All Chapters of The Alpha's Rogue Bride: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

CHAPTER 11: Matt's Insistence~ Richard ~I have never been so confused in my entire life.The moment Kim walked through the door of this mansion three days ago — thin, hollow-eyed, wearing a coat two sizes too big and carrying nothing in her hands but the suppression collar at her throat — my wolf lost his mind.‘Mate,’ Matt had roared inside my skull, loud enough that I'd flinched in front of her parents. ‘Mate. Mate. Mate.’I had rejected it on the spot. Inside my own head, quietly, the way you slap a hand away from a hot stove. “No. You are wrong. Be quiet.”Because Matt was wrong.Matt had to be wrong.A fated bond announces itself. There's a pull, a heat, a knowledge in the blood that doesn't require a wolf to point and shout. I had felt nothing like that for Kimberly Donovan in the foyer. I had felt nothing. And even if I had — even if some thread of the Moon Goddess's design had run between us — I would have rejected it the instant it touched me. Bonds can be refused. Wolves h

CHAPTER 13: Six O'Clock~ Richard ~I came home a man scraped raw.The northern camp had been worse than the eastern one.One of the healers had pulled me aside near the end of the day, masked and gray-faced, and told me quietly that three of the patients were not going to last the night.I had stood on the steps of that camp afterward and tried to remember how to breathe.By the time I pulled into the drive of the mansion, the sky was bruising into the long blue of early evening, and every muscle in my back felt like a wire pulled past tension. I parked the car badly. I did not care.Elena was in the garden.She was sitting on the low stone bench under the wisteria, her legs crossed, her foot kicking in fast, sharp little arcs. I had been bonded to her long enough to know that foot. That foot meant the inside of her chest was already on fire and she was waiting for someone to put a hand into it.I crossed the lawn to her. Slid my arms around her shoulders from behind. Pressed my mout

CHAPTER 15: A DAY IN HELL~ Kim ~ “Wake up!” I jumped out of bed at the sound of his voice. It was more startling than the loud bell that resounded at 4am in the rogue dungeon. It took me a few seconds to put myself together, but once I did, I hit back hard. “Well, this is unusual, even for you. Where’s the breakfast?”“What breakfast?” His face was flushed for a second.“Well, the only reason I expect you to barge into my room this early with that sort of alarm is if you came to serve me breakfast in bed.” He moved from confused to exhausted, with a hint of irritation. “I mean, even then, your alarm could use a bit of soft touch, but you know, I could look past it when there’s food.” “Haha, very funny.” His tone was dry with sarcasm. “Get dressed. We’re going to the Eastern camp.” He walked to the wardrobe, pulled my bathrobe that was hanging on the door handle and threw it in my face.“A. Who the hell is ‘we’? And B. Why? I remember you chasing me out of there like I was some… pla

CHAPTER 17: TENDER FLOWER ~ Richard ~I watched her all day taking care of those patients, nursing them to health and engaging in conversations with them. She had moments of full blown laughter with some of the patients. Other times, it was a soft smile. It burned my heart that she could be that cheerful with outsiders, strangers, but she had a wall a hundred times higher than the peak of mount Everest when she was with me. “Baby, are you okay?” Elena’s voice pulled me out of my world of my reverie. “Yes. Of course.”“Can we go home already? We’ve been here all day,” she complained, laying her head on my shoulder. “We have to return with your sister. We can’t leave her here.” I replied. “We can. We’ll send your cousin to pick her up when we get home.” Elena ran her hand through my chest. She had been doing that all day. First, we drove away to get something to eat, then to the park, then to see a movie. We had been moving around town and were not even around long enough to offe

CHAPTER 19:Adventure~ Kim ~The idea of being in a vehicle, driving around for minutes on an ‘adventure’, with no more details was terrifying. I tried to calm myself every seven seconds.‘Logan wouldn’t hurt me. We’re cool. I trust him.’The last sentence was a lie. When you’re thrown into a rogue space by your own family and return to your sister fighting tooth and nail to get you in trouble, trust becomes a concept you can’t even concieve. “Where are we?” I brought the window down and was peeping outside the minute the vehicle stopped. “First stop… food.” he replied, shutting the door of his vehicle and moving over to my side to pull it open. ‘A real gentleman,’ I thought. “Wait? There’s more than one stop? Where are we going? How many stops are there?” I fired multiple questions, but Logan smiled and closed the door behind me. He held my hand and led me into the restaurant. The food in the show glass looked luxurious, the varieties were numerous, more than I had seen in one l