CHAPTER 72: Rare Kind

SERAPHINE I knew before the sun rose. I knew because the tether between us, that quiet, humming thread I'd felt since the day he first said “speak,” went taut as a bowstring, then thinner, then thin as hair. His car had pulled out of the gates at dawn. He'd gone to raid a smuggling cove on the coast, hunting the men who held Isolde, and with every mile he put between us, the wolf grew louder.By midmorning I was pacing the room in tight circles. By noon the windows had frosted over. By one o'clock the walls themselves seemed to shrink, and a low, guttural moan rose out of my chest that I had no power to stop."Miss?" The housekeeper opened the door a crack, a tray of soup trembling in her hands. "Miss Seraphine, you must eat, please..."I turned. Her pulse leapt in her throat, a flutter I could see from across the room, and the wolf lunged.I don't remember crossing the floor. I remember the tray hitting the ground. I remember my hand around the housekeeper's collar, and her wide, fr

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CHAPTER 73: Cold Dinning

SERAPHINEI could see the frustration in his eyes before he even sat down.It was the look of a man who had slept three hours in four days, who had torn apart two docks and a smuggler's cove and found nothing but a scarf and a slipper, who lay awake every night thinking of his mother's voice somewhere in the dark. A muscle jumped beneath his left eye every time someone said her name. His knuckles were still wrapped in linen, spotted brown where the stitches had split, and he cut his bread with the slow, grim care of a man holding himself together by his fingernails.The dining room glowed amber. Forty candles burned along the long table, their light trembling across the polished wood, and the steaming dishes the staff had carried in filled the air with rosemary and butter and roasted garlic. I breathed it in and my stomach turned over.There were no metal spoons beside my plate.The housekeeper had removed them that morning, after I'd folded three of them in half without noticing, an

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CHAPTER 74: What The Wolf Knew

SERAPHINE “Seraphine?" Kael called out but I didn’t respond. I couldn’t.“TELL HIM!“ The wolf barked."Stop," I hissed, pressing both palms against my temples. "Stop shouting. Please."“I've been shouting for an hour, little one. An hour! Do you always ignore people this politely?”"Seraphine, what's wrong?" Kael had half risen from his chair, one hand outstretched.“Tell him! Tell him! Tell him!”The chandelier above the table began to swing. A crack raced across the face of a crystal goblet and the wine inside it shivered. Frost bloomed beneath my fingertips and crawled across the polished surface, curling around plates and candlesticks, silvering the edge of the roast chicken, and still the voice hammered inside me, thunder and drums, relentless, impossible."Stop speaking to me!" I screamed. "Stop yelling!"I shoved my chair backward so hard it shot across the floor and slammed into the wall. I staggered, my knees gave out, and I hit the ground on all fours, my claws gouging deep

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CHAPTER 75: The Key Beneath the Door

ALLYI had been in that dungeon for six days, and they fed me like a rat.I knew it was six because I'd scratched the days into the wall with a bent nail, five neat lines and a slash through them, right beside someone else's tally that stopped at forty. I tried not to think about that. The cell was a stone box, maybe four paces wide, with a bucket in one corner and a bed of damp straw in the other. Water wept down the walls and pooled in the cracks, and the whole place smelled like a wet dog that had died of shame. My dress had stiffened with mud. My hair hung in ropes, and every time I turned my head, a drop of something cold and foul slid down my neck."Lunch!"The voice barked from the other side of the iron door, followed by the scrape of a bolt and a flat, wet thud as a paper parcel hit the floor. I scrambled across the straw on my hands and knees before the footsteps had even faded.A sandwich. Two slices of bread gone grey at the edges, a smear of something that might once have

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CHAPTER 76: Shocking Revelation

ALLY I pushed the door open just wide enough to slip through, and the hinge groaned. I froze. Down the long, torchlit corridor, a guard's chair creaked, and a man's snore rose and fell, slow and wet. He was asleep, his chin on his chest, his ring of keys dangling from his belt.I eased the door shut behind me, and with trembling hands I locked it again. If they walked past and found it open, they'd have the whole place howling before I reached the stairs. This way, they'd see an empty cell and think I'd slipped through the bars like smoke. Or maybe they wouldn't look at all. Calista never bothered to look at anything she'd already thrown away."Say hello to freedom, Ally," I whispered, and padded barefoot toward the stairs.The way out was a long spiral of stone, slick with moss, ending in a heavy wooden door that opened onto the dark. Cold air hit my face like a slap. I stood in it, breathing, tasting pine and rain and woodsmoke, and understood where I was.Not the orphanage. Not th

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CHAPTER 77: The Beta in the Woods

ALLYBefore I took another step, I did the smartest thing I'd done all week.I tore a fistful of scent leaves from the bush growing along the edge of the clearing and crushed them between my palms until my hands were green and dripping. Then I rubbed them over everything: my neck, my arms, the backs of my knees, the ragged hem of a dress that smelled like six days of wet dog. Wolves tracked by scent, and Mohan had a nose sharp enough to follow a mouse through a rainstorm. If I was going to eavesdrop on his love life, I had better smell like a salad."Finally," I whispered, wiping my hands on my skirt, "a leaf with a purpose."I slipped back to a crooked tree at the clearing's edge, close enough to catch every word, far enough that the moonlight couldn't find me, and pressed myself into the bark. Crickets sawed in the grass. The night smelled of bruised basil and damp earth, and my heart was beating so loudly I was sure the owls could hear it.In the clearing, Calista had stopped sobbi

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All Chapters of The Deaf Alpha’s Unexpected Mate : Chapter 71 - Chapter 76

CHAPTER 72: Rare Kind

CHAPTER 73: Cold Dinning

CHAPTER 74: What The Wolf Knew

CHAPTER 75: The Key Beneath the Door

CHAPTER 76: Shocking Revelation

CHAPTER 77: The Beta in the Woods