All Chapters of Alpha's Little Secret: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

KAELLyria didn't bother knocking.My office door swung open with a soft thud against the wall, letting the sunlight spill in through the hall behind her. She walked in like she owned the damn place, chin up, hair gleaming, and thay smile... the one that always made my temples start to ache... stretched wide across her face.Why was she so happy?"Hey, Kael," she practically sang, stepping right up to my desk. "I come baring gifts"Gifts?From Lyria? I knew it couldn't be anything other than some news, or gossip, or maybe even a dagger she had hidden somewhere because there was nothing worth celebrating come up.I looked up from the book in front of me, brows lifted. "What are you doing here?""Business." She dropped a thick envelope on the table in front of me, then pulled another, rather smaller one from her own pocket. "That one's yours, and this is mine."What was this?I stared at the envelope like it was about to develop two legs and run out. "What is this?"“Just open it.”Her

RIVERSo Kael remained mad at me.We had just arrived at the Silverridge pack after what felt like a whole day's journey but was just half a day. Torture. I could not wait to be as far away from him and his gloomy moods as possible.Even the gammas who had come with us had noticed the storm clouds sitting permanently over his head. They kept their distance, offering him short, clipped responses whenever he spoke, as though they were afraid that his temper might snap at any second.Why was he even mad?I was here, wasn't I? I had followed his order to the end and came with their party of four, didn't I? What gave Kael the audacity the remain mad at me after what he did?Hypocrite.Lyria, of course, wasn’t that smart.She clung to him the entire way... all soft laughter and touches that made my skin crawl. Every chance she got, she would slide her hand along his arm, of tiptoe to press a kiss against his jaw, like she owned the man."Here you go, Kael." She had said at one point, raisi

KAEL"Alpha Kael," One of the Alphas said, laughter rumbling through his chest as he ran his eyes shamelessly over Lyria. "If the Moon Goddess ever decides to make mistakes and turn me to a different man, I pray she turns me to you. Tell me, Lady..." "Lyria.""Lyria," he said rather wistfully. "A beautiful name for a beautiful woman. Would you rather marry me instead?"A round of laughter followed the request, very loud and rather annoying. The men all raised their glasses, their teasing barely masked by their polite smiles. Only the young Alpha, the one who had spoken of my mate, remained silent, those eyes of his as sharp as a knife and fixed on me in ways I did not want.Almost like he was trying to read me or something equally stupid.I offered the others a thin smile. My wolf bristled under the surface.We did not need this.Lyria, of course, basked in the attention she got from the Alphas. Her laughter cane easily here, even with her hand still looped possessively around my arm

RIVERThe scent of herbs and dried blood hung thick in Zach's little infirmary that had turned into a small training room now. The air stung my nose... too sharp, too full of everything I didn't want to think about at all.Which was fine.I wasn't here to think. I was here to work. And mindless working was what I excelled in the most.I pressed my palms down on one of Kael’s men chest, the man's shallow breaths filling the quiet between Zach's movements. My own power hummed at my fingertips, heat sparking under my skin until it settled into something way gentler... light, healing, and warmth. The deep gash in the man's abdomen sealed slowly, leaving behind only clean, pink flesh.“Good,” Zach murmured from behind me. “Next.”"What if we hadn't come on time? What if they had died before we arrived?" I asked Zach, not bothering to look up as I simply moved to the next cot. My hands were steady even though my thoughts were not.It was easier this way.Way easier to keep busy than sit alo

KAELRed.That was all I could see.It colored the roads I walked, the hallways in the den, the walls, even the very air that clawed its way through my airway and to my lungs. My heart thundered in my ears, sharp and loud enough that it seemed to drown everything else.River had rejected me.It wasn't a normal rejection in the sense that he was supposed to say he rejected me, but the sense of rejection was there all the same. He had told me to go away in a way he hadn't done before.That was unheard of.Anger tasted metallic on my tongue. Like blood. It had this familiar, dangerous thing that simmered right below the surface, begging to be unleashed.How dare River?How fucking dare River tell me, an Alpha, to get out of his house?I was the one who been disrespected, yet River had dared look me straight in the eyes... those fucking damn purple eyes that still made me weak every damn time... and spat out those words like we didn't have a bond tying us together.Like he wasn't mine.Fi