Too Late Alpha My Silence Was Goodbye Novels & Stories

After I was rescued from five years in captivity, my husband, Luke Hauser, told me in an offhand tone, "I'm the one who arranged your kidnapping. When they dragged you into that van, I was standing right there in the alley." I froze. Then my brother, Peter Costner, the richest man in Hendonport, spoke up. "I paid for it. "We only meant to punish you for three years and then bring you home. But Jake was afraid you hadn't learned your lesson and would go on bullying Piper. "He insisted we leave you in that mountain village for another two years." Jake Bingham was an orphan I'd brought home when we were kids. After I was taken, men forced themselves on me night after night. My belly swelle

"Wren. If Vane had influence over Harrow Ridge before it was even finished—" "Then it's not a coincidence I was sent there," I finished for him, the cold settling so deep into my stomach now that it felt less like fear and more like certainty. "It's not a coincidence my sentence never got reviewed. It's not a coincidence no letters reached me, and none of mine reached anyone else." I looked at the photograph again, at the easy, unknowing smile of the man who would one day help bury me alive under two years of silence and call it keeping me safe. "He didn't just hide me from Ironwood, Ezra. He put me somewhere he already controlled, and then he made very sure I stayed there." Behind us, the s

At my mate Kyle Vera's Alpha succession ceremony, my son and I stood there beside him as family. When it was my five-year-old son's turn to say a few words, he stood up on stage and asked me innocently, "Mom, is it true you slept your way in as the other she-wolf?" The whole pack erupted. Every reporter covering the ceremony swung their cameras straight at my face for the national broadcast. "Luna Leora, is what your son just said true?" "A little boy wouldn't lie about something like that! I bet she never expected her own son to expose a family scandal like this in front of everyone." "You didn't know? Alpha Kyle used to be engaged to his childhood sweetheart. The engagement broke off

For five years, I let my husband’s fated mate take whatever she wanted. My place beside him. His time. His attention. The tenderness that used to belong to me. I even told myself I could survive watching my own son choose her over me, because a broken family had to be better than no family at all. It wasn’t. On the tenth anniversary of the bond my husband and I chose for ourselves, he canceled our ceremony and told me his fated mate would be taking my place beside him. Then my son gave her the Luna necklace his father had once given me and told me she was his real mate. That was the moment I finally understood something I should have learned five years ago. No matter how much of mysel

"I can't reach him again. Not after that moment. He's gone back to being silent." The room fell silent. Angela went completely still. The color drained straight out of her face. "That's..." she whispered, her voice barely a sound. "I have never heard of an alpha beast going silent. Not ever. Except on an occasion where the host is sick. Where the person is sick and about to lose their life. That's... that's like the only time."

Victoria Graham told me we'd have to postpone getting our marriage license again just as I was picking up my fork. Victoria set down her cutlery, her tone as casual as if she were commenting on the weather. "Next time." I took a bite, chewed, and swallowed. "Okay." She glanced at me, then lowered her head and reached for another bite. Before taking it, she looked up at me again. "You're not angry?" I took another bite and answered calmly, "I'm not." We'd been engaged for six months, and this was the 17th time she'd postponed getting our marriage license. She was used to it. So was I. I ate slowly and finished my meal, one mouthful at a time. She didn't touch her food again. After ta

When I'm eight, my younger sister, Rachel Gaffney, unplugs the battery powering my artificial heart so she can charge her phone. By the time Mom and Dad find me, my skin has turned blue, and I'm barely breathing. The doctors save my life, but I'm left with serious health problems that never go away. After that, Rachel might as well be invisible to Mom and Dad. They stop smiling at her and barely speak to her. All their time and attention go to me instead. Dad takes a job overseas just to pay for the monthly maintenance on my artificial heart, while Mom quits her job to stay by my side around the clock. She even fasts one day a week, praying that I'll be given more time. I may never be he

“Now tell me, have you learned your lesson about making your alpha wait for you instead of the other way around or should I make it more clear?“ “I learned my lesson alpha, I will never be late again I swear” I say shakily “Let’s carry on with our night then” said alpha Grey with a devilish smile.

Few days to take everything from him again. The glass clinks softly as I set it down. “Enjoy your spotlight, Alpha,” I whisper. “It’s the last light you’ll ever see.”

“Like I say, let’s not talk about such matters on the phone. I’ll see you outside your place at 8pm.” “That’s late-” “I never realised you were such a good girl and went to bed on time,” he mocks, but something about the way those words are said makes my stomach flutter. “Of course not, I actually sleep quite late! Eight is fine,” I retort. “Goodbye, Alpha Quade.” Goodbye, Alpha Layla.” He imitates my tone mockingly before the line goes dead. I stare at the phone, my heart thumping at what he called me.