All Chapters of Alpha's Obsession With His Pet: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

45 Chapters

Chapter 31 – Back from the Dead

(Angelique)I’m expecting a servant with a tray when there’s a knock at the door, Brynn and Rene don’t knock.I crack the door and it gets shoved the rest of the way open."Move."She's inside before I can do a thing about it, and the floor drops out from under all the years at once.Tova.Eyes narrowed angrily. Jaw set like she came up here looking for a fight."Tova, I-""Don't."She holds a flat hand, up between us. "Don't say my name like we get to be fine after what you did."She circles me, checking I'm solid. Doesn't touch me."I spoke at your funeral. Got up in front of the whole pack and eulogized my best friend while crying so hard I could barely speak.""I know, I’m sorry, I-""You don't know. You weren't there. That's the whole point of it."Her eyes are wet and furious, and she'd bite me before she let a single tear fall."You were off somewhere breathing and living your best life while I learned how to carry on without you."Nothing I say is going to appease her, except

Chapter 32 – The Words

(Rene)"Bring her up. Just her."Cole's quiet on the line a second too long."The Myr are going to be furious if you do this in private. Maliyah wants witnesses and a public spectacle. She wants everyone to bear witness to you choosing her daughter and rejecting Angelique.""Maliyah can want whatever she wants, I’m under no obligation to dance to her tune. I'm not standing in that hall again until it's already done."I hang up before he can keep arguing.Cole is the best Beta I could ever ask for.Calm under pressure, a great advisor, and he always has my back.But I’m not attempting this in front of a crowd again, and while I trust him more than anyone else, I’m not telling him why.The pack will be able to feel the mate-bond severing, that will be enough proof that it’s been done.Once was enough.I stood in front of my whole pack with the words held prisoner by my wolf.Parker walked in, and everyone agreed to call it an interruption, because the other story is that their Alpha cou

Chapter 33 – Checkmate

(Angelique)"Where's the boy?"Brynn's already inside.None of them knock."Asleep.""Keep him that way."She sets a paper packet on the table. More herbs, doled out like she's feeding a stray.I’ve been using a bit extra while Maliyah is here, a fact Brynn is aware of and not arguing against.The packet's thinner than last time.I’m sure she’s doing that on purpose.Letting the pile shrink without a word, so I'm always counting days instead of sleeping.I know she doesn’t want her mother or Rene to know about Zack, so this is pure posturing, just to prove she has power over me.But I still don’t dare call her bluff.I have too much to lose."Count yourself lucky. My witch nearly didn't come through this time."I don't thank her.We're past the part where either of us pretends the gratitude's real.She wrinkles her nose then, the exact way her mother does."His scent is all over you."I say nothing.Rene calls me to his room at least once a day to pleasure him.He touches me, brings m

Chapter 34 – Discipline

(Rene)"He'll be here by morning,” Cole says to my back."Then there's nothing left to settle tonight. Keep the boy busy and away from Angelique’s room for the next hour."I keep walking toward the east wing.Not away from it like I should be, which tells me how the night's going to go before I've decided a thing.By morning a man who reads intent will be standing in my house.And tonight I can't keep my own feet from carrying me to the one thing in it I have every reason to stay away from.I don't summon her up to my quarters.I want to take her by surprise, without giving her the walk to my bedroom to gather her emotions and school her expression.She's sitting on her bed, body rigid like she was expecting me.She felt my approach. Couldn’t have been sure I was headed to her, but if the bond is as alive in her chest as it is in mine, she felt at least some of my intent."Up."She comes to me immediately.She's learned the steps well, obeying without question.I fist a hand in her ha

Chapter 35 – The Last Dose

(Angelique)"I don't want the juice. It tastes like dirt and feet.""I know, bug. Drink it anyway."I've got the packet open on the dresser and I'm tapping more into the cup than I should, because the more he drinks the longer it holds, and today it has to hold.Even more than every previous day when his life depended on it.There's almost nothing left.Brynn is making it very clear that she holds the strings and I’d better dance to her tune.The stakes are much higher for me than they are for her.I tip the last of the crushed leaves into the juice and watch it go cloudy as I try to work out how I get a four-year-old to drink double and not put up a fight."Drink a second one and you get a marshmallow.""Three marshmallows.""Finish it in two gulps and you can have two marshmallows. That's the deal."He eyes me like a tiny lawyer, then plugs his nose and drinks.Best boy in the world.The whole reason I do any of this.I fold the empty packet flat and shove it under my mattress where

Chapter 36 – The Ruling

(Rene)Levi Knox unnerves me because he’s so soft-spoken, while simultaneously imbued with divine authority.The great room is full and dead quiet.My pack along one wall, the Myr along the other, Maliyah at the head of hers like she's the one presiding.Parker is seated in a chair in the middle, unrestrained, because the Warden decreed that there should be no chains, and what a Warden asks for, he gets.Knox stands where the window light finds him, exuding a calm that seems to cost everyone in the room but him.He's been at this an hour and barely asked a question.His method seems to be to just look at people until the room tells him what it knows.It’s a stupid, frustrating way of doing things, that tells nobody else what he learns, or even if he learns any bloody thing.He looked at me twice.I gave him a wall and a headache and nothing under it.Both times he moved on, but the second time he held a half-second longer, like he'd caught a loose thread and decided not to pull it yet

Chapter 37 – What the Warden Leaves

(Angelique)The second the ruling breaks up, I've got Zack by the hand and I'm moving.Out of the great room. Up the stairs. Behind a door.That's the whole plan. Get him gone before anything else can go wrong today.His dose is hours old.I gave him enough to cover him until tomorrow under normal circumstances, but nothing about today is normal.On top of that I don’t know if changing his scent is going to be enough when faced with a Warden.I want a wall between Zack and that man as soon as possible.Most of the pack just heard a Warden call me the Alpha's goddess-given mate.The last thing I want is for him to make proclamations about Zack.I can feel the looks trailing me toward the stairs.I don't have time for looks.We don't make it past the bottom step."Miss Pruitt."The Warden's voice is right behind me. Quiet, the way everything about him is quiet.I turn, my grip on Zack’s hand tightening.He's alone. Coat on, ready to go. The hall's emptied out, and somehow it's just the

Chapter 38 – His

(Rene)Parker Frey is asleep under my roof. Fed at my table. Breathing my air, protected by a law I'm not allowed to break.So I send for her.Because I can't put my hands on him, and I need to put them on something that's mine.She comes in still dressed for the day.“Lock the door behind you,” I order, telling her what kind of night it's going to be.The kind where another man's scent is in my house and this is the only thing I'm permitted to do about it."Clothes off. Get on the bed."She goes. Sits on the edge, hands folded in her lap, offering me that calm expression she wears like it'll keep her dry.It hasn’t worked yet, it won’t start tonight.I get down on my knees in front of her, and I watch the calm crack, just a hair, her throat working as she tries to swallow.This isn’t how it usually goes. I’ve thrown her equilibrium off.Good. She doesn’t get to pretend to be unaffected by me and get away with it."Open."She doesn't.I put my hands on her knees and spread them myself

Chapter 39 – The Wrong Note

(Angelique)"Please."I hate the word the second it leaves me.I hate even more that I've already said it twice and she’s pretending not to hear me.Brynn doesn't look up from her phone."Please what?""You know what. It’s been more than a day since his last dose. I need you to ask your witch for more herbs. Please. If she doesn’t have any more let me call the one I bought from before, she may know someone in this area who can help."She lets the quiet stretch, continuing to scroll as if she doesn’t have a care in the world, because making me stand here feeling helpless is half the point."My witch sent plenty," she says at last."But I decide how much of it lands in your hand."She opens a drawer and pulls out a few paper twists, dropping them into her palm.She’s gone and divided it into smaller rations, like an actual drug dealer.The twists are less than a full dose.She holds four of them just out of my reach. "That's your allotment for the week. Ration carefully.""Brynn, that w

Chapter 39 – No More Delays

(Rene)"No more delays."Maliyah says it like she owns my father's study.With him nodding along from his chair, she nearly does.I’ve never been able to understand why he’s always so eager to support her.She was mated to his Beta. Angelique’s father, Theodore Pruitt.That doesn’t explain how oddly close they are."The Warden's gone. The pack's whispering. Every day that drags by makes you look weaker."She folds her hands in her lap."Reject the girl. Tonight. With witnesses present, so no one can argue it later."Kill her. She dares to dictate terms to an Alpha?This is one instance where I wish I could give in to my more bestial urges.The world would be a better place without Maliyah in it.I have to keep reminding myself that attacking her would be equal to declaring war against the Myr pack."I appreciate your concern, but I’ll do it on my own time.""You've had your own time."Her smile is patient and awful."Now you'll have mine."My father adds dryly from his chair, "She's r

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