All Chapters of The Alpha's dirty game: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

~RAELIYA~ The moment my hand touched her mark, I knew I’d crossed a line.Not because of the rule we’d set.Not because of pride.But because the relief that surged through my body was instant and devastating.The pain that had been clawing at my chest all day eased like it had never existed. My breathing steadied. My thoughts cleared. My wolf, restless and snarling beneath my skin for days now, finally went still.Raeliya stiffened under my touch.Not in fear.In awareness.The kind that made my blood heat and my control strain.I pulled my hand away too quickly, curling my fingers into my palm as if that would erase the fact that my body already knew hers far too well.“I’ll… leave,” I said, my voice rougher than I intended.She didn’t stop me.That hurt more than I expected.I walked back to the room with clenched teeth, shutting the door harder than necessary. The silence inside pressed down on me immediately. Empty. Cold. Wrong.This house was never meant to feel like this.I le

~KAELRIC~ I didn’t sleep.I lay beside her with my eyes open, staring at the ceiling as dawn crept in through the curtains like a thief, stealing something I wasn’t ready to give up.Raeliya was curled against my side, warm and real, her breathing slow and even. One arm rested across my chest as if she belonged there, as if this was natural. As if my body hadn’t been screaming for her presence for weeks, as if the ache I felt when she wasn’t near wasn’t a warning bell I’d been ignoring.The mark beneath her skin pulsed faintly.So did the one buried deep inside me.It terrified me how right this felt.Last night replayed in fragments behind my eyes, her trembling body pressed against mine, the way she gasped my name like it was a lifeline, the way the mark flared when I touched her, when I kissed her, when I finally gave in to the hunger I’d been denying.I’d told myself it was instinct.Proximity.The adrenaline from nearly losing her.That was a lie.This wasn’t instinct.This was

~RAELIYA~ Distance is a strange thing.When you first decide to create it, it feels empowering. Like finally stepping out of a storm and shutting the door behind you. Quiet settles in. Peace follows.But then the echoes start.Every footstep you don’t hear.Every presence you no longer feel hovering near.Every glance you deliberately refuse to catch.That was where I found myself.I woke before dawn, the sky still dark, the mansion wrapped in a hush that felt heavier than sleep. For the first time in days, my chest didn’t ache when I opened my eyes.That didn’t mean it didn’t hurt.It just meant I’d learned how to carry it.I dressed slowly, choosing something simple, long sleeves, soft fabric, neutral colors. Nothing that invited attention. Nothing that reminded me of her. Of the kind of woman Kaelric had once wanted.When I stepped into the hallway, I nearly ran into him.Kaelric stood outside his room, fully dressed, eyes already on me like he’d been waiting.We froze.The air be

~RAELIYA~ The pack noticed before I did.Not because I was blind but because I’d trained myself not to look.Kaelric’s presence had always been unavoidable. Even when he was silent, the air bent around him, wolves instinctively straightening, lowering their gazes, adjusting their steps to his rhythm. But now there was something else threaded through that power.Instability.I felt it in the way conversations stopped when he passed. In the way warriors exchanged glances after he spoke. In the way the ground itself seemed to hold its breath whenever he entered a space I occupied.He was losing control.And it terrified me, not because I feared him, but because I knew what it cost an Alpha to fracture in front of his people.The day it happened began like any other.Too quiet. Too careful.I was at the training grounds with Skylar, seated on the low stone wall that bordered the ring, watching the younger wolves spar. The sun sat high and bright, the smell of sweat and earth grounding i

~RAELIYA~ learned quickly that ignoring an Alpha was far more dangerous than confronting one.Not because Kaelric lashed out, he didn’t.But because he noticed.Every absence.Every missed glance.Every time I slipped past him like a ghost instead of a presence he could command.And it unsettled him.Which unsettled the pack.I kept my distance deliberately now.Not out of cruelty but self-preservation.After the kiss.After he called it a mistake with that cold, clipped voice, as though what passed between us hadn’t shaken the ground beneath my feet.I was done bleeding quietly for a man who wouldn’t even acknowledge the wound.So I became polite.Measured.Distant.I bowed my head in public. I smiled when required. I stood beside him when optics demanded it.And the moment we were alone?I vanished.Kaelric tried to pretend it didn’t affect him.He failed spectacularly.The first crack appeared during training.I was helping Skylar bandage a young warrior’s arm when the air shifte