Alle Kapitel von To Kill My ALPHA MATE: Kapitel 61 – Kapitel 70

FantineThe ancient leather scroll lay flat across the long wooden table in the library, and while Riley sat in the chair beside me drinking a glass of water to clear the last bit of tightness from his throat, I kept my fingers traced over the faded ink crests that were stamped along the top border of the skin. The main symbol showed a wolf standing on a high mountain peak, but right beside it was a smaller silver mark shaped like a double-edged dagger wrapped in wild roses, and my heart began to beat faster against my ribs because I had seen that exact drawing carved into the back of my mother’s old silver locket when I was a little girl growing up in the northern estate."Riley, you need to lean over and look at this smaller crest near the left margin, because this isn't just a random pack symbol that Thomas recorded in his book," I said, pointing my finger directly at the dark ink mark while he set his glass down on the table and leaned his heavy shoulder against mine to get a bett

FantineThe heavy wind kept slamming against the wooden window shutters above the hearth, but inside the small room, the heat from the crackling logs was filling every corner, and sitting in Riley's lap made the chill in my bones vanish completely while the steady beat of his heart hummed against my back. I turned around on his thighs so I could face him directly, my hands coming up to rest against his warm chest while the heat of our mate bond pulsed between us, making every single doubt about my place in his pack drop away into nothingness."You are sitting here thinking about your father and the elders down in the valley, Fantine, but right now we are miles away from all of them and nobody is here to tell us who we are supposed to be," Riley said, his large hands coming up to hold my waist while his blue eyes looked into mine with a calm, steady focus that grounded my mind."I am not thinking about the elders or the city anymore, Riley, because standing in that library decoding my

FantineSilas stared down at me with his heavy jaw clenched and his hand resting on his sword hilt, but I didn't back down as I reached into the neck of my wool shirt and unhooked the silver chain that I had worn every single day since my mother died in the city estate. I pulled the heavy silver signet ring off the metal clasp and held it out directly toward his face, letting the morning sunlight hit the polished surface so he could see the wild roses and double daggers carved deep into the metal."You say my mother was just another city woman, Silas, but she gave me this ring on her deathbed and told me it belonged to the royal line of the western peak pack before your people were forced off this mountain," I said, taking two steps down the wooden stairs until I was standing right in front of his lead spearman, who lowered his iron tip slightly as his eyes caught the shine of the silver."Where did you get that signet ring, girl, because only three of those were ever forged by our mo

FantineThe cold wind was cutting through my thin shirt as I crouched behind a large rock near the edge of the slope, and right beside me, twenty of Silas's mountain warriors were keeping their long spears low while Riley stayed right at my back with his hand resting on the hilt of his heavy hunting blade. I leaned forward slightly to look down through the pine branches into the muddy valley below, where the black armored transport truck was parked sideways across the narrow road, and I could clearly see my sister Selene standing on top of the steel roof with a radio handheld in her left grip while she pointed her right arm toward our high ledge."Selene is setting up her standard northern perimeter formation, Riley, which means she has four heavy gunners positioned right behind the truck bumper, and she has six riflemen spread out along the ditch to cover the main road," I whispered, turning my head slightly so he could hear me over the sound of the wind blowing through the pine need

FantineThe thick smoke from the shotgun blast was still floating above the wet ground as I stepped into the red snow near the front bumper, keeping my daggers ready in my grip while Riley stayed in his massive wolf form, his teeth bare and his eyes locked onto the remaining six syndicate soldiers who were pressed flat against the side doors of the heavy transport truck. Silas and his mountain warriors formed a wide circle around the back wheels to block the road, so Selene had nowhere left to run, but she just wiped a drop of mud off her cheek and smiled at me like we were still sitting at the long dinner table in our father's city estate."Put those twin knives down, Fantine, because you are playing a stupid game up here in the freezing mountains while our father is already three steps ahead of your little wolf mate's family down in the valley," Selene said, her voice smooth and unbothered as she tossed her empty shotgun onto the hood of the truck and pulled a curved hunting blade o