All Chapters of Her Wolf King: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The whip cracked across my back for the third time today.“Again,” my father said. His voice was cold, empty. “You are too slow.”I forced myself up from the dirt. My knees shook. Blood soaked through my training clothes, warm and sticky against my skin. The other wolves watched from the sidelines. Nobody moved to help. Nobody ever did.“Father, please. I have been training since dawn. I cannot…”“Cannot?” His eyes flashed gold. Alpha power rolled off him in waves that made my wolf whimper and curl inside me. “The daughter of Marcus Steele does not say cannot. The future of this pack does not show weakness.”I was not the future he wanted. We both knew it.My older brother died three years ago in a challenge. Ripped apart by a rival pack’s champion while my father watched and did nothing. Wolves respected strength. My father respected only victory. When Daemon fell, I became heir. The weakest alpha daughter in North America. The shame of the Steele bloodline.“Get up.” My father circl

I grabbed the silver blade from the table. Kade was already moving, silent as death despite his injuries.“Stay behind me,” he said.“This is my territory.”“And I am your mate.” His voice dropped low. Commanding. “Stay. Behind. Me.”My wolf wanted to obey. Wanted to let him protect us. But I was the alpha’s daughter. I did not hide behind rogues, no matter what the bond demanded.I moved to the window. Slowly. Carefully. The glass was dirty, cracked. But I could see movement in the trees.A figure. Watching.“It is just one,” I whispered.“One is enough to destroy you.” Kade positioned himself between me and the door. Every muscle in his body was tense. Ready. “If they saw us together, if they report what they saw…”“I know what happens.”My father would kill me. Maybe not immediately. Maybe not with his own hands. But I would die. Slowly. Publicly. A lesson to every wolf who thought about disobeying their alpha.The figure moved closer.I recognised the scent.“No,” I breathed. “No,

“No.” The word ripped from my throat. “No, no, no.”Kade’s sister pushed past me into the cabin. She knelt beside the blood. Touched it. Brought her fingers to her nose.“It is not his,” she said.“What?”“This blood. It is not Kade’s.” Her amber eyes met mine. “He fought back. Hard.”Relief flooded through me. Then terror. If Kade fought back, if he hurt Thomas’s wolves, my father would know. Would smell the violence. Would come looking.“How many took him?” I asked.“Three. Maybe four.” She stood. Studied the cabin. “They came through the window. Kade was weak from his injuries. He could not shift fast enough.”“You said Thomas wants him for something worse than death. What did you mean?”She was silent for a long moment. Then she pulled out a photograph. Old. Worn. It showed a young man with silver eyes standing beside a beautiful woman with dark hair.“This was our father,” she said. “Alpha of the Blackwood pack. And this was our mother. She was not a wolf.”“What was she?”“Somet

Time stopped.My father’s throat was in the monster’s claws. One squeeze and he would die. The creature that wore Kade’s curse waited for Thomas’s command. And I stood there, broken and bleeding, with a choice that would destroy me either way.Save my mate. Or save my father.But something inside me snapped.“No,” I said. The word came out quietly. Steady. “I will not choose.”Thomas laughed. “You do not have a choice, little girl. Your father dies, or your mate remains mine forever. Pick.”“I said no.” I stood. Every rib screamed. Every wound burned. But I forced myself up anyway. “You want me to break. Want me to sacrifice one for the other? Want me to destroy myself choosing?”“What are you doing?” Sera hissed. “Aria, you have to do something!”I walked toward the monster. Toward my mate trapped inside the curse. Toward my father dying in those claws.“I choose both,” I said.Thomas’s smile faltered. “That is not an option.”“You are wrong.” I stood between the monster and Thomas.

Morgana circled us like prey. Her black dress trailed through the blood-soaked dirt. The bones around us hummed with magic so dark it made my wolf whimper.“You came,” she said. “How predictable.”“You knew we would,” Kade said. His voice was steady but I felt his fear through the bond.“Of course. I saw it months ago. The moment Thomas triggered your curse. The moment Aria saved you from bleeding out in the woods.” She stopped in front of me. “You are bound by fate. By blood. By a love so desperate it rewrote reality itself.”“You helped Thomas,” I said. “You gave him the binding chain. Told him how to trigger the curse.”“I did.”“Why?”“Because the Council paid me well. And because I wanted to see what would happen when two cursed souls collided.” She smiled. “You did not disappoint.”Kade moved between us. Protective. Dangerous. “If you work for the Council, why help us now?”“I do not work for anyone, boy. I work for myself. Always have.” Morgana waved her hand. The bones rearran