Semua Bab The Forbidden Alpha’s Mate: Bab 1 - Bab 10

RAY'S POVThe blade was at his throat before he stopped running."Where is he.""I don't — I swear—"I pressed harder."Last chance.""Voss, old mill, route Nine." Tears running down his face. "Please. I have kids."I stepped back. "Then go home to them."Gone before he hit the ground.The retrieval contract came through a courier at sundown.Neutral corridor, standard markers, In and out before sunrise. Simple job, good pay. The kind I'd been taking for five years because simple jobs didn't ask questions and good pay didn't require explanations.I had built my entire life around things that didn't ask questions.I checked the route twice. Moved out before dark.The neutral corridor at night was exactly what it always was cold, quiet, and belonging to nobody dangerous enough to hold it. I moved fast through the trees, no light. I didn't need one. Five years of surviving alone had sharpened everything the grief hadn't taken.I found the package at the marked location. Secured it. Turne

RAY'S POVI couldn’t sleep.I sat on the floor with my back against the wall and stared at the barred window and thought about markers, about contracts, about a handler who found me two years ago in the neutral corridor and offered me a cleaner life and I took it because I was tired and hollow and not thinking clearly enough to ask the right questions.Two years of thinking I was free while someone held the string.The bond hummed in my chest. Quieter now than it had been in the clearing. Not the roaring chaos that had nearly taken my knees out. Something steadier, something that knew exactly where Levi was in this building without me having to look for him.That was new.That was a problem I didn't have the energy to deal with tonight.I pressed my fist against my sternum and breathed through it and my wolf pressed back from the other side like it was trying to tell me something I already knew and wasn't ready to hear.The door opened.A woman stepped in.Small. Golden skin, dark hai

RAY'S POV"Zayn's room," Levi said, "Tonight."We moved.The room was small and neat. The kind of neat that meant always ready to leave.Bed made, surfaces clear, nothing personal anywhere."He knew we'd search it," I said."Yes." Levi checked the cabinet, empty. "He cleared everything.""Not everything." I crouched by the bed. Checked the frame, nothing. Moved to the floorboards near the window. Pressed each one, the third from the wall gave slightly. I worked the edge up with my knife.A hollow space underneath.Letters, sealed. No markings, no names.I handed them to Levi.He opened the first. Read it. His jaw tightened. "Patrol routes, gate schedules, compound layout." He opened another, "Names of every wolf with senior clearance.""How many.""Eleven.""Three years. Eleven transmissions." I looked at the empty room, "Victor had everything he needed to walk in here whenever he wanted.""He was waiting for something specific," Levi said."The full moon.""Yes."Levi folded the lett

RAY'S POVI said it.I meant it.At least that was what I told myself standing in that room with Daniel staring at me and Levi's face doing something I refused to look at directly."Ray—" Daniel started."It's logical," I said. "Victor needs the bond at full strength. We break the bond before the full moon. His plan falls apart.""Rejecting a fated bond doesn't just hurt," Daniel said carefully. "It causes physical damage. To both wolves.""I know.""Permanent damage.""I know.""Ray—""I know, Daniel."The room was quiet.I hadn't looked at Levi since I said it.I looked at him now.His face was controlled. Completely. The kind of controlled that had been built over four years of never letting anything show. His jaw was set. His eyes were steady.But his hands were still at his sides in the exact way they'd gone still in the clearing when the bond first hit."It's the right move," I said."Is it," he said quietly."Victor needs us bonded. We unbond. His plan falls apart.""Nothing ab

RAY'S POV"He's coming tonight."Nobody argued with it.Levi was already on his feet. "Daniel. North wall. Find Ryan Blake. Now."Daniel moved."Aaron." Levi turned. "Is there anything else we need to know before this compound becomes a battlefield.""Several things," Aaron said calmly. "But they can wait until you've secured your walls.""Can they.""The document has waited four hundred years. It can wait another hour." He folded his hands. "Go."Levi looked at me."The founding stone," I said quietly. "If Victor gets here before we retrieve the document—""He can't activate it without us," Levi said. "You heard Aaron. He needs the bond at full strength and both of us present.""He needs us alive," I said. "Not willing."Levi went still."He doesn't need our cooperation," I said. "He just needs our bodies in the same location." I paused. "Which means the document is the priority. We get it out of Shadowmoon before he can use it.""Shadowmoon is three hours from here," Levi said."I k