All Chapters of Alpha's Obsession With His Pet: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

(Rene)The Murphys are already on their feet when I close the distance to her."Get out," I say without turning my head. "Now."The bell rings, leaving us alone in the room.She is shaking.Mine. Protect. Claim. Take her. Mark her.I push my wolf down, warning him to be quiet. Angelique is shaking, standing with her back to me.She’s trying to put off the moment of recognition, but the bond is screaming through my chest and it doesn’t matter whether she turns around of not, because I already know.The back of her neck is flushed pink. The way it was the first time I buried my cock in her sweet heat and the mate-bond snapped into place.But that bond has been lied to and destroyed and is waking up anyway. My wolf is in my throat going ours ours ours like a dog at a fence.The man in me wants many things.I remember watching my mother weep when we found a tooth in the remnants of the fire and believed it was Angelique’s.I remember punching trees until my hand eventually broke when th

(Angelique)Gold.His eyes have gone gold.Wolf-gold, the color the eye turns when the animal comes up to the surface to look out.The exact thing I've spent years making sure mine never do where a human can see.So either Parker isn't human.Or I've finally lost it."Quiet," he says, before I can get a word out.He flicks a glance toward the pass, toward Linda and her human ears, and drops his voice under the hum of the fridges."Don't say it out loud."For years this man has been handing me shifts and cash advances, and not once did I smell it on him.Not once."How," I manage. "How did I never-""Because I'm better at it than you."No pride in it. Just tired fact."I've had a lot longer to practice and I don’t have anyone else to take care of."My brain is refusing to hold more than one disaster at a time, so it sets Rene down for a second and picks this up instead.Parker.A wolf.The safest person in my whole shrunk-down life, and he's the same kind of animal as the one who just

(Angelique)Twenty minutes to dismantle a life.It's not as hard as it should be.That's the part that hollows me out, how little there is.Zack's clothes.The shoebox of his drawings.One good blanket.My documents, the fake ones and the realer ones, taped inside a vent I pried open with a butter knife while a wolf in a suit watched me do it and said nothing.Zack's narrating the whole thing to a Beta named Cole, who has the decency to look like he'd rather be anywhere else."-and that one's a shark but it's also a truck, and my mom said I can't bring the rocks but I'm bringing one rock, the gray one, it's my favorite-""Sure, kid," says Cole.I keep my hands moving and my face boring and my whole body pointed at the one thing in this trailer that matters more than my son's lungs.The tin.Top shelf, behind the rice, a dented Altoids tin with maybe four doses left in it.My emergency stash.The thing I never touch, the thing that exists for exactly this situation.The day it all goes

(Angelique)I want to die.Not only from the shame of being seen, though there is that with my half-sister standing in the doorway, watching me presented like meat on his bed.From the other thing.The thing that dropped through me when his shirt hit the floor and the door opened and the animal part of me screamed no, not yet, not now, I wasn't done.I wanted him to finish it.I wanted it more than I've wanted anything in years, and the interruption felt like a door slamming on my hand.He made me crawl.And I'd have let him do everything he was planning to after.And I would have taken pleasure from it in the moment.I press my face into sheets that smell like him and I hate myself with a completeness I didn't know I had left in me.***The pack doctor sees Zack at dawn and pronounces him on the mend.Viral infection just as I suspected. Make sure he gets lots of fluids. It costs me nothing and it should feel like a win.It doesn't, because I've been awake all night waiting for the i

(Rene)She's only been under my roof two days, and I've already stopped being able to tell the difference between hating her and the other thing.That's a problem.I had it clean before.Five years of mourning. Missing my mate.Only to learn she betrayed me.That she didn't just let me bury her, she spread her legs for some other male and got a pup out of it.The moment I saw her in that roadhouse the hate took up residence in my chest, cold and simple and mine.I recognized its shape and sharpened it to a lethal edge.Now she's down the hall and the hate keeps slipping its leash and coming back wearing her scent.It's the bond.That's all.The bond doesn't know she's a traitor.It's a stupid animal thing that wants what it wants, and what it wants is to break her door off its hinges and finish what Brynn walked in on yesterday.Yes, my wolf says. That. Do that.No.You want it. Your cock is hard.He's not wrong but I won't be ruled by it.I’m the Alpha. I control my needs, not the ot