Todos os capítulos de The Alpha's Abandoned Mate : Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

Sienna felt the coarse cloth of the servant dress, rubbing on her skin, and itching her at the neck where the collar was tight. The sleeves and the skirt did not fit well and the skirt was hanging like it is still in progress of being sewed. It wasn’t made for her. That was the point.On each side of her were two guards who pulled her down a hall, in the direction of the ceremonial hall. She had red marks on her wrists as they had grabbed her too firmly before. Her knees were bruised from where she fell but all that was nothing compared to how she felt inside her chest.The pack no longer feels like her home. These walls, this ground, the air, it wasn’t hers anymore. Her name, her dignity, her place in the pack stripped. And now they were hauling her into the ceremony hall where she would be rejected and humiliated before all the eyes of the whole pack.The massive doors swung open and a sort of silence walked through the large hall like some cold wind. The fact is, the whispers stalk

The moon was very big, and shone pale and silver-like, over the long hallways of the Blackstone mansion. Sienna was still scraping the floor of the ceremonial hall when a tall, quiet servant who had closed the door earlier pushed it open again, holding a tray on which was placed a scroll and a decanter of dark wine.“The Alpha must have this brought to his room” he said, and handed them into her trembling hand.Her heart sank. She wasn’t ready to face him. Not after watching him mark Renna in front of the entire pack. Not after he, a man whose touch still haunted her skin, allowed her to be publicly reduced to a servant.But she couldn’t refuse. Refusal was not an option anymore to someone like her.She went down the dark passages in the wing of the Alpha, with the slippers parting the smooth floors, and the wine sloshing about a bit in the glass decanter. At the door there were two guards who did not say a word, but nodded, and moved away. One of them smirked.Sienna stepped inside.

The taste of metal lingered in my mouth for hours after. Not just the ring, though God knows that was bitter enough but the taste of my own blood where I'd bitten my tongue to keep from screaming. To keep from begging. To keep from breaking completely.I sat in my closet that night, knees drawn to my chest, staring at the crack of light under the door. My hands wouldn't stop shaking. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw their faces. The satisfaction in Renna's smile. The way the other servants had looked at me not with pity, but with relief that it wasn't them on their hands and knees.And Ryder. God, Ryder.The way he'd looked at me in that hallway, like he wanted to say something, do something. The way his fingers had traced my face like I was something precious. And then... nothing. He'd watched me crawl across that marble floor like an animal and done absolutely nothing.I pressed my palms against my eyes, but the tears came anyway. Hot and angry and full of everything I couldn't sa

The silver blade sliced through my ribs before I even saw it coming. Pain exploded across my side, white-hot and vicious. I stumbled backward, my hand coming away slick with blood. So much blood.Renna smiled, twirling the dagger between her fingers like it was a toy. "Oops. Did I cut too deep? My mistake.""You're insane," Maya gasped, pressing her hands against my wound. Her palms came away crimson."No, darling. I'm practical." Renna's eyes were cold, empty. "Queens who don't know they're queens can have accidents. Tragic, really. The lost heir, found just moments before bleeding out in a garden."I tried to stand straight, but the world was spinning. The scent of my own blood filled the air, metallic and wrong. Around us, I could hear growls, the guards shifting, responding to the smell of royal blood being spilled."You can't kill her," Ryder said, his voice deadly quiet. "Not now, not when the Council…""The Council will find a body and a very sad story," Renna interrupted. "Poo

The air was thick with the scent of earth and blood, a scent that clung to Sienna’s skin like a forgotten promise. The garden before her was a place she’d known since childhood , rows of roses she had once tended with a quiet joy, pathways lined with ivy that now looked as if they might crawl up and swallow the world. But today, the garden was something else. Today, it was a battleground, painted with the crimson streaks of a night that had bled its way into dawn.The sky above was pale, the first hints of daylight casting long, cold shadows across the blood-soaked earth beneath her boots. Her heart pounded in her chest, and with every ragged breath, the weight of her decision threatened to crush her. She wasn’t prepared for this , no one could be. The Council, her enemies, stood before her, eyes gleaming with a mix of anticipation and disdain."You know what you must do, my Queen," Elder Kane’s voice cut through the silence, like a blade to the bone. His dark, piercing eyes never lef