All Chapters of I Accidentally Became the Alphas' Mate : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

“Please… It’s a long story, and I am not a threat to anybody,” I said, pausing before adding carefully, “Who is not a threat to me and mine.”I looked at both my mates before gesturing toward those standing behind me.She waited. Watched. Calculated.Then the air softened again, settling into that uncanny stillness around her that felt unnatural, like a predator deciding whether I was worth the effort.I didn’t tell her about Sirus. Not yet.I needed to feel her out first.No matter whose sister she was.A breeding program designed to create and control destroyer wolves.And Korr had been part of it from the beginning."You've seen the files," I said slowly.Brianne nodded."Then you know about the betrothal contract."Her gaze sharpened."You were promised to Korr when you were an infant. Marked. Claimed." She paused. "But you already know that.""I found the letters.""Good." Brianne's voice was approving. "Then you understand what you are.""A bargaining chip.""No." Her tone was f

The cabin Brianne had given us smelled like cedar and old smoke, and someone had left a jar of wildflowers on the table that I hadn't touched. It felt too much like a gift I hadn't earned yet.River sat on the edge of the bed, forearms on his knees. Cade had taken the chair by the window — a habit, always orienting toward exits and angles of approach. I was on the floor with my back against the bed frame because sitting still in furniture felt wrong tonight, with everything that valley had poured into me.Outside, the pack had settled into its quiet. Cookfires burned low. Children had been called in. The whole mountain breathed slower after dark, like it was keeping a secret it didn't want to wake."It's not them," I said.Neither of them argued."The water, the food supply — that kind of sustained, systematic poisoning takes infrastructure. Connections inside our packs. Someone who knows the distribution routes, the schedules." I drew my knees up. "These people have been hiding under

River stood with me, his forehead resting against mine in silence.Then he kissed me deeply.When he pulled away, he locked forearms with his brother. The two men held each other's gaze for a moment before River gave a single nod and turned back toward the village.Next, Brianne said her goodbyes beside the vehicles.She didn't make it long. That wasn't her way — she was already half-turned back toward the valley before her parting words were fully out, her mind on the people she was moving to deeper ground, the structures that needed shoring up, the children who needed somewhere safer than where they'd been last night. She gripped my arm once, hard, said nothing else, and walked back into the smoke-grey morning.I watched her go longer than I should have."Mount up," Cade said quietly.Three vehicles waited for us.The first carried two of our guards and two village guards. Its sole purpose was to lead the convoy and protect us as we made our way out of the valley.Cade, Shianne, and

Alpha Tomas of Moss Thorn Pack sat across the table from us and looked like a man who had been waiting a long time for a conversation he hadn't known he was allowed to have.He was literally aging before our eyes, carrying the heavy weight of being alpha and sharing a northern border with my sister, Mara.River sat to my left. Cade to my right. I felt them through the bond.Beta Marc stood near the window. Josylyn was not joining us tonight. I'd looked at him when we entered and understood immediately why Tomas kept him away from anything that involved Mara. It wasn't weakness. It was protection — the specific, painful protection of a man trying to keep the last good thing in his orbit from becoming a target.Marc's mate was my sister, Josylyn.The only other one of us, besides me, who had looked at what our father offered — negotiation, arrangement, alliance by transaction — and said no.It had cost her plenty.Josylyn had chosen correctly.I wished, not for the first time, that I h

I made it to the bathroom on my hands and knees.That felt important to establish. I had held a battle line for forty minutes against Mara's forces twelve hours ago. I had fought until my lungs burned and my wolf ran hot, and the second wave broke and pulled back into the smoke. I had stood at the tree line and watched Mara herself disappear into the dark like a promise of something worse still coming.And now I was on the bathroom floor of the pack's guest quarters, cheek pressed against cool tile, absolutely certain someone had poisoned me.It was the most logical explanation.Mara's stragglers were still being rooted out of Tomas's territory. A delayed toxin in the food, something that bypassed my shifter metabolism long enough to — I retched again, hands braced against the floor, and reconsidered my entire life.It took me twenty minutes to haul myself upright. Another ten to make it to the infirmary, moving along the wall with the dignity of someone who had absolutely not just cr