All Chapters of Marked by the Heartless Alpha King: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

“I fed you,” he cut me off. “I brought you your favorites.”I scoffed. “You snuck me sweets from your kitchen like I was a stray kitten. But you saw my bones sticking out under my skin, and the most you ever had to say about it was that I looked delicate and feminine.” I looked down at his leathers,

Avery’s POVThe stag’s eyes were dark and deep, so much deeper than I imagined—containing multitudes, the entire universe, but more than that somehow.As if something else was watching me from within its gaze. Something far older and more enormous than I or the stag or the entire forest could ever b

Avery’s POVThree long horn blasts rolled over the festival grounds an hour before sundown. I didn’t have to ask what it meant.The hunting party came out of the tree line a few moments later, carrying the stag strung by its legs from a pole between four males. That beautiful coat, pure lily-white j

Avery’s POVNobody at the table so much as breathed.Gideon held Jessica’s wrist in the air between them, her palm still open from the slap she’d never gotten to land. The drums by the bonfire had stopped mid-beat. Even the pups had gone quiet.“Have you lost your mind?” he asked.The words came out

Avery’s POVI felt relief and fear wash over me in equal measure as I watched the Silvermoon caravan shrink down the road. My mother had squeezed my hands one last time, quick and quiet, while Ryan was busy accepting congratulations for his kill.This goodbye should have been easier than the last on