Todos los capítulos de Marked by the forbidden Alpha : Capítulo 11 - Capítulo 20

Danny had not slept in four days.Ruth could tell from the way he looked, that particular hollow quality around his eyes that showed up when he pushed himself past the point his body was willing to cooperate with. He was sitting across from her at the kitchen table with his phone face up between them and a cold cup of coffee he had forgotten about twenty minutes ago and he was doing that thing he did when he was scared but refusing to admit it, talking too fast and too much about practical things."The detective said they would have something by Thursday," he said. "They are checking the forest cameras on the Coldveil road, there are two of them, one at the entrance to Ashford and one further down near the old mill. If she went through there they will have footage." He picked up his coffee, remembered it was cold, put it back down. "Marcus came by again this morning."Ruth looked up. "What did he say?""Same as before. That she had not shown any signs of wanting to leave, that she seem

Wren had left before the sun came up,I knew because when I opened my eyes the space beside me was empty and the jumper was folded neatly at the foot of the bed with the socks on top, returned quietly before anyone could see, and I smiled at that for a moment before I got up and started getting ready for the day,I had a routine now, to get dressed, head to the east wing to check if anything needed doing before the study, sort the correspondence, run whatever errands came up, it was not the life I had planned but it was structure. And structure kept my head clear and a clear head was how I was going to find my way out of this place,The balcony walkway that connected the main building to the east wing was open to the sky and cold in the mornings, I could see the training yard below already active, horses being led out, stable hands moving around in the early light, and I pulled my jacket tighter and kept walking,I was not looking where I was going,Neither was she,We rounded the cor

Daxton had not been in the corridor when it happened but Soren had, Soren was the spy he planted to watch over things happening when he was away and she was useful . she had report to him after he came back from the meeting he had had and within twenty minutes, every word Evander had said and the exact way he had said it,She is my property, don't touch what belongs to me,Daxton had read it twice, set it down, and sat very still for a long moment the way he did when something required real thinking rather than the automatic kind,This was worse than he thought,Not the words themselves, the words could be explained away, an Alpha protecting something in his keep was not unusual, but the way Evander had moved, that was what Soren's description made clear, he had not sent a guard, he had not issued a command from a distance, he had gone himself and placed himself between Lyra's nails and the human girl and that was not the behaviour of a man protecting property,That was the behaviour

The whole pack was summoned before breakfast I knew because Wren appeared at my door while I was still in bed with her hair scattered and her eyes wide and she said get up, get dressed the Alpha has called a full pack assembly. immediately I sat up because full pack assemblies in this keep had a specific energy attached to them and the last one I attended had involved three people kneeling in the dirt of the courtyard,What is happening I said,I do not know exactly she said but the whole keep is already talking,I dressed quickly and followed her out,The great hall was already full when we arrived,The great hall was long and lit with morning light coming through the high windows, and three hundred wolves packed into it with the specific restless energy of people who had been told something was happening without being told what.I stood at the back with Wren beside me and Cole who had appeared from somewhere on my other side and I looked around at the faces nearest to me and tried

I screamed his name before I even fully processed that it was him, and then I screamed Caroline's and both of them spun around and their faces did the thing faces do when they see someone they had already started to grieve, that specific crack of disbelief and relief hitting at the same time,Run, I said, I was still running, I did not stop, just grabbed Caroline's arm as I passed her and said run right now and she ran, she did not ask questions, she just ran, and Danny fell into step beside me and the three of us crashed through the undergrowth together with the sounds of the Duskfang wolves somewhere behind us fading, fading, and then gone,We did not stop until we hit the edge of the tree line,The road was there, the actual road, tarmac and lamplight and the ordinary human world sitting exactly where it had always been, and we stumbled out of the trees and stood there breathing hard with our hands on our knees and the forest behind us dark and silent,Danny straightened up first,