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Alpha's Caged Mate Confrontation Between Two Alphas
Ava stood in weighty silence, unsure of how to respond to what Liam had just revealed to her. She wasn’t used to people opening up to her – hell, at this point she wasn’t used to people speaking to her like a sentient being with feelings and opinions. Needless to say, Ava had no idea how to navigate sensitive subject matter. Did he want her to ask about his mate? Surely, he wouldn’t have brought it up if it weren’t a subject he was comfortable talking about. Right? “Is she…” Ava trailed off, opting to let him take the lead on the subject, so as to not accidentally offend. “She died,” He said, his words understandably clipped. “Rogues. She was a *marvelous* fighter. A real warrior up until the very end.” His words were heavy, prompting Ava to believe that there was so much more to the story he hadn’t said. Ava decided to back off. After all, she respected someone who’d clearly felt pain and just wanted to keep something close to themselves. “I’m so sorry for yo
Alpha's Caged Mate Conversation With Dylan
“Mail call!” Ava opened at her door to find Bella holding out a nondescript envelope with her name scrawled across it in neat script. A took the envelope and stepped aside, letting the madame into her room. She’d been in the middle of her daily workout. It had only been a week or two since she’d started her new routine, but Ava was already starting to see progress.Every couple of days, she found that she had the stamina to push herself a little farther, and the curvature of her bones were gradually being replaced by a lightly defined padding of muscle. A steady stream of calorie dense foods – curtesy of Bella – had done the trick of leveling her up from ‘gaunt’ to ‘thin’. The hallow frailty left by years of neglect were slowly but surely being wiped away, leaving Ava feeling amazing.She’d told herself not to think about it, but another reason Ava attributed to her good mood was the fact that she hadn’t seen Xavier in a while. Ever since she’d left him standing alone with his t
Alpha's Caged Mate Hate And Jealousy
“Whoring bitch.” Madison cursed under her breath as she watched the male and Ava walk away hand-in-hand. It was ridiculous how much attention Ava got, especially from someone as refined as Dylan Miller. What did that pasty, stick-think nobody have that she didn’t? Rickets? Consumption? Some other old timey disease that only affected whisper thin orphans on the streets of Charles Dickens novels. She was a shameless slut, just like the rest of Sutton’s ‘court’. Unlike everyone else, though, Ava didn’t even bother to pay her dues. Madison had been shilling drinks in a miniskirt in the godforsaken place since her freshman year – with a fake ID, of course. It had taken her *years* to earn a spot catering on the VIP floor. But three months of scrubbing toilets and suddenly Ava’s picking up the club’s most exclusive johns. It was honestly insulting! Especially since, apparently, the only dick Ava had to suck was Bella’s.Madison had it on good authority that in the time since
Alpha's Caged Mate Warn
Jealousy. That’s what this all boiled down to. Money, status, power…you didn’t have to be making world-altering decisions to covet those things. Everyone from national leaders to catty cocktail waitresses wanted the same things, in their own ways. If you were privileged enough to not have bigger things to worry about, that is. She almost couldn’t blame the girl for her envy. Ava got it; she really did. There had been plenty of times in high school where she’d been on the receiving end of bitter girls who coveted her relationship with Xavier. Just like there had been just as many times when she’d quietly seethed whenever Xavier’s eye turned on a female that wasn’t her. This song and dance were as old as time, and maybe it made Ava as self-centered as Madison clearly thought, but Ava felt so wholly removed from such trivial pettiness, it was all she could do to keep from laughing in the irate girl’s face. This was kiddy bullshit, to be frank. Madison clearly had no idea w
Alpha's Caged Mate A Mysterious Guest
Layla had once told Ava that the best way to survive a hostile environment was to blend in. The goal wasn’t to be one of the enemy, but if you convinced them you were one and the same, you were golden. It was one of the first lessons Ava had learned in the dungeon, and it had proven to be the most valuable. Don’t stand out. Don’t be special. Don’t be a hero. If Madison’s little pity party were to be believed, Ava hadn’t been doing a very good job of adhering to at least two of the three philosophies, despite her best efforts. If she was lucky, that was about to change. Ava slowly breathed in and out three times to steady her nerves. And when that didn’t work, she tried it again. Finally, she decided to hell with it, and pushed open the door to the court’s staffroom. She’d never been in the room before today, but Ava hadn’t realized until last night what a mistake that had been. She’d been so caught up in the whirlwind drama that was her life, that she had forg
Alpha's Caged Mate Gentleman
Ava nodded warily at the strange Alpha who already seemed to know her. She was certain she would recall if she had ever met him, even if it were only in passing. The raw magnitude of his aura was the sort that you didn’t easily miss, much less forget. The male stood and strode to meet her. Ava wouldn’t call herself an expert in men’s fashion by any means, but the clothes he wore looked expensive. Like, custom fit by a tiny family-owned tailor in Milan, expensive. The cut of the suit fit him perfectly, and the fabric seemed to mold to the curvature of his muscles without any of the stiff bunching that a regular suit might cause. Ava had gotten to know plenty of males with money recently and compared to the rest of flashy high-rollers she’d seen, this male’s money didn’t roar – it whispered. She wasn’t quite sure what that meant to her, but like everything else about this mysterious male, it put her off-center. Equal parts anxious and excited. “It’s a pleasure to meet yo
Alpha's Caged Mate Generosity
*Only a kiss*, he’d said. For some reason, the thought of kissing Noah Thomas rocked Ava off balance. Given what the male was paying her to do, and how much he was paying her to do it, a simple kiss shouldn’t be this unnerving to her. Even so, there was something about Noah that unsettled her, like a preternatural sense that read him and gave her goosebumps. The way he looked at her now, with utter gentleness and just a hint of lust…he moved her in a way she hadn’t expected and wasn’t ready for. She balked, stepping out of his intoxicating ozone. “Is that a part of our deal.” He shook his head once, firmly, “Nothing that you don’t want will be included in our deal, Ava. Like I said, I’m looking for a partner, not a slave.” “Sounds like you want a lady, then, Mr. Thomas. Not a whore.” “Ava,” his deep voice was sharp as obsidian. It was the first time she’d piqued his temper, but she knew from the tiny peek that the well ran deep than it first appeared.“It’s no
Alpha's Caged Mate Warning
“He gave you fifty thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend?” Bella asked slowly. Ava shook her head, “He gave me fifty thousand dollars as a *deposit*,” She clarified. “I’ll be earning ten thousand a day after that.” The frown plastered across Bella’s face deepened, “For how long?” Ava bit her lip, “Unspecified.” “Ava,” Bella snapped. “I forgot to ask!” Ava threw up her hands, “I was…distracted. Should I not have accepted?” Bella shook her head and sat down heavily in her large, white wingback desk chair, “I should have been notified. I don’t like that I wasn’t.” She muttered, taking out a large black leather binder from one of her desk drawers. “What was his name?” “Noah Thomas.” Ava replied. Bella began flipping through the binder, scanning each page before closing it shut with a huff, “The name doesn’t ring a bell and he’s not listed in any of my records. I can’t find anyone named Thomas. Not among the families who could swing a ten
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Alpha's Caged Mate Chapter150 Keep Calm And Carry On
The helicopters hovered above the arena as long dark ropes unfurled from the gaping voids of their cockpits, and soldiers in white began to descend into the Trial grounds. The largest chopper in the group tilted downward, and Xavier watched in horror as gun turrets descended from the vehicle’s hull.Just as he shouted a warning, it was drowned out by the spray of rapid machine-gun fire that bathed the stands where his people, his allies, his mate stood watching on in bewildered shock. It was a stroke of luck and good fortune that Emmaline and Marnie Adair had insisted on attending the Trial along with several other representatives from their coven.The witches were quick to respond, throwing up glimmering shields that did an excellent job of deflecting the rain of bullets, sending them careening off to join the hundreds of other projectiles currently reducing the two-hundred-year-old structure to little more than kindling.Xavier roared his fury and shifted, sna
Alpha's Caged Mate Chapter149 Trial By Fire
The weeks leading up to the next month’s Blue Moon and the Trial by Combat scheduled for that night went by surprisingly quickly and quietly. The calm before the storm.Ava, for her part, spent most of that time talking, getting to know as much as she could about her newfound allies. There was a host of information that the spellcasters and the shapeshifters had to bring to the table; doors that she had never known were there to open. Her analytical tactician's mind was thoroughly stimulated at the influx of new information.She had to be thankful that Marnie and Emmaline’s coven had deemed their cause worth investing their time and resources into. And the Selkies? Ava was under no naïve misconception that their involvement was due to anything less than desperation. It just so happened that desperation was as good a motivator as any.Slowly, ever so carefully, Ava worked with Emmaline, Marnie, and the Selkie diplomats to covertly spread the word of th
Alpha's Caged Mate Chapter148 Changing Tides
“The nerve of you is astounding, Adair. What, pray tell, did you think you would accomplish by bringing them here?”The hostile vibe Ava had picked up even from a dozen yards away and through several inches of bulletproof glass somehow didn’t manage to improve by coming into close proximity to the…finfolk? The Selkies, Marnie had called them. People who could turn into seals.It seemed ridiculous, given her own circumstances, that…well, anything really, could surprise her at this point. And, to be fair, it wasn’t the existence of seal people that was currently throwing her for a loop; it was being hit, once again, with the staggering realization of just how little she actually knew about the world around her, her own wider community.And it wasn’t just Ava, either. Through their bond, she could feel Xavier’s mind whirring, struggling to quickly process the new influx of information. Even now, after all this time,
Alpha's Caged Mate Chapter147 Give and Take
“Alright, alright, shock aside, this is good for us, right?”“That we’re so out of touch that we didn’t even know that there’s an ancient order of witches ruling the world?” “I’m having a hard time tracking your logic, sweets.”“First, to be clear, the institution is ancient, not the witches,” “Well, save for a few that I can think of, but none that we know personally.”“All that aside,” Ava reiterated through gritted teeth. “We all want the same thing! We came here looking for allies to start a new society, and here you all already have irrefutable proof that our plan has legs.”“In theory,” Emmaline emphasized. “Once again, I feel the need to impress upon you the fact that we have no real insight on the inner workings of these pan-supernatural communities outside of the fact that they exist. Much less whether something of the like would
Alpha's Caged Mate Chapter146 Into the Woods
Ava and the Alphas gaped as the two embraced. One female, one woman. One Wolf, the other a human witch. And yet, somehow, they claimed to be sisters. It wasn’t just a turn of phrase or empty words, either. Now that the idea had been spoken, Ava saw the glimmers of recognition solidify into irrefutable shared features between the two.The piercing emerald green of their eyes, the deeply rich, almost black of their hair, even the shapes of their noses and their general bearings were the same.“You’re sisters?” Ava asked.“You’re Alpha?” Liam asked even louder.Emmaline cocked her head to the side in the same bold challenge that Marnie was good for adopting pretty much anytime she found herself speaking with any Wolven male. Ava was beginning to realize that the habit was probably born of more than simply dealing with male bravado.“Why wouldn’t I be?” Emmaline asked, her supple voice thick with saccha
Alpha's Caged Mate Chapter145 Grave Crown Rising
“No.”The line went silent as Ava blinked rapidly, her neurons firing at all cylinders struggling to process the fact that her brother had just blatantly shut down such a simple request for information and why on earth that would be.“Excuse me?” She finally asked. “What do you mean no?”“I mean that I don’t think it’s a good idea for you to go meddling in Grave Crown affairs,” he said, his voice stern and giving no quarter. That was all well and good that he felt so strongly, but as long as he was also giving her no answers, ‘no’ wasn’t going to cut it for her.“Grave Crown affairs are Alliance affairs, Aiden. You know that,” she replied.Her brother huffed on the other end of the phone – a frustrated sound. “Even if the Alliance still existed, you, I, and everyone else knows that hasn’t been the case in a long time.”“Bullshit,&rdquo
Alpha's Caged Mate Chapter144 Witch, Please!
Ava blinked in and out of consciousness as searing pain ripped through her abdomen. Whenever she surfaced, the renewed shock of pain would cause her to take a quick breath inward that would send yet another, even more, intense wave rocketing through her, sending her back into oblivion.It took a couple of tries and several hours for Ava to wake and stay awake; the pain finally dulled to a thrumming ache. When she could finally open her eyes without her eyelids feeling as if they were made of lead, the first thing she saw was Jack’s pensive face hovering over hers.And the second thing she registered, along with an intense sense of déjà vu, was Xavier’s equally pensive face a little ways off, slumped in a nearby chair.“This feels awfully familiar,” she quipped, her dry throat making her joke sound more like a croak.“Really? And to think that I was just beginning to forget what it was like trying to glue you back togeth
Alpha's Caged Mate Chapter143 Watch Them Scatter
First came the rat-a-tat-tat of machine guns. Then came the screams.All around her, bodies flew into motion as she stood with her phone gripped numbly in her fist.“Ava,” she heard Noah’s desperate voice faintly through the other end of the line as if through a fog. “Ava, what’s happening? Talk to me! Has it already started, damn it?!”Without a word in response, Ava ended the call with a flick of her thumb, far too thrown by just how quickly the tide had shifted today. Neia hadn’t just crossed a line – she’d obliterated it and re-drawn a new one in her image.Ava sprung into action, doing the first thing that came to mind as she ran to the nearest emergency call button and smashed it. The system was relatively shiny and new, having only been installed after her run-in with those sadistic bastards in room 701.Now, flashing warning lights lit up every hallway in the building. The blaring alarm made it im
Alpha's Caged Mate Chapter142 Homecoming
Eight months ago, if someone had told Ava that just the sight of the Green Light Club’s garish neon sign would be enough to make her smile, she would have laughed in their face. Alright, well, she probably wouldn’t have, but she certainly wouldn’t have believed them either.And yet, here she was, grinning from ear to ear, at the prospect of feeling something familiar, even if the majority of her memories of the place were of the variety that was best left forgotten. She was fairly sure that there was probably some sort of clinical diagnosis with a long name used to describe the contextually perverse sense of relief she felt at her first glance of shiny black lacquer and crushed green velvet. Goddess, this place was awful, and she was so glad to be back.Then again, the journey getting back to the club had been fraught enough to make her eager to climb under the first black silk duvet she saw, regardless of the fact that it could never, under any cir
