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129. "I, Alpha Jackson King..."
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The Alpha King's Curse 130. Goodbye
Jackson gripped the steering wheel so hard that his knuckles were white. He should have known. Left alone, Layla would do the one thing she had been trying to do since the day he met her: run away. She could sense how angry he was, but she was still emotionless. She was sitting in his passenger seat, her head held high as if she had done nothing wrong. Did she even think of all the things that could have happened to her out there alone? Had she thought of the baby? She’d walked so far she’d almost reached the boundary of a rival pack, for fuck’s sake! He clenched his jaw to stop himself from saying anything. If he spoke, she wouldn’t like what he’d say, and her time at the hideout would be anything but stress-free. He snuck another look at her. The skin on her shoulders and face looked an angry red, and if she had been out any longer, she would have started blistering. But it looked like she had already started healing. Pregnant wolves tended to be more sensitive to the eleme
The Alpha King's Curse 131. Coward
Jackson snuck out of the house like a thief while Layla was sleeping and drove out of the woods like the hounds of hell were chasing him. He wasn’t being a coward. He was the fucking Alpha King! But damned if he would stick around for the agony that saying goodbye to her face would bring him again. He didn’t slow down once he reached the main road that would take him into the city. The pull back to Layla was worryingly tolerable. That only happened after marking, or mates would never get anything done if they had to fight it all the time. He didn't know much about red wolves, but mating with one wasn't supposed to be different. "It's impossible," he said out loud. 'Maybe it's the number of times you growled 'Mine!' when you were fucking her,' Cain said gleefully. 'Like in the movie when you say 'Candyman' three times in the mirror.' "Shut the fuck up." They'd finally agreed on this. They couldn't do anything that would hurt Layla, marking or rejecting included, so why the hell d
The Alpha King's Curse 132. Enemy
Three months. That was how long Jackson had ignored her while Faith and Gavin had imprisoned her. She'd felt like somebody had plunged a knife through her chest the whole time. She looked back at the man following her at a distance and pulled a face. He stopped at a distance and lowered his head. His heart started beating a little fast as it had done since he’d brought her back home by force after her last escape attempt. She knew she’d kept her emotions in check, and he hadn’t seen anything wolfish, so why the hell was he scared? She turned back to the dirt trail through the woods and looked at the distance she still had to go before she reached the boundary. Beyond that was No Man’s land, only to be crossed once the baby was born. It took longer to walk there because of how big she’d gotten. She looked overdue instead of seven months pregnant. Faith assured her it was okay and said stuff like Jackson had been a big baby, too, as if that was supposed to make her feel better.
The Alpha King's Curse 133. Brutal
Jackson had known it would mess him up to get that close to Layla again. He stopped at the front door and closed his eyes as her scent wrapped around him, making his beast whimper. The sweet scent killed them but brought them back to life at the same time. He had checked on her from a safe distance for months because he’d known this would happen. The bond he had been trying to ignore flared to life and pulled him towards his mate. He should have kept away, but he couldn’t avoid this meeting. Layla would have heard more than Gavin; he was almost sure of that. The warrior said she’d started acting strangely on their walk, and then when he’d caught the intruder’s scent, Layla had rushed into the house without him having to tell her to. It had been three months of dead ends; this was his first real lead to the problem keeping him up at night. He’d already scanned the area for miles and sensed nothing, but he had caught a hint of a scent just as he had at the hotel. Amber was someho
The Alpha King's Curse 134. Old Tricks
Jackson looked away from his brutal mate and tried to focus on the issue at hand. Making sure he got rid of all the threats to her life was the only reason he was still breathing; otherwise, he would have succumbed to the pain a long time ago like his beast. "I don't know how far she was, but she was in that direction, past the boundary at the end of that trail,” Layla said, gesturing with her head to the woods. “She was quieter than the men who patrol your packhouse; I had to really focus to make sure I heard right. I might not have heard her if it wasn't for all that dry, long grass. And I know it’s long and dry because of the sound it makes when blowing in the wind.” It seemed she had kept up with her training. Not for the first time, he wondered how strong she would be when she finally came into all her power. When he was dead and gone, would his mate still be the Queen she was meant to be? “We caught her scent on the breeze, but I don’t know how far that would have travelled
The Alpha King's Curse 135. Dead
Layla had been standing by her window for hours. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t sense anyone else in the woods except Jackson and the men he had arrived with. She hadn’t realised how much she had come to rely on her senses until Jackson had told her that Amber was somehow hiding in there. Her enhanced senses were useless in that situation. But Jackson said he was stronger than the others. That meant he could find her, didn’t it?“You should rest.”She looked back at Faith, who was pretending to read a book. And she knew the girl was pretending. Faith couldn’t hide her anxiety, even though she looked calm.“I’m sure it’s nothing. Why would we get an intruder so far away from anything?” Faith continued.Even though Faith knew she had been involved in the fighting at the packhouse, the girl still didn’t discuss pack business in front of her. Maybe they were all going to pretend she didn’t know when they let her go after the baby was born, although she doubted it would be as
The Alpha King's Curse 136. The Night Walkers
When Jackson opened his eyes, he was in a dank, dark little room. His wrists were bound by chains suspended on some contraption on the ceiling, and his shoulders were on fire because they were supporting his weight. His fingers were numb and cold because the fuckers had chained him too tightly. Was this how he died then? In the hands of his enemy, months before he held his child? He felt lightheaded from the lack of circulation in his body. He tugged at the chains to test them out but could barely move his arms. It was the arrow that had weakened him. He could feel the dark magic burning through him as it had the other times, but this time he could still feel Cain. Maybe the magic wasn’t as strong this time. His beast was weakened, but he was already working hard to heal them. Still, he didn’t see them getting out of this anytime soon. He was too weak to even command anyone to release him. He looked at his feet and tried to wiggle his toes, but they were swollen. Both his feet
The Alpha King's Curse 137. Hope
Layla bit the blanket and clutched the bedding through another contraction. Tears fell unchecked down her cheeks. She’d endured hours of the pain, and now it was almost continuous. But the labour pain was nothing compared to the pain in her heart. The pack had returned from the woods without Jackson with nothing but lies on their lips. Dylan said Jackson would be with her as soon as he could, but where was he? If he was okay, why could she sense all that despair in the air? Why had Faith been crying? And why had they called more people from the pack to gather in the back garden? “You’re doing very well, Layla. Just a little bit more,” the doctor urged. He had his protective equipment on and settled at the foot of her bed. She’d been hooked to a machine to monitor her and the baby. It seemed Jackson had indeed been prepared for the child to be born in the middle of nowhere. She had assumed she would be taken to a hospital when her labour started, but the moment Faith had burst in
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