The Alpha's Mute Mate
His words were needles, but I’d long since grown used to the sting.
I curled my fingers into tight fists before letting them speak with deadly calm: You won’t break me.
His head tilted, his eyes narrowing.
“Oh, but I don’t have to break you,” he whispered, stepping back into the shadows like a vulture circling a carcass. “You’re already cracked. All I have to do is tap…” He tapped his fingers once, twice, thrice against the stone wall—each knock loud, deliberate.
“And watch you shatter.” The echo lingered longer than it should have. He thought he could chip away at me until I collapsed into dust. He didn’t realize—I’d already shattered. And from shattered things, sharper edges are born.
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