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“You’re pathetic,” Ronan spat, voice laced with venom. His jaw clenched, eyes glinting like silver blades. “You even have the fucking effrontery to talk back to us?”

Scarlet didn’t flinch. She’d had worse insults thrown at her, but something in his tone ... that mocking mix of Alpha authority and disgust ... sliced deeper than claws.

Her lips trembled, but she forced a smirk. “At least I talk. You just bark.”

Ronan’s nostrils flared. Before he could respond, a low growl rippled across the hall. Grey.

The air around him shifted ... heavy, dark, almost suffocating. His wolf was close to surfacing. He looked like he could tear through walls with that expression ... half fury, half hunger.

He muttered low, almost to himself, “I sent the Xandawood pack to distract this ugly Alpha’s pack just so I could finally have a decent moment with my Scarlet, and now the bastard shows up early?”

His wolf thundered in his head, voice deep and cold. “Careful, Grey. Alpha Ronan isn’t some weak mutt. He
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  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   106.

    “He’s hiding something,” her wolf muttered again, low and uneasy, like claws scraping bone.Scarlet paced the narrow sitting room until her feet ached, until the polished floor felt like it was breathing beneath her. The mansion was too quiet...no servants whispering, no guards pacing, no hum of power. She stopped pacing.Sat.Folded her hands so tightly her nails bit crescent moons into her palms.Her eyes burned. She blinked hard, jaw clenched, refusing to let the tears win. If something happened to the Lycan...if that old, dangerous, broken man died because she wasn’t strong enough, smart enough, fast enough...she would never forgive herself.Never. Minutes passed. Or hours. Time meant nothing here. Then the door opened, Scarlet looked up.Blade stood in the doorway. She knew before he spoke.His shoulders were slumped like someone had ripped the spine out of him. His jaw trembled, clenched so hard it looked painful. His eyes...those sharp, guarded eyes...were red. Wet. Not the ki

  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   105.

    The Lycan didn’t finish the sentence.He just smiled. And that smile...fuck...was worse than any scream.It sat crooked on his lips, thin and knowing, like he’d just handed Scarlet half a truth and expected her to choke on the rest by herself. His mismatched eyes gleamed in the low light of the room, one sharp with calculation, the other glassy with something that looked too much like regret.Scarlet didn’t speak.Her wolf pressed closer to the back of her skull, hackles raised, instincts screaming that this old bastard was dangerous in ways claws couldn’t fix.“Smart girl,” the Lycan said softly, lifting his glass of wine. “You figured all that out in one day.”The liquid sloshed as his hand trembled...just a little.Scarlet noticed.“I’ll give you a hint,” he continued, voice smooth but strained. “The same person who murdered Ruby… is the same one trying to bury me.”Her fingers curled into her palms.Ruby.The name hung heavy between them like a ghost refusing to leave the room.“Y

  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   104.

    Scarlet stepped into the mansion like a condemned woman walking into a courtroom that had already decided her sentence.“Good little soldier,” the Lycan had said earlier, voice smooth and lethal, like praise wrapped around a blade.Guards lined the marble hallway...too many. Not decorative. Not ceremonial. These were killers dressed as furniture, eyes sharp, hands too close to weapons. The mansion no longer felt like luxury. It felt like a beautifully dressed cage.Last time she’d walked these halls, she’d seen chandeliers, gold trim, obscene wealth.Now?She saw exits. Blind spots. Angles. Places where blood would stain white marble and never quite come out.Scarlet forced her lips into something resembling a smile. Her wolf stayed eerily silent, coiled tight inside her chest like it was waiting for permission to either run or kill.Maids appeared almost immediately, flanking her like polite jailers. Their bows were shallow, their eyes sharp with curiosity...and something uglier.Pos

  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   103.

    At the Lycan’s Garden HouseScarlet knelt in the dirt like she belonged there.Gloved hands cradled the stem of a lily as if it were something fragile enough to die from a wrong touch. The soil stained her knees. Sweat kissed the nape of her neck beneath the wide gardener’s hat. Anyone watching would think she was harmless...just another servant tending flowers for a powerful household.That illusion pissed her off. She watered the lilies slowly, deliberately, even as Liora’s mind-link still echoed in her skull like poison seeping through cracks."Grey publicly announced Mira as his fated mate.He ditched you without blinking. Told the whole academy that you're nothing to him but a toy to play with before he finds his mate."Scarlet let out a short, humorless laugh. “So that’s how it ends,” she muttered under her breath. “With a fucking announcement.”The water kept pouring. Her hands didn’t shake.Liora’s voice slithered back in, smug and oily. "You see now, Scarlet? Mira isn’t the s

  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   102.

    Scarlet escorted Grey out like she hadn’t just watched her world crack open and bleed all over the dorm floor.Her face was calm. Too calm.The kind of calm that comes right before something inside you snaps permanently.“See you tomorrow,” she said, voice smooth, polite but dead. Grey hesitated in the hallway, fingers curling around the strap of his jacket. “Tomorrow?” he repeated, hopeful. “At our spot. I’ll make it a date.”She nodded once. No smile. No spark. “Sure.”That single word carried nothing. No warmth. No promise. Just permission to leave.Grey lit up anyway, clueless bastard. “I’ll be there early,” he said, already backing away. “Don’t flake on me.”Scarlet shut the door before he could say another word.The click of the lock echoed louder than the burnfire drums still pounding faintly outside.She stood there for a second, forehead resting against the wood, lungs burning like she’d been holding her breath for years. Then she turned slowly.Mira lay on her bed, shoes st

  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   101.

    Grey’s eyes widened the second Mira smashed her mouth against his. It wasn’t just romantic, it was desperate as hell.Her fingers clawed into his arms like she was drowning and he was the last fucking log floating. Her nails dug deep enough that his skin broke...thin red lines blooming under the firelight.Gasps erupted around them.Grey froze.Not because he wanted her.But because his eyes...traitorous, stupid...locked straight onto Scarlet.She was walking toward them and she saw everything.Scarlet’s steps slowed.Then stopped.The world didn’t shatter loudly. It cracked quietly, right inside her chest. A sharp, ugly snap she felt more than heard."Of course," she thought bitterly. "Of fucking course."Her lips twitched upward into a smile that didn’t reach her eyes. A practiced smile. The kind you wear when you refuse to bleed in public.“So dramatic,” she muttered to herself.The muscular stranger, Blade ...the one with scars like he’d survived hell and crawled back with trophie

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