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73. Choosing His Mate
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The Alpha King's Curse 74. Not Right
“We should do a pregnancy test.”Layla had been feeling strange the past couple of days. They’d been cooped up in the bedroom again for days, so she didn’t know if she was just losing her mind from being locked up or she was finally pregnant. And if she was pregnant, she didn’t know how she would deal with that.She’d accepted that she had to leave her child with Jackson so he could raise their child among fellow werewolves, but that had been easy to agree with when it hadn’t been a reality. But now she was getting the sweats, feeling ravenous all the time, and things just didn't feel right. That had to be a symptom of pregnancy. How could she still go along with leaving her child now?“You’re not pregnant,” Jackson sighed as he walked to sit next to her on the sofa. He sounded disappointed, and she couldn’t help but feel she was letting him down, despite knowing she didn’t want to leave her child anyway. But how did he know? He had said the same thing before he’d passed out after
The Alpha King's Curse 75. Unexpected
Jackson stopped whistling when he walked out of the packhouse and saw Dylan walking up the steps. As if his Beta didn’t already believe he had lost his mind. He never whistled. He couldn’t remember a single time in his life when he had felt unburdened enough to do that.“Alpha,” Dylan said, lowering his head.“Beta,” he answered before he walked past him.Petty. He knew that was petty, but damned if he would back down now. Layla would never go anywhere near Dylan again. Micah was speaking to a group of young trainees about to start their training when he found him. The man immediately lowered his head and walked towards him while the trainees rushed towards the field. The fear was still there. It was fucking everywhere. He supposed it was something he would have to live with until his dying breath. His pack would never forget that he killed one of them and tortured three more. And then killed an Alpha in cold blood on his doorstep.“Alpha,” Micah greeted. “What was so urgent that Dy
The Alpha King's Curse 76. Whispered Secrets
Jackson had never experienced anything as excruciatingly painful and devastating yet overwhelmingly satisfying. He had spent days fighting his beast while getting Layla through her heat. Every time he had latched onto her neck, something had got through the fog in his head to remind him that the bite would be a death sentence for Layla. It had been enough to make him let go, but only barely. He’d been too weak to bite her in the end anyway. This hadn’t been his first experience with an unmated female’s heat, but it was the first that had depleted all his energy completely. The first that he had felt himself. It wasn’t supposed to be like that. The men tended to the women for a day or two, rested for a couple of hours, and then returned to their full strength. They didn’t lie down for a whole day, unable to move. They didn’t feel the burn in their body as if they had bathed in a fire for days while their bodies were so thoroughly and shamelessly used. It was because he hadn’t mar
The Alpha King's Curse 77. Not Her Words
What the hell was going on?Though Jackson had said she had been in heat, he hadn’t explained how that was possible. And it didn’t explain any of the other things. Was all of it only happening because of all her time with Jackson? And if that was the case, did that mean she would turn into a werewolf like him?The first thought that floated through her mind was that she wouldn’t have to leave her baby behind if that happened. She could stay and be a real family with Jackson.But she pushed that thought aside. Despite all these odd thoughts and feelings for him, she didn't even like Jackson. And she had Brit to think about. She couldn’t abandon her sister. It would have been better if she left before this pregnancy was confirmed.She sucked in a breath as something else occurred to her. She was feeling completely fine now. No nausea, no fever... That had to mean that she had felt like that because of the heat. She wasn’t pregnant. She could leave with Dylan and not feel guilty about ta
The Alpha King's Curse 78. Changes
Jax strolled out of the packhouse with his hands in his pocket. He had to find the red wolf. It was the only way he would get answers. While Layla’s fight with her dual nature was expected, it didn’t usually happen until the half-breeds were older. And he hadn’t actually found any cases where the wolf side got so strong so quickly. It was the wolf he had seen in her eyes the whole time he had eased her through her heat. It was the wolf that had endured every impossible position, every frenzied thrust. It was the wolf that had kept pulling his head down to her neck so he could mark her. Things were not adding up. Layla had masked her scent from everyone but him. Since red wolves were so rare, not much was known about them, but he wondered what was really happening to his mate. Was she a half-blood? Or was she just unshifted? Maybe red wolf physiology was different, and they shifted when they were older. His heart started to pound as he stood on the top step outside the packhouse. I
The Alpha King's Curse 79. A Meeting In The Woods
It was late afternoon when Jackson left the bedroom again. He locked it this time because Layla was still slightly out of it. No, that was an understatement. She was a lot out of it. It hadn’t helped when she had watched the cuts on her knuckles healing right in front of their eyes.She didn’t look mentally prepared to accept what he had to tell her, and he didn’t want to say anything until he knew the whole truth. What if being the offspring of a red wolf was worse than being just a regular half-blood?What if it meant that everything was accelerated, and the Circle would put her down sooner than he expected? They wouldn’t give a shit if she was already pregnant with the heir they wanted.There was a shift in the air when he stepped outside again. He could feel the disappointment crashing down on him even though the warriors standing around outside the packhouse didn’t say a word.What could he have possibly done now?He felt a wave of anger in his direction and turned to watch Dyla
The Alpha King's Curse 80. His Redemption
“I have to go out for a little while.”Layla didn’t even look at him; he wasn’t sure she had even heard him. After going through her heat, they were supposed to be closer than before, but there was a canyon between them. “Layla?”She seemed to snap out of whatever she was thinking and gave him the fakest smile he had ever seen.“Hmm?”“I have to go out,” he repeated.Her eyes widened.“Oh, that’s today?”He frowned at her odd choice of words. He hadn’t mentioned anything about going out to her unless she was referring to his promise to take her to see her sister. Maybe that was what she needed to step out of it. “I mean, you’re going out today?” she asked.She perked up a little bit. After her mini-breakdown when she had beaten Amber up, she had become distant but completely calm. And her emotions had become difficult to read. It was almost as if she was channelling her red wolf traits and masking her feelings.After he spoke to Chase, he was taking her out of there. They could mak
The Alpha King's Curse 81. Leaving Him
This was happening. She was leaving. Layla paced the bedroom as she waited and tried not to think of who she was leaving behind. It was better to concentrate on what she had to do once she left, how she would stay ahead of Jackson if he tried to look for her and protect her sister. It was the only thing that mattered now. She didn’t recognise herself anymore, and that was all because she was in this strange place, living among beasts. Once she got away, she would return to normal. She would no longer hear things she wasn’t supposed to hear. She wouldn’t smell things she wasn’t supposed to smell. She wouldn’t fight people with such horrific violence. And she wouldn’t speak or behave like another person was thinking and speaking for her. That was terrifying. Her school counsellor would have had her locked up if this had happened when she had been in school. Could she trust Dylan with this? He wanted her gone but there was that nagging thought in the back of her mind that he was
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