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Chapter 25 : An Enemy Discovered
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Alpha's Forced Mate Chapter 26 : The Hostage
*Arealla*I stared in shock at the little boy that had just climbed out of the very small hole in the floor."As you can see, I'm not in any danger at all," the boy said, coming inside the room properly. "Oh, and they just lied to you."He squeezed his little body through the hole in the wall, and then with a little further effort, pushed himself out of it.I had never seen him before. But I was kind of glad that I hadn't. If I hadn't known who he was, before seeing him, I would have said that he was Marcus' son. He was an almost exact likeness to him, down to the brown hair, down to the amber eyes.I almost expected his eyes to glow red in a moment."Jake!" Marcus exclaimed, running to his nephew, he scooped him up in his arms.And if I had seen him behave with Jake like this, I would have said that he was his son.For a moment, I got a flash of what the future could be. If Marcus and I ever had any children of our own. If the mate bond ever became more than just the p
Alpha's Forced Mate Chapter 27 : Sworn Enemy
*Arealla*I remained in place as Marcus ordered his guards to have Gregor and Tessa brought back in. I wondered what they thought was going to happen.We waited the full three hours out. We didn't want them to think that we had given in so quickly. And we also didn't want them to think that we had reached some kind of easy resolution.It had just been better to make sure that we just stayed the entire wait time out, and then we called them back.It also gave Ben a good amount of time to make headway with his plan. They also probably wouldn't notice that he was gone. After a three hour debate, the rational thing to conclude would be that someone needed to see something being done around the pack.But we weren't going to give them that long to notice his absence in any case.The truth was that we needed to keep them talking for as long as we could. And to get as much information out of them as we could. That was going to be a little difficult. They had already tried to cut to
Alpha's Forced Mate Chapter 28 : You Are My Enemy
*Arealla*"That pack is our sworn enemy," Marcus said with a sigh, wiping a hand over his face. "It might actually have been better for you to just have been a human."I stared at Marcus for a moment before I spoke. There was something so wrong with his words. It didn't match up with what he had told me earlier.I understood the reticence he had against the Diamante Pack."I don't understand," I told Marcus. "They weren't on your map. They weren't counted as an enemy pack. I don't even remember their territory."But as I said it, I thought back to the huge piece of land that had been unmarked on the map. Marcus had given no name and no explanation for it. Could that have been the Crystal Mist Pack?"We don't classify them really as an enemy," Marcus went on to explain. "Because we don't recognize their autonomy."I frowned."How long have they been declaring themselves independent?" I asked."A hundred years," Marcus shrugged. "Give or take."I stared at him in shoc
Alpha's Forced Mate Chapter 29 : We Have All Suffered
*Arealla*I hated that he had reduced me to this. I hated that this was what I had become. But here I was, crying on my bed. Brought to tears because of a boy.Well, a man. A wolf. I wasn't entirely sure. And that was what stung the most of all of this.He was supposed to be my mate. It had been one thing when the weakness from the mate bond came because of me. It was one thing when I was the reason that we weren't connected. But I had an excuse.I had been raised human, completely unaware of the wolf world. I had thought that was what I was. I had never had any reason to think otherwise. And then, when my wolf had come to me, every part of being a wolf had come slowly. It had been hard and difficult to draw each part of the wolf out of me.I had never once thought that I would be able to get to the point where I could communicate through the mate bond, like every other mated wolf could. I had never even thought that I would be able to consolidate the bond.And then, I had
Alpha's Forced Mate Chapter 30 : I'm Going to Kill Him
*Arealla*"I lost a mate," he answered simply. "I was hurt that you weren't mine. That you weren't my mate. Because I did truly love you."I almost called him a liar. But then I thought back to what Liana had told me a while ago. She had been speaking about Marcus at the time, telling me how rare a true mate bond was. And how I should value it, how Marcus was trying to be grateful for a gift that he was given, that was behaving more like a curse.She had been trying to make me see Marcus' predicament. And I had. I had well and truly seen the position that Marcus was in, and the position that I had put him in.But now that I thought about it, her words were just as applicable to Jason. He had no assurances that he was ever going to get a true mate, a bonding blessed by the Moon Goddess. He could very well have decided, like so many other wolves, that he was going to choose one for himself, so that he didn't have to spend his life alone.And then that had been taken from him
Alpha's Forced Mate Chapter 31 : In Danger
*Arealla*I was extremely sensitive to his situation, and to what had happened to him. I wouldn't be blinded to his pain any longer.But just because I could see how much Jason had suffered, didn't take away from the fact that we had all suffered. And that he had caused some of those issues.And there were so many more things that we had to still sort through."Jason," I told him softly. "I am sorry for everything that you've been through."He was close to me, so my voice barely went above a whisper. And it was the truth that I spoke. I was really sorry for every single thing that he had been through. I couldn't imagine what it must be like, to have everything you wanted for yourself, and then have it taken away from you and given to someone else.Jason had chosen his mate, and that had been taken from him without anything else given to replace it.But even as I tried to have sympathy for him, there was a growing feeling at the back of my neck. Something that I couldn't d
Alpha's Forced Mate Chapter 32 : No One Will Hear You Scream
*Arealla*I didn't think. I didn't have time to. I just turned away from him and started to run. But I didn't take more than three steps, when I realized that he wasn't following me. And a moment later I saw why.Three wolves stepped out of the trees in front of me, all snarling. The trees were dark and black behind them, and I was sure that I heard more snarling coming from there.They were huge. Not bigger than Marcus, but bigger than Jason in his wolf form.I grounded myself to a halt. My first instinct was to shift as well, but there was no time, and it wouldn't do any good.There were three of them, four with Jason. And there was no way that I could do anything.I opened my mouth to scream, knowing that even if I did, there was a good chance that no one was going to hear me anyway. But I didn't even get the chance. In a moment, Jason was behind me, and his hand covered my mouth.I struggled against him, kicking and screaming, but it was useless. I was no match for hi
Alpha's Forced Mate Chapter 33 : Power of the Moon Goddess
*Arealla*"Maybe," Jason allowed, calming down a little, a smile still on his face. "Maybe before. But he saw us together, sitting naked on the banks of a river. He thinks that we were kissing. He'll be fed a lie that we ran off together, and he will believe it." My first instinct was to call him a liar. Marcus wouldn't have just believed that I ran off with him.But then I thought about what he was saying, really thought about it. Would Marcus just know that I wasn't going to run away from him now? Would he really know that? How many times had I said to Marcus myself that I wanted nothing more to do with him, that I wanted to leave?And how many times had I told him that I wanted to stay?The answer wasn't comparative. There was a good chance that Marcus would believe I would leave.But would he accept that I would run away with Jason?Maybe not if this had been the first time that he had seen us together. Maybe then he would have had second thoughts about just believin
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