All Chapters of Alpha's Little Secret: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

RIVERThe woods had never been this quiet.Or maybe I'd just gone too far into my own head to hear the sounds of the birds anymore.I walked without aim, my boots crunching against the damp leaves, while the morning air brushed coldly against my skin. It was early, or maybe it wasn't... time had stopped meaning anything as this point. What I had done was wander the entire pack twice, once through the old trail that led toward the training fields, then through the northern path that brushed close to the school. My mind was nothing but a blank canvas with just the memory of claws, the blood, and Corwin's screams.Did he truly scream before that beast took his neck off?I didn't want to think about that. I couldn't.Every time the thoughts brushed against my mind, my lungs burned. So I kept on walking. There were wolves patrolling the outer woods, but none of them looked at me twice. Maybe it was the way I moved, or maybe it was the hollowness in my eyes. It was so bad that I couldn't

KAELThe field here still smelled of the blood and the stupid magic those rogues used.Even after one whole week and two days, the air hung thick with the memory of that battle... a heavy scent of charred earth and iron that clung to everything it touched. My boots pressed into the ground with a low crunch as I walked through the wreckage, with Brent by my side, matching my pace. He held a clipboard in one hand and had his jaw tight in concentration. They had cleared most of the bodies already, but the stains remained. Those were harder to remove, especially since those blood had been tarnished already.Honestly, I thought Alpha Drayven would be the one to attack me, not those set of rogues. I looked around the area, trailing my eyes over the faint traces of claw marks on the stone. If it wasn't for this damned battle, this place would be loud with the sound of laughing children as they played or learned or whatever. Now it was so peaceful and quiet that it irked the living daylight

KAELGoing back to the office and focusing on paperwork was the next order of the day.Paperwork was supposed to keep me busy. That was the fucking plan.I had been in mg office for three straight hours, reviewing the reports from the border patrols while working on the time I would visit the holding cells where the rogues were, signing off on the construction orders, and pretending that the damned words on the pages meant something to me.They didn't. At least not now.My mind worked on its own, wandering every few minutes, drifting back to the same thought. The same fucking face.River.At this point, it was becoming a bit tiresome.No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t stop thinking about him. It didn't even matter that I had seen the guy just hours earlier and I would see him again soon. All I could think about was how he had looked earlier, the exhaustion in his eyes, the faint burn of his scent that lingered long after he left. The whole thing clung to me like smoke. It made

KAELOn normal days I woke up with a knot of tension in my chest, the weight of duty already clawing at my mind before the sun had fully risen.Today was not one of those days.I had woken up before River, sunlight spilling through the blinds and onto his bare shoulder, and I swear to the goddess, I almost convinced myself to stay with him for the whole day... slip everything on my schedule, stay in the room, and inhale the man like he was drugs.But no, I couldn't do that. I was standing in the dim hallway that led to the holding cells, and yet, I could still feel that lingering high. The place reeked of blood, sweat, and rust, yet none of it touched the grin that kept threatening to pull at my mouth.Brent noticed it though."Alright, Kael," He said, walking beside me with his usual movement, "I've seen you in a lot of moods, Alpha, but there's something new here. You look like a man who just got the best lay of his life."I shot him a sideways glance. “You talk too much.”He snorte

RIVERKael had been acting differently lately.Ever since he came back from interrogating the rogues at the holding cell, he had gone quiet for some reason. I didn't know what had happened there exactly, because he refused to tell me, but I did know that whatever it was had dug itself under Kael’s skin and refused to leave.Kael had come straight to my place, still carrying the metallic scent of blood, and he had kissed me. He had kissed me so slowly that I had no other choice but to melt into him, then he had pulled back and said."I can't stay tonight.""Why?""Staying would lead to us being discovered. It's too dangerous."It wasn't like I believed him. I knew the man was hiding something from me, but still, I let it go.Now, the other side of my bed remained cold and untouched. The sheets did not smell like him, and his absence was loud. And he had spent the night just fucking once.What was this man even doing to me?I sat on the edge of the mattress that morning, rubbing a hand