All Chapters of Alpha Marcel: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Marcel:She entered without hesitation.Dressed. Composed. Ready in a way that told me this wasn’t surrender, it was acceptance of an order she didn’t believe she could refuse. Her eyes met mine once, steady, unreadable, before she closed the door behind her.The maids outside were listening, waiting to see if she was causing trouble… that I knew for fact.I said nothing.Words would only complicate what I needed to do.She would need to be surprised. And I knew, judging by how she was, she was not going to listen to reason.I guided her toward the bed with a hand at her elbow, firm, controlled. She followed. No resistance. No protest. That alone twisted something sharp in my chest. She hadn’t even said word. She was simply following an order that was given to her…Satisfy the Alpha…I laid her down carefully. Her eyes meeting mine as she raised herself very slowly, laying her head on the pillow.My body hovered over hers, close enough to feel her breath hitch, close enough to feel th

Marcel:The door closed behind us without a sound.Night wrapped around the path like a secret, cool air, damp earth, the quiet pulse of the forest breathing steadily around us. Lia walked beside me, careful at first, then easier, her steps finding a rhythm that matched mine.“I used to run through here,” I said, breaking the silence. “I would escape for days and mother would go crazy trying to find me before my father’s men did.”She glanced at me, surprised. “You?”I nodded. “When the pack felt like a cage. When every decision was already made for me before I could speak.” I exhaled slowly. “This door was the only place that didn’t ask me who I was supposed to be. I just ran through and was free to be who I wanted to be.”She considered that. “So even Alphas run.”“Especially Alphas,” I replied. “We’re taught early how to stand still. Not how to breathe. And eventually… it just becomes too difficult to handle. You want nothing more than to escape.”Her mouth curved faintly. “I grew

Lia:I tried to pretend I was reading.The words blurred anyway.Marcel’s presence shifted the air in the room, not loud, not imposing, just there. I could feel him watching me before I looked up, and when I did, he was leaning against the doorway, arms crossed, hair still damp, a smirk tugging at his mouth like he already knew what I was thinking.“You’re blushing,” he said.“I am not,” I replied too quickly, eyes darting back to the page.He pushed off the wall and crossed the room, unhurried. “You definitely are. And you are doing your best not to stare.”I shut the book with a soft thump and hugged it to my chest as I got up, wanting to move as far away from him as I possibly could. “You’re imagining things. I wouldn’t blush over something that is not even there.”“Am I?” He stopped a few feet away, head tilting slightly. “Or are you just not used to being… looked at?”That made my stomach flip. I set the book on his desk. He didn’t even try to stop me from approaching it. He just

Lia:The consort hall was already awake when I returned.It wasn’t loud, it never was, but it thrummed, the way a place did when something had shifted overnight and everyone could feel it but didn’t yet know how to speak of it.My heart raced with each step that I took, my stomach churning with an anticipation of being watched… it was one that I didn’t want to feel, and yet, it was one that I knew I couldn’t truly escape.“There are no classes for the day,” Theia told me, and I nodded. “Just allow yourself to rest with the girls. They would be out in the consort hall right now.”I stepped inside just as Luna Isobel entered from the opposite corridor.All the girls stood once she walked in, almost bowing in respect to the Luna. I looked down at my feet, knowing better than to try and disrespect her, knowing that she would want to see some mistake made.“Lia, I didn’t expect you to be back so soon.” She said, making me look up at her.“The Alpha has a meeting, Luna. He told me to go bac

Lia:Theia didn’t waste time.It wasn’t like I didn’t think that she would.Marcel’s words still played in my mind from a few hours ago, and though I wanted to try and ignore them, didn’t want to make much of them… I couldn’t help the small smile that formed on my lips whenever I remembered his lips pressed against mine.She guided me into the adjoining room with practiced efficiency, already pulling open drawers, selecting fabric, arranging jewelry with the ease of someone who had done this a thousand times before.“You’ve caught his attention quickly,” she said, not looking at me as she adjusted the fall of my dress. “That doesn’t happen often. I don’t think that it has ever happened at all.”I met my own reflection in the mirror and found myself not really recognizing my own reflection.I haven’t dressed like this, as elegant and poised, in a very long time… “I didn’t even try.”“I am well aware.” She glanced at me then, curious. “Most try. Some beg. Others scheme. You…” Her lips th