Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Alpha’s Forbidden Obsession : Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 10

"Are you absolutely sure about this?"Petra, my best friend since childhood, stared at me from across her kitchen table. Her brown eyes were wide with concern, and maybe a little bit of fear.I took a sip of the coffee she'd made me. It was too hot and burned my tongue, but I didn't care. I welcomed the pain. It was nothing compared to the emptiness where my mate bond used to be."Yes," I said firmly. "I'm sure.""Hailey, this is crazy. Do you even hear yourself right now? Seduce Alpha Lucian? The Alpha? Jude's father?""That's exactly the point, Petra. It has to be him."She shook her head, her short brown hair swaying. "But why? Why not just... I don't know, move on? Find someone else? There are plenty of unmated males in the pack—""I don't want someone else!" The words came out harsher than I intended. I took a breath, trying to calm down. "I need Jude to pay. I need him to understand what he did to me.""And sleeping with his father will accomplish that?""Yes."Petra was quiet f

I didn't sleep that night.How could I? Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Alpha Lucian's silver gaze. I felt his finger tracing my jaw. I heard his voice: You'll be mine. Completely and utterly mine."This is wrong," I whispered to the darkness of my bedroom. "This is all wrong."My wolf disagreed. She'd been restless all night, pacing inside my mind, wanting to go back to him.He wants us, she purred. The Alpha wants us."He wants to control us. There's a difference."Is there?I threw off my blankets and got out of bed. It was five in the morning, still dark outside. I needed to run. I needed to clear my head.I stripped off my pajamas and shifted, letting my white wolf burst free. The change was painful—it always was now, after the broken bond—but I gritted my teeth through it.Once in wolf form, I slipped out through the back door and into the woods.The forest was quiet this early, peaceful. I ran hard, pushing my body to its limits, trying to outrun my thoughts.It didn't work.

"Are you sure about this?"Petra watched me get ready, her face a mixture of concern and curiosity. I'd come to her house to prepare for tonight, too nervous to stay at my own cabin."No," I admitted, applying lipstick in her bathroom mirror. "But I'm doing it anyway.""What do you think is going to happen tonight?""I don't know." That was a lie. I had a pretty good idea of what Alpha Lucian wanted. The question was whether I was ready to give it to him."You know the whole pack is going to know about this by tomorrow, right? If you go to his house, if you spend the night there...""I know.""And Jude will know.""Good. Let him know. Let him feel what I felt."Petra was quiet for a moment. Then she said softly, "Hailey, I need to ask you something. And I need you to be honest with me.""What?""Is this really about revenge? Or is there something more happening here?"I met her eyes in the mirror. "I don't know," I admitted. "I thought it was just revenge. But when I'm around him, whe

"You moved fast."Beta Edward stood in Alpha Lucian's office, his arms crossed and his expression disapproving. I sat on the couch, still wearing yesterday's dress, still looking like exactly what I was—the Alpha's lover."I did what needed to be done," Lucian replied calmly from behind his desk."You humiliated your son in front of the entire pack. You claimed his ex-mate. You—""I claimed a woman who was free to be claimed. The mate bond was broken. Jude had no rights to her.""But the pack—""The pack witnessed Jude issue a challenge he had no right to issue. They watched him lose. Badly." Lucian's voice was hard. "If anything, this showed them that Jude is not ready to lead. That he acts on emotion, not logic."Edward turned to me, his brown eyes piercing. "And you. What's your game here?""Excuse me?""Don't play innocent. A week ago, you were a heartbroken girl with a shattered mate bond. Now you're sleeping with the Alpha and parading around like you've won some prize. So I'll

"How long ago?"Lucian was already moving, pulling on clothes, strapping weapons to his body. I did the same, my hands shaking.Tessy. They'd taken Tessy.The young she-wolf who'd followed me around like a puppy. Who'd asked me about fighting techniques and wanted to be a warrior like Tricia. Who was only seventeen years old."Thirty minutes, maybe less," Tricia said, her voice tight with anger. "She was on patrol with Johnson and—""Johnson?" Lucian's voice dropped to a dangerous growl. "Where is he?""That's the thing. We can't find him. He was supposed to be with her, but when the attack happened, he was nowhere around. The other patrols found Tessy's scent trail leading into rogue territory, but Johnson's scent just... disappeared.""He betrayed us," I said, my wolf snarling. "He set her up.""We don't know that for certain—" Tricia started."Yes, we do." Lucian's eyes were blazing silver, his Alpha power filling the room. "Johnson has been loyal to Jude, not to me. If my son plan