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APRILXander had just asked me out on a date for the first time ever and I was completely frozen in shock. He’d become a man I never knew could exist because of who he'd been when we first met. Each time he did something sweet, shared someo thing personal, showed some vulnerability, or was willingly truthful with me, I couldn’t help but be stunned. And right now, my shock was at the very peak after being asked on a date by him. Part of me wanted to freeze the moment and keep it forever, and another part of me was warning me against being roped into his arms again after what happened the last time. I never wanted to be the reason that any of the guys would get hurt again. It would tear me apart so badly, especially since they were all magically tolerable and sweet to me.But Xander’s eyes were so full of hope as he waited for my response and I couldn’t bear to crush that hope. I was unable to keep him company in the hospital and I hadn’t even known that he’d been discharged for day
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APRIL“How did you think of this?” I asked him as he helped me out of the car and shut the door behind me. He looked back at me like I was the most intriguing being he’d ever come across and then he broke into a genuine smile.“Let’s just have a good time, don’t worry about all that,” he leaned in and kissed my cheek and warmth spread throughout my entire body at how good it felt. Even though I wanted to bombard him with more questions, the lingering feeling of that peck made me nod and simply tighten out intertwined fingers as we walked into the paintball arena. “Mr. Davenport, we’ve been expecting you, everything’s set up for you and your lovely date, please follow me,” the man who I’d known to be the manager told him, and seeing how much older he looked made me realize how long it had been since I visited. “Sure, thank you,” Xander said politely and we trailed behind him. When we finally got into the private arena, I was completely blown away. As a kid, I’d always wondered wha
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BROOKEA woman’s wedding day was meant to be the happiest day of her life, but my mom was easily making mine one of the worst and most nerve wracking days of my life. “Fat,” she poked at my barely existent stomach through my dress, “fatter,” she poked at my arms, “and hideously fat,” she poked at my neck. I’d practically starved for the two weeks since the wedding was announced so she wouldn’t nitpick at my weight today, but obviously there was no pleasing her so I should’ve just eaten as much as I wanted to. “Did you even make any effort to get into shape for your wedding? I had the most beautiful dress made for you from across the world and you have the effrontery to wear it over an overweight body?” she looked me over with contempt and huffed, “how disrespectful.”“I’m… I’m sorry, mother,” I muttered, knowing that anything other than an apology would likely be met with a slap or an even worse degrading punishment. She looked at me, then rolled her eyes as she gave a ridiculous
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ACE“There’s still ample time to walk into that hall and tell everyone that the wedding isn’t holding,” I announced as soon as the door of my dressing room was pushed open. All I needed to know who had walked in was a scent and I’d easily picked his scent up from miles away. “There’s even more time for you to shut that wide mouth of yours, man up, and stop whining like a child,” my father shot back as he closed the door behind him.I laughed at his failed attempt to take a jab at my ego and maturity. With the kind of brutally honest friends I’d grown up with, it wasn’t that easy to poke at my self worth.“How exactly am I supposed to stop whining like a child when you won’t stop treating me like one?” I asked, fondling with the tie the designer had knotted an hour ago that was now seconds away from suffocating me. “I’m treating you like a child? That’s fucking laughable, because all I’m doing is trying to help you keep your life on track before you get yourself foolishly killed,” h
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ACE I’d been waiting for that question from the second I walked into the hall, so anxiously that I didn’t even realized I’d yelled out my response. It was the hundreds of eyes focused on me that made me realized I’d been the one who said, “Yes.” My dad was clearly livid, and at the same time, he looked like he’d seen a ghost as he stared at me in complete and utter shock. My mom on the other hand seemed more interested in covering her face from being captured by the spinning National TV cameras. But neither of their reactions was any of my concern, nor was their discomfort. When I was on the other end of the coin, pleading and trying to reason with them to call off the engagement, they didn’t care about my feelings either. It was only fair for them to turn the other cheek now that the ball was in my court, where it belonged. “Wha… What the hell, Ace?” Brooke whispered shakily, trembling far more than she was during the procession, like everything was riding on the weddi
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APRIL I’d been grumpier than the grinch since I woke up. I made sure I was in bed early the night before, I even chomped down some melatonin gummies to get a good night’s sleep, but I kept waking up at night and when morning finally came, I had a blinding headache that I knew would accompany for the rest of the day. Nick hadn’t spent the night at home because he had to handle a shipment for his father’s newest establishment that arrived pretty late, but I woke up to the sweet scent of breakfast and his adorable face smiling at me. That only managed to keep a smile on my face for a few seconds, and then my mood was back to being absolute shit. Even Nick’s delivery of Mickey Mouse shaped pancakes in bed with a steaming cup of hot chocolate didn’t do anything to raise my spirits. In fact, with every minute that passed, my mood tanked terribly. I barely ate breakfast and I just ended up telling Nick that I had a huge dinner last night and that’s why I couldn’t eat more, but he clea
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BROOKEEvery single breath I took was more overwhelming than the last. It was all too much. The world around me was spinning and I just remained frozen to a spot at the altar while staring down at the ring on my finger. Being a jilted bride was one of the worst things that could ever happen to a woman and I still couldn’t believe that it had just happened to me. Nothing about Ace’s actions made sense to me and I still wasn’t able to wrap my head around it. When he mentioned that he was putting an end to the wedding so that we could both have the luxury of being in a love marriage, it sounded like nothing short of gibberish to me. Ever since I was a little girl, my mother had imbibed the belief that marriage was nothing but a means to an end in me. And that end wasn’t living happily ever after or being in love. No, the point of it was to elevate your status and fatten your wallet. Why couldn’t Ace accept that that’s how things worked amongst people in our social status? Why couldn
Last Updated : 2025-02-11PLAYTHING OF THE ALPHA PREDATORS 147B
BROOKEMy mother wasn’t the kind to forgive, especially not when her reputation had been stained in the public eye.She was ruthless, reckless, selfish, and ridiculously petty whenever someone stepped on her toes, and it didn’t matter whether they were friends or family…. Anyone that tarnished her reputation was instantly pushed to the status of foe until they remedied the situation or she satisfied her insatiable taste for vengeance. My heart started to throb wickedly in my chest upon recalling that, because I’d just brought her great shame and nothing would stop her from taking her pound of flesh. With that thought came flashes of the unflattering scenes of Ace standing on the podium and renouncing me loudly. And all it took for my breathing to cease was remembering the murderous look on my mother’s face when Ace walked out of the wedding hall. “I… help… I….”I started to cough painfully, my chest swelling with hurt and my throat closing as I began to hyperventilate at the thoug
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PROLOGUEAPRIL“Sandy, stop making your brother cry. You promised that you wouldn't do that today, remember?” I groaned as my oldest child terrorized her little brother. She shrugged, laughing, the mischievous glint in her eyes matching that of one of her dads whose character she’d inherited; Ace. “It’s so easy to make him cry, I promise I wasn't even trying. I’m just being myself,” she flipped her dark lush hair over her shoulders, the glossy and stunning sight also resembling that of her fathers. She was such a daddy’s girl that she took every last bit of her being from them; her drop dead gorgeous looks and her fearless, stubborn personality. According to her dads, she got her stubbornness from me and not them, but I refused to believe that. “Sweetheart, putting a worm in your brother’s shoe doesn't count as being yourself,” Nick stifled laughter as he walked into the living room, dressed handsomely in suit that was identical to our son Samuel’s. “I’m a prankster and an anima
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APRIL“Well, it’s a good thing I know exactly where that asshole is,” Nick’s mom said, the anger in her voice superseding his.At least Xenia’s trip across the world had proven to be the answer to our problems. But now, we had yet another broken hearted mate to add to the mix, and just like me, the pain sprung from parental issues. However, there was no time to dwell on that. The moon goddess had given us an opportunity to reclaim the peace in our city, so we had to focus our all on that. After the city was secure, we'd find a way to tend to our broken hearts and find the emotional healing we all deserve.But for now, all that mattered was find Nick’s monster of a father and putting and end to his evil attacks. “Are you sure this is the place, mom?” Nick asked as we pulled into the empty driveway of an abandoned factory in the middle of nowhere. “I'm certain. I'll never forget it because I traced his assets all over the city in a bid to uncover proof of his evil agenda, but he cau
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APRILWe all followed behind him, running until we stopped outside what seemed to be a prison cell. There was a woman dressed in tattered clothes and covered in dust cowering in a corner and hugging her knees to her chest, and something about her was oddly familiar. My mates also seemed shocked by her presence, but not in the same way that I was. The look in their eyes told me that they knew something about this mystery woman that I didn't know. Before I could even ask about it, Nick grabbed the iron bars and broke them off with a deep growl before running into the cell and wrapping his arms around the woman. That? That was the most confusing thing I’d ever witnessed. And I needed answers right now.I started to stomp towards the cell when Nick said a word that made me freeze in place, understanding washing over me in a thousand waves. “Mom! It’s you!”I blinked repeatedly, awfully confused. “Mom?” Ace and Xander looked away from the emotional reunion unfolding before us and nodd
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APRILGlinda was confirmed to have been dead for good, but our hellish experiences still didn't cease after her death. Personally, I was still grieving my mother and the wonderful life I would've enjoyed with my parents if she hadn't swooped in and turned things upside down. My mother’s burial was an emotional moment for me and I broke down completely while delivering the eulogy. The guys even had to come upstage and keep from falling apart some more. The days that followed weren't any greener, especially with the dark void around the city worsening and swallowing us into a vortex while I was still grieving.Of course we were terribly confused as to why the spiritual attacks had carried on even after Glinda’s death, but no one had a reasonable answer to that. It was fucking frustrating having to watch people in pain almost every damn day. It sucked the humanity out of one’s soul and replaced it with nothing but bitterness. The only thing that was clear to me about the pattern of
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APRIL“You rotten lads, you couldn’t just mind your damn business? This is your fathers’ karma, why did you have to dig your stupid snotty noses in it?” she hissed angrily, overly displeased that she’d been found out by us.“We should be asking the questions,” I responded, upset that she hadn’t even made an effort to explain herself, “we came here thinking this whole fiasco was orchestrated by Glinda, only to see that it’s you, mom?!” The disappointment in my voice was thick, but she obviously didn’t give a shit about my feelings because she broke into hysterical laughter. “Mom? I’m not your fucking mom you idiotic little whore,” she rolled her eyes, and then she snapped her fingers, causing her face and physical appearance to warp instantly. Suddnely, she was a silver-haired woman with countless ancient tattoos of the moon and a shiv stuck in her heart that told us more than we needed to know. Later on, the Alphas had given us a more detailed tale of the day they finally took dow
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APRIL It’s been almost a month of back to back horrors breaking out in the city.We’d successfully chased the rogues out of the city and the sorceres were stationed alongside the armies by the borders, making sure that no more enemies were able to breach our defenses and get in.Heaps of bodies had been buried over the weeks and the entire town was reeking of grief. Loved ones were being mourned in different corners of the city were candles were lit beside framed photos and bouquets of flowers. Each photo of the dead that I saw brought me close to tears, but for children’s photos, my heart literally ached and felt like it was going to explode. Living in a place that was shrouded with pain and darkness was suffocating. Even though the sun came out each day, it felt like there was a dark void enveloping the city because everyone was in a sunken mood. We had to find Glinda and put an end to her attacks before the city was ruined beyond saving. Our search for her so far has proven fu
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APRILThe ticking clock in the ICU waiting room was the only audible sound.Xander had been taken in for an emergency operation a while ago and we were still waiting to hear back from the doctors.When we arrived at the hospital, he was barely breathing, and it seemed like they might’ve stopped his heart for the surgery because I couldn’t feel even a shred of his presence through the bond. On our way to the hospital, we’d dropped Natalie at one of the safety bunkers where security and magic borders were keeping people safe. If she was here, she’d have been a great distraction for me. And god, I’d do anything to be distracted from this godawful unending pain. My chest fucking hurt. Every nerve in my body was on literal fire. My head was pounding as though a line up of high school bands were in a competition. All I could think of was the pitiful state we’d found Xander in a while ago. The way he looked helpless and near death’s door. The way his blood was like a second skin masking
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APRILThe city was a mess. A bloody one.“Natalie, stop using your fucking phone or you’re going to get us killed,” I whispered to my best friend whose face was a mess of dry tears. She glared at me. “If I’m going to die, I need Hector to know that he was the best sex I ever had and I always wished we became more.” I frowned at her, both disturbed and confused that she’d picked that as the most important thing to put in order in a life and death situation. What a freaking clown.“Nat, I’ve told you a thousand times, you’re not going to die,” I bit out, “Nick asked us to stay hidden here and he’ll come get us, and I know he will.”I reminded her of the instruction we’d gotten almost an hour ago when chaos broke out in the city.Apparently, some rogues breached the city’s gates and began to brutally attack every living thing in sight. They've been killing anything in their way and no one is exempt from their wrath.Not women. Not innocents. Not children. Not animals. It was a battle
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XANDER Today, just like every other day for the last two weeks, we’d split up to search for Brooke. April was able to fully recover from the effects of the poison she was heartlessly fed by Brooke after a full day or more. Once we were certain that she was in a perfectly healthy state, we decided to go on a hunt for Brooke to make her pay for hurting our precious mate.No one seemed to know where she was. No one had seen her since she ran off that day. Even the city cameras had no footage of her since that day. It was almost like she’d vanished into thin air after that day, but we refused to give up on our search.We even had the authorities officially interrogate everyone she knew, especially those she worked with at her modeling agency, but no one had any reasonable information to share with us that would narrow her search.Even her personal assistant only heard that she was missing from us, he’d assumed she was taking a mental health break when she didn’t come to the office for
