All Chapters of Her Cursed Alpha : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Wendy’s POV“Easy,” he says, holding up his hands. “Just gonna take a look. You wouldn’t be the first to run dry in the middle of the road.”This close, I see it—The scars.There’s a jagged track that goes from his hairline, down his forehead, follows the curve of his eye socket, and bisects his cheekbone all the way to his jaw. There’s another big scar across his other eye, right through his eyebrow. And yet another vertically slicing through his lips.It looks like someone took a knife to his face. It doesn’t look like the desperate, haphazard slashes like you’d get in a fight or accident. It looks like evidence of torture. He must see the shock on my face, because his own expression hardens. The energy drink churns in my stomach. “Okay,” I whisper. “You can take a look.”He nods in acknowledgement. We’re both pretending like I have some power in this situation, when the truth is, I’ve never been more vulnerable in my life.Who is this stranger? And what the hell happened to h

Wendy’s POVThis guy could be leading me straight to some sort of… lair. For all kinds of nefarious purposes. As much as I might fantasize otherwise, those purposes are unlikely to be giving me multiple orgasms and an engagement ring, so I need to get my head on straight. If we turn off onto any road smaller than this one, I’m turning around and going back the way I came. Hopefully there’s enough gas to get me to some outpost of civilization. But he doesn’t lead me down a smaller road. He stays on this one, wreathed as it is in fog, bordered on either side by black forest, until it finally begins to widen. Pine trees give way to cypress and low, wind-stunted oaks. Ferns spill onto the shoulder, damp from salt spray. The stranger’s truck slows, then turns right onto a well-lit stretch of coastal highway. No lair in sight. Across the road lies the ocean. Waves pummel the shore. Moonlight glimmers on dark water. The sight of it hits me all at once. There’s salt in the air and spa