All Chapters of Marked by the Ruthless Alpha: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Six months ago. AliyaThere were loud noises in my head and for a moment I thought I was dreaming. But the noises got closer and closer, I slowly opened my eyes looking around confused, that's when I saw him, my father standing over my bed."Get up!" he yelled as he started kicking and throwing things around. Completely in shock, I immediately sat up wondering what was going on when he grabbed my arm roughly pulling me off the bed. He dislocated my arm in the process and I shrieked in pain as tears started running down my eyes.This was not the first time he was being abusive to me, I should have gotten used to it by now. But every time he did it still hurt like the first time he laid his hands on me. I looked at the my bedside clock, it was still pretty early, so why was he so mad and angry at me? "You better get ready young lady and join me in the living room in the next ten minutes." he said before storming out. He was always angry about something, but this seemed different, p

Aliya. By the time the clock on the wall hit 6:50 p.m., my stomach had knotted itself so tightly I couldn’t breathe properly. I’d been pacing my room for the last twenty minutes, trying and failing to convince myself that dinner would be simple. Just a meal. Just people eating. Nothing to be afraid of.But the idea of walking into a room full of wolves, all of them stronger, sharper, and more powerful than me, made my skin crawl. I had always been reminded that I was weaker. Slower. Human.Even here, nothing had changed.At 6:57, I finally forced myself to leave the room. The hallway was quiet except for distant voices echoing from downstairs. My steps were small, careful, as if I expected the floor to break open beneath me.As I reached the staircase, a maid rushed by, carrying a tray of wine glasses. She stopped when she saw me and dipped her head politely.“Luna,” she said softly.Luna. The title hit me like a slap.I was no Luna. I was barely a woman surviving her own home.But I

Alpha Kai The hallway is silent when I return, the kind of silence that presses into your ears and makes you hear your own heartbeat. But underneath it, underneath the stillness of my own damn house I hear her.Soft, muffled, breaking.Aliya is crying.Not the kind of crying you can fake or hold back. No these are the harsh, gut deep sobs of someone finally realizing they have nowhere left to run.I stand just outside her door, my hand gripping the frame so tightly the wood cracks under my fingers. I should walk away. I should let her grieve, get it out, sleep it off. This arrangement was never meant to be comfortable.It was meant to be functional. Clean. Transactional.At least that’s what I told myself.But hearing her sob like that?It twists something in my chest, something I buried so damn deep I thought it was gone forever.I shut my eyes, dragging in a breath that tastes like iron and regret.You don’t get to feel this, I remind myself.You don’t get to want to walk in there