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GabrielaRaya shifts before the male, a shifter that I vaguely recognize as one of Alpha Storm’s top enforcers —Abram — gets to the last step.She charges forward at him, quick and agile as she lunges forward with her teeth bared as she knocks into Abram. They both tumble back onto the stairs, where Raya pins him, growling loudly in order to keep him from moving.He shifts under her, his jaw snapping in fury as he tries to catch any part of her between his teeth.My heart pounds in my chest as I watch them, my entire body pressing against the bars while wishing I could just dematerialize to the other side of them and help her. Raya isn’t the strongest female, but she makes up for it with her speed and agility.Abram knocks her back, all but tossing her across the cellar as she lands on her back and skids down the row of cells. He scrambles back onto his feet and lunges for her, just barely missing when she skitters off to the side and slams her back into the cell two down from mine.My

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GabrielaI awake surrounded by warmth and softness.Unexpected, considering the last thing I remember is collapsing onto the ground in front of a bunch of North enforcers and begging to be brought before their alpha.Peeling my eyes open, I blink a few times as my body adjusts, still sore from running for so long without stopping. My body aches, but thankfully I’ve slept long enough for my wolf’s healing to have kicked in by now.The room I’m in is unfamiliar, but similar to the one I stayed in while attending the ball. Instead of two beds, this room only has one.Peeling off the covers that have been tucked around me, I slide to the edge of the bed and test my weight on my feet. Sore, but not bad. Manageable, at least.Inside of me, my wolf roils, happy that I’m finally awake.“Let’s see what’s going on,” I mumble to her, and finally stand.I’m in different clothes than what I remember coming in, and I try to not let that shake me. Hopefully Elijah has some lady attendants who were ki

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GabrielaThe door opens a while later to the two enforcers from earlier."He'll see you now."I practically jump off the bed and jog over to them, my wolf crooning inside my head. The prospect of seeing Elijah after weeks of being separated is both exhilarating and nerve-wracking.Will he put on a front in front of his pack when seeing me? Or will emotions overtake him, causing him to drag me off into a secret room in order to have our proper reunion? Honestly, I'm hoping for the latter.I've been so damn touch-starved lately. My body craves what I was given the last time I was here, Elijah's touch so deeply ingGabrielad in me that it's all I think about before I fall asleep at night.I want his hands all over me, our bodies pressed together as he makes love to me and kisses me while we finish together.One of the enforcers chuffs in front of me, probably smelling my pheromones. But whatever, I don't care. It'll all make sense to them once Elijah claims me.I'm led down to the ballroom

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Gabriela"Dear Elijah," he reads. "I'm writing to you with regret, as I haven't been honest with you. Over the last few weeks, I have been trying to find the words to say to tell you the truth, but I find myself unable to do so, for fear of hurting you. That is the last thing I want; however, I know that it's the right thing to do. As you will be able to see from the test I included, I am pregnant."I'm stunned silent. Not even a single breath escapes me.He continues to read: "I confess that before the ball, I found myself pregnant after I slept with one of my alpha's enforcers. I panicked, not knowing what to do, as he had already made it clear that he wanted nothing to do with it. When the letter for the ball came, I knew I had to make a tough choice. And that, unfortunately, included you.""No," I mumble.This isn't my letter. This isn't what I wrote to him when I told him I was pregnant with his child. Where did he even get this from?"See, I knew my alpha would never accept a bas

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GabrielaAll I feel is darkness and despair.It has my limbs feeling numb as I walk back to Redwood, not bothering to shift. Instead, I punish myself by walking through the forest with my bare feet and the now-ratty clothes that I’d been dressed in by Elijah’s staff.I wish I was surprised. I wish that Elijah rejecting me didn’t simply reaffirm everything that I’ve been thinking over the past few weeks—that I’m not good enough for him and that he’d only see me as what I truly am: a disgusting burden.I am my father’s daughter after all, a blight on this Earth. I’m no more worthy of anything than the dirt beneath my feet.The disgust on my mate’s face, and from his staff and the enforcers who’d eventually thrown me out, had been devastating. I’d built up in my head for so long that the North would become my forever home once I got out of that cellar, once I’d been freed from the shackles that were Alpha Storm’s hold over me.I see now that all of that had simply been a fantasy, nothing

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Elijah“Your Grace? It’s time for supper.” Linda’s voice is quiet as she speaks.I continue to stare out the window, watching as the heavy rain falls over my pack’s town. Warm lights from their houses break through the fog that’s begun to collect around the ground, making the roads appear ghostly.In the mirror, I can see Linda shift uncomfortably in the doorway. She’s not used to being ignored, but she has no room to tell me again. She knows she’s been heard but can’t leave until I’ve acknowledged her.A double-edged sword in agreeing to be my Luna.“I’m not hungry,” I tell her finally.She doesn’t say anything for a long moment, still hovering in the study’s doorway, most likely contemplating dropping it and leaving me alone or figuring out a way to coax me downstairs.It’s a wasted effort and she’s better off spending her energy elsewhere. I have no desire to sit around a table full of my packmates and play pretend that everything is fine.“Your Grace…perhaps I can bring something

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GabrielaThe air is cold this early in the morning.The sun hasn't risen yet, but with the way the sky is starting to lighten just over the tree line, it's bound to happen any minute now.A shiver races up my spine, but not because of the cold or the fact that I've been dressed in a sheer material that is practically see-through—Alpha Storm's final act of humiliating me, no doubt—but because I know my new owner will be arriving soon.My stomach twists at the thought of that—my new owner.But that's what he'll be, right? I've been sold as his brood mare and nothing more. A glorified sex pet, which hopefully won't mean I'm locked in a cage until I'm ready to be used. Although, it's not much different than how I've been kept the past few weeks, is it?My cell had been my cage until Alpha Storm could secure this deal. I'm only surprised it took so long for him to find someone willing to buy me.My wrists and ankles are bound in steel cuffs chained in the middle, so there will be no way I

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GabrielaI hear footsteps crunch softly against the ground, and I tense. Out of my peripheral vision and through the strands of hair hanging over my face, I can see our pack's enforcers quickly moving away, creating a wide berth of space.Alpha Storm's fingers flex in my hair, alerting me before I even have a visual that Aaron has drawn closer.He stops directly in front of me, the thick soles of his leather boots staring back at me.Oh gods..."Let me see what I've bought," he says to Alpha Storm, his tone even.My alpha's hand quickly leaves my hair, allowing me to stand up straight again. I don't though—because I know exactly how this will go. If I so much as move a single inch, he'll see it as a sign of disrespect and punish me for it.I can feel the crack of his hand against my cheek before it's even happened."Oh? You won't even look at me?"For some reason, butterflies kick up in my stomach at the sudden shift in his tone, sounding almost like he's...teasing me?I swallow, know

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Gabriela"Surely you'll at least send her with a key for these?" Aaron's beta loops a single finger around the chains linking my wrists together, lifting them high in the air above my head.There's a subtle shifting behind me, the sound of one or two of the enforcers patting themselves down as they search for said key. I doubt they even brought one, probably banking on the fact that my new owner would appreciate me chained up and compliant.It's a surprise to all of us that the Soleus pack would even want me able to walk around freely.Aaron's beta frowns deeply, his eyes fixated on something over my shoulder while he continues to wait with his finger still looped under the chain. I'm desperate to know what he's thinking—what Aaron is thinking, for that matter.The alpha's expression is carefully blank, almost bored while he watches our exchange.Even though all of this makes my pack look bad, and by proxy me too, I'm also delighted in the fact that this feels like a shaming ritual. I

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Gabriela"This is where we'll be staying for the night," Aaron tells us all once we reach a town a few hours away from Redwood's lands. My stomach flips again when Aaron's attention is then focused on me. "Tomorrow morning we'll make the rest of the journey to my packlands."My mouth opens to question him on why we're stopping if we're less than a day into this trip. What would be the point in prolonging this...unless he's left his lands for more than just retrieving me.Slowly, I shut my mouth.Asking him seems like suicide and a good way to show him that I can be disobedient. Laying my head low for the time being will hopefully spare me being punished, at least for a little while.Aaron seems to find something funny because his lips slowly tilt up into a smile when he turns to me. "Not to your liking?""N-No." Fuck, just what I need, for him to think I'm being ungrateful. "This is fine, Your Grace."Honestly, the motel we're staying at isn't half bad. Sure, it's a little shabby, but

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