All Chapters of The Alpha's Vampire Mate : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

TheronMy chest always felt like it had a giant hole in it. It was a cold, empty space where my soul used to be. Every time I breathed, the hole hurt. Doctors said I was fine, but they were wrong. I was an Alpha with an empty heart. Five years ago, I had ripped it out and thrown it away when I rejected Keira.Now, the space where our mate bond should have been, felt like a "phantom limb", like an arm that was cut off but still felt itchy and sore.I sat on my heavy stone throne, looking at the other Alphas in the room. We were having a big meeting because something was attacking our borders. My pack was scared. Cattle were dying, and my warriors were being found beaten in the woods."You look tired, Theron," a voice hissed from the corner.It was my father, Silas. He wasn't the Alpha anymore, but he still acted like he owned the world. He sat in the shadows, his eyes watching me like a hawk."I am fine, Father," I said. My voice was deep and tired."You are thinking about that weak

Keiran Walking through the hallways of the Blackwood estate felt like walking through a graveyard where I was the only ghost still breathing. Every stone, every rug, and every scent brought back a sharp memory of pain. Five years ago, I had scurried through these halls like a frightened mouse, keeping my head down so I wouldn't be tripped or spat on.Now, I walked down the center of the hall. My boots made a heavy, rhythmic thud on the floor. I didn't look down. I looked straight ahead through the eye-holes of my bone mask.I saw a group of warriors standing by the kitchen. These were the same men who used to call me "The Pack Burden." When they saw me coming, they didn't laugh. They didn't move to block my path. Instead, they went silent. They pressed their backs against the wall to let me pass.I could feel their hearts beating fast thump-thump, thump-thump. The sound of pure terror.I stopped right in front of a large warrior named Jax. He was the one who had once broken my arm

Theron's POVThe woods were still dark and quiet after she disappeared into the trees, so I just stood there on the edge of the dirt lot for a long time while the cold air bit at my skin.My heart was thumping against my ribs because I couldn't get the sight of those eyes out of my head, since they had shifted from that soft violet color I remembered to a deep, scary red right before she ran off. It felt like a dream or a nightmare, but the way my skin was still tingling from her presence made it all too real, so I finally forced myself to turn around and walk back toward the main house.The gravel crunched under my boots as I crossed the yard, and I noticed some of the younger warriors were still standing around in small groups, whispering to each other about what they had just seen.I didn't stop to talk to them because my mind was spinning with a hundred different questions, so I just headed straight for the war room where I knew my father would be waiting to complain.As I pushed

Marcus POVI walked down the hallway toward the guest wing while the sun was just starting to peek over the trees, because Theron had been on my back all morning about getting the Huntress moved into the Alpha wing as fast as possible. I still didn't think it was a good idea to put a masked stranger so close to the heart of the pack, but Theron was the Alpha and he was acting like a man possessed, so I just kept my mouth shut and went to do the heavy lifting myself. When I reached her door, I knocked a few times but nobody answered, so I used the master key to let myself in because I figured she was probably out scouting the perimeter or already at the training grounds.The room was empty and smelled faintly of the lavender she had tried to destroy the night before, while a few stray purple petals were still stuck in the rug near the trash can where she had dumped them. I saw her gear sitting by the bed, which consisted of a couple of black leather bags and a crate that looked like

Kiera's POVI stayed leaning against the cold stone wall after the lights went out, and I could still hear Theron’s breathing on the other side of the door even though he had finally walked away from me.My hands were still shaking from the way his voice sounded when he talked about that girl, because he had no right to act like he was the victim when he was the one who had thrown me away like a piece of trash. I waited until I was sure he was settling into bed, and then I felt a sudden and sharp chill in the air that didn't have anything to do with my own anger, since it was the unmistakable feeling of cold silver moving through the woods. It was a specific type of metal that the Silver Order used, and I knew that if they were here, it meant they had finally tracked my scent from the Gray Zone all the way to the Blackwood border.I couldn't just stay at my post and let them sneak into the house, so I moved down the hallway as quiet as a shadow and stepped out onto the wide stone ba