บททั้งหมดของ Rise of the fated alpha pair : บทที่ 81 - บทที่ 90

Lyra POV I ran my fingers along the chain around my neck back and forth, back and forth. The repetition calmed me as I laid on my bed in the cramped little room. It was a wonder Travis hadn’t taken it from me yet.My mom hadn’t been home when I swung by earlier. It wasn’t the time I usually swung by after dinner, but it had been the end of the workday, so there was no reason she shouldn’t have been home. I left her a note to gather the female wolves for a meeting. I didn’t give too many details, but if Travis or any of his men found it, it would be easy to assume it was about the mating ceremony. I had wanted to talk to her about the true reason though because I couldn’t afford untrustworthy females at the meeting. Stockholm syndrome was a real thing, especially with their mates, no matter if they were abused. I hated it, but I didn’t blame them. This pack wasn’t easy to escape from. I would know. It would be even harder for them since they were mated.A soft, timid knock sounded on

Ronan POVThey went silent immediately, and I hadn’t even used my Alpha voice. That was friendship. That was respect. I took a deep breath in and consulted the only truly neutral party.“Marni, what do you think?”She blanched slightly at being asked her opinion but didn’t hesitate to give it. “I believe Rebecca,” she replied swiftly. “Lyra thinks she has Alpha potential, and she’s spent the last few weeks getting the shit kicked out of her. I think she’s learned her lesson and realizes what she had here. She’s suffered enough. You’ve suffered enough. Let’s get Lyra back.”My eyes felt hot, and I blinked rapidly to clear them. Standing around me were friends old and new. People I’d grown up with, and people I barely knew. Yet we were all united in one common purpose. One common enemy. One common goal.“Alright, what do we need to do?” I finally conceded.WE WERE at that awful part in any plan where everything was set in place, and the parts that could move were moving. There was nothi

Lyra POV The men who did this to them would fucking pay.I cleared my throat, and their attention turned to me. Every female was someone my mother trusted, despite never raising a hand to help me. Despite me taking repeated beatings for them over the years. Despite the fading scars, I knew that plenty of these females could fight just as dirty as their mates.I unleashed my Alpha power, something that had been repressed around Travis after yielding to him. I didn’t need to hide it now, not with only omegas in front of me. Perhaps it would empower some of them. My muscles relaxed, and my wolf stretched inside of me, wound up with all the power being retained inside us. My body felt lighter, and I yearned to go for a run and stretch my legs because I felt I could run faster than ever before.As my Alpha power washed over them, their eyes widened in surprise. I had left to hide this. I looked at my mother in the back of the group, and she held her chin high with a sly smile. Something s

Ronan POV My eyes rolled. “As long as I can sleep without fear of being discovered, that’s all I need.” David shifted back and set out immediately, looping back around the path I’d taken but sticking close to the boundary line. We eventually came upon the outskirts of what might have been a small farming area at one point, but was now overrun with weeds and decay. I wrinkled my nose at the rotting pile of old manure a few yards away.“What happened here? This looks like good farmland,” I commented after shifting back, wanting to look around and judge without my wolf getting in the way. David scoffed then shifted back as well.“It is. Travis doesn’t let us farm anymore.”I snapped my head around to stare at him, shocked. “What do you mean he doesn’t let you? How does the pack eat?”David’s shoulders hunched in, unconsciously picking up on my anger. “Well, the females do all the work here. To farm Travis would have to let them leave up top. He doesn’t.” David pointed a bit further sout

Lyra POV My muscles twitched with an ache so deep it was hard to think straight. I sniffed the air, scenting his ocean musk, and my yearning grew tenfold. The manure helped dampen some burgeoning desire, but only a small fraction.I wanted him. I needed him. Last I had seen him, he’d almost died. I had given my freedom, my life, for his safety and the rest of the pack. I didn’t regret it for a moment, but I didn’t think I could hold back from being with him any longer. Not when he stood 50 feet away.Covered in manure and regret.My wolf pranced from foot to foot, itching to get closer.No, not here. Wait.My wolf was angry. All we’ve done is wait! I have somewhere. Patience.Just because I couldn’t mate with Ronan yet didn’t mean we couldn’t scratch the itch another way. And I had just the spot, a place that not even David knew about. I had found it when I’d escaped and kept it secret in case I ever needed to do so again.I gave Ronan a taunting grin, but as a wolf it was carnivorou