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CHAPTER 8: His Hand Around My Throat

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SERAPHINE

The ride home was quiet. The only sound was the faint hum of the air conditioner and my own heartbeat, too loud, too fast, sitting this close to a man who had just called me his in front of nine Alphas and was now staring out the window like nothing had happened at all. I studied his profile in the dark, the hard line of his jaw, the way his hands sat perfectly still on his knees when I knew, I knew, something was churning underneath that stillness.

I followed his car back to the mano
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  • The Deaf Alpha’s Unexpected Mate    CHAPTER 9: The Weight of His Eyes

    SERAPHINEI couldn't tell you how my night was, because I never slept. Not once. I lay under sheets softer than anything I'd ever touched, staring at a ceiling I couldn't see in the dark, and Mohan's voice kept circling back no matter how many times I tried to push it out.You have no idea what you did today.His hand was still there, a phantom pressure against my throat every time I swallowed. I kept touching the spot, checking for marks that weren't there, because the fear had left something behind even if his fingers hadn't bruised.By the time grey light crept through the curtains, I gave up pretending sleep was coming. I sat up, and the first thing I noticed was that my old dress, the faded, mended one I'd worn every day for three years, was gone. In its place, folded over the arm of a couch I hadn't even registered the night before, sat something new. Pale gold, soft to the touch, the kind of fabric that didn't fray at the seams the moment you looked at it the wrong way.I put i

  • The Deaf Alpha’s Unexpected Mate    CHAPTER 8: His Hand Around My Throat

    SERAPHINEThe ride home was quiet. The only sound was the faint hum of the air conditioner and my own heartbeat, too loud, too fast, sitting this close to a man who had just called me his in front of nine Alphas and was now staring out the window like nothing had happened at all. I studied his profile in the dark, the hard line of his jaw, the way his hands sat perfectly still on his knees when I knew, I knew, something was churning underneath that stillness.I followed his car back to the manor because I needed my old dress and my bag. I had a night shift scrubbing toilets waiting for me at the orphanage, and Calista didn't accept excuses that started with "the Alpha."The moment I stepped through the door behind him, the quiet ended.He stormed straight into the study, and his voice hit the walls before I'd even crossed the threshold."Why the hell would you do that? You misinterpreted him to me, every word of it.""Because I was trying to calm the situation. " Mohan's hands cut thr

  • The Deaf Alpha’s Unexpected Mate    CHAPTER 7: He Called Me His Mate

    KAEL"You're staring," Seraphine said, without looking away from the window."I'm assessing.""Assessing what?""Whether that dress will survive a council session." It wouldn't survive what I actually intended to say to Draven Cole, but that wasn't information she needed yet.She didn't answer. Her hands stayed folded too tight in her lap, knuckles pale, and I let the silence sit between us, counting the mile markers of my own territory sliding past the window. Trade routes I'd built from nothing. Mines that fed three currencies. Shipping lanes that made half the twelve territories richer than kingdoms three times their size. None of it mattered in a room I couldn't hear properly, and none of it would matter tonight if Draven walked out of Crescent Hall believing I was as broken as he wanted the council to think.Crescent Hall received us the way it always did. Cold stone slick with torchlight, the low collective growl of nine Alphas who did not want to breathe the same air. Two seat

  • The Deaf Alpha’s Unexpected Mate    CHAPTER 6: We Are Going to War

    SERAPHINEI'd been coming to Blackthorn Manor for almost a month.For most of it, the Alpha himself hadn't even been here. Mohan had told me, in his clipped, economical signs, that Kael was overseeing the southern mines three territories deep, where a dispute over silver quotas had turned two allied packs against each other, and beyond that a shipping dispute at the eastern ports that threatened half the grain routes feeding the lower territories through winter. I hadn't understood, until I saw the ledgers stacked in the study one afternoon, just how much of the twelve territories ran through this one man's hands. Mines. Mills. Trade roads that stretched further than I'd ever travelled in my life. He wasn't just an Alpha. He was the reason half these packs ate through the cold months at all.I painted in an empty studio those weeks, half convinced the whole arrangement had been a fever dream conjured out of a desperate orphan's imagination. Then yesterday his convoy had rolled back t

  • The Deaf Alpha’s Unexpected Mate    CHAPTER 5: I Was Never Meant for an Alpha

    SERAPHINEI should have said no.The thought circled through my mind like a bird trapped in a room, beating its wings against the walls of every rational argument I could construct. I should have said no when he offered the commission. Should have said no when he agreed to twenty per cent without real resistance, a concession that came too easily from a man who negotiated territorial borders for a living. Should have said no when he'd held my hand and something electrical had raced up my arm and settled behind my ribs like a second heartbeat.I should have said no, because powerful men don't offer orphans anything without expecting repayment, and the currency they demand is never the kind you can afford.But I'd said yes.And now I was standing in the common room of the orphanage, my back pressed against the wall, trying to explain to Ally why this was a rational decision and not the first step toward my own destruction."Twenty per cent increase in provisions," I said. "That's enough

  • The Deaf Alpha’s Unexpected Mate    CHAPTER 4:I Refused My Fated Mate

    KAELShe was still talking.I wasn't processing the words; I couldn't, not yet. Not while my entire nervous system was short-circuiting like a machine that had been dormant for years and was now sputtering to life with electrical surges it wasn't built to handle. But her voice, God, her voice, poured into the silence like water into cracked earth, filling spaces I'd forgotten existed.It wasn't what I'd expected.I'd imagined my mate's voice as something regal. A clear bell. A silver instrument. The kind of voice that belonged in concert halls and coronation speeches, crisp with breeding and authority. Something worthy of the Alpha who'd united twelve territories.Hers was none of that.It was soft. Not weak. Soft, the way suede is soft, the way a candle flame is soft. There was a slight huskiness beneath the surface, a texture that caught on certain consonants, and when she said my title, 'Alpha Thorne', there was no reverence in it. No awe. Just a statement of fact delivered with th

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