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046 | FATE'S PLAYTHING
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Alpha Enzo 047 | YOU'RE RIGHT ON TIME
Scarlett’s POVDistantly, I knew that my body ached. I was vaguely aware of the fact that I could barely breathe, that my lungs strained to suck in air that my pumping muscles desperately needed. My feet slapped the pavement so hard that the shockwaves thudded up to my knees. But my own body was background noise in the wake of what I’d done.What the fuck had I done? I’d always despised monsters. Alpha Ryker especially. In books, I’d always struggled to sympathise with the villain unless they had a damn good redemption arc. And now I’d become the very thing I hated. Even as I sprinted I kept my hands curled up in my jacket pockets, the denim scrubbing my knuckles raw. The streets of Adelaide rushed past me in a blur. Water rushed under the bridge; I turned sharply and followed it, with no idea where I was running to. I just had to get away from where I’d been. I didn’t even recognise this part of the city.Flashes of memory assaulted me. The crunch of broken bone. The pooling blood.
Last Updated : 2022-10-02Alpha Enzo 048 | A DONE DEAL
Enzo’s POVIt was crazy. I knew that, Marla and Davin knew that, even the bloody trees knew that. But I was too damn desperate to care. So I copied down the address, noting with a spike of something that the address was in Adelaide. It was a spike of curiosity, maybe, or perhaps it was the slight rub of annoyance and gratification that it was, of course, an Australian city, the exact place I’d been convinced Scar was for so long.We’d been searching fruitlessly for months. Every lead came back with dead end after dead end. And, because the address ended with the word Australia, I was suddenly sure that the strange man on the other end of the phone did really know where I could find my mate.“Hang on,” said Marla, frowning at me. “Tell me what he said again? Exactly.”“I can’t remember exactly. The whole thing was so weird, Marls.”“Well, get as close as you can.”I sighed and leant back in my office chair. It creaked as my weight shifted, another quiet noise to add to the growing symp
Last Updated : 2022-10-03Alpha Enzo 049 | IN THE LIBRARY
Scarlett’s POV“I’m sorry,” I said again, starting to back away, “you have the wrong person.” My natural instinct was to raise my hands, to protect myself, but God only knew what would happen if I did that. A shudder wracked through me at the imagined sound of a truck’s brakes screaming and the wet thump of a body hitting – I bit my lip. I couldn’t. I’d get emotional, and the last time I’d got emotional I’d – This was hopeless.“I never have the wrong person,” said the man, and then he extended a long-fingered hand towards me. “Scarlett Woodrush, am I correct? Although you haven’t used that name in some time now, have you, Lilac?” His upper lip twitched again.The blood left my face in a rush. “That’s not–”“Right,” he finished for me. One eyebrow arched; his lip twitched again. “Next you’ll say, ‘I’m sorry, but you’re wrong.’ Well, you would have, if I hadn’t told you.”I started backing away in earnest now. “Watch out.”“Watch out for what?” I snapped – just as I tripped over a t
Last Updated : 2022-10-04Alpha Enzo 050 | SECOND CHANCE MATE
Enzo’s POVI twisted around on the spot, staring up – and up and up and up – at the buildings stretching into the night sky. It didn’t look real to me, all the office lights still on and the workers scurrying around, still answering emails and phone calls and tap-tap-tapping down the halls in high heels and dress shoes. This was a world I knew of, but didn’t know.And it was where I’d find Scarlett. Apparently. That seemed almost as strange to me as the place I was in.“Can you see her here?” I asked Marla, turning to her with one eyebrow raised. “What would she even be doing? Has this guy, whoever he is, got her held hostage here against her will? Or did she choose to come here?” That thought made my heart pinch, so I tried to shove away imagined images of her making the choice to live here rather than coming home to me.“She’s your mate.” Marla laid a hand on my arm. “No matter what, she would have chosen you if she could. Now, come on. He said this date and this time, right?”“Yeah
Last Updated : 2022-10-05Alpha Enzo 051 | HEAVEN AND HELL
Scarlett’s POVMy heart rose to my throat. Tears pricked my eyes.It was him. Alpha Enzo. My Enzo. He was as perfect as I remembered: tall, dark, and handsome; brown eyes so dark they looked black; tanned skin; muscles shaping his clothes, whorls of ink peeking out above the line of his sweater. Dark hair was tangled over his forehead, mussed from where he’d ran his hands through it and through it again. My heart panged at the sight of him. How had I ever thought I could live without him?Then it hit me. Oh, God – how could I look at him now? I was a killer. I’d shoved a man’s heart clean out of his chest, pushed him in front of a truck. I wasn’t the same person Enzo had known. I had blonde hair and a nose ring, for God’s sake! As frivolous as that was, it suddenly seemed like the most serious thing in the world. How could he look at me and see the old Scarlett looking back?“Scarlett,” he breathed, stepping hesitantly into the room. Even the way he moved made my mouth water and my pu
Last Updated : 2022-10-06Alpha Enzo 052 | A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
Enzo’s POVI couldn’t believe it. I hesitated in the doorway for a moment, staring at her, connecting the dots between the Scarlett I remembered and the girl stood before me. The room and the man in it were nothing to me, utterly and entirely irrelevant in that moment. In every moment. Because she was there.“Scarlett,” I breathed, taking a tiny, timid step into the room. Where did we stand now? Did she still think of me, like me, want me? It had been so long. Did she think I’d abandoned her? I’d made so many choices in the past few months, and suddenly every single one of them seemed wrong. Damn it all, I should’ve been here – And why was she blonde?Suddenly that mattered more than anything else. Her beautiful, long auburn hair was still beautiful – she could become a frog and I’d still find her more appealing than any other – but it wasn’t the hair I knew her to have. I wanted to get to know this version of her, to unpick everything that had happened between October and now. Then
Last Updated : 2022-10-08Alpha Enzo 053 | JUST US AGAIN
Scarlett’s POVI held Enzo’s hand so tight it had to be hurting him, but he didn’t complain. I drifted out into the hall in a weird, dream-like state, waves of joy battering me on one side and a swirling whirlpool of guilt trying to drown me on the other. Marla was waiting outside. I stopped dead at the sight of her. Seeing Enzo again was one thing, but my old friend? She didn’t have a mate bond making what I’d done seem less heinous. She would be able to see me clearly, short hair and nose ring and oh, yeah, a little bit of murder and all.But her warm face broke into a broad grin when she saw me. “Scar!” she chirped, and then a second later I was wrapped in her strong arms. Dark curls of hair curtained my vision. “It’s really you. Thank God.”“It’s me,” I muttered, half frozen in shock. She must’ve been with Enzo in that alleyway, right? She had to know. So why was she hugging me?“Marls,” Enzo tutted, “give her some room to breathe.”“Sorry.” She ducked away, twiddling the end of
Last Updated : 2022-10-09Alpha Enzo 054 | I CAN'T TAKE THIS
Enzo’s POV“Scar?” Panic. That was all I felt. It didn’t matter that seconds ago I’d been on the verge of tears, having realised that my Scarlett, my mate, had moved on from me, had made a life for herself here and left me behind. As her eyes rolled back and her whole body sagged, it only mattered that I had to protect her. I had to keep her safe. I couldn’t break my vow so immediately.I caught her, swinging her up into my arms bridal style. “Scar? Can you hear me?”Her head lolled backwards. Carefully, I tucked it up against my shoulder and held her close. My heart thundered in my chest at the feel of her. I closed my eyes against the fresh onslaught of tears. It had been so long.I’d missed her every day. Every damn day. And she’d been here, going to bloody night classes and working a job? I clenched my jaw. Even if she didn’t want me anymore, I couldn’t just leave her here on the street. I’d get her safe, be it just for tonight or until the Ryker threat was neutralised. If there
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Alpha Enzo 123 | EPILOGUE
Bennett’s POVThings had taken a while to fall back into place after the battle. With the pack house left in ruins, Scarlett and Enzo had worked with his parents to rehome everyone that lived inside it while it was rebuilt. His mother and father had stayed close, lending their expertise as they got to grips with navigating life post-Ryker.They hadn’t been the only ones to stay, though. I’d asked to remain in Moose Creek. Enzo had accepted my cagey reasoning with narrowed eyes, but he would’ve said yes to just about anything with his mate’s hand on his arm. In truth, I didn’t know where else to go now. Everything in my life had been building up to this. Crafting prophecies for people to find, leaving breadcrumb trails, making messages, telling everyone just the right thing at exactly the right time – I’d never known a moment to myself. Now that was all I had. And I couldn’t See my way forward. Not anymore. I’d told nobody that Scarlett hadn’t been the only one to lose her powers t
Alpha Enzo 122 | TRANSFORM
Scarlett’s POVI opened my eyes.Sunlight blinded me. No – not sunlight. My own light, golden and magical, surrounded me. Held limp in its grip, it lifted me into the air.But I – I’d been dead. Hadn’t I?I remembered the feel of my life leaving me. I remembered losing my energy, my strength, feeling my body wilt beneath the weight of the magic tearing through my veins and rushing out through my palms. But now the wind was here, holding me, healing me, and I felt it dance across my skin, through my hair, as it pulled my arms out and pointed my legs down towards the ground. I remembered dying.But that wasn’t all I remembered. Vague, fuzzy shapes filtered into my mind, taking form as the light raised me higher and higher. I saw humans, knew their names, saw Adelaide, saw a city and a death and a chase, saw Bennett and a library and Enzo – My beautiful Enzo. How could I ever have forgotten all that we had shared?The memories poured in as my brain healed, the light coming from within
Alpha Enzo 121 | THE END OF THEM
Bennett’s POVI was dying. Such a fact was two things: simple and irrefutable. To fight it was futile; to ignore it was idiocy. But I had done as I had been bid by the visions that had plagued me since birth. I had fought the prophecy and, I hoped, saved the world from the tyranny breeding at its wolven heart.It was hard, seeing the world in pathways and possibilities. Even now, as I lay upon the gleaming white floor of Moose Creek’s medical centre, sedative spilling through my veins and blood streaming from my chest, photos of the futures forking from this moment blinded me. I saw Scarlett stood amidst the dead, the only survivor in a war she’d never asked for. I saw her bent over her mate’s body, sobs wracking through her. Then I saw her fumble for the outstretched claws of a fallen werewolf and use them to slit her own throat.I squeezed my eyes shut at that one. It did nothing to halt the visions, of course, but it always made me feel as if I had some semblance of control over
Alpha Enzo 120 | FORESIGHT, MAGIC, AND STRENGTH
Enzo’s POV I blinked into a sudden burst of gossamer sunlight. “Scarlett,” I rasped, choking up blood. All of me hurt, save for my heart. That was lighter than it had ever been. She was okay. She was a vision in the dying light, her auburn hair with its blonde ends glimmering softly, like the shimmering surface of a ruffled lake; her beautiful blue-green eyes wide, shining with unshed tears; her stance strong and proud and powerful, even as she fell apart at the sorry sight of me. “Fuck,” she whispered, her eyes filling. “Enzo. Oh, God…” “I’m okay,” I grunted. It was a lie. A dying man’s lie to make the love of his life feel better. Blood streamed from my neck; my body felt numb from my face down. The pain was gone, but my feeling was gone with it too. I was outside now, and I’d definitely been inside the last time I’d been conscious. Had my body been trampled beneath the paws of hundreds of Ryker’s wolves? In the heat of battle, it was just as likely that my own pack had buried m
Alpha Enzo 119 | TRUST AND TRUTH
Scarlett’s POVI stared numbly at the doorway. Emila stood at its centre, hands on hips, her expression all furrowed brows and wide eyes. “Scarlett!” she gasped. “What are you doing?”I met her gaze unflinchingly. “He doesn’t need to be in an induced coma,” I said boldly. I’d never felt so damned bold in all my life. “Does he, Medic?” I spat.She held her hands up and walked towards me slowly. “I’m not sure what’s got into you, or why you’re doing this, but please, Scarlett, step away from my patient. He needs to rest to heal.”Doubt started to creep in. I clutched the sedation tube, letting it dangle from my fingers. I’d been so sure…What if I was wrong? Had I just signed Bennett’s death certificate?Gritting my teeth, I held still. He’d woken up before when I’d used my magic to keep the sedation at bay. And he’d told me to stop her – had he meant Emila all along? He had to know what she planned to do to him. My resolve firm once more, I looked back up at her.She smiled weakly, app
Alpha Enzo 118 | A LOSING GAME
Enzo’s POVWe were pushed back further and further. I was the last one standing in the doorway, using my huge wolven body to block out the attacking army. Though we were fighting a losing battle, I was proud of my wolves. We’d kept Ryker’s pets at bay far longer than I’d thought we’d ever had any hope of doing. The sun was dipping lower in the sky, brushing the tips of the massacred pine trees, burnishing their bottle-green needles a deep, glittering gold.It also shone on the pools of blood. The ground was soaked in it, rivulets running down the slight hillock upon which the pack house stood. Bodies of wolves broke its streams; my wolves, Ryker’s wolves. They were clawed and bitten, missing limbs, missing chunks of fur and flesh. Such violence would stain the land here forever.But worse still than the gore and the sightless eyes of my fallen warriors was the gnawing worry about my mate. I hadn’t seen Scar since she’d run into the crowd. Unable to mindlink her, I was left drowning in
Alpha Enzo 117 | A TRAITOR IN OUR MIDST
Scarlett’s POVI ducked through the wolves, narrowly avoiding the swiping, slashing claws. Nobody seemed to notice me as I ran – they were focused on the other wolves with teeth bared and blood soaked into their muzzles. I brushed under the bellies of those in Enzo’s pack, using them to protect me from the enemy wolves.Then I was pushed forward by a surge of movement from behind. Arms wheeling, I stumbled through the front line of our warriors and fell, head first, into the tangle of Ryker’s wolves.“Fuck,” I gasped, smacking into warm, bloodied fur. I bounced off its firm, muscled body, and rolled until I hit paws. Then I scrambled to my feet – Only to be clawed down my face. I bit back a scream, pressing my palms to the wound. Blood streamed between my fingers, pouring over my eye. I squeezed it shut. My head throbbed; each pulse shook me, the cut burning and stinging. Barely able to see, I ran, my back bowed, zig-zagging through the writhing mass of wolven bodies.Running through
Alpha Enzo 116 | BATTLE HARDENED
Enzo’s POVI shoved down my terror as the wolves swelled around us, a writhing, unforgiving tide. Like a stone upon the shore I stood firm, knowing I must withstand its force. My terror was not for me, and neither was my determination. It was for her – my mate, the beautiful woman sat upon my wolven back – and for my pack members. They had not chosen this fate, no more than Scar or I had. This was our only chance to make it right.Scarlett knotted her fingers in my fur. She leant forward and whispered, “I’ve got you.”Then the enemy was upon us.I surged forward, meeting them rather than allowing them to breach our front line. My Beta and Gamma lunged with me, our movements so well practised we barely had to think of them. I had to adjust my balance more with Scar on my back, but it was instinct, raw and as natural as breathing, to keep her secure atop me.My jaw locked around a grey wolf’s neck. I clamped down, pulled back, tore flesh from bone. The wolf fell to the ground, dead. Blo
Alpha Enzo 115 | HE'S HERE
Scarlett’s POV“Pretty much,” said Isaak, his gaze downcast. He shuffled his weight from foot to foot. “I’m sorry.”“Why did they target your sister?” I asked, leaning closer to the cell bars. He shrugged. “She’s the only family I have left. They knew I’d do anything for her, I guess. Even…”I nodded. “Even this.” But then my eyes narrowed. “How did they know you well enough to target her?”Isaak’s cheeks flushed. He started picking at his cuticles and refused to meet my eyes. “They have scouts too,” he said. I felt convinced it was a lie. Before I could push the matter, though, Enzo grabbed my arm.“Hey,” I said, trying to pry his fingers off. They were white knuckled. My belly hollowed out. “What is it?”“Marla just mindlinked me,” he whispered, glancing furtively at Isaak. Understanding immediately, I towed him out of the cells and up into a nook at the top of the stairs. My back was pressed flat against the wall; Enzo huddled close, biting his lip as he looked around anxiously.O
