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034 | Who did this to you?
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Caleb’s POVWe had to wait for Amelia to recover before we could travel to the Moon Chasm pack. I spent that time getting everything into place, ready for our absence.Harley, my Beta, would step up and take charge of my pack. Not that there was much to take charge of – at least not in the usual sense. Back before all of this, it would’ve been training schedules, dealing with petty squabbles, and making sure everyone was rota’ed in to their correct areas. Warrior Wolves patrolling, Omegas serving, Medics healing, and us ensuring everyone was in their proper place. I wasn’t worried about what I was leaving behind, though. Harley and Nova were capable as hell. I was worried about what I was walking in to.I dreaded arriving at Moon Chasm constantly. Maybe I should’ve been a bit excited – there wouldn’t be summer heat there or anything, with the world beyond our borders settling into a real winter, but there would be infinitely more food than we had here. I could wake up in the morning
An Affair with the Alpha 036 | The Moon Chasm pack
Caleb’s POV“Get off me,” I snarled, wrenching free of his grip.But her mother snapped her teeth at me, barely an inch from my face. I leapt back; her dad held me in place, keeping me still as his mate’s breath warmed my neck.“I didn’t hurt her!” I roared. “She’s my mate! You know I would never do anything to hurt her!”“Then why is she hurt?” he asked, his voice going deadly calm. “Even if you weren’t the one to poison her, you should never have been so lax in your approach to pack management that somebody else could.”“Dad!” Amelia screeched, hastily shoving her arms and legs into clothes by the wagon. “This isn’t Caleb’s fault!”“Maybe it’s mine.” His eyes narrowed. “Maybe I should never have let my daughter stay in that damned pack of yours, boy.”My upper lip curled back. “Boy? How dare you?” I shoved against him. “How about I call you old man, huh?”He froze.And then the son of a bitch cracked a grin. “Oh, Caleb,” he said, releasing me and scrubbing a hand through my hair. “A
An Affair with the Alpha 037 | I know who did it
Kieran’s POVSince I’d come out of the medical centre, my wound stitched up and already on its way to being fully healed, I hadn’t been able to get close to Ames. Not that she’d wanted to get close to me, anyway.It was as though that night, when the gorge had opened up between us, had ended things for her. For me, though? The pining I felt had intensified a thousand fold. I didn’t know what to do with myself, like, ever. Night and day I dreamt of her, picturing myself doing simple, ordinary things with her – cooking dinner, laughing, running my hand down her back, waving to her as she walked away. This love was pure – and it hurt worse than stepping on a twig with a bare sole.If I thought about trying to see her, I could. If I said what I was planning to anyone, even Bo, it was like the whole world would suddenly turn against me. ‘Oh, woe is me,’ Bo muttered. ‘My poor little baby boy. Everything is so hard for you, isn’t it?’‘You’re grumpy today. Shouldn’t you be feeling a bit chi
An Affair with the Alpha 038 | In my daydreams
Kieran’s POVThe rest of the journey to the Moon Chasm pack was torture. All I wanted to do was talk about Rhiannon – to Holly and the Omegas, to work out just how right my theory was, and to Ames, to make sure she knew who to stay the heck away from when we got back to Night Wind.Because even though the others were throwing around names in low voices as we walked, none of them rang as true as Rhiannon’s did. And, in the back of my mind, something else was nagging at me. I just couldn’t quite put the two pieces of the puzzle together. Not yet, anyway – but I vowed to keep trying until I did.The first night, when we set up a freezing camp beneath two gnarled, arching oak trees that had been missing their leaves for over a year, I tried to slip away with Amelia to talk to her. It was finally my chance. There was no way I could ever have pulled her aside while we’d been walking. She and Alpha Caleb had been together the whole time, and I doubted he’d take too kindly to some Warrior Wo
An Affair with the Alpha 039 | Someone I left behind
Kieran’s POVThe high-ups all disappeared into Moon Chasm together when we finally arrived. That left us Warrior Wolves and Omegas twiddling our thumbs and, with nothing else to do, no duties to attend to, I slipped away from the others and went to visit her.I’d told nobody about her. Since I’d left Moon Chasm, she’d been my guilty secret. Sometimes, I still couldn’t believe I’d left her behind. She was the only family I had left – and I’d abandoned her in the name of keeping Amelia safe. Amelia, my mate who didn’t even want me. I was a joke. No, I was worse than a joke. Nobody would laugh at me. They’d either scorn me or pity me, and I couldn’t decide which was worse.It felt so, so strange to be back. The familiar wooden structure of the pack house rose up into the sky – the blue, cloudless sky that, for the first time in months, didn’t look like it was brimming with snow waiting to fall. Huge trees, some still clinging to their autumn leaves, arched over the lowest parts of the pa
An Affair with the Alpha 040 | You have to listen to me
Kieran’s POV‘Just go in. You already know that’s what you’re going to do, so rip the plaster off and do it,’ said Bo. As he had a thousand times already. I’d been stood outside of my old home for what felt like hours, but had probably in actuality only been about ten minutes.I kept staring around, letting the present bleed into my memory. Everything was overlaid: years of following my parents inside, after training or breakfast or dinner, and my heart swelled with a sharp, pinching kind of agony that I preferred to forget.Everyone had lost someone in the war. That was what everyone said.But I’d lost more than most before that.I picked at my thumb nail. ‘I’m scared.’‘You’re a Warrior Wolf, boy.’‘That doesn’t mean I can’t feel fear, idiot. It just means I have to go on patrol and fight in battles.’‘This is no battle. This is your grandma. She’ll be happy to see you.’I stared at the door, at the faded green paint that was peeling at the door’s corners. The Warrior Wolves all liv
An Affair with the Alpha 041 | Eternal Loneliness
Amelia’s POV‘I know who poisoned you. It was the Omega, Rhiannon.’‘I – I’m sorry?’ I pursed my lips and blinked at nothing. I was exhausted from travelling and from playing nice with my parents all day, and now – this?I simply could not fathom it. Why on earth would she want to poison me? It didn’t make any sense.‘I’m sorry, Ames– Amelia.’ Kieran cleared his throat. ‘I didn’t want to tell you like this, I wanted to tell you in person. I…’‘Stop waffling on, Kieran.’ I glanced over nervously at Cal, who was thumbing through a well-read copy of The Beta’s Daughter that I’d left on my childhood nightstand and pulling amused faces at it. ‘I’ll come and meet you,’ I whispered, even though it made no odds to Caleb. He couldn’t hear my mindlink to Kieran – though he could feel every emotion Kieran’s words were making me feel.“Everything okay?” Caleb asked, dog-earing a page of my book and resting it flat across his knees, which made me wince.“Yeah, I’m fine. Just tired.” I couldn’t mak
An Affair with the Alpha 042 | Bold of you to be throwing accusations around
Caleb‘s POVI kept tossing and turning in the bed. Don’t laugh – but I was too damned hot. I wasn’t used to sleeping in silk fucking sheets, either. Everything about this place was making me itch. I’d thought I’d be able to relax once we’d retired to the guest room – once we were finally away from the Alpha and Luna’s prying eyes – but I couldn’t settle. My need for Rhiannon was ever-present, and stronger now than it had been in the day. With nothing to distract myself from it, I was stuck missing someone I at once both craved intimately and barely knew.I woke up and reached for Ames, only to feel the cool, empty indent where her body had been.Sitting up, I reached for the glass of water on the nightstand and sipped at it, rubbing one of my temples with one of my thumbs. A headache was blooming there. As I focused on it, it grew sharper. I winced. Then came the pain. Not my own physical pain, oh no. This was the spicy kind, the kind that I felt only from Amelia through our forced
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