THE ALPHA'S BELOVED
Her eyelids grew heavier, and she felt herself slipping away into the darkness.
“Eve,” she heard Kai calling as the baby was taken from her arms so she wouldn't drop him. “Eve,” he called again, his voice growing more and more distant until she couldn't hear anything anymore.
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Alpha Kai and Eve weren't mates, but she loved him beyond the chance of fate. They should have been mates, perhaps if she had an active wolf they would have been, but she was almost human, ordinary or at least that was what it meant to be eighteen and still had never heard your wolf, not once. Eve was a weak wolf-less orphan, and her fate was sealed that she would never find a mate.