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Marked by an Alpha Chapter 78
Poor Little Andraste." Dani cowered on her knees, her hair falling in dark waves around her shoulders,her long hair the only protection her bent, naked body had left from his penetrating eyes. At the Alpha's harsh tone, her eyes closed and her head bent further forward. The collar around her neck was excruciating. It had been custom made to fit snugly against her skin so there weren't any gaps that offered the delicate burnt area where it rubbed even a moment's relief. The outside of this collar was studded with diamonds, with one large silver hoop dangling from the front. Today the hoop had a chain through it that was locked into a piece of hardware that was bolted on the floor, which prevented her from moving more than a foot from where she had been placed, or from rising above the half kneel that she was now allowed."I heard you spoke to one of my assistants. A boy.""No. Master." She wouldn't lie to save herself. She knew that that was useless. No matter what she did she was
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Luca was pacing back and forth across the floor of the enormous room that he was supposed to be spending the night in. Someone would be there to get him in a few minutes to escort him to the dining hall along with Vos and, he hoped, Stella. But all he could think about was the email from Vos with the attachment of those journals that his father had kept all those years ago. If he wasn't certain that he was being watched he would have put his fist through the wall.He had had a bit of time now to come to terms with what had happened to Dani. He'd had less time to accept that it was Harding who had hurt her. But to find out that she had been taken and abused because his father and Harding had recognized their mate connection long before she or he had felt it was almost more than he could bear. He wanted to destroy the world, or at least, to destroy Harding's world.A knock at the door caused him to stop his pacing, turning to face whoever had come to get him. "Enter." He called, tak
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They had stopped two miles away from Harding's compound, parked down an overgrown dirt road that Dani remembered seeing years ago the first time she had been brought into the compound. Thankfully it was every bit as deserted as it had been back then and the little group, which had arrived in the two vehicles, was now huddled together around a clipboard a few hundred yards back from the main paved road."The entire compound is surrounded by open grassy areas. I think this is part of Harding's defensive strategy. He can see any enemies coming before they get to him. But there are older parts of the manor that I believe I know even better than he does. And that is how we're going to get in tonight."Dani had been crouched down, staring at the drawing she had made on the clipboard, but now she stood up and stretched her legs, staring north and west in the direction of the compound."There are catacombs underneath the manor. Harding knows about the most obvious part of them because the d
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"Fern. Go upstairs. Change into the outfit that we picked out for this occasion. Quick. Have Sarah take over serving the guests. You should have left the moment you escorted the final guests from the house into the dining room. We wouldn't want the Beta seeing you in your uniform."Stella likely wouldn't have heard Alpha Harding's whispered words if she hadn't purposefully positioned herself as near as she could to her new friend. The tiny maid had nearly melted into the wall next to the door nearest the kitchen and Stella was making a point to stay as close to Fern as she possibly could. Meanwhile Luca was keeping close to his sister's side."Lulu," Lyra flounced across the room and grabbed his arm, hanging on him as he suppressed the overwhelming urge to yank free of her surprisingly powerful grip. "You're already missed so much important time in my pregnancy." Taking his hand she guided it to her small bump. "But no more. Now you'll be here for me. For us.""Aren't you like nine
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"It smells like summertime. Like rainbows. Like everything that's good and pure in the world." Waylon was following close behind Dani, as he had been since she first left Alaska, but she had never felt so tempted to give him a good hard smack upside the head. "Head in the game, Parker. What are you drunk?" she hissed the words under her breath as she moved forward through the dark tunnel, her steps slow and silent, her mind vaguely registering her own surprise at knowing his last name. "If I didn't know any better I would think that you just found-" she let her whispered words trail off in the middle of her sentence.No. That was impossible. The odds of what she had almost suggested were a thousand to one and it would be cruel to give Waylon that sort of hope, especially when they were on this sort of a mission and she had no particular reason to believe that it was true. It was more likely that the poor man hadn't gotten a good night's sleep in the last week, since he was so worri
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"Thank you for joining us Fern." Alpha Harding hadn't looked up, and Stella, with her now human hearing abilities, hadn't heard the frail looking girl arrive, but when he said her name, every head in the room immediately turned in her direction.The little maid looked nothing like she had when she had first knocked on the door to Stella's room. Stella remembered that Alpha Harding had mentioned earlier that "they" had picked out a dress together. Stella was certain that Fern had had no part in picking out this dress. Like so much of Lyra's clothing it was crimson red, just like the lipstick that was now smeared across Fern's full lips.The dress itself was simple. It was cut low on top, with Fern's small, full, round breasts, which fit her frame nicely, nearly spilling out of it. On the bottom it was so short that Stella could tell that the little maid's fingers were itching to tug it down so that it would cover more.As a child who had been forced to wear many dresses that she was
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Dani shoved down the wave of nausea that tried the push its way up her throat. She didn't have time for any of that. If she survived the attack she would worry about what the way she had been feeling these past few days might mean.She hadn't gone into heat. What were the odds of getting pregnant if she hadn't gone into heat when she was with Luca? Hell, she'd never gone into heat once in her entire life. Privately, she'd believed it was because Harding had done something to break her body, between the hard physical abuse and the injections. She'd intended to talk with Luca about it, but the time never seemed right. And she hadn't really known if her body didn't work the way the Goddess had intended it to, which had made it even harder to bring the subject up. After all, what exactly would she say.When she'd tried to bring it up with Dr. Evans, back at Harvest Moon, the doctor had ordered an ultrasound and some blood work and had then assured Dani that everything looked to be in wo
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Dani knew that Luca had won his fight, somewhere behind her, when she smelled the blood of Beta Reed spill across the cold tile of the floor. She knew Beta Reed well. He'd taken his turn torturing her when she lived here. He was every bit as cruel as his Alpha and she felt her snout curl in an approximation of a smile before she focused back on the battle before her. She had an idea of how she might take down this Alpha, but it was risky.Could she get Alpha Harding to let down his guard because he believed her so weak she wasn't worth guarding against? It would be ridiculous for him to do it, but he was an Alpha, and nothing if not arrogant beyond measure.Dani charged at him again, doing the exact same thing she had done the previous time. This time he sent her sprawling with another powerful blow of his paw. She noticed that his claws weren't even extended. He'd never once hurt her in his wolf form. He preferred to torture her as a human.He'd hit her hard and she'd slid all the
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