gotten me—buzzed with a text.You okay up there? - MFine. Can't sleep. I typed back.Want company?Before I could respond, there was a soft knock at my door. But when I opened it, it wasn't Maya.Jake stood there, the server from earlier, holding two steaming mugs. "Maya sent me," he said with a sheepish smile. "Said you might need some chamomile tea and a distraction."I hesitated. I barely knew Jake, had only worked with him for two weeks. But there was something honest in his hazel eyes, something that reminded me of simpler times."Sure," I said, stepping aside.He handed me a mug and settled into the worn armchair across from my spot by the window. "So, that was intense earlier."I snorted. "That's one way to put it.""W
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