The Alpha's Abandoned Mate
“The first bread you wouldn’t eat because you said you didn’t deserve warm food.”
“I don’t,” he ground out, driving an elbow into a man’s throat and hauling him off the ladder, “and you threw the loaf at my head.”
“Eat,” she said now, softly, “but eat air.”
He swallowed and laughed once, sharp. “Bossy.”
“Alive,” she said, and stepped into a new line of men as if she were stepping into a dance she would win. The light flared, precise, cutting weapons free of hands, not hands from arms. Mercy turned martial. Cruelty turned measured.