All Chapters of FAKE MATE, REAL BOND: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

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Chapter Fourty One

Rose.Flashback part 2 By the time I saw the high black gates of Damian’s pack again, dawn had already melted into a gray, colorless morning.I stood in the trees for a long time, hidden by the pines, watching the guards pace along the wall. My breath steamed in the cold air. My heart thudded in my chest like it wanted to burst free and run back to the cabin, to the only place I’d ever felt truly wanted.But that was gone now. I’d made sure of it.I pulled my cloak tighter around me. My skin still smelled like him like pine and frost and the dark, iron tang of lycan blood. I’d tried to scrub it away with snow. My palms were raw and red, but it didn’t matter. No amount of washing could erase what we’d done.What I’d chosen.The wind shifted. For a moment, I thought I could almost hear his voice on it I will never stop looking.A sob climbed my throat. I swallowed it back an

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Chapter Fourty Two

GinaI don’t know how long I sit there, my hands are untied now. My mind is a storm. A thousand questions crash into each other, louder than my own heartbeat. Louder even than the ragged edge of my breathing.He says he’s my father. I had been so sure Damian was my father, nothing made sense anymore. Who was my father and who was really telling the truth? The words replay over and over, like a wound I can’t stop picking at.I try to look away from him, this man who calls himself Dante but my gaze keeps dragging back to him. It’s the eyes. The same pale gray that looks back at me in every mirror. The same shape, the same impossible color.Goddess help me. I almost whisper. There was only one person who had all the answers I needed and she was not here. My mother. Part of me wants to believe it. Because if he’s telling the truth, then Damian is nothing to me. I’m not the cursed produ

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Chapter Fourty Three

DanteI watch her from behind the one way glass.She’s curled on the edge of the bed, her knees drawn to her chest like she’s trying to disappear inside herself. She hasn’t spoken in hours. Not since I told her who I was.My daughter.The word still feels too fragile on my tongue, like it will shatter if I say it aloud. I never thought I’d see her, not after Rose vanished like smoke two decades ago. Not after every lead went cold, every scent erased by magic and time.But she’s here.I press a hand to the glass, the way I might press a palm to a photograph of someone I loved too long ago to trust they were real.Gina.Named after the wild roses I gave her mother on that snow laced night we made a child neither of us dared dream of.I remember Rose’s face in the moonlight defiant and frightened, her love burning so hot it terrified us both. I remember the way she made me promise not to

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Chapter Fourty Four

RoseWhen the summons came, I knew before the messenger even spoke.Some truths have been waiting so long to be heard, they vibrate in the air like a warning before a storm.I was sitting alone in the small guest room Alpha Ryan had offered me. The afternoon light streamed through the lace curtains, glinting off the silver brush I hadn’t touched in hours. My hands were folded neatly in my lap, but inside, I was anything but composed.I hadn’t slept in days. Not since Gina disappeared.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw her as a baby, her dark hair in soft curls, her little mouth searching for comfort and then I’d see her now, grown and afraid and stolen away by hands I couldn’t see.I’d failed her.Just as I failed everything I ever loved.When the knock sounded, I didn’t flinch. I only smoothed my skirt and called, “Come in.”It was Gamma Hugo, Ryan’s second-in-comma

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Chapter Fourty Five

GinaI knew he would come for me.Even in the hours when my body ached and my heart felt hollow, I knew Ryan would tear the world apart to find me.But I never expected to see him like this shoulders rigid, eyes rimmed in red, fury radiating off him in waves so intense it made the air feel thin.He moves across the clearing before anyone can stop him. The moment he’s close enough, his hands seize my arms not rough, but so desperate it nearly unravels me.“Gina.” His voice is hoarse. “Goodness, you’re alive.”I open my mouth to answer, but before I can, his gaze darts to Dante standing behind me. Something dark and furious slashes across his expression.“You,” Ryan spits, his voice low and lethal. “You think you can just steal her like she’s some piece of property?”Dante’s eyes don’t waver. “I didn’t steal her. I claimed my own blood.&rdqu

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Chapter Fourty Six

I sometimes wonder if I am an eternal optimist for even thinking I will get to spend one day without any worries or problems or ridiculous requests like the one posed to me now.I stare at the three males and the fifty dollar bill on the bar. “Come again?”These are not juveniles. They’re three young men. And I know that they’re from Austin’s pack. Which is why I’m even more infuriated.“We just want to know what you’re like between the sheets,” the one in themiddle winks at me.“Yeah,” his companion snorts. “We heard you spread ‘em for anybody. So, I’m sure you won’t have any problem getting on your knees right now and blowing me.”The third one laughs, and when I don’t respond, the middle one makes a surprised face. “Oh, is fifty too much for you? We don’t know your normal rates, you see.”“She’s probably never seen this much money in her life. She looks like she’ll get down on her knees for two dollars.”They laugh in unison at that.I can feel this cold anger take root inside me.

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Chapter Fourty Seven

GinaI have no interest in talking to my mother, she is the last person I want to have a conversation with, but I don’t make it far before I hear her calling my name.“Gina. Gina, please wait, we need to talk”I don’t turn around. If I see her face, I’ll lose what little hold I have on myself. My skin feels too tight, my heart too raw. Ryan’s confession is still echoing inside me, all tangled up with the memory of his hands on my arms and the terrible hope in his eyes.I can’t do this. I can’t be everything everyone expects me to be, some fragile thing to be protected, some bargaining chip to be passed between men who think they know what’s best for me. I just want to breathe and have the chance to process all this before I can have any real conversations. But her footsteps come faster, crunching over the dead pine needles. Then her hand closes around my wrist, and I’m spun to face her.“Don’t walk away from me,” Rose says, her voice breaking. “Not like this.”I pull my arm free. “D

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Chapter Fourty Eight

RyanI can feel her slipping through my fingers, I am losing her and if she stays here it makes it harder for me to fix things between us. When she turns away from Rose and walks back to the trees, it takes every shred of control I have not to go after her and pull her into my arms. To promise her that no matter how lost she feels, she still belongs somewhere, with me.But she doesn’t look back. And I know it kills her not to. She disappears between the pines without a word, and for the first time in my life, I understand what it means to be completely helpless.Rose’s quiet sobs are the only sound in the clearing. I can’t stand to look at her grief. I can’t stand any of this.I draw a breath and follow the path Gina took. My boots crunch through the dead needles, the cold slicing through my jacket. I know he’s waiting for me. He’s been waiting since the moment he took her.When I find Dante, he’s leaning against the hood of his black car, arms folded across his chest. His eyes are

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Chapter Fourty Nine

GinaI watch them from the shadows of the trees and a part of me scared. They are both alpha males who are used to getting their way. Ryan and Dante, two men who have shaped my entire life without ever meaning to. One, the father I’d never known I wanted. The other, the mate I’d almost given up believing I could keep.I can’t hear every word, but I don’t need to. The tension between them is thick enough to taste old resentment, possessiveness, desperation.It should make me feel powerful, to know I’m the center of all this. But all it does is make me feel tired.I slide down the rough trunk of a pine until I’m sitting on the cold ground. My legs can’t seem to hold me anymore.I press my palm to my belly, trying to feel something other than fear.The baby. My baby.If I close my eyes, I can almost pretend this is a different life. One where I’m just a woman who fell in love and found out she was pregnant and didn’t have to think about bloodlines and vendettas and who claimed whom.But

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Chapter Fifty

RyanThe engine hums low, but it does nothing to drown out the thoughts pounding in my skull.I stare out the window as the forest slips by in a blur of black trunks and brittle grass. Every mile that takes me farther from her feels like someone peeling my skin away in strips.Gina.I was sure she would come back with me.I was so sure.Beside me in the back seat, Rose sits ramrod straight, her hands clenched in her lap. She hasn't spoken since we left the clearing. She's barely even looked at me.It's probably for the best. I'm not sure which of us is angrier."Say it," I grind out after another minute of silence.She doesn't move."Say it, Rose. You've been dying to since we walked away."Her chin lifts slowly. In the dim glow of the passing headlights, her face looks carved from marble. Cold. Implacable."You let her stay," she says at last, her voice low more accusatory. I stare at her, incredulous. "I let her? She's not a prisoner. I don't own her.""No," she agrees softly. "But

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