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Eighty seven

Author: Nia Tessy
last update publish date: 2026-08-06 11:01:12

HAYES

Pack members stood packed together in a tight circle around the raised stone platform. The elders sat on the wooden benches near the hall doors, their faces stern and quiet. Guards held iron torches at the four corners of the yard, the yellow fire reflecting off the wet flagstones.

I stood in the center of the platform. I wore my heavy leather armor, my broadsword strapped to my hip, my dark wool cloak damp from the mist.

"Bring her out," I commanded. My voice echoed off the high stone wa
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  • The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder   One hundred and ten

    HAYESI walked down the stone steps, Below me, two Gamma guards had Sarah pinned against the wooden whipping post in the middle of the yard. Marcus stood to the side, his broadsword resting on his hip, holding a thick leather whip in his right hand.Sarah was crying loudly, her small shoulders shaking badly under her thin white apron as the guards pulled her arms above her head."Hold!" I called out, my deep voice cutting straight through the howling wind like an iron blade.The guards froze right away. Marcus lowered the heavy leather whip, turning his head to look at me as I walked across the snowy courtyard with long, heavy steps."Alpha?" Marcus asked, his brow furrowing as I stopped two feet from the post. "We were just about to carry out the sentence. Twenty lashes, like you said.""Stop," I said flatly, looking down at the terrified handmaid cowering on her knees against the wood. "Unbind her."Marcus stared at me for a second, then let out a slow breath. A look of quiet unders

  • The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder   One hundred and nine

    VESPER"Marcus!" Hayes called out into the hallway, his deep voice bouncing off the stone walls."Yes, Alpha?" Marcus answered right away, footstrps thudding fast against the floorboards as he came around the corner.I stood frozen by the entrance, my hand holding the dark velvet of my dress tight against my bruised collarbone. My heart slammed against my ribs like a trapped bird. Every single muscle in my body was tight, my mind racing through a hundred different outcomes. Was he about to call my bluff? Did he bring the guards here to drag me down to the dungeon cells instead?"Bring the handmaid Sarah up to the bedchamber right now," Hayes ordered, his face turned to hard stone."Right away, Alpha," Marcus said, bowing his head before sprinting back down toward the servants' staircase.I swallowed hard, doing everything I could to keep my chest steady. Cold sweat trickled straight down my spine. The lie was completely absurd. I knew Sarah had been down in the kitchens all afternoon,

  • The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder   One hundred and eight

    HAYESMy thumb dug deeper into the bruised skin of her neck, feeling the rapid, frantic fluttering of her pulse beneath my palm.The woman who was still pretending to be Ciara flinched back, her eyes watering with fresh panic. She grabbed my wrist with both hands, her nails digging hard into my sleeve as she tried to shove me away."Hayes, you're hurting me!" she cried out, her voice high and strained. "Let go! Please!""I am asking you one last time," I said, my voice dropping into a deadly, low register that shook the wooden floorboards beneath our boots. "Who put their hands around your throat?"Ciara swallowed hard, her chest heaving against the tight velvet of her green dress. She looked at the closed door of the bedchamber, then back at my face, her mind working frantically to spin another web of lies."It was... it was Sarah," she stammered, her lower lip trembling as a tear spilled over her cheek. "The new handmaid. The one you hired from the lower valley last month."I narrow

  • The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder   One hundred and seven

    HAYESI stood in front of the heavy iron bars of the inner cell, my arms crossed over my chest, my golden eyes fixed on the two rogues bound to the stone wall. Heavy iron chains wrapped around their torsos, pinning their arms flat against the cold masonry.Marcus stood beside me, holding a burning torch that cast long, dancing shadows across the low ceiling.The elder rogue wiped a line of dark blood from his chin, lifting his head to sneer directly into my face. His teeth were stained yellow, his breath smelling of stale ale and rot."You're wasting your time, Alpha," the rogue rasped out, letting out a wet, rattling laugh. "You can slice our skin, you can tear our nails out, but you won't get a damn thing out of us.""You already gave up the woodshed," I said, my voice dropping into a low, deadly register that made the flame on Marcus's torch flicker. "You already told my Gammas that a female wearing a silver ring paid you ten silver coins to wait in the stone quarry.""Did I?" The

  • The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder   One hundred and six

    VESPERCold sweat trickled down the back of my neck, soaking into the thin collar of my linen shift.I stared into Hayes’s golden eyes, trying desperately to read the unyielding stone of his face. Does he know?The thought screamed through my mind, loud and deafening. Can he tell? Is the scent wearing off? Did I miss a detail in the records?My mind raced in frantic circles. I had spent three years studying Ciara from afar. I knew the posture, the voice, the history, the ring on her finger. But standing inches from this towering male, feeling the suffocating weight of his Alpha presence crushing down on my chest, I realized I had miscalculated the raw power of a true mate bond.Hayes’s thumb was still resting over the silver wedding ring on my finger. He wasn't pressing down. He wasn't dragging me to the floor. He was just watching me, his golden eyes glowing with a quiet, lethal intelligence that made my stomach turn to lead."I asked you a question, Ciara," Hayes said softly, his dee

  • The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder   One hundred and Five

    HAYESI froze. My hands stayed clamped tight around her waist, my knuckles white against the thin linen of her dress.The heavy wood of the study door rattled again under the force of Marcus’s fist."Alpha!" Marcus shouted from the corridor, his voice sharp and breathless. "Open up! It cannot wait!"The woman on the desk beneath me stiffened completely. Her eyes widened in instant panic, her chest heaving as she shoved her hands flat against my chest to push me back. The hot, frantic haze that had filled the room just a second ago evaporated into pure ice."Don't open it," she whispered, her voice tight and trembling. She grabbed my wrists, her nails digging into my skin. "Hayes, don't answer the door. Tell him to go away."I looked down at her face. Her lips were swollen from my mouth, her hair messy, but her dark eyes were wide with a raw, sudden fear that made no sense."It's Marcus," I said, my voice low and dark as I let go of her waist and stepped back. "He wouldn't knock like t

  • The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder   Four

    ~CIARA~The ride to Alpha Graham’s house was quiet to the point of suffocation. He wasn’t saying anything, and my mind was stupidly replaying the moment he said ‘you belong to me now’ like I was just property to be owned. Fidgeting with my fingers, I stole a quick glance at him, and he seemed rath

  • The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder   Three

    My breath caught in my throat.Husband?The word shouldn’t have affected me, but it did anyway. I forced myself to look away from Alpha Graham, but it felt impossible. There was something about his eyes—the way they effortlessly held me in place, like I needed his permission to move my own body.“C

  • The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder   Two

    ~CIARA~No. No. No.My fingers trembled around the contract as my eyes scanned it again.Graham Hayes.The same Alpha from earlier.The same man whose touch still burned against my skin.I’d heard rumors about his ruthlessness. Cruelty. Unhinged personality. He didn’t seem like the polite man that

  • The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder   One

    ~CIARA~Tomorrow was the day my life would end. And the text on my screen did a great job reminding of it. “Miss, your coffee’s getting cold.”My head snapped up to meet a brunette’s warm gaze. She pushed the cup forward until it touched my palm. “You’ve been standing here for several minutes. Ar

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