All Chapters of Fated To The Wrong Alpha : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

TESSA The car door closes behind me with a finality that feels like a coffin being closed, and Marcus is still standing there when I turn to look through the tinted glass — his face is pale, hands hanging uselessly at his sides, watching me be taken away with the helpless stillness of a man who already knows there’s no fixing this. I press my palm flat against the window before I can stop myself. He doesn’t move. The engine hums and the car pulls away, and I watch him shrink in the darkened glass until the road bends and swallows him whole. I face forward and don’t cry, because crying would mean accepting this is real, and I’m not quite ready for that yet. Kaz Ryker sits on the other side of the backseat, one arm resting along the window ledge, gaze fixed ahead. He hasn’t looked at me once since we left. The silence between us isn’t empty — it has weight and shape, pressing into my ribs like a third presence consuming all the remaining air. Hours pass before he speaks. “You shou

TESSAIt’s been five days since I found out Ezra is my mate.It takes seven days for a female to go into heat after finding her mate, which means I have two more days before biology takes over and my body stops being mine — and I haven’t seen Ezra once since the night he pressed me against the wall and told me he wants nothing to do with me.The palace is enormous, but not so enormous that you avoid someone for five full days by accident. He’s making sure of it, and the knowledge that he’s going out of his way hurts more than I want to admit.The bruises from the other night have almost faded — almost. There’s still a faint shadow at my wrist where the drunk man grabbed me, and sometimes I’ll catch it in certain light and the memory comes back all at once, the cold stone against my spine, the tuneless whistling, the slow clink of a belt, and then Kaz’s hand closing around the back of that man’s neck like a vice. The heart. The sound it made.I keep trying to reconcile the two versions