Lahat ng Kabanata ng Alpha's Caged Mate: Kabanata 71 - Kabanata 80

Two weeks in Shady Oak felt like a lifetime spent anywhere else but in the best way possible. Every night, she fell asleep with the freedom of knowing that nothing was expected of her whenever she woke up. There was no danger of meeting someone she knew, or worse, some horrible person she didn’t know. There was no lingering threat of having to pay off some perceived misdeed. The very first time Ava had met Noah, she’d experienced the curious feeling of falling down the rabbit hole, as if meeting him had set into motion a chain of events that would change her life for good. For the better.And as the sun’s morning rays warmed her face, she knew that she’d been right. She felt…amazing, and with every kiss Noah trailed down her stomach, she felt even better.Ava opened her eyes, peering down her body to where Noah laid slow kiss after slow kiss down the length of her midriff until he came to her belly button. When he reached the small divet, he paused, causing her to groan, feeling sudd

Xavier hadn’t spent this much time trudging through the woods at night since Basic, back when he was a high schooler learning the ropes of how to be a future Alliance leader. That was where he’d first met Dylan and Liam, the first real friends he’d had outside of his sister, Ava, and Sam. “Is this bringing back any memories in particular for either of you?” Dylan suddenly asked out of nowhere after hours of cutting through heavy brush.“Orientation week?” Liam’s answer was immediate.“Nah, couldn’t be,” Xavier quipped. “Miller doesn’t have a ponytail.”“Laugh all you want, that ponytail some action.”As he and his friends shared a laugh, he had to agree that this did, in fact, feel a hell of a lot like their first week together. As the Alliance’s rising Alpha’s, they’d immediately been grouped together and then promptly dropped off in the middle of the woods with nothing but the clothes on their backs and one another for support. “Remember Gamma Reyes’ last words to us before he hop

Perhaps it was due to the fact that Xavier had been feeling introspective lately, taking a long hard look in the mirror and finding what he saw reflected back utterly distasteful. Or it could be the fact that as of about two hours ago, the Northeastern Alliance could be well on its way to war. Either way, Xavier was feeling the call of absolution. The last hour and a half of his life had been spent running damage control with his father and the rest of the Red Moon Council representatives. After a brief back and forth, the Council had ultimately decided to vote along with Xavier and Liam’s plan to invite the Seelie Court earthside in order to better gauge how the other realm was faring.Whether it was out of an unavoidable sense of dread at the thought of an undetermined amount of loose pixie dust floating around the Territories, or a basic need to be on the proactive side of what could ultimately become an interdimensional war, all save for representatives from Eclipse agreed to the

Looking at the rhinestone-studded, leopard-printed rectangle, it was insane to think how much damage such an innocuous item had caused. Sam had been glued to the thing, spending hours on end scrolling through it as if it held the secrets of the universe.If Xavier was lucky, it would hold the secrets to her death. How had she gotten herself caught up in a conspiracy that had ultimately torn their lives apart? Why had his closest friends been the ones targeted? When he pressed the phone’s power button, he hadn’t really expected it to turn on, so it was a fortunate turn when the screen dutifully sparked to life. The home screen sprung up, making Xavier’s chest constrict. Staring back at him was a photo he didn’t remember taking on a day he didn’t specifically remember spending with anyone else on the screen. His own face sported a rare full-toothed smile that he usually reserved for the girls’ pictures. He had an arm flung around Sam, who, in turn, had an arm wrapped around Sophia. Av

“So, I take it you’ve fixed the Ava Davis problem?”The expression on Jack’s face told Xavier just how unlikely it was that the healer would believe him whether he told the truth or not. Jack was loyal as the day was long, but he was by no means a yes man. Goddess, but the male was opinionated.“In a sense,” Xavier said, getting out of his car to greet his friend.“That sounds suspiciously like a no, Xavier,” Jack’s brow furrowed as he scolded him.“I haven’t seen you in months, and this is how you greet me?”Save for the rare times when Xavier needed his help to diagnose and treat wayward mates, Jack’s primary duty was to the Pack, so he spent the majority of his time traveling around Red Moon territory providing medical aid to Pack members in need.“And I bet no one else told you how bad it was to keep Ava around in all of that time, did they?” Jack went around to the back seat of his own car to grab his sizable traveling medical kit.A savant in the medical field, Jack could do any