All Chapters of Sold to My Enemy Alpha: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Three hundred wolves watched my life end. Not with blood. With seven words.Dane stood on the ceremonial platform, his silver eyes fixed somewhere above my head. He couldn't even look at me.I, Alpha Dane of Silver Crescent, reject you, Aria Gray, as my fated mate and Luna.His voice echoed off the stone walls. Clean. Bored. Final.The Great Hall went silent. Then someone laughed. I don't know who. The sound multiplied, bounced around, turned into a wave of snickers and whispers that crashed over my head.My wolf collapsed inside my chest. Curled into nothing. She didn't howl. Didn't fight. Just… died.Dane finally looked at me. His eyes were cold. Empty. Like I was a stranger."Say something," he said.I opened my mouth. Nothing came out.Mira stepped forward from behind Alpha Marcus's throne. She wrapped her arm around Dane's waist. Pressed her perfect body against his perfect body. Smiled at me. Slow. Sweet. Poisonous."Don't be dramatic, Aria," Mira said. "Everyone knew he'd never

The pack stared at me like I was already dead.I felt their eyes the moment I walked into the dining hall. Dozens of wolves. All of them Bloodmoon. All of them hungry for something I couldn't give them.A blonde woman near the window whispered to her friend. The friend laughed. A man by the fire placed his hand on his knife and didn't take it off.I kept walking.The dining hall was huge — twice the size of Silver Crescent's. Stone floors. Dark wood tables. A fire burning in a hearth big enough to roast a whole deer. The ceiling was lost in shadow.At the far end, a table sat empty. One plate. One cup. One chair.Kael's chair.I stopped in front of it."No," I said to no one in particular. "I'm not sitting there."A deep voice came from behind me. "Then you don't eat."I turned.An older man stood by the kitchen door. Grey hair. Grey eyes. A body that had been built for fighting thirty years ago and never got the memo to stop. He held a tray of food — bread, meat, something steaming i

The kiss followed me to bed.Not Kael. Just the memory. Just the way his mouth felt against mine. Just the sound he made when I didn't push him away.I lay on the left side of his bed. The same spot as last night. The same clothes. The same bite mark throbbing on my neck.Kael wasn't here.He'd disappeared after the truck stopped. Told Elias to take me upstairs. Said he had work to do. Didn't look at me when he said it.I touched my lips."Stop it," I whispered to myself.My wolf didn't listen.The door opened.Not Kael.Vera.The blonde from the dining hall. She stood in the doorway with her arms crossed and her eyes burning."You're in his bed," she said."Apparently.""You don't belong here.""Tell that to the man who bought me."Vera walked inside. Didn't ask permission. Didn't care. She stopped at the foot of the bed and looked down at me like I was something she'd scraped off her shoe."I've been waiting for Kael for three years," she said. "Three years of being patient. Three y