All Chapters of Alpha's Obsession With His Pet: Chapter 11 - Chapter 17

(Angelique)"This floor's yours. Don't go near the west doors, don't go in the war room, don't talk to anyone who doesn't talk to you first. And don’t even think about going outside alone."Cole hands me a bucket like he's apologizing for it."And Zack?""He’s with the doctor's wife. She likes kids."He won't look at me."He's fine."He's not fine.He's a four-year-old landmine parked in a stranger's kitchen with a secret that could bubble out at any second.But at least the herbs are masking his scent again.Brynn's herbs. A debt I'll undoubtedly feel the weight of soon enough.For now Zack smells like nobody and that will have to be enough.I take the bucket.Cleaning's a gift, not that I'd ever tell Cole that.A rag gets you into every room in a house and nobody stops the woman holding it.It makes you background noise.People seem to think servants don’t have working ears.Or that they’re so enthralled by the joy of scrubbing they can’t focus on anything else.Either way, it’s the

(Angelique)"Sit. I made tea."Brynn's got two cups poured on the little table like we're girls catching up, and the wrongness of it crawls up my neck.We’ve never sat down to tea together in all the years we shared a house."What do you want?""I said sit."She doesn’t raise her voice.Brynn never needs to get louder, she's got her mother's trick of making a flat little sentence land like a hand clamped around your throat.So I sit, because I bartered my soul to her for the herbs keeping my son invisible, and we both know it."Zack's got enough herbs for another week."She slides a cup at me I won't touch."You're welcome. The witch I use isn't cheap. She’s actually only sourcing them as a special favor to me. It’s not something there’s a great demand for. Most of us don’t have to be ashamed of who we are.""Thank you." My voice is flat enough to iron shirts on."Mm."She watches me over the rim of her cup, taking her time, enjoying the stretch where I don't know what’s coming yet."

(Angelique)When the opportunity presents itself, I don’t allow myself to hesitate.The maid’s phone is sitting on the cleaning cart, beckoning to me.The moment she goes into the bathroom, I snatch it soundlessly.I only have a few minutes and I better make them count.I can warn Parker in less time than it would take her to clean the bath.As long as she doesn’t come back out and catch me in the act.This is the first time I don’t have eyes on me since Rene declared I’m not allowed to leave this wing.I have to let Parker know that I put him in terrible danger.Zack’s downstairs. He badgered Cole into taking him outside.The Beta is supposed to be my son’s warden, but I think he’s growing pretty fond of him.Zack has that effect on almost everyone.Rene being the glaring exception.The guard on my door wandered off to hit on one of the other maids, further down the hall.The one cleaning in here has her earbuds in.The house forgot about me for ten seconds and I can’t let them go to

(Angelique)The door opens without a knock, and I know before I turn around that something's different tonight.He's been cold for days.Controlled.Touching me like it's a favor he's choosing not to do.Not tonight.Tonight he crosses the room like he's come to collect a debt."Take it off," he says. "All of it."I've learned what happens when I'm slow.I shed my clothes in a hurry.He watches every piece hit the floor, and there's nothing lazy in his eyes now.They move over me like he's deciding where to start."You let another man have this."His voice is low and furious. "Years of it."So he thinks he knows where Zack came from.The lie landed.Brynn fed Parker’s name to him, exactly like she promised she would.Parker's a dead man walking now, and I can't even warn him.And here's the part I hate.My body doesn't care about any of that.My body only knows he's close.The bond is already singing a seductive melody.I'm wet before he's laid a finger on me.He breathes in.He can s