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Chapter 79

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Celine

I heard Jerome before I saw him, the soft pad of his boots on the rug, the way he cleared his throat when he was trying not to make a scene. The library had been quiet, the kind of quiet that let you hear the small things: the clock’s tick, the pages of a book turning down the hall. It felt fragile, and I clung to that fragility like it might keep me from falling apart.

He stopped right behind my chair. I didn’t jump this time.

“Celine.”

His voice was low. Not the joke-laced tone he used when he wanted to lighten the room, but a flat, steady thing. Concern. I turned slowly.

“You okay?” he asked. Simple. Direct.

I should have said no and kept the whole truth shut behind the rawness in my throat. Instead I answered like a person required to be sensible. “I’m here.”

He came around and sat opposite me. The chair creaked under him. He smelled like rain and coffee, like he had walked across the pack to find me. His hands folded over a book he wasn’t reading.

“I heard they tried to k
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  • The Ruthless Alpha’s Breeder   Chapter 79

    CelineI heard Jerome before I saw him, the soft pad of his boots on the rug, the way he cleared his throat when he was trying not to make a scene. The library had been quiet, the kind of quiet that let you hear the small things: the clock’s tick, the pages of a book turning down the hall. It felt fragile, and I clung to that fragility like it might keep me from falling apart.He stopped right behind my chair. I didn’t jump this time.“Celine.”His voice was low. Not the joke-laced tone he used when he wanted to lighten the room, but a flat, steady thing. Concern. I turned slowly.“You okay?” he asked. Simple. Direct.I should have said no and kept the whole truth shut behind the rawness in my throat. Instead I answered like a person required to be sensible. “I’m here.”He came around and sat opposite me. The chair creaked under him. He smelled like rain and coffee, like he had walked across the pack to find me. His hands folded over a book he wasn’t reading.“I heard they tried to k

  • The Ruthless Alpha’s Breeder   Chapter 78

    CelineI sat in the backseat and felt the truck move under us like a steady animal. Alaric’s arm was across my shoulders the whole ride, firm, unyielding but he didn’t speak. The road blurred past in bands of light and dark. The engine kept time with my pulse.Behind us, the other truck bumped along. I could hear muffled, uneven breathing through the gap in the cab. The guards were still out of it. Drugs do that; they lurch and sleep while the world keeps spinning. One of Alaric’s men had taken the wheel. He drove like he’d been woken up by a whip, hands white on the steering wheel.I let my head rest against the seat and tried to sort the noise inside my skull. It would not settle. Questions rolled through me, hitting harder than the truck’s suspension. Why had he come? Why had he torn through Kellen’s pack and found me? Why, in the same breath, did a small useless corner of me feel… found?It made no sense. Kellen wanted me for my blood. He wanted what I carried—power and lineage an

  • The Ruthless Alpha’s Breeder   Chapter 77

    AlaricThe night was thick and still, Silence pressed on my ears until I could almost hear my own pulse. Celine felt too distant from where I stood. I stormed into Kellen’s pack with no hesitation, my wolf already on edge, a violent hunger coiling in my chest.An hour ago, I’d been on my way to Celine. She had stayed longer than she should, and I already felt the irritation of her testing my patience. But then I feel a sharp pain, my head felt light, a sudden drain that nearly knocked me off my feet. I could feel my chest tight, my vision blurred for a moment, it was clearly a signal through our mate bond. She was in trouble.I snapped at my driver to step on it. “Full speed, now.” The tires screamed against the road as we cut through the night. Every second felt like an eternity, the air thick with the iron tang of dread that sat heavy in my mouth. My wolf clawed at me from the inside, demanding I move faster, that I tear through whatever stood between me and her.The moment we arriv

  • The Ruthless Alpha’s Breeder   Chapter 76

    CelineWhen I woke, the world was wrong.My head was heavy, my mouth dry, my limbs foreign. The air pressed down thick, and it took me too long to realize I wasn’t lying on the soft bed anymore. The surface beneath me was cold stone. My wrists ached. I tried to move, but I felt the chain bruise my skin. Tight around both wrists, when I tried to pull it cut deeper.Panic burned up before my thoughts could even settle. I blinked into the dark, searching for anything, anyone. A door. A window. A light. There was nothing but shadows stretching out into a damp chamber. My chest heaved, the air damp and bitter.And then it hit me. My aunt. The soup. Her trembling hands.She drugged me.My stomach twisted so hard I gagged, bile stinging my throat. “No,” I whispered, shaking my head against the cold stone. “No… she wouldn’t…” But the truth pressed in, undeniable. The heaviness in my body wasn’t natural. The taste of herbs still coated my tongue. She had done it.A sound came from the corner,

  • The Ruthless Alpha’s Breeder   Chapter 75

    CelineDays passed slowly in Kellen’s pack. Slow enough that time felt like a thing you could touch. I woke to a silence that wasn’t threaded with fear. People moved without the small violence I’d learned to expect at Nightshade. That alone threw me off balance.My aunt tried to fill the gaps. She brought out small things—nothing big, nothing heroic. A frayed ribbon, a wooden toy a child might have played with, a folded scrap of cloth with a faded stitch. She handled them like they were treasures and set them in my hands like she was handing me pieces of my life back.“You have her eyes,” she said once, sitting close on the low bench. Her voice was small and rough. “When you look at me, I see her.”I looked at the scrap of cloth and the thread under my nails and I tried to hold steady. Her words landed soft and dangerous. I wanted to ask everything and nothing at once. My mouth kept closing like someone had shut it for me.“You look tired,” she said after a beat, fingers finding mine.

  • The Ruthless Alpha’s Breeder   Chapter 74

    CelineThe drive to Kellen’s pack felt like it was going to last forever. I must say it's the first time I left Nightshade since I was brought there as a breeder. My eyes caught sight of a familiar truck I have always seen in Nightshade, it was definitely Alaric's men.I wasn’t fooled. They weren’t here for my protection. They were here to drag me back if I dared take one wrong step. Their eyes felt like chains wrapped around my skin, invisible but tight enough to leave me breathless.Beside me, Kellen kept looking at me, his posture sharp, his shoulders stiff. His face was unreadable. He didn’t speak, and yet I felt his awareness settle over me like a weight. I couldn’t decide if I hated him for bringing me here or if I should thank him.My chest tightened with each mile, thoughts circling, always dragging me back to the same impossible question. What if he wasn’t lying? What if my aunt really was alive?By the time the cars stopped at the edge of his pack, my stomach was a twisted k

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