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Chapter 23

Author: Nana Aisha
last update publish date: 2026-07-18 06:04:41

TRICIA

There was no time to process the phone call.

Blake stared at his phone for four seconds max.

I watched how his face went pale and dry for a few seconds as he looked stunned.

Then, his gaze sharpened again as he put it in his pocket and said, "Later."

I wanted to say something.

The questions were piling up in my brain, a mountain of confusion and fear.

His mother.

Was she alive too?

And then what she said to him too…not to trust Gerald. What did it mean? What did it change?

But the lo
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  • The Alpha’s human mate   Chapter 23

    TRICIAThere was no time to process the phone call.Blake stared at his phone for four seconds max. I watched how his face went pale and dry for a few seconds as he looked stunned.Then, his gaze sharpened again as he put it in his pocket and said, "Later."I wanted to say something. The questions were piling up in my brain, a mountain of confusion and fear. His mother.Was she alive too? And then what she said to him too…not to trust Gerald. What did it mean? What did it change?But the look on Blake's face told me that he was doing a lot of heavy lifting right now, and I let it go. There would be time for answers later. Right now, we had a claiming to complete.The real claiming happened in the Vault garden just before sunrise.There were no guests, no ceremony and no pack watching on…Only three people were here… Blake, me and our one witness. The only person we could trust enough for this…Gerald. He was acting as the required witness under old law.Gerald stepped forward be

  • The Alpha’s human mate   Chapter 22

    BLAKEI did not sleep all night…I sat in the chair by the bedroom window, watching the dark, running the next twelve hours through my head.Thinking of every angle.. every contingency and every single way this could go wrong. The trap we had set for Tristan and for the traitor in our midst.Rector.Even now the name felt wrong.Fifteen years of loyalty and of trust between us…and now I was feeding him false information, watching him take the bait, preparing to destroy him.I should have felt something. Anger. Grief. Betrayal. Instead, I just felt tired.Tricia was asleep on her side of the bed. She had fallen asleep sitting up, still in her clothes, with her shoes on…She couldn’t even get undressed before she slept…I guess that told me everything about how exhausted she actually was under all that front she was trying to put up.She had been through more in the past few days than most wolves endured in a lifetime, and she was still standing and fighting.I should look away, ignore

  • The Alpha’s human mate   Chapter 21

    TRICIAFor a few seconds, none of it felt real. I was still in awe of the presence of my mothers spirit…But I knew enough when Blake told me himself…There were thirty rogues at the pack's borders and Tristan was behind them.From that moment on..I saw a different version of Blake I had never seen.A spine chilling and scarier one…He didn’t snap out or run as he would on first knowledge of a coming war... He just stood in the garden..taking it all in. Then he spoke. His voice was low, but it carried a certain edge that chilled me to the bones—“Pull every available wolf to the north perimeter. Now.”Then he turned to me and gave one order. "Vault. Close it."I looked at the open chamber behind me and at the white wolf standing in the center, its gold eyes still fixed on me.This was really my mother's consciousness.. I knew it wouldn’t be like her being here in the flesh, but still..it provided a little bit of comfort.Slowly, I walked forward and mouthed the words. "I will come

  • The Alpha’s human mate   Chapter 20

    BLAKE The garden fell absolutely silent. The tension felt almost physical, pressing against every person gathered. Tricia was standing completely still, her hand still raised where she had pulled it back from the wolf. Then she turned to me… What? I froze the moment I saw her face— Her face… it was doing something I had no name for. I had seen fear..I had seen anger, seen defiance and despair and exhaustion. But I had never seen this specific combination of hope and terror on one person before. She looked like a child who had been told her dead parent was waiting for her just around the corner. The look in her eyes…it said it all. She desperately wanted to believe it was her mother…goddess knows she wanted to. But she was just as terrified if she let herself believe a lie… I stood up from the involuntary knee, which I was going to think about later. The First Wolf's presence had forced me down, and I was not happy about it, not one bit. But… that was a problem for fu

  • The Alpha’s human mate   Chapter 19

    TRICIA The moment Blake realized something was inside the Vault, he ran. He gave no orders, he didn’t wait for back ups. Just instinct. I looked around once. "Fuck it." Then I ran after him. …I guess it has been established well enough that staying put has never really been my strength. When we reached the east garden, well, it was pure chaos. I saw wolves circling the eastern wall and some howling…others bared their teeth and several were shifting back and forth as panic overtook them. What the hell? The gold symbols were blazing so bright that I had to cover my eyes. The light was so intense it burned behind my eyelids. The stone was vibrating under my feet. I could feel it through the soles of my shoes. It sounded as though something beneath the earth was trying to wake and it wasn’t happy. Either, I didn’t want to find out. Blake reached the wall before I did, then he positioned himself between the glowing stone and his pack. He raised his hand, and in one moment…al

  • The Alpha’s human mate   Chapter 18

    Chapter Eighteen BLAKE "No. That's impossible." The words left my mouth on instinct. I held onto it for about forty-five seconds before my Alpha brain took over and reminded me that feelings were not evidence.. Rector had fought beside me for fifteen years. He'd bled for me, killed for me, become the brother I'd never had. But instinct wasn't evidence. And impossible wasn't the same as innocent. Tricia stood in front of my desk, keeping her expression fairly serious… She had just told me what Charlotte said, that Rector was the mole feeding Tristan info… Hearing the words leave her mouth almost felt like poison to my ears. I kept my expression neutral, then I thanked her with a short nod. “You can go.” I said, walking back to my chair. When I sat…she was still there. She didn’t even move an inch. “Did I stutter…I said you can go back up.” My tone was colder this time. She did not go back upstairs. Instead, she stood exactly where she was, then crossed her arms and

  • The Alpha’s human mate   9

    Blake’s POVThe hall filled faster than I expected.Word travels quickly when wolves sense weakness, and tonight every voice in the pack carried the same question.They stood in tight groups across the floor while the elders gathered at the front, their faces stiff with the kind of calm that only a

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    Blake’s POVThe Red Haze. That was the only way to describe the world right now.My wolf, Fenris, was thrashing against the bars of my mind, a feral beast demanding blood. He wanted to tear Tristan limb from limb for touching what was ours. But more than that, he wanted to tear me apart for hurting

  • The Alpha’s human mate   3

    Tricia "You are hurting me!" I screamed, trying to pry Tristan's fingers off my arm.The wood of the door splintered with a deafening crack behind him. Another heavy blow shook the stone floor beneath my feet. Someone, or rather something, was trying to tear the tower down to get inside.Tristan d

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    Tricia The woman was gone. One second she was standing in the beam of the headlights, a pale ghost in the middle of the road, and the next, there was nothing but the dark, empty forest.My heart was thumping so hard against my ribs I thought it might actually break through. I stared at the spot wh

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