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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 One hundred and four
HAYESI woke up slowly naturally reaching out to the left side of the mattress for Ciara. My arm swept over the heavy wool sheets, expecting to pull her warm, soft frame against my chest, but my palm hit a cold patch of empty linen.I opened my eyes, blinking away the sleep.Ciara was standing across the room in front of the tall vanity mirror. She was already dressed in her dark velvet skirts, but her silver shoulder guards were sitting completely crooked over her collarbones. Her dark hair was braided loosely, the weave uneven and messy—a small thing, but something Ciara had never done in her life"Ciara," I called out, my voice thick and raspy from sleep.She didn't answer. She didn't even turn her head. She just kept staring at her reflection in the glass, her fingers trembling slightly as she tried to fasten the front iron clasp of her dress."Ciara," I said again, louder this time, pushing the heavy blankets off my chest and sitting up on the edge of the bed.She flinched hard.
The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder One hundred and Three
CIARAI walked down the narrow dirt path toward the treeline with a small woven basket hooked over my forearm. Inside the keep, the twin pups were fast asleep in their wooden cribs, guarded by six heavy Gammas at the inner archway. Hayes was down in the lower armory inspecting the winter iron stock with Marcus, giving me twenty minutes of rare, quiet peace.I stopped near the old stone woodshed, kneeling on the cold earth to gather a bundle of wild mountain mint.A dry twig snapped in the thick brush behind my left shoulder.I didn't even have time to stand or call out for the guards. A thick wool cloth soaked in bitter, chemical-smelling oil slammed hard over my nose and mouth. Strong, calloused hands clamped around my upper arms like iron bands, pulling my back flush against rough leather armor.I thrashed violently, driving my elbow back with all my strength into my attacker's ribs. I felt the air leave their lungs with a sharp grunt, but two more heavy arms wrapped around my chest
The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder One hundred and Two
CIARAThe cold wind hit us the second we stepped out of the study and onto the high stone balcony overlooking the inner courtyard.Hayes was right behind me, his leather belt buckled tight around his waist and his dark hair pushed back from his face. His cedar scent was still heavy on my skin, warm and strong against the freezing mountain air.Down below in the courtyard, twenty of our Gamma guards stood in a straight line along the stone walls. Their hands rested on the hilts of their iron blades, their eyes fixed on the heavy wooden gates leading into the valley.Marcus was waiting at the bottom of the stairs, his face pale under the gray sky."They left their horses at the river bed like you ordered, Luna," Marcus called up to us. "They walked up the trail on foot. But they are not happy about dropping their weapons at the outer gate.""They can be as mad as they want," Hayes said, his deep voice carrying clear down the stone steps. "If they step onto my stone with steel in their h
The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder One hundred and one
CIARAThe desk was ruined.Black ink pooled in the center of the mahogany top, dripping slowly down the turned leg to stain the bear-skin rug below. The maps Hayes had swept aside lay crumpled against the stone wall, the dried red wax of the western seals shattered into tiny, brittle flakes.I sat on the edge of the wood, my dress pulled back over my hips, my breathing still coming in shallow, heavy hitches. My chest was flushed red, the silver shoulder guards sitting crooked against my skin where Hayes had torn them loose.Hayes stood between my open knees, his trousers pulled up but unbuckled, his bare chest slick with sweat as he leaned forward to rest his forehead against mine. His dark cedar scent was thick in the quiet air of the study, mixed with the sharp smell of iron from the spilled ink."We have three weeks before the high mountain pass freezes over completely," Hayes muttered, his rough thumb trailing down my collarbone, tracing the faint red mark where his teeth had graz
The Ruthless Alpha's Claimed Breeder Five
~CIARA~The maid’s face drained of color so fast, it almost made me regret asking. Her lips parted slowly, but no words came out. She looked like my request had triggered a trauma she was yet to recover from. She pulled her hand away from mine. “I..I can’t.”I should have dropped it. She looked un
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
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