บททั้งหมดของ Reserved For The Alpha: บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 20

It was hours later, just as the sun was setting, that we left The Stationary and rode the short twenty-minute distance to the gates of Akbur Hills. Electric fences were encircled by thick metal chains adorned with spikes. The entrance was securely shut. Akbur Hills Penitentiary was written on a depressingly half-chopped wooden sign. This is it, I thought to myself, feeling my heart drop to my knees.Damon said, "Stay in the car," but I was already out."No way," I said.With a groan of frustration, he slammed his door shut and said, "Get back inside, now.""No." I shot him a cold look. I could no longer be afraid of him. I wasn't going to let him know how afraid I was of him.With his face inches from mine, he hurried to stand in front of me and asked, "Do you know who I am?" He seemed to shake in anger, as though he had never been forced to repeat himself."I don't care who you are," I pressed. "You said it yourself; you're going to ship me off here after the baby is born, shouldn't

I went outside and sat down on one of the stone stairs to wait and observe. Emily's cries of heartbreak served as the soundtrack to my subconscious. How could she have loved Damon's father? They're as cruel as they can be, even more so than the ruthless vampires who formerly decimated entire towns of defenceless humans in order to obtain food. They took her from her family, used her, and dumped her when they no longer needed her. They even put her to sleep for years.I peered out into the distance, searching for any sign of my father or anyone else I could know or recall. Now that I was thinking about running for it, I stood up. I could take a walk; it would be quite simple for Damon to find me. And so I did; I walked through the streets, greeting everyone with a smile while they exchanged looks and acknowledged that, despite my clean appearance, I was human.I was walking past an old lady with a fruit basket when I stopped her by placing my hands on her elbow and asked, "Have you se

I gave a head shake."Evan was your best friend in the village; he was younger than you, but somehow he was always more mature. He made sure you weren't foolish like you usually were and kept you safe."How could I not remember him? Why wasn't his back? The majority of my memories were. When I saw him at Akbur Hills, he told me that my father was still alive.""I can see why Damon was furious with you when you ran off. She combed my hair back and looked at my damaged neck. "You cannot defy him again."Her motherly, disapproving touch made me cringe and shrink. "If he can hurt you this badly for pleasure, just think of what he can do when his true intention is to hurt you," she said.When Damon came back later that evening, I was lying on the bed. I had just learned about the library's existence and was reading The Nature of the Beast, a novel about the history of werewolves. He hardly looked at me as he undressed in front of me, his cologne of cigarettes and alcohol returning. I made

The red carpet-lined walkway ended at an elevated marble stage with what appeared to be a VIP seating area. Again, I recognized Luke among the wolf men who sat on the couches during the pack meeting I'd eavesdropped on my first night here. The dolls, the sole mortal girls in attendance, were lying on their sides. Seemingly content, they engaged in conversation with each other. Ten were visibly pregnant out of the twelve girls I counted. With one girl wrapped around his arms and another sipping a glass of whiskey, Damon was enjoying a cigar in his mouth. He had on a white button-up shirt that hung loosely around his bulging muscular frame, instead of a suit. For a brief moment, I waited for him to notice me and acknowledge my presence by the edge of the stage. When the girl on Damon's side huddled closer to him, I couldn't help but feel jealous. With tattoos covering her entire right side of her body and neck, she took the cigar from his lips and took a puff. The exquisite gown featu

I barely had time to turn away when Damon leapt into the air and landed as a fully formed, huge, pitch-black wolf. Luke then moved across the crowd and grabbed my hand, yanking me away from Jacob. The crowd grew more dispersed, leaning back against tables to create space for the wolf, which was far too big to be inside. I gasped and let Luke drag me out of the way. Jacob had also transformed into a somewhat smaller, dirty brown wolf than Damon's in a matter of seconds."What's going on?" Luke continued to take me away even after I screamed at him."They're going to perform a death battle.""What does that mean?""Jacob wants to be alpha, he's been threatening for weeks that he's going to challenge Damon for the spot-""He's going to kill Damon?""He's going to try, the last one standing is the alpha."Luke was unable to provide more context since Jacob had already initiated the first blow by jumping up and biting off the chandelier's hinges. He threw the hefty object at Damon, who wa