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Semua Bab When The Alpha Wanted What Wasn’t His: Bab 31 - Bab 40

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Wesley Unlike last night, this evening is more casual in that there’s no sit-down meal. The lesser wolves from the various packs walk around, offering small plates arranged on trays. I couldn’t care less about food at the moment, but Zoey accepts a plate. I watch, holding my breath, as she picks up a piece of beef and pops it into her mouth. I can’t take my eyes off her luscious lips and the way she smiles at someone who isn’t me. None of them are me. She should be smiling at me, god fucking damn it.I’m not the only one who notices. Dad approaches from behind, stepping between Falcon and me. “I’m sorry, but why is your marked female over there surrounded by lesser men, looking like she’s having the time of her life?”“When I marked your mother,” Dad continues, “I would have to turn sideways to get through a door because she was attached to me.” The two of them share a laugh at my expense, and I have to ignore the boiling, seething rage, or else I’ll risk making a grave
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ZoeyBut like a bad infomercial, there’s more. Glass shatters all around me, and the lights go out, plunging the room into darkness. The glass inside the windows breaks, the noise so loud my ears start to ring, and even some of the glassware at the bar begins to shatter, leaving everyone screaming and scattering. My heart beats into my throat. What is going on?Hunter freezes solid, his grip on me tightening. “What’s happening?” he shouts, and all I can think to do is get away. Dear God, his scent is gagging me. How did I not notice it before? He smells foul, like garbage. How was I dancing with him? Better yet, what the hell is wrong with me? This isn’t me.I was wrong. I was so wrong. I look away from Hunter and back toward the bar. I have to find a way to make it right—that’s all my wolf wants, to make it right. Wesley . I need Wesley . Where is he? He’s been watching me all night, but I can’t find him in the darkness, not with everyone scattering around, trying to av
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ZoeyI’m about to howl again when the pained whimper of another wolf grabs my attention before I can do it. In the light from a burning tree, I see a witch bearing down on a wounded wolf, a silver dagger held high. There’s no question in my mind what she plans to do with it.It isn’t a fair fight anymore. The wolf is bleeding, one of its legs broken, and it can’t get away. I feel its pain, sense its fear, and it’s clear what I have to do if I don’t want my pack to lose a member.Leaping off the dead, broken body, I hurl myself in their direction, throwing myself between the menacing witch and the wounded wolf. My hackles rise, legs planted, my head low as I glare up at the figure cloaked in black—but my focus lingers on that dagger, gleaming in the fire’s light, promising death to the wolf whose flesh it slices.So I take it, lunging for her before she can get her bearings. Again, I move entirely on instinct, closing my jaws around her arm and sinking my teeth in unt
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Wesley I’ll never forget the sight of her, that silvery fur lit shimmering in the light from the fire burning nearby. The blood dripping from her jaws and splattered all over her. My fierce, vicious, brave little wolf. My Zoey.Yet there’s part of me—a very large part—who understands my duty to my alpha. My father, still lying on the ground. The least of his wounds are already healing or healed, but his right arm and leg are hideously broken. “Threw me up against the tree,” he grunts, grimacing when he tries to lift the shattered appendage hanging at his side. “I heard them both snap. Can’t heal quick enough for me.”“You’re getting there,” Falcon reminds him, dropping to one knee at Dad’s side. Though we both know he’ll be fine, I hear my concern coming from my brother’s mouth. The old man had a close call, and if it hadn’t been for Zoey… I don’t want to think about it.I feel the same, but I’m still too wrapped up in my torn allegiance to say a word. It’s taking a
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35

Wesley “Why fight?” I whisper, memorizing the feel of her skin, The way it pebbles with goosebumps. “Why not let yourself enjoy it? We both know this is inevitable. I hear your wolf, don’t forget. I feel her. It’s inevitable. Like trying to fight a force of nature.” We both groan when I part her lips, dragging my fingers through her wetness. Her brow scrunches up in concentration, or she’s trying to convince herself she doesn’t feel what we both know she does.“That’s right,” I whisper, watching her every move, every twitch of her face. “Give in. Let your body take what it wants.”“Not you,” she growls, but I hear the desperation in it.“Only me,” I correct before driving two fingers deep inside her. She gasps again, going stiff, her muscles clamping down around me and drawing me deeper. So tight, so hot, and now nothing in the world could stop me. Not when her arousal is so sweet, wrapping itself around me, confirming what I already knew to be true. She is helpless
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Zoey“Let me out! You fucking psycho! Why are you doing this?” Then, because I’m desperate and trying everything I can. “My father’s going to kill you for this! My alpha will have your ass!”That doesn’t get me any further than anything else I’ve screamed in the hours since Wesley unceremoniously dropped me on a bed, then yanked the pillowcase off my head after I spent who knows how long begging to be allowed to see.It was sheer torture, being tied up and blind all through the ride in the back of his car. I hope I never experience terror like that again as long as I live. He wouldn’t say a word, not even when I cried. And I did cry once, toward the end, when despair almost won out. I can look back all I want and tell myself I cried in hopes of getting through to him, but that’s not the truth. I was scared out of my mind, more afraid than I’d ever been. Considering the way my life went before this, that’s saying something. When you spend years being the pack punching bag, more than a
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Zoey“Stop pretending,” he growls, pinning me with his hands around my wrists, holding them against the mattress. The sheets are slippery and smooth, but there’s no slipping out of his grasp. “We both hear your wolf and know what she wants. Why are you torturing yourself like this?”“Says who? You need to stop living in a fantasy world and accept reality.” He rolls his hips, and it’s all I can do to silence a whimper of pure need. As much as I wish my wolf would forget the frenzy he drove us to last night, the fact is my body can’t forget, either. And when he’s like this, reminding me of everything he’s done—and everything he could do—I can almost imagine myself breaking down, giving in.But that would mean letting him win. And I can’t do that. I won’t. “No.”“We’ll see.” Then he lowers his head, and I could weep with relief when his lips touch my throat. Mate, mate. It’s my wolf’s favorite word, like a drum beat echoing in my head while I fight as hard as I can not to lose myself to
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Wesley “You’ve pulled some stunts in the past, and I’ve forgiven you—for most of them.” My mother lowers her brow, frowning. “But this? I don’t know what goes through your head.”I didn’t expect this. A little disapproval? Sure. It wouldn’t be the first time. I can’t count the number of times they’ve called me into the study to question me on a decision I made. While we present a united front to the pack—I’m the future alpha, almost beyond reproach—the atmosphere at home, in private, is a different story.Still, this isn’t your everyday childish prank or thoughtless mischief. Standing before her and my father as they both glare at me was not what I expected.But there’s still a very, very small part of me that wants to shrink under my mother’s disapproval. Maybe we never grow out of that, no matter who we are. “I did what I needed to do,” I insist before looking to my father for backup.Only to get none. He scowls at me, his lips drawn into a thin line. “Yo
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Wesley All my life, I thought that kind of horror story was a bunch of exaggerated bullshit meant to keep us in line. Like the humans and religion, in a way. The sort of stories parents tell their kids so they won’t go and do anything stupid, like bind their wolf to someone who would rather suffer the pains of refusal and fight against the natural pull of something much bigger than themselves.There I was, thinking no wolf would be that stupid or stubborn. Now here I am, facing the most bafflingly stubborn wolf who was ever fucking born. No wonder she was able to make it through the shit her packmates used to put her through. She’s too fucking stubborn to do anything but survive.By the time we reach the center, the pack’s guards and the most experienced fighters who’ve already been in battle have gathered for training. The guards were back here, watching the borders and keeping our territory safe, so the few highly-skilled fighters, who were with us during the gatherin
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ZoeyHis family has to know I’m down here. His mom gave me clothes to wear and everything.It’s probably naïve of me to think that, but I can’t bring myself to believe his parents would be okay with this. Unless they’re as messed up as he is. I guess that’s possible—where did he come from otherwise?His brother has to know, at least. They spend their lives practically connected at the hip. I wouldn’t be surprised if they could read each other’s minds. He hasn’t been down to see me. Nobody has, except for Wesley . Is this their idea of a joke? How has he explained this to them?There’s so much I was never told about. This is all so new. But I know this is wrong—there can’t be any sort of rule or law that would allow this. I don’t care that our wolves are supposedly connected. I didn’t agree to this. Don’t I matter? Doesn’t my opinion matter?Instinct tells me there’s nothing normal about this. And I already know damn well there’s nothing normal about him.I go
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