All Chapters of The Alpha Brothers' Secret Mate : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Sable's POV I woke up gasping in the dark of my tiny cabin, sheets tangled around my legs like they were trying to hold me down. For a second I thought someone was in the room with me. Then I realized the sound was not outside. It was inside my head. Laughter. Bright and wild, the kind that makes you want to run and jump just because you can. It felt like cold lake water rushing over my skin, the shock of it waking every nerve.Knox.I sat up fast. The bond. It had stuck around after last night like an uninvited guest who refused to leave. I rubbed my eyes and looked at the window. The sky was still that deep blue before sunrise. I had barely slept, my mind too busy replaying every touch from the festival.Another feeling slid in right after the laughter. This one was quieter. Focused. Like someone sitting at a table with maps spread out, marking routes with slow, careful lines. Vex. Checking patrol schedules or something. For the first time in years I was not already reaching for my

Sable's POV The distant howls multiplied, echoing through the trees like a warning no one could ignore, and I stood frozen on the tower steps as scouts burst from the forest line below, shouting reports that carried sharp and urgent on the wind.Strangers had crossed the eastern border, moving like they knew the land far too well, and the pack was already stirring around me, voices rising, doors slamming, the quiet evening turning into a controlled kind of chaos that made my pulse pound in my ears.Vex took charge immediately, his voice cutting through the noise with quiet authority. Knox was to stay close to me while Elias joined him and the others, and together they would get me back to the lodge, gather what we needed, and decide the next move from there. No one was to go off alone, he said, and something about the firmness in his tone told me this was not a moment for argument.Knox nodded, though his jaw stayed tight the entire time. He told me I would stay close to him, that if