All Chapters of Sold to the Beast Alpha After My Rejection: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Nerissa POVThe two Ashmoor wolves didn't touch me.The stable door opened again before either of them moved toward me and Mara walkedin with her sharp face set in the particular expression she wore when she decidedsomething.She looked at the two wolves first,then at me.Then at the saddled horse behind me."Running again," she said."I was preparing to leave with Alpha Zayden," I said. "Tonight. As arranged.""Alpha Zayden's arrangement has been rearranged." Mara said.I looked at the two wolves by the door."Who are they?" I said."Guests," she said. "Here to assist with a transaction.""Mara,whatever Calista told you. Whatever she offered you. Think about what you'redoing." I said."I've thought about it," she said. "Thoroughly.""Zayden is inside this pack house right now," I said. "With twenty wolves.""Who are currently occupied with a border situation on the eastern approach," she said."Conveniently."The gate sound,the crack of wood from outside was a d

Kaelor POVIt started with the letter I found in the supply crate lining three weeks ago insideObsidian Keep before we rode out to Red Claw.‘What you're looking for has been found. Proof available upon agreement."That was my sister who has been missing for fourteen years.I gave Zayden my answer that night in the equipment room. Told the two Ashmoorwolves sitting on the floor that the answer was no and made them talk and tookeverything they gave me and handed it to Darius.Except it wasn't finished because the letter said proof was available.Now she is alive. Which means they had something physical,something that could beverified or they wouldn't have used the word proof. It existed inside Ashmoor Dominion'sinfrastructure that told the story of what happened to a woman who was taken from aburning pack house fourteen years ago.I rejected the offer,but the word proof had been sitting in the back of everything sinceand it followed me through the mountain pass and

Nerissa POVHarper's note came at dusk,slipped under my door while I was sitting on the edge of thebed reading my mother Andrea's journal for the third time. Working through the entriesslowly the way you worked through something that kept revealing new layers the moretimes you went back to it.I picked the note up from the floor and read it. Harper. The eastern approach trail had twisted ankle and needed help getting backbefore the night patrol rotation changed and left her outside the perimeter withoutescort.I was on my feet before I finished the second sentence.Harper has been the one constant inside this pack house for nineteen years. The onewolf who brought food when I was starving and stood in front of me when wolveslaughed and worried about me with a consistency that asked nothing back.I pulled my coat on,picked up the small lantern from the table.The corridor was quiet,most of the pack house moved into its evening rhythm.The kitchen sounds died down. T

Nerissa POVKaelor's knock came a second time.Zayden's arms didn't move immediately.He stood with me held against his chest for one more second. Like he was choosing tofinish the moment before the fortress pulled him back into it.Then he stepped back,his hands moved to my face briefly."Stay in this room," he said."What's happening?" I asked."I don't know yet," he said. "Stay here until I do."He crossed to the door and opened it.Kaelor stood in the corridor with his dark eyes carrying urgency that his face almostnever showed. Behind him two Obsidian warriors in full gear stood at ready positions. Full gear at sunrise meant whatever happened wasn't small."What is the problem?" Zayden said."Renn's report," Kaelor said. “And something else. The cells,one of the eleven.""Which one?” Zayden said."Soren," Kaelor said. "He got a message out overnight. We don't know the channel yet.We don't know what the message contained. But we know who received it.""Who?” Za

Nerissa POV I noticed the first change at breakfast.Two wolves outside the upper room door when I woke. Both in full gear with their eyesforward and their posture carrying alertness.I looked at them when I stepped into the corridor.They looked back without moving."Good morning," I said."Good morning," one said. His name was Bram. I knew him from the training groundobservation corridor. Broad through the chest,a jaw that looked like it had been carvedrather than grown. He had a quiet way about him that made you forget his size until youstood next to him and remembered suddenly.The second wolf I didn't know. He was standing with the fresh precision of someonerecently elevated to a post they were taking seriously."I'm going to breakfast," I said."We'll walk with you." Bram said.I looked at them both,then I started walking.They fell in behind me at a distance close to be useful and far not to feel like walls.The second change was the corridor rotation.I n