All Chapters of Alpha's Heat His To Ruin Hers To Heal: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

CallaThe sound of moaning woke me up.I blinked in the darkness of the guest bedroom, my heart already racing before my brain could catch up. The bedside clock read 10:30 PM, its red numbers glowing like warning signs.Something was wrong. Really wrong.The fine hairs on my arms stood straight up, a feeling like electricity crawling across my skin. I'd never felt anything like it before, this strange tingling awareness that made my stomach clench.Blake had said he'd be working late tonight. That's why I was sleeping in the guest room. "Don't wait up, Calla. Important meetings," he'd said, not even looking at me as he straightened his senator's pin on his tailored suit.The moaning grew louder.I slipped from the bed, my bare feet silent against the plush carpet of our mansion. The hallway stretched before me, shadows dancing along the walls from the moonlight streaming through tall windows.The sounds led me to our bedroom, mine and Blake's. The door was cracked open, a sliver of di

CallaI was trapped in my own body.The dream felt too real, bones cracking under my skin, muscles stretching in ways they shouldn't. I was locked in some kind of storage room, my body trying to change into... something. The pain was beyond anything I'd ever felt.Just as my spine began to bend unnaturally, I felt a flash of heat surged through me. It stopped whatever was happening, but it left me burning from the inside out.I screamed, the sound echoing off concrete walls....And suddenly I was awake, gasping for air.My eyes flew open to an unfamiliar ceiling. Not my bedroom in the mansion. Not even my car. Rough concrete stretched above me, pipes running along exposed beams. Where was I?I tried to sit up, but my body protested with a deep ache that made me wince. The sheets beneath me smelled clean but masculine, pine, leather and something quite wild that I couldn't name."You're finally awake."The voice startled me. A deep, rough-edged voice that made me shudder despite myself

The silence in the room was deafening.Thirty pairs of eyes stared at me like I was a disease they didn't want to catch. My skin crawled under their looks, and I fought the urge to wrap my arms around myself. Standing next to Axel, I felt small and exposed. Like I was naked in front of strangers who already hated me."She's not one of us," a voice called out from the crowd. "She's human."The words hit me wrong. Human? Of course I was human. What else would I be?"No," Axel said, his voice carrying across the room. "She's not. And she's mine to protect."A massive man stepped forward from the group. He had to be at least six-foot-five, with arms covered in tattoos and scars that told stories I didn't want to know. His eyes were cold when they looked at me."You're making a mistake, Axel," the giant said. "Bringing an outsider here puts us all at risk.""Malachai," Axel warned, but the big man didn't back down.This Malachai, He looked like he could snap me in half without breaking a

I spent the whole day feeling like a caged animal.Every time I stepped outside my room, someone was watching. Not openly, but I could feel eyes on me. Following my every move.The worst part? Axel was nowhere to be found.I'd asked one of the women in the kitchen where he'd gone, but she'd just shrugged and walked away. Like I wasn't even worth talking to.The man from this morning - Michael - kept showing up wherever I went. Him and three older men who looked at me like I was poison. They didn't say anything, just stared. But their message was clear.I didn't belong here.Around noon, I tried to walk to the front gate. Just to see if I could. A man with dark hair and sharp eyes appeared beside me before I'd taken ten steps."Going somewhere?" he asked.His voice was calm, but there was steel underneath. This was the man who'd knocked on Axel's door earlier. The one who'd looked worried."Just getting some air," I said."Plenty of air in the courtyard."He didn't grab my arm or threa

I had barely made it back to my room before the shaking started.My hands wouldn't stop trembling. Not from fear this time. From something else. Something that was building inside me like a storm.I pressed my back against the door and tried to breathe. But the air felt too thick and hot.This feeling wasn't new. I'd been having it for days now. Ever since I ran from Blake's house. Ever since I saw that woman Raven with her mouth on Blake's neck, drinking his blood like some kind of monster.I'd thought she was crazy. Sick. Maybe on drugs or some crazy cult with blood fetish.But when I'd pushed Thomas against the wall that night, when I saw his head crack on the wall, my body had burned like this. Hot and wild and strong.Too strong for someone like me."Get it together, Calla," I whispered to myself.But my reflection in the mirror looked wrong. My eyes seemed brighter. My skin flushed. Even my hair looked different, like it was alive.I needed water. Cold water to cool down this fi