“Okay, then just show them the mark.” He states as though that was it. I thought that would be the answer too, but Alpha Dane said it’s not as simple as that. If they find a way to kill him first, I would be free from my bonds. The same as when he killed Kyle.
Alpha Dane tells him exactly that.
“For argument's sake, let's say they do find a way to kill you.” He mutters to Alpha Dane “Why are they so hellbent about putting a pup in her? Surely there are other females in the pack.”
“She doesn’t just carry Alpha blood, she is an Alpha!”
Jenson’s dark eyes find me again, hovering on me for longer than before. I shift in my seat, and lower my gaze.
‘Prick!’ Nyx snaps
“I will help.” He mutters eventually. “Like you said, Dane. This is my home too.”
He swans from the office, muttering something about taking up his own room.
“You didn’t tell him.” I whisper
“About Nyx? No, I thought it would be more interesting to see how you respond to him, now that you have another spirit residing in you.”
“You mean you want Nyx to surprise him?”
He smiles. The first proper smile I had seen in days. “It might remind him to stay in his own lane.”
“Someone will tell him, it’s not a secret.”
“Perhaps, or maybe they will expect him to know. What did she think of him?”
“She called him a prick.”
Alpha Dane laughs. “Finally a female who can see right through him.”
He leans back in the desk chair, folding his arms across his chest. “I know I haven’t been easy to live with for the last few days. But something like this just doesn’t happen to my pack.”
“I know and I’m so….”
He holds a hand up, stopping me from finishing my sentence. “You have to stop apologising, Neah. I know you are sorry, but you can’t feel guilt for something that was out of your control. I was the one who put you in that situation. I left you with just a few guards and the man who claimed to be your brother. You have to stop blaming yourself.”
“Where are we going?” I ask quietly
He glances at me with his crimson eyes but doesn’t speak. Dread begins to fill my body. Nyx was becoming more and more restless too.
“Where are you taking me?!” I snap at him and instantly feel regret. Nyx was going to get me into a lot of trouble if she kept forcing herself forward.
There’s a curiosity in his eyes that I didn’t often see. “I just want you with me. A Lycan has been found in my forest and Klaus called me to check it out. Don't worry, he is dead." He pauses, looking at me, "I told you, I don’t want you out of my sight. But it is nice to know that you are showing yourself.”
We move deeper amongst the thick trees until voices could be heard. Particularly Klaus who was busy snapping at someone.
A half shifted man was sprawled out on the floor. A man I recognised, that would come and beat me regularly, a man who liked to use the metal of his belt as his form of torture. I didn’t know his name, but I had never forgotten his face.
“He wandered in.” Klaus mutters. “Trying to claim he was a human and had lost his way. As you can see, he was killed mid shift.”
I couldn’t take my eyes off of him. Someone had torn out his throat. And I could think of nothing else, but to wish that it had been me that had killed him.
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I am clearly coming late to this book …me definitely one of the more well written ones. I feel like Im reading a series though … like I just finished reading two books and now we are off onto another storyline. Getting used to “splutter” instead of “sputter” as a word, and still trying to work out the “Lycan” logic as Blairs explanation doesn’t really make sense given the initial explanation of how Lycans came to be … I do wish these were in physical form. I do love to flip back and forth on pages to reread previous chapters. So much arder on these apps....
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The last this book was updated was December 2024 not 3 years like someone else claimed. It can't be 3 years when the author started the story in Jan 2024. Now the story can be found on Inkitt...
I have a question. I understand this book is pirated with left out parts or adjusted. Is this version here ever going to be finished. I just want to know what happens....
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