Share
77. Not Her Words
Related chapters
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
The Alpha King's Curse 82. A Dead Heart
The car stopped at the Dark Moon pack gates and Jackson stepped out, ignoring Micah’s objections.Something wasn’t right, and it wasn’t the presence of the stupid pack camped in his forest—though their numbers were indeed a worry. It wasn’t Chase’s scouts and warriors watching them from the forest, either. ‘Alpha, we’re too exposed here. I’d feel better if you return to the car until we join the other team inside,’ Micah mindlinked as he came to stand beside him. The Head Warrior looked around and kept alert to any threats as he had trained his whole life to do. He shouldn’t have bothered. No one would attack him when they were fully aware he could sense them in their hiding places. They wouldn't be so obvious if they were going to ambush him. ‘Did Amber cause trouble when you threw her out?’ he asked Micah.Micah tensed and turned to look at him with his eyes lowered.‘You didn’t seem surprised that Dylan rushed back to deal with her,’ he stated, his suspicions growing as he watc
The Alpha King's Curse 83. Aftermath
It had been two weeks since Jackson had locked her in a room and disappeared.And she knew he had disappeared because Faith, the only person she had seen in those two weeks, had told her so.It was funny how nothing else seemed to matter just because her worry had taken her over. Her stronger hearing, eyesight, her messed up head... None of it.It didn’t matter that she was somehow able to sit by her window listening in to all the conversations outside just because she wanted to hear any information about Jackson.It didn’t matter that she had become so violent that she’d beat Amber up as if it was nothing. It didn’t matter that she could now see all the way to the gate and the guardhouse when she had seen nothing when she first arrived. It didn’t matter that she was living among murderers.It didn’t matter that when she sat by the window at night, she saw the glowing eyes in the woods. She heard the snarls. The growls. And she was becoming just like them just because she was living
The Alpha King's Curse 84. Her Fault
Layla opened the window and leaned out to figure out what was happening. There was something in the air pressing down on her. Fear and desperation. She recognised it only because she had felt it too much in the months she had been there.All around her, she heard the sounds of fighting. Growls. Snarls. Yelps and whines. She heard the clinking of weapons and shouting. She heard children crying. The gates had been open when Jackson’s people gathered at the front of the house, but they were firmly shut now. The fighting seemed to be beyond the gates, maybe in town. She didn’t know why she could hear that far, but the sounds brought her out of the depression she had sunk into the past two weeks. People were dying. She could hear their gurgling as they took their last breaths, terrifying her, breaking her. She heard a girl scream and then nothing. As if her life had just been ripped from her. Shock forced her to step back from the window and clutch her chest. These were Jackson’s peopl
The Alpha King's Curse 85. The Smell Of Death
Dawn was breaking when Layla stood at the windows and watched the activity outside as she towel-dried her hair. There had been tents put up all over the front grounds, and she was guessing they were all over the rest of the grounds as well. It looked like the whole town had moved to the packhouse. Maybe because of the wards, whatever those were.When Jackson ordered her to attend the dinner, she assumed the whole town had been invited, but she could see how wrong she had been. So many people walked in and out of the house and spilt out of the tents in large groups. A line of them walked through the gates carrying the injured into the house. And they carried their dead into the biggest tent next to the house.Her heart broke as she saw how many there were. Were any of them the young woman who’d left her children in her care? She must have had more family in the fight to leave her babies like that. If Jackson had been there, would any of them have died? Would his beast have ripped th
Latest chapter
The Alpha King's Curse 164. Grateful
The Alpha King's Curse 163. My Queen
The Alpha King's Curse 162. Brothers
The Alpha King's Curse 161. Dark Clouds
The Alpha King's Curse 160. Angelic Singing
The Alpha King's Curse 159. Happy Birthday, Jackson King
The Alpha King's Curse 158. We Effed Up
The Alpha King's Curse 157. Something's Changed
The Alpha King's Curse 156. Different
