The Rogue Alpha's Northern Mate의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 5

“March ninth,” Priya said for the third time, as though repeating it might change the ink. “The auditors showed up at the Tides office on the fourteenth, and the Tides office was my office, Tess. I remember because I was labeling skate bags and a man in a blue suit took the box cutter out of my hand.”“It could be a clerical mistake.” I turned the gray slip over in my fingers and tried to sound like a person who believed that. “Maybe they approved a different contract that week and recycled the paper.”“For a rogue who was not a rogue yet?”“Maybe they planned to poach me from the Tides the normal way.”“Frostmere has never poached anyone from the Coast, and you know it.” She snatched the slip back, held it up to the light as if it might confess, and then gave a short, humorless laugh. “Do you want to hear the worst part? I had a feeling when he said the word alpha. My wolf went quiet like she does when a storm is coming, and I ignored her because I wanted you to be happy.”“I am stil

I have been hit by some of the biggest players on the Coast, and I have learned that the trick is to see the hit coming and make sure it lands on something you can afford to lose. Jarrett Locke moved faster than anyone that size had a right to, and I saw him coming from forty feet away, so I did what I always did. I dropped my shoulder, leaned into the boards and made him miss.He did not miss.The impact rattled my teeth. My back slammed against the glass with a crack that echoed through the whole arena, and the puck skittered off toward the far blue line while the entire first line whooped. I got an arm up on instinct to shove him off, and that was the moment his bare right hand closed around my wrist.The world went quiet.Heat poured through my arm like someone had opened a furnace under my skin, and it did not stop at the elbow. It rushed up my shoulder and flooded my chest, and my wolf, who had been polite and sulky and silent for six long months, rose up inside me with a howl s