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Alpha's Caged Mate Talk With Jack
“The both of you need to leave.” Ava stated firmly as Xavier and his friend re-entered her room. She didn’t make eye contact with either male, unwilling to give Xavier any feasible reason to pounce on her again. “I’m not interested in fucking your friend just you can spite-watch, or whatever.” The stranger’s eyes went wide, but he wisely kept any questions he had to himself, as Xavier glared at her. Instead, he primly cleared his throat and stepped forward. “I think we may have started off on the wrong foot. My name is Jack Williams,” he walked up to her and presented his hand for shaking. “I’m the Red Moon Pack’s Chief Healer. My only priority today is to make sure that you’re back to feeling good as new.” Ava looked at his outstretched hand and scoffed. “No thanks. I think the humans have everything under control.” As far as Ava was concerned, anyone associated with the Red Moon Pack was bad news. She didn’t know whether or not Jack realized who she was, but she
Alpha's Caged Mate Need To Pay
Xavier’s phone rang just as he stepped out of the hospital and into the brisk night air. When he looked down, it was Bella’s name he saw flashing across his screen. Instead of picking up immediately, he walked to his car, pressed the button on his key fob to activate the vehicle’s gull-wing doors, and slid inside. He needed the extra moments to collect his thought and tamp down the white-hot irritation that felt damn near all-consuming. Xavier didn’t know who he was angrier at, Ava for refusing his help, or himself for creating a breech so wide that it was impossible for the female to meet him half-way. Xavier grimaced. The knotted web of feelings he felt for Ava were far too volatile, too complex for him to bother considering at the moment. Thinking about his wayward mate sure as hell wasn’t going to do anything to help improve his mood. The phone was just shy of disconnecting when Xavier finally answered. “Speak.” “How is she?” The mistress’s concerned tone was
Alpha's Caged Mate A Special Guest
Ava collapsed onto her bed the second she stepped back into her suite at the club. After the constant rotation of IV drips the hospital had put her on, she’d not only kicked the worst of her illness, but she felt more rejuvenated than she had in years.It was amazing what a little electrolytes could do! Minus the unpleasant surprise visit from Xavier and his latest model of lackey, the hospital stay had begun to feel as pampering as an all-inclusive resort stay – forty-eight-hour vacation from her life. “You should have stayed a little longer then.” Bella said in light admonishment. “The extra rest would do you good, Ava.” Ava sighed. Bella hadn’t been thrilled when she’d checked herself out of the hospital and called her for a ride back to the club. She understood her boss’ concern, but nice as it her convalescence had been, that was two fewer days for Ava to reach her ridiculous quota and earn her freedom. “I don’t have any time to waste, Bella. No offense, but
Alpha's Caged Mate Alpha's Lament
“A glass of wine, if you would.” Ava jumped at the sudden voice, only to realize it was Liam Smith, Alpha of the Silver Moon Pack, making the request. Ava tried to settle back into her skin but found it difficult to stem her trembling now that it had begun. “You’re shaking,” he said, probably wondering why some girl had wandered into his suite only to stand quaking by the door like a deer in headlights. Ava did her best to snap out of it, jerking toward a nearby bar cart. “My apologies, Mr. Smith.” His eyebrows rose, “Have we met? How could you tell I’m Mr. Smith in a room this full?” His tone was playful enough, but Ava was beginning to sweat. “Lucky guess?” She forced a small laugh that sounded strained even to her ears. There were probably a million excuses Ava could have made for guessing who her high-paying client was, but her thoughts were too frenetic to fall neatly into place.Ava felt like she was doing a terrible job of not bringing attention to he
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
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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
