Lahat ng Kabanata ng Marked By My Enemy Alpha : Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 10

Lyra howled inside me, torn between the mate bond and the sound of our pack dying. I looked down at my mother's lifeless body, her blood still warm on the floor, then back into the eyes of her killer.I laughed, the sound sharp and hollow, disbelief cutting through the ache in my chest.“So I go with you either way,” I said, fists clenching at my sides. “That’s not much of a choice.”“Those are your only options,” he replied with a careless shrug.I stared at him, rage simmering beneath my skin.“And how am I supposed to trust that you’ll keep your word? That you won’t come back and finish what you started?”His expression didn’t change. “I’m an Alpha,” he said. “I don’t break my word.”The weight of it pressed down on me, heavy and suffocating. I let his words sink in, knowing the truth even as I hated it. This wasn’t a choice. It never had been. I would do anything to protect my pack.Slowly, I lifted my head and met his gaze.“I accept your terms,” I said, squaring my shoulders, for

“Now go sweep outside.” Melissa’s smile didn’t waver as she said it and just like that, the broom fell from my grip, hitting the floor with a clattering sound.“Didn't you hear me?“ Melissa asked as I nod my head before I bent down to pick up the broom.She wanted to humiliate me in the worst way possible.Everyone knew who I was, the alpha's daughter, now what would they say of me when they see me with a broom in an omega uniform?“We don't have all day, you will not eat until you are done” Melissa said and left me.I stared at the broom in my shaking hand with disbelief. I knew I had to do it, my pack would be the ones to suffer for any action I took.I stepped outside with my face down.“Huh, look. It's the new omega” someone whispered and I kept my head down, I wanted to pass by quietly.I squeeze the handle of the broom tight.“She's just a…tool“ one of the women said and I stopped to look at the woman who said that about me.“What are you looking at?“ she asked me as her lips st

The whispers crept in before I even managed to open my eyes.I first felt the dull ache in my back, sharp and pulsing where the bandages had stuck to my skin overnight. Then, I heard it. The low murmur of voices drifting in from the corridor outside my door, not quite hushed enough.“…saw him leaving her room himself, past midnight…”“…didn’t even try to hide it, the nerve of her…”I lay there, staring at the cracked ceiling above my narrow bed, trying to convince myself that I didn’t care but it just didn’t work.By the time I finally pulled myself upright, every muscle in my body was protesting loudly, and I already had a sinking feeling about what kind of day awaited me.I changed slowly, being careful not to reopen any wounds, and stepped into the corridor. The chatter stopped immediately. Three omegas were huddled near the linen closet, baskets in hand, their eyes darting away the moment they spotted me.One of them, a slender girl with dark braids, didn’t manage to look away qui

CHAPTER EIGHTHunterThe Elders’ chamber was as familiar as ever.The same long stone table, the same worn grooves in the wood where countless Alphas before me had pressed their palms during tense negotiations.The same five faces were watching me now, a mix of respect and suspicion that only a leader trusted with their lives could inspire, but not necessarily with their pride.“You called for me,” I said, taking my place at the head of the table without waiting for an invitation. It was still my chamber, no matter how much they might want to pretend otherwise.Elder Corwin, the oldest among them, folded his weathered hands on the table. “We did.”“Then let’s get to it. I have a pack to manage.”“That,” Elder Corwin replied, “is exactly what we need to talk about.”I kept my face neutral, though I had a pretty good idea of where this was going. News spread quickly within the pack, especially when it involved the Alpha and an omega who had everyone buzzing.“The girl,” Elder Corwin con

AnnaliseI shot up too quickly.A sharp pain shot through my back but I barely noticed it because my attention was completely fixed on the doorway where Elias had just paused, his hand pressed against the frame.“What do you mean, he won’t be looking for her first?” I pressed.Elias didn’t turn around right away. Rosalind moved past me, placing a cool cloth on the back of my neck with the practiced ease of someone who had done this countless times, but her gaze remained on Elias, waiting for him to respond.“Elias,” she said again, this time softer. “She’s already asking questions. You know how this will end if she keeps tugging at that thread alone.”He let out a slow breath and finally turned to face us.“Sit down,” he instructed me. “Properly this time. This isn’t a conversation for someone half-conscious.”I complied, mostly because my legs felt shaky beneath me, and partly because there was something in his tone that had changed, dropping the careful neutrality he’d maintained si