บททั้งหมดของ Marked By The Rogue Alpha: บทที่ 131 - บทที่ 135

MeredithI waited in the study because I wanted a room with a door.Not my bedroom.Not his.Not the hall where Silverthorn had watched me earn things.The study.The room where he'd made the mistake.The room where he'd tried to build me an exit without me.It seemed right that he should have to come back into it for this.I put the original contract on the desk.Beside it, I put what was left of the annulment packet.I squared both because he'd notice if I didn't.He came in at half nine.There was dust on his boots and his coat smelled of horse, cold air and the north line.He stopped when he saw me.Then he saw the desk."Meredith.""Sit down."His eyes went to the papers."You've been on a horse since five in the morning and it's making my back hurt just looking at you."He didn't move."Sit.""Is that—""Don't read the desk."He looked at me."Look at me."He did."Good."I had rehearsed it.Then I forgot the first half."You're making this difficult.""I haven't said anything."

MeredithHayley did my hair.She cried twice.Denied both."Your eyes are wet.""Steam.""There is no steam.""Hair product.""You don't use spray."She glared at me through the mirror."Do you want me to ruin this?""No.""Then respect my medical assessment.""You're crying.""Meredith.""Fine."She pinned one side.Then stood back.Her face changed again."You're not allowed to look like that.""Like what?""Happy."I laughed."I'm serious. I've prepared a whole speech about Kieran still being frightening.""Give it.""He is.""Strong opening.""And he's arrogant.""True.""And if he ever tries that annulment-paper nonsense again, I will poison him in a medically deniable way.""You can't say medically deniable.""I just did."She bent closer."But I've watched him since you came here."The joking left her face."And I have never once watched him make you smaller."My throat tightened.Hayley swallowed."That's the speech."I turned."Come here.""No.""Hayley.""I've done my makeup

He moved my hair away from my neck.The first mark was still there.Faded into the skin but never gone.His fingers touched it.I remembered the study.Moonlight.My weak wolf somewhere far below me.Kieran stopping before the kiss could become something neither of us had chosen properly."It'll hurt.""I've had worse.""More than the first.""I've had worse weeks.""Meredith.""If you ask me again, I'm biting you first."He looked up."You'd do it badly.""I'd commit."That made him laugh.Low.Against my throat.I felt it through my whole body.Then his mouth found the old mark.His teeth sank in.Pain flashed.Sharp enough to take the room away.My hand closed in his shirt.I heard myself gasp.Then my wolf came up.Not crawling.Not weak.Not frightened.She rose so fast the bond cracked open around us.Kieran's wolf met her.Everything widened.And suddenly there was no careful narrow thread between us.No controlled channel.No piece of him deliberately held back so he wouldn't