All Chapters of Alpha Step Daddy : Four Mates, One heart: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

RAVENI woke up to my phone exploding with notifications.My alarm clock read 6:47 AM. I'd slept three hours, still wearing yesterday's blood-stained clothes, the silver chain cold against my wrist. Dominic was five rooms away, hooked to an IV that was supposedly flushing the silver from his system.The notifications kept coming."OMG did you see the video???""Is that really you at the ice arena?""My dad said there was a gang fight. Were you there???"I opened Instagram and my stomach dropped.Someone had live-streamed the entire fight. Twenty-three thousand views and climbing. The video showed everything—wolves shifting, Theo shooting Marcus, me with claws extending from my hands."No no no." I scrolled through comments."CGI is getting so good""Obviously fake but cool effects""Blackridge hockey team doing some viral marketing thing?""That's Raven Carter from my English class lmao"Thank God most people thought it was fake. But some comments made my blood run cold."I know what

RAVENJax pulled up outside the school just as the celebration was dying down. I climbed into the truck, and he took one look at my face."What happened?""Marcus threatened Theo. Said he'd kill him in front of me if I don't cooperate." I buckled in. "We're doing the ritual. Tonight. I'm not giving Marcus any more leverage.""You sure about this? Once Marek dies, there's no going back.""I'm sure." I wasn't, but what choice did I have?We drove to the compound in silence. When we pulled through the gates, something felt wrong immediately. Too quiet. No guards patrolling. No bikes in the usual spots."Where is everyone?" Jax killed the engine, hand moving to his gun.We found them in the main hall—the entire pack, maybe forty wolves, all gathered around Dominic.Who was on his feet."Raven." His voice was still rough but stronger. The silver poisoning had faded from his veins, leaving only the wound in his shoulder. He crossed the room in three strides and pulled me against him, breath

RAVENThe warehouse on 5th Street looked abandoned—broken windows, rusted siding, weeds choking the parking lot but I could smell them. Five wolves inside, maybe more and underneath the predator musk, Theo's blood.I parked three blocks away and approached on foot. Every instinct screamed this was suicide, but I couldn't leave him. Not after he'd risked everything to help me.The side door hung open. An invitation.I stepped inside, and my new senses catalogued everything instantly: oil stains on concrete, rat droppings in corners, fresh blood leading deeper into the building. My wolf prowled beneath my skin, eager and angry."Theo?" My voice echoed off bare walls."Back here!" His shout came from the far end, strained with pain.I followed the blood trail through narrow corridors to a large open space—probably used to be a loading bay. Theo hung from chains attached to the ceiling, his shirt torn, face bloody. The five wolves from the video circled him like sharks."Raven, run!" Theo

DOMINICI stood outside the silver circle watching Raven, and every instinct I possessed screamed at me to grab her and run. To hell with the Council, to hell with pack law—she was mine to protect.Except she wasn't mine anymore. She was theirs. The whole damn supernatural world's."You need to calm down, boss." Jax appeared beside me, his voice low. "Your wolf is showing. The Council notices that kind of thing."I forced my breathing to even out, but my hands stayed clenched. "If they hurt her—""They won't. Probably." He didn't sound convinced. "The verification ritual tests power, not pain tolerance. She'll be fine.""You don't know that.""Neither do you."Inside the circle, Magdalene raised her hands. The other Elders took positions around the perimeter, six men, six women, all ancient enough to have forgotten what fear felt like. They'd seen everything, survived everything, and right now they were deciding whether my mate lived or died."We begin," Magdalene announced. "Raven Ca

RAVENI skipped school Monday.Not because I was afraid—though facing calculus after becoming Alpha Supreme felt surreal, but because Magdalene insisted I begin "essential training" immediately. Which apparently meant sitting in a stuffy office learning pack law from a textbook that looked older than America itself."Article Forty-Seven, Section Three," droned Elder Marcus—no relation to Marcus Chen, thankfully—a dried-up wolf who looked like someone had left him in the sun too long. "An Alpha Supreme may not declare war without Council majority approval. Read and summarize."I stared at the page, words blurring together. Through the window, I could see the compound courtyard where pack members trained. Where Dominic was training them, his shirt off, muscles moving as he demonstrated combat techniques.Where I couldn't touch him. Couldn't talk to him alone. Couldn't do anything that violated the guardian agreement."Miss Carter. The summary?""An Alpha Supreme is essentially powerless