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20. Ayr
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Turns out heartbreak is excellent fuel. I barely slept. Nothing matters now, only the demise of Elle. If I keep riding Pepper across the country, barely stopping for anything other than to drop off traitorous papers, then I won’t think of him. That night, on my way back to my small fishing hut, tears brimming, I ripped his white shirt from my body and shoved it underneath the heavy metal chainmail left by the shore. The next day, they were gone. Ayr didn't follow me. He’d retrieved his shit and left me the hell alone. Fine. Good. He can take his useless offer and go jump in the sea. Or into Elle’s bed. Whatever he wants to do. Playing it tough is hard when everything hurts. Being so close to him, even for just a few hours, had inflamed my wolf beyond anything I’d ever felt before. To switch off and deny that surging excitement left me battling the darkest of thoughts. Proving my innocence had never felt further away. Ayr’s doubt in me inflamed the next few leaflets. The packho
His Unlovable Mate 22. Cassie
Thundering into the night with Pepper, my first instinct is to go back into hiding.. But that option has vanished tonight. I stand out to anyone who happens to be awake at this hour, my purple gown billowing into the wind on my grey horse. Plus, I’m tired of playing dead. I was given this chance by Beta Marcus. I can’t waste it. Back when I nuzzled into the solid warmth of his chest, Ayr told me how he has just his three Betas to count on. He knows he’ll have a host of advisors during his reign, but those three are as reliable as the stars. I don’t know where he’s expecting these other advisors to come from, I heard he killed them all when he took over. I don’t have a constant, dependable person I could trust with my life. But for once it’s not making me sad. Instead, Im fresh with adrenalin from surviving whatever the hell Elle had planned for me.“Come Pep, let’s fucking do this,” I whisper, clicking my heels and pulling a sharp turn. Leaping over a series of fences I feel like
His Unlovable Mate 23. Ayr
My wedding day is looming. Just under four weeks to go. The entire cliff house is draped in long white and black fabrics to protect the new stonework. It reminds me of a shroud. Elle has declared that if the new carvings are wet, it will ruin the white effect she wants.The temptation to remind her the packhouse is a cliff face and meant to get wet is incredible but I don’t think I’ve found my fiance’s sense of humour yet. I dread to think how much it has cost. I don’t trust a single person inside this crumbling cliff. I’m only here because the longer I spend in Kallio, the more opportunities I have to try and find out the truth about what happened over four years ago. Most contract marriages just happen. The treaty is signed, and the couple lead their lives as required. Elle seems determined to make this a romantic match. It’s a ludicrous dance. Even if she does not know I am mated to her sister, she must know there is no romance on my part. It’s a contract. Nothing more.Raphael
His Unlovable Mate 24. Cassie
Watching the bridge descend gave me such a rush. Finally, I’m thinking clearer, sharper. Not indulging the stupid rash impulses that saw me nursing broken fingers and running down alleyways. Kissing Alphas out of nowhere. I had a concrete plan and saw it through. Even better, I have information. Elle was sneaking over this bridge, fooling me and my father into believing she was just a clingy little gossip. The idea of her contact being Ayr is remains hard to stomach. It would tie up with so much but my wolf protests at accusing Ayr too quickly. The man who planned my downfall being the man who I regret turning away on an hourly basis? Time is of the essence. Elle will soon plan her vengeance. Cesar is already searching, who else might she send? There is a real risk that the guard, Edgar, could sprint home to his family and vanish. I handed over more than enough gold. He was glancing back at Pemberton in fear whilst I threatened him. There can’t be that many Edgar's surely? Shit
His Unlovable Mate 25. Ayr
“What the fuck?” I snapped, flinging the covers back with whiplash speed. In the dark of the room I could just make out Elle’s curves.With my cock standing to full attention I looked down the length of the bed in horror. Her dazzling amber eyes and smirking red lips were all I could see. It would be cruel to point out the way she had positioned herself, my dick obscured the bump in her nose. Almost perfection. But nowhere near.For a painful second, my entire body lunged in furious desire. It was so fucking close to being her. In the dark of night, a swirl of shadows and illusion, there are only the tiniest percentages between them. But I know. I don’t need my wolf to tell me this shit will never happen. “MOVE!” I yell as her sigh of frustration brushes against my groin again. I’m not entertaining this for a second longer. "Get the fuck off me!"I’m physically recoiling, dragging my pants back up and standing from the bed in less than a second.Elle crawls up the mattress and lies
His Unlovable Mate 26. Cassie
A morning in the Volare pack is enough to convince me of just why Ayr needs this alliance so badly. It’s a shithole. And that’s putting it nicely. There are families here that would kill to spend four years locked in the packhouse cliffs. Leaving my homeland for the first time, everything is brand new to my eyes.A few miles from the bridge, we stumbled into the first major town. Away from the crash of the white foaming river, I had expected to see something Alpha Ayr could be proud of. There is only mud, repair, and the scent of an extinguished bonfire filling the air. It’s wooden and basic. One black flag flies high from a barn-like building, presumably the packhouse,“I’ve only been here a few times. It’s gone downhill a lot,” Robyn whispers as we both try to avoid drawing attention to ourselves. Except I’m wearing a purple gown slashed up to my thighs and Robyn's sports, watery blue eyes, and a green-bruised neck. The more I see of her in daylight, the more green patches I noti
His Unlovable Mate 27. Cassie
I can’t disguise my attraction for a second. My eyes eat him up from head to toe. Every sinew on his body is on display, a slight sheen catching the sunlight. He’s only just shifted back, his breath misting on the autumn air. Tanned, golden skin with muscles stolen from the gods themselves. A heated blush hit me from head to toe when I looked at his cock and then immediately to his face. Both look good. I daren’t let my thoughts go any further for fear of everyone reading my filthy little mind. Everyone must be able to see how foolishly overawed I was. My eyes, helplessly roving over his bare skin, seemed to be broadcast to the dozens of busy townsfolk surrounding me.At least his face was as dumbstruck as mine. His sharp, rugged jawline softer, mouth open mid-shout at his Beta. But his eyes were a wild swirl of blue and green. Fixed on me. A whirlpool of colour I was completely sunk for. Everything that I said last time we met, rejecting his offer to hide me here, to never find me
His Unlovable Mate 28. Ayr
The bridge was back up when we arrived. Meaning we had to travel three miles upstream, abandon the horses, all our gear and shift, trying not to drown in the rapids. Racing across the countryside to get to the bridge, I noticed even more white cliff faces were scorched black, some completely abandoned and crumbling. Things are happening behind the scenes. All those scurried messaged and furtive looking Elders. Kallio looks to be crumbling from the inside. Plus, Elder Brent knew we would be racing to a closed bridge, the smug bastard. Clearly, there can never be any trust between Volare and Kallio. We charged into town in wolf form, picking up mindlinks from as many as possible. Raphael was fine. Well, not dead anyway. Just a vicious sword blade across his upper thighs, away from the chainmail protection. He’d bled heavily enough for them to be worried, but he was stable now. He insisted it was nothing. Beta Maxim and the others were clear he was lucky to be alive. I sent Lucas
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