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The Alpha King's Rejected Mate Book 2: chapter 20
MayaWe shifted and moved quietly up the mountain. The group surrounded me, including a small gray wolf who continued to look at me sideways but didn’t say anything. I didn’t think Rhyson would have it in him to actually put a chain around my neck, but I also knew the danger that we were in. Staying with him, and obeying him, was my best bet for now.And the safest bet, since it meant I would have more time to plan my escape before he tried to haul me to my father.It was several hours after the dark had settled when we found a nice cave to rest in. It was a small space, barely big enough for all of us, but it connected to a small tunnel and another entrance. It looked, and smelled, abandoned, and we made camp. Several went out to hunt, and after dragging back two deer, we had dinner. Most of us shifted back to human, although one of the females and one of the males kept their wolves out to stand guard.I was not invited to guard patrol, but that was fine. I was exhausted after the fi
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A small smile curved on her face. “If you need to talk to me, I encourage you to do so. You’re in a high-stress environment, and those stress levels can also affect the baby. I’m not a therapist, but sometimes talking can help. Before I signed on with the king, I was a midwife.”“Really? Lucky me.”“Hmm.” She gave me a strange look. “All right, you should get your sleep.”I hadn’t dressed since shifting back, and I wasn’t about to sleep naked, so I fumbled around in my pack for a change of clothes. “Maya? You’re not sleeping in human form, are you?”Pausing, I turned my head. “I am. Is that a problem?”“It’s safe for the baby if you shift. You know that, right?”“I’ve napped a couple of times as a wolf, but I’ve never spent the night as one. I’m just more comfortable as a human.”She frowned. “But we’re sleeping on the bare rock. There’s no pad.”Shrugging, I went back to pulling out some clothes. As much as shifters were comfortable being naked around each other, I didn’t spend all t
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Rhyson“Humans,” I repeated as I stared at Juniper. “In the middle of a rogue werewolf mountain.”“Yes,” Maya snapped from next to her. “And since I was the one who smelled them, you should be directing your questions at me. I realize it’s absurd, but they are not wolves. They smelled…a little strange, but I don’t spend a whole lot of time around humans.”Growling, I fixed her with a gaze, but she didn’t shrink away. “And you thought it was a good idea to follow that smell?”“Yes, Rhyson, I thought it might be prudent to see why I was smelling something strange since we’re in an unknown environment searching for…what are we searching for again?” she asked sweetly. Next to me, Duke growled, but we’d discussed not calling me Your Majesty while we were here, so there wasn’t a whole lot that he could do.With a glare, I tried to settle my wolf. He was irrationally unhappy, although not for the same reason I was. He was pissed that I’d let her go off alone and she’d almost gotten into trou
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MayaEveryone’s wolf rose to the surface, including mine, and I struggled to push her back. The whole situation was strange, but that didn’t mean we needed to attack right away. I opened my mouth to say something, but the woman just raised her eyebrows. “Obviously our witches knew that you were coming. They have names, but they couldn’t see why you were here, only that you would need some guidance. Shift if it makes you feel safer.”He didn’t. “You have seers among you. I’ve heard of them, but I’ve never met one.”“I suspect you’ll be meeting this one, but not today and perhaps not on this particular journey. She does not live among us, just pops in from time to time, although I suspect she has more information than she provides. She finds us…intriguing.”“As do I,” he said flatly.“My name is Sera. Does that make you feel better?”Rhyson studied her for a moment and then relaxed. “To be honest, nothing about this place makes me feel better.”“You would not be the first to say that. C
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“I don’t care,” Hofter said gruffly. “Don’t break anything. In fact, don’t touch anything at all. My potions and salves are a delicate process.”Most wolf healers I knew had a delicate and gentle touch, but not Hofter. His grunt was the only welcome we had as he turned his back and stomped back in.Charles winked. “He’s soft on the inside, don’t worry. Do you think you can find your way back when you’re done, or would you prefer that I wait?”“We do not need an escort,” Rhyson said stiffly, but Charles was looking at me. I shook my head and followed Hofter inside.Strange that he would leave us unaccompanied. Either he didn’t have any secrets or their secrets were well-guarded to the point that he’d allow strangers to roam around. I could see Rhyson was thinking the same thing.Hofter was waiting for us. “What’s the problem?”Wonderful bedside manner. I cleared my throat. “My knee hurts a little when I walk long distances.”“Define a little.”“Um. It swells up.”“So it hurts a lot,” h
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Rhyson“And here I thought my father and Larson told you everything you needed to know about me,” she said tonelessly. “You only care now because someone thought you did it. Don’t pretend to care otherwise.”“I do care. I am your…” I cut off before I said king. “I do care.”“No. You don’t.”Hofter returned before I could press the issue. I paid close attention to the instructions on both the salve and the morning sickness medication. Watching him rub the stuff on her knee made my wolf howl with fury inside, but I just clenched my fists and stood still. He was a healer. She was hurt.And she wasn’t mine.Afterward, Maya looked relieved, making the guilt wedge even further inside me. How long would it have taken her to admit something was wrong? When her knee gave out in the middle of an attack?We were going to have to talk about that.But not now. Not in front of strangers.I thanked him stiffly, and he smirked my way, as if he knew what the effect of him touching her had done to me.
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“What do you mean?”“As a healer, Hofter struggles to handle others’ pain. He internalizes it, but it wears on him. Because of this, he’s been working on some magical charms that alter a patient’s perception of time. Hours of pain will only seem like one to them. I am so sorry. I’m going to go speak to him right now. If you’d like to come with me, you’re more than welcome. I promise that we are not trying to play any tricks on you.”“Maya is not in intense pain. There was no reason for us to be there for hours,” I growled.Tessa cleared her throat delicately. “Forgive me for interrupting, but based on these ingredients, I would say that Maya has been hiding a great deal of pain. It has a building effect, but if you’re already feeling relief, then it probably has been several hours with at least two or three applications.”Furious, I turned to her. “You do not hide pain here, do you understand?” I snarled. “Any weakness at all that I don’t know about could get us killed.”“You were the
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Maya“You so much as touch me, I will scream so loud…”“Settle down, princess,” Rhyson sighed. “I’m not here to fuck you. We need to talk.”Was he really so pissed about my knee? It was all that I could do not to roll my eyes. “Look, I’m sorry I didn’t tell you about my knee, but let’s be honest. You didn’t ask a lot of questions, and you certainly didn’t invite a conversation. I believe your words were ‘speak only when spoken to.’ My knee has hurt for years. It hurt when you bent me over the bed and fucked me from behind. I’ve learned to live with it.”His eyes turned gold, and I had a feeling I was skating on thin ice, but I wasn’t done. “You want to know about my other injuries? You’ve seen my scars. They’re not battle scars, but they don’t hurt anymore. My ankle was fucked up for a while, but it really only hurts when I run on it as a human. The knee bothers me as a human and a wolf, so it’s a little more difficult to navigate. It’s better now. I won’t slow you down.”“Who. Did. I
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Knowing she was pregnant would only make that target on her back even bigger.Tess frowned at her. “Are you okay?”Mica struggled to reign in the anxiety that was no doubt leaking into her expression. “Disappointed. A baby would be a welcome beacon of light in these dark times.”She hoped the strange lilt to her voice could be mistaken for sadness. She didn’t have the mental energy to explain everything to Tess, nor did she want to. Not only were these raging emotions making her feel hollowed out inside, but Tess shouldn’t be the first one to find out. Hayden should.Once Hayden knew and they had a plan for moving forward, she could tell Tess the truth. Hopefully, she’d understand.Right now, though, there was so much tension in the splintered pack that if it was known she was pregnant, it might push the pack to no longer wait for the challenge… which was meant to be tomorrow afternoon.“I’m going to rest,” Mica told Tess, managing a small smile. “And you should as well. We’ve been th
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MicaMica didn’t know how she did it, but Tess managed to smuggle in a pregnancy test. Now, Mica sat in the bathroom, staring at the positive result. Her stomach was queasy, and now that she thought about it, she’d been feeling that quite a lot lately. Her body hurt, she always felt tired, and she had chalked it all up to stress.Pregnant.Even though she and Hayden had been having a lot of sex, and she had made the deliberate choice not to use condoms, she still could hardly believe it. Her period had always been all over the place. It wasn’t unusual for her to skip three or four months. She’d always been told it would make getting pregnant more difficult.Counting back, it had been, what, five months? Time passed so quickly that she hadn’t bothered to think about her last period. Before Hayden and the special ops team had returned to the Bluebell Valley pack, at least. So what did that mean? How far along was she?She peeled up her shirt and studied her stomach, looking at it from a
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Hayden“I’m just saying that maybe this ritual is worth the risk,” Maverick said. His arms were folded over his chest, and there was a doubtful look on his face. “What will it hurt to try?”Hayden shook his head. “We can’t risk a demon getting free. We don’t know what will happen. For all we know, this ritual is something the demons put into the world to—”He cut off as Finn shuddered. His eyes widened, and his head snapped around, toward the house. “Something’s happening.”Mica.With a curse, Hayden wheeled around and raced for the house. The team fell in step behind him. The pack looked up from their tasks, startled, but Hayden didn’t give any orders. He threw open the front door and took the stairs two at a time. He kicked open the door leading to the room where Echo was kept.Mica, Tess, and Elin were all inside. Tess rang an old brass bell manically, the clanging echoing through the room. Elin held a lighter in hand, racing back and forth to light candles as Echo spun around in h
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Mica squeezed her eyes shut tightly. Her stomach churned. It was exactly what she thought—they weren’t even going to try to save Echo, too certain in their own knowledge.“It has to happen soon, Hayden,” Ryder said, his voice low, urgent, and… sorrowful. “I can’t keep holding my tongue. You are my Alpha, and I’ve tried to respect your decisions, but the situation is becoming untenable. This is my mother and my sister we’re talking about. I will tell Mica, if that’s what you would prefer.”“No,” Hayden answered.Why? Why did he not want Ryder to tell her? Tears filled Mica’s eyes and she crept away, not wanting to hear any more. Was Hayden afraid she’d let Echo go? Did he think it was up to him as her mate to tell her that he was going to kill her mother?He doesn’t consider it killing Mom, though. He considers it a mercy, freeing her from the demon.It didn’t make Mica feel any better. She carefully opened the kitchen door, slipped through, and softly closed it. Her heart pounded in h
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MicaMica stared at the page. She’d been reading for so long that the words were starting to blur, but if she was right in her interpretations here… She blinked, rubbed her eyes, and focused again. As she reread the section, her heart started to beat faster.“And the demon was taken from its host and trapped in the stone,” she whispered. “Where it was trapped for all eternity.”She scanned the rest of the page. Hope swelled through her, even though she fought against it. It had been so long since this started, she wasn’t sure she could take it if this didn’t work. But there was the ritual all laid out. The way to force an aura-demon from the person it was possessing, and trapping it into an inanimate object. Once in the object, the demon would be trapped until said object was destroyed.Her mind whirled as to what they could use to trap the demon inside of Echo. There was a size limit to work with. A rock would be the best; then she’d put it in a plastic, air-tight box and bury it as
The Alpha King's Rejected Mate Book 3: chapter 41
Monroe laughed. “Spoken like a true female. Completely wrong.”Spencer and the rest of his people burst into laughter as well. They all stalked away, taking their torches with them. A flash of lightning flickered soundlessly in the distance. Hayden turned to his pack. They watched with uncertain gazes.“Two days,” he said loudly. “And then you will know you put your faith in the right Alpha. We will have Bluebell Valley, and things will get better.”He smiled at them reassuringly. As they dispersed, Finn and Blayke sidled over to him. Finn spoke in a low voice.“Spencer is the only one not showing signs of possession,” he said under his voice. “Everyone else is either claimed or at least influenced. It’s spreading.”Hayden nodded once. Finn would prefer they take more decisive, more immediate action. Hayden couldn’t blame him, knowing his history. He had a particular reason to hate demons, seeing how they robbed him of any chance he might have had to have a normal family, a normal lif
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Hayden“Stay here. I’ll be back shortly,” Hayden ordered as he stalked back to the bedroom. As he threw on his clothes, he frowned. Mica was dressing as well. “I said—”“I’m your mate. I’ll stand with you,” she said shortly.Hayden shook his head. “You’ll stay within the property bounds.”Mica huffed at him but didn’t respond. The two of them were ready quickly. Mica swept her hair into a bun as they headed downstairs. Torches lit the night, dozens of Monroe’s pack carrying them as the flames flickered and glowed. Hayden’s wolf snarled at the sight of Monroe, standing with his toes against the PCP piping at the gate.“Ah, decided to join us, did you?” Monroe drawled. “I was starting to think that your little challenge was all talk and no action.”His people laughed. Hayden ignored the low-hanging fruit and stopped just inside the protective barrier. “Are you finally going to accept my challenge, or will you continue to be a coward?”Monroe smirked. “What do you think I’m here for? It’
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“Brother coming through,” Ryder called from outside, then he stepped into the entrance. He grabbed a pair of shorts and yanked them on, carefully not watching Mica and Hayden. Mica kissed Hayden’s cheek. “I’ll be up in a bit.” He nodded, and Mica slipped back outside. It was utterly dark now, and she had to use a flashlight to navigate the camp. Everyone else could simply see in the dark but with her weak human eyes… But nobody brought it up, not like they wouldhave in other circumstances. She headed upstairs once she was satisfied everyone was set for the night. Hayden waited for her in bed, scrolling through the most recent demon research on the laptop. He closed it and set the laptop on the nightstand as he grinned at her. His hair was damp from the shower, the smell of soap mingling with his manly scent. Mica grabbed a nightgown from her dresser and changed. “I don’t like that nightgown,” Hayden told her. “It’s old and worn.” “And comfortable,” Mica snarked. “Yes. Whi
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MicaThe beast-demon stalked along the boundary's edge, snorting as it tested the protections. With Hayden and the rest of the special ops in the forest, Mica had ordered that they let the demon wander and not engage. Hayden had taken all the best fighters with him, meaning her order was gladly obeyed. Nobody wanted to tangle with the beast.Unfortunately, such a sight was getting more common. Even the children who used to scream and hide now ignored it, snuffling around the edges of the property. Its twisted horns glowed in the rapidly oncoming darkness. Clouds shrouded the sky, making it even darker.“Hayden will be back soon,” Mica told Tess as she nervously looked at the beast.“I know.” She shook her head. “Let’s go back into the house. I don’t trust the sources that say the beast-demons are dumb. I don’t want it to report back to Monroe about what we talk about.”Mica nodded. That was the smarter idea. The two headed into the house and went up to Mica and Hayden’s room. With all
