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Chapter Thirty-Six - On One Condition
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Byron’s POV I couldn’t believe I’d been so stupid. Treating my mate and future Luna like that and expecting her not to run. It got worse. My sister’s former nursemaid, Vanessa, told me Liz was pregnant. Had I lost her again, thrown away our future on some pathetic whim only justified by the will of the Werewolf Council? Mo accused me of doing just that and my more rational side agreed with her. “Send Philip to locate her. He’s a decent tracker and will not be tempted to ill-treat her, unlike some.” As if I didn’t already know that. Though I had to ask. “Which of my ranking warriors would do such a thing?” “The Delta, for sure.” She had a point. Adam was a hothead who wanted to impress me. So far, he was going the wrong way about it. I sent for Alpha Richard before he plucked up the courage to confront me. That would have done neither of us any good. “I’ve messed up,” I admitted. “Badly. Your sister is important to me, whatever you might be tempted to think.” “She can be a bi
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Liz’s POVIt wasn’t a matter of who was calling the shots – his identity – though I hadn’t much cared for his attitude the first time around; it was what he represented. An authority I’d been raised to bow to, even if sometimes I had been less than cordial when they came calling.Didn’t he realise I had no power any longer?No, it was much worse than that.“If you don’t play ball, I may recommend your pack reverts to us. Like when there’s no suitable Alpha in charge. An improper,” he lingered on the last word, insultingly, “hierarchy.”“That’s not fair. Are you saying Alpha Archimedes isn’t fit to rule, either?”“He broke an unwritten rule when he annexed Moon Tides,” Randy said, with a scowl.So he could be aggressive as well as snide. Bring it on.Yet I was hardly in a position to go toe to toe with him.“What do you want from me?”I was tempted to lay my head down on the table, weariness seeping into my very bones. But I wanted to show no weakness in front of the likes of him.“Be
The Alpha's Collateral Chapter Thirty-Nine - Renewed Suspicions
Byron’s POVThe owner of the Halcyon owed me a favour so I knew within a few hours that someone answering Liz’s description had checked in – using her own name, too. Miss Bell was a cool customer. Just what was she up to?Fancy her not straying too far from our joint pack lands. Maybe she had a good reason. Colm also told me about the guys she had ‘met’ in the bar. Up to her old tricks, was she? I was determined to give her enough rope to hang herself, as the saying goes.Reportedly she retired alone to her single room. Biding her time, perhaps. Two could play at that particular game.Maybe I should spend a few nights away from home. Give Ricky a real test while checking up on his sister.I arranged it personally with O’Donnell, insisting on a suite with uninterrupted Wi-Fi. Sometimes there was a glitch in the system and I couldn’t afford to take my hands off the reins. Alpha Richard was hard work, there was no denying that.I often went ‘missing’. Nobody must know about the weapons p
The Alpha's Collateral Chapter Forty - Unwelcome Reunions
Liz’s POVIt was a shame we had to leave the hotel so abruptly. Michael wanted to get away from his new client. He didn’t say why. I reckoned it was damaging to his street cred. to be seen with him. And when Benjamin informed us he had called at reception and would be staying here, too, I think it was the last straw.No, that had to be when he talked with his mouth full both at breakfast and during lunch.Who would have guessed the Halcyon would admit someone like him. Maybe it was the AMEX card he kept brandishing. I was sure it was a fake yet it had obviously been scrutinised and checked by them. Hadn’t it?Either way, he was left to his own devices now. Stranded, hopefully.Michael left a message saying he’d been called away and for the Count to contact him by phone for the foreseeable. That would leave an audit trail of a kind but I wasn’t about to apprise him of that.It was nothing to do with me if he wanted to defraud the Werewolf Council.If only he knew he’d probably made an
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The Alpha's Collateral Chapter Forty-Two - Begin Again
Byron’s POVI decided to woo my mate rather than question her and even ordered some flowers. Keeping her close was no hardship and I wanted to demonstrate to Liz that I was a worthy husband. Not the usual Alpha behaviour but I owed her one. Several, in fact.So why wouldn’t she meet my eyes during dinner?Had she fallen for Max?If so I would have to prove myself over the coming weeks or we would have unrest here at Wild Horses – and not for the first time. Ours was a troubled history, though it didn’t prepare you; nothing did. Mo was fond of repeating that to my intense irritation. Though she was quite correct. Especially since our parents were a loving couple who rarely raised their voices in argument.At least, not when I was around.Had absence made my feelings stronger? Time would tell.That night I expressed my joy that she was expecting again but restrained myself from physically proving my love. Our relationship needed work and I wanted to show my rarely seen tender side.Stra
The Alpha's Collateral Chapter Forty-Three - Honesty
Liz’s POVThat was the first I’d heard of Caitlin Spencer.“Go on,” I said, encouraging openness in my mate. Especially since he’d told me she’d once been obsessed with him.“We met in England.” He looked out of the window. “If you must know she stalked me when I made it clear I wasn’t interested in seeing her.”“Is she a shifter, this Brit?”“Yes, and it gets worse. She obtained a secondment to the Werewolf Council over here, advising them on tech issues. That’s probably why she had access to your contact details.”As an acting Luna, I had to report my number to them each time I changed it. That had only happened once, to avoid taking Ernest’s calls.“And the message? What do you make of that?”“How loud does a peal ring out when it is being peeled. Isn’t it obvious? Cait is threatening your life, Miss Bell.”“Then you’d better make an honest woman of me, quick,” I joked.“Let me do some digging, starting with your friend, Randy.”“He’s no pal of mine,” I snorted.The following day h
The Alpha's Collateral Chapter Forty-Four - The Revelation
Liz’s POVThere’d just been something in the way he said it which led me to think Michael might know more than he was letting on about our new quarry. Well, new to me anyway.And I was right.What did he want in exchange? Only for me to say I forgave him.That came easy in view of the significance.“It’s been bothering me for a while,” he admitted.“You’re saying Lycan Max wants to have all female Alphas? Incredible.”I couldn’t take it in. How was I going to ‘sell’ this to Byron? Because an idea was forming. I could contact this witch person and claim I aspired to more.But how to break the ice?Hi, I’m a spy for a well-known Lycan wasn’t my finest thought, so I kept it to myself. Though having been an acting Luna who was doing almost everything and might as well take over could work. It would be awful to betray my brother like that yet I would only be telling the truth in order to fool her. And I had no desire to become Byron’s equal in name even if, secretly, we both knew I was.Ot
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