《Fated to Marry My Enemy Alpha》全部章節：第 11 章 - 第 20 章

Damon’s POVMy heart was still pounding when she pulled the blade back from the rogue's throat.I had watched men die in these woods every month for years. I had killed most of them myself. None of it had ever pulled at my chest the way this did, watching her do it.'Mate.' My wolf rose to the front of my mind, every nerve in him straining toward her. ‘Fearless. Look at her. That is our Luna!'I didn't answer him.Ten minutes earlier her scent had crossed the grounds, faint under the blood and the churned earth, my wolf had caught it before I did. He had clawed at me, frantic, telling me she was here, telling me to find her. I had told myself he was wrong. There was no reason on earth for her to be on the hunting grounds, and every reason for her to be anywhere else.I was wrong.By the time I reached the clearing I saw all of it at once. Three rogues. Her small figure ran ahead of them toward a tree line she would never reach. The princess of Whitemane, the weak girl I had pictured r

Halley’s POVAn hour after the woods, Damon walked me to my room and stopped in front of the door."You'll stay in here," he said. "My room is across the hall, if you need anything."He turned to go."Wait." He paused. "Why are we holding a party tonight? We should be riding for Whitemane now, not throwing a celebration."He turned back, slow. "If we are to be wed, my pack has to know it. They have to see you." His voice was flat. "That is the first step. Nothing moves at Whitemane until it's settled here.""I understand," I said, because I did, even if I didn't like it."You've had a long day." The edge wore off his voice, just slightly. "We ride for Whitemane the moment we're able. I'll come back for you when it's time."I listened to his steps fade down the hall before I let myself breathe.The room stopped me at the threshold. I had grown up in an Alpha's house and still I had never stood in anything like it. Dark wood, tall windows, a bed I could have been lost in. Every surface

Halley’s POVI saw the girl clearer as she approached me. Red hair, shorter than mine, catching the firelight. Her arm was down now but the fury hadn't gone out of her face. For a beat we only looked at each other.Then she ran at me.She came fast, arms flailing, a sound tearing out of her that wasn't quite words. Her nails were out. Her eyes found my throat and stayed there, and I knew she meant to open it. I didn't have time to move. Damon did. He stepped in front of me and caught her by both arms before she reached me, holding her there and bent to say something low against her ear that I couldn't hear. Whatever it was, it didn't stop her fighting. Theo was at his shoulder a moment later."Take her back to the hospital," Damon said, flat. "I'll be there soon." Then, lower, to the girl, not quite steady: "Lexi. Look at me. I've got you. Go with Theo." He passed her into Theo's arms. She twisted against him, clawing at the air. Theo got an arm around her and began drawing her bac

Halley’s POVI tossed and turned all night, Damon's words bouncing around in my head. Lexi. The hospital. The girl my pack had broken without ever knowing her name. When the first light finally crept across the ceiling, I gave up on sleep and got out of bed.'Where are we going so early?' my wolf asked, half asleep."To find Damon. I have to make this right."'And how do you mean to do that?'"I don't know yet. But it was my family that did this to her. The least I can do is help."I dressed and went down the hall to his bedroom. I knocked. Nothing. I knocked again and the silence stretched until I let my hand fall."Good morning, dear."I turned. Paige stood behind me with a breakfast tray balanced on one arm, already steering me back toward my own room with the other."He's been gone since before dawn," she said, settling the tray on the table. "That one barely sleeps when his sister takes a bad turn. Sit. Eat."I sat. "You heard how the party went, then.""The whole pack heard, dea

Halley’s POVA few hours after I woke, Paige came in with a dress over her arm."Just one today?" Usually she brought three or four and let me choose."Alpha Damon picked this one out for you." She laid it across the bed.I looked at it. Long, black, mesh at the sleeves and down the back. Nothing like the soft Whitemane gowns I had grown up in."He picked this." I touched the fabric. "Why?""He didn't say." Paige's mouth twitched. "He rarely does.”'It's beautiful,' my wolf said, pleased.I held it up against me in the mirror. “I’ve never worn anything like this.”"Maybe that's the point," Paige said and went to fetch the pins.I met him in the hall once I was ready.Damon was in an all black suit, clean lines, not a thread out of place. I had seen him in armor. I had seen him bloodied. I had never seen him like this. It made him look less like a weapon and more like a man.Something in my chest pulled tight and would not let go.For a moment neither of us moved. Then he looked me ove