All Chapters of Alpha's Little Secret: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

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A week

KAELI barely had the time to walk fully into the den before Lyria was on me... quite literally on me. She had launched herself forward."Kael!" She snapped, clutching my arm in both hands as though I might disappear if she did not hold onto me. "Where the heck have you been? I've been looking for you since yesterday. All yesterday, Kael."Yeah, someone was definitely using a hammer on the walls of my head from within.She had been looking for me, and now she wanted answers I had no interest in giving to her. Yeah, normal day for us.I peeled her hands off my arm, gently enough to avoid causing a scene, but firm enough to tell her I did not want that. "I was out.""Out?" Her voice lifted. "Out where? You do know you cannot just be out now. Not when the wedding is literally weeks from now and we need to finalise everything together."Yeah, we did not need that.Wedding.Finalize.Together.I was currently wearing the same shirt I had on the night I went to that party. Somehow, I knew

Confirm something

RIVER"River," Rhea had said softly, "if you're going to ask me about severing a mate bond... you need to be absolutely sure about what you want. This isn't some small magic. It's not... trimming threads. It id liberally ripping a vein out of your chest, and sometimes... sometimes people do not make it."I had swallowed once.She was not wrong. A bond was not something created lightly. The moon goddess did not give mates to people lightly."I know.""No," Rhea had pressed then, leaning forward. "You need to be deadly sure, because once you do it, once you cut it... that's it. There is no going back or undoing it. You won't ever feel him again. Ever. Even if you wanted to."I knew that. I had known that long before I asked her for the information. And still...Despite the ache behind my ribs, the cold and hot thrum that had been following me since the moment I met Kael in that damn riverside, I knew this was what needed to be done. Would it be like splitting one's soul with a chainsa

Free lands

RIVERBy the time Zach and I made it back to the apartment that night, my mood was in a place so dark it felt like I was breathing in darkness.I had not said a word the entire walk.Not when Zach tried to talk about dinner, or the weather, or even when he wanted to bring up the wound we had to dress before we left. Nothing.I couldn't. Talking would have required having something in me that was not all smoke and splinters. How could he?The moment my key turned in the lock and I stepped into the apartment...I stopped dead.I blinked.And blinked again.“The hell,” I breathed.My living room... a quiet, slightly messy, but very jormal living room... had been turned into some sort of dance hall. The curtains were closed, and fairy lights were strung from one corner to another. The tables were pushed against the wall, and the rugs rolled up. A small mirror angled toward the centre.What... what the heck was this?I stared. Zach stared."Oh, you're back." Rhea peeked out from the kitch

Five steps

RIVER"Well, you can't do it all alone. The severance takes five steps," Rhea said. "You have to work on it very carefully with the five steps. Claim him fully while also breaking the bond internally by repeating the words, I reject you. It'll take a whole month though."A whole month.Did I have a whole month to lose? There was only one way to find out.Kael came the next day to the apartment and I found him in the kitchen, with no one else there. No one else was home. He was staring at the coffee pot like it had done something to him.“River...”Claim him fully... repeat the words.I didn't let Kael finish whatever sentence he wanted to say. I crossed the room, grabbed the front of his shirt, and basically slammed him back against the counter. The cups rattled from how hard that was.The scent of the man... pine and the woods, hit me so hard my knees almost buckled. How could someone like him smell like home all the time?"No need to talk." I said, and kissed him hard enough to leav

Find him

KAELI woke with pain blooming under my ribs.It wasn't a sharp pain, or wounding. More like someone had reached into my chest with cold fingers and twisted... not once, or twice, but multiple times then let go only to do it again minutes later.Fuck... I sat up in bed with a gasp, keeping my palm pressed flat against his sternum. My wolf was even pacing hard, snaping at invisible corners in my mind.The whole restless agitation had been getting worse since the day I went to River's apartment and we had sex with me bent over the table.Was that the issue? The sex?"No, no. It couldn't be. Something... something must be wrong." I paced the length of my room now, trying my best to breathe normally, though the air felt a bit thin.Useless.I had fallen last night. I fell. That did not happen normally. For one thing, I was an alpha of the greatest pack and one did not get to be an alpha if he was weak.A little fucking would not change the reality that I was a fucking strong man.My wolf

Escape

RiverI could barely sleep after the fourth step of the severance.My body felt wrung out, my mind scraped raw, and every breath that came out of me caught at the top of my chest as it had nowhere else to go.Yeah, it was that bad.Rhea was already awake when I walked into the living room, sitting cross-legged on the floor, and drawing patterns in the air with her finger like some sort of child playing a game.She looked up the moment I entered, and her expression shifted to one that almost looked like pity.Did I look that bad?"Good, you're back," she said softly. "We need to talk about the last and final step."I froze. "Can't you wait till morning?"Rhea shook her head. "No, it can't. The fifth step severs the mate bond once and for all." She hesitated a bit, biting the inside of her cheek. "That is the one part I hadn't told you about."Yeah, yeah. She had told me I needed to do the first four before this so there would be no mishap."You should have told me.""You were so set on

A new wolf?

RIVER"Why are the two of you together?""What?" I asked, feigning dumbness. There was no way I could tell him the truth at this point. Just no way."The succubus," Brent responded flatly, his voice low, with his eyes fixed on Rhea.The accusation was there, for all of us to see. There must have searched the entire pack trying to find this particular woman, and probably knew every single woman who was in the pack now.She was new.She did not have any sort of scent hanging around her that showed she was a part of the pack or even a werewolf, and she knew it. We both knew it.My heart lurched in my chest as the thought of what would happen if Brent got his hands on her. There was no telling what Kael had told the man.Did he know she was here to kill him?"Oh, you mean her?" I chuckled, sound a bit strangled while I stepped in front of her. "She's not a succubus. She's my cousin."Yeah, that was the smoothest lie in the world, River. Brent’s eyes slid to me with all the disbelief of a

Sleep well, boy

RIVERThe red wolf stood like a nightmare turned flesh.I had never seen one as large as him... her? Massive, and towering, the fur that impossible shade of blood, lit from within like there were embers in him.Brent and the other wolves moved backwards a bit, raw, instinctive fear taking them back. Nothing in the pack lands should radiate that kind of dominance that was not Kael.It took me a while to remember how to breathe.For a second, there was no forest, no Rhea trembling behind me, no single form of pounding of boots or growling warriors around us. There was only the red wolf, with those bright eyes fixed on Rhea and I, and filled with an intelligence I couldn't even start working around.Yeah, there was something definitely going on here that I couldn't even start thinking about.The wolf stepped forward a bit, placing itself between Rhea and I and Brent. It was protecting us."What.. the... hell..." I found myself whispering once more.I didn't get to finish though, before B

Many things

RIVEREverything felt… wrong.That was the first coherent thought that struggled its way through the fog in my head. The second was movement.The ground was no longer beneath me, and the air above shifted around my body in this steady rhythm, swaying in a way. Urghhh... my stomach lurched unpleasantly, and there was this dull ache behind my eyes, as if someone had taken a hammer to my skull and kept going until boredom set in.I couldn't help but groan.It was all blurry. Blurry shapes with smears of red and black and silver. The canopy of trees rushing overhead. We were... moving.And I was being carried!Bile rushed up my throat at the thought. I tried my hardest not to move too much, though it was hard for me to feel my legs properly. Whoever held me had pinned my arms in an awkward position. “That one’s awake.”The voice came from somewhere above and to the left. Feminine. I sucked in a breath, bile rushing to my throat. "Put me..." my voice cracked a bit, my throat all dry lik

Forget the omega

KAELThe whole place reeked of blood.Leaves were crushed into the mud, bark of trees filled with claw marks that was not natural in any way.“Here,” someone shouted from ahead.I broke into a sprint. They were scattered through a small clearing, with their bodies slumped against the trees or just sprawled across the forest floor like some sort of discarded weapons.Warriors.My warriors.At least a dozen of them, some were still unconscious, some groaning as they dragged themselves upright. A few were already shifting back into their human forms, limbs shaking, with their faces drawn tight with pain.Brent was sitting against a fallen log at the edge of the clearing.Oh, he was alright... shit, he wasn't. Brent’s arm hung at a rather unnatural angle, his jaw clenched as he braced his shoulder against the wood."Don't move," I barked, already crossing the distance. Brent snorted through clenched teeth. “Too late.”With a sharp, muffled grunt, Brent shoved his shoulder forward. There

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