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Rayne I’m being dragged backward and no amount of digging my heels into the ground is going to stop this. He’s just too strong. With his hand over my mouth, I can barely make a sound. My screams are all muffled and I guess that the worst part is that I can’t breathe. I feel suffocated and breathless. And the more I try to scream, the worst it gets. “I’m sorry,” he says again. “I have to take you home.”I want to scream at him that that isn’t my home. My home is right here. He’s stealing me away from the only place in the world where I’ve ever felt remotely comfortable in. Everyone who has ever genuinely cared about me lives in this place. My father. Denise. I disappear and they won’t even know what happened. They’ll probably imagine that I was stolen away. And then my father will want to start a war he won’t win. I don’t want him to lose everything anymore, not for my sake. I should have just gone inside the house. I should never have tried to go talk to the guard. This bastard.
The Alpha’s Accidental Mate Chapter Seventy-Four
RayneI don’t know why I feel this embarrassed. Going outside is out of the question for me, not only because I don’t want to be seen by any other MoonWater guard, but because I’m ashamed of how everyone will look at me. I didn’t play a single role in what happened. I know I was stupid for going to the guard and assuming that my title would make him scared enough to leave but if I’d known what he would have done, I would have gone into the house and alerted someone. I heard that the guard’s body has been disposed off. If I have to be completely honest, I don’t feel much guilt about his death. It doesn’t haunt me, the same way that the Second Beta’s death doesn’t haunt me. That reckless guard could have killed me. I’ve had nightmares for three days straight because of him. In my dream, I can’t breathe, and I end up dying a brutal death. I wake up breathless and with tears in my eyes. If it weren’t for Victor, I’d be dead. The security has been doubled around us so no one else gets
The Alpha’s Accidental Mate Chapter Seventy-Five
RayneTraveling with Victor is exactly what I thought it would be. As silent as a grave. Denise and I can only exchange a few looks. He's so vigilant and cautious that we don't speak for fear of distracting him. It seems that they're really afraid of being ambushed by MoonWater, which is why everything needs to be silent so he can hear any noise around us. I have to admit that I wanted to change my mind as soon as I stepped outside and saw him standing there rigidly. I don't know what it was that made my step falter. The intense look he gave me, maybe. The more I interact with him, the more I'm sure that I get under his skin somehow. Perhaps the only reason why he stands me is because of the good relationship between our packs. Or maybe. Maybe. He was sour because I never thanked him for saving me. Which was why I apologized just as he was loading my bag on the carriage. I thanked him kindly for helping me and he barely looked at my face. He just nodded curtly. Dismissively. Alth
The Alpha’s Accidental Mate Chapter Seventy-Six
RayneDarla showed me her greenhouse and we spent the whole morning there. It was amazing to see all those exotic flowers and plants. She mentioned that her husband brought her a new plant every time he went to another territory, which was quite frequent. She said a lot of them didn't survive because she didn't know how to tend to them properly, but those she kept were beautiful. I liked how everything was organized, and how patient she was showing me everything. She looked very proud of her work and she should be—it was a lonely experience for me. While she showed me around, she told me a little bit about my mother. She told me about some of their experiences together, how brave and sympathetic my mother was, and much more. She was everything I always imagined her to be, if I'm being honest with myself. I already envisioned her as someone courageous and warm-hearted even before I found out her real identity. There are times when I share everyone's hate for MoonWater. They broke my
The Alpha’s Accidental Mate Chapter Seventy-Seven
MaxI kick at the desk and watch everything come crashing down. Pleasure courses through me. Lately, the only thing that makes me calmer is breaking things. Whenever I break something, I feel all my anger being released, and it's better than feeling this all-consuming emptiness that's been haunting my days since Rayne left. I don't know what to do with myself. I haven't been able to sleep and I have barely been able to eat. I wasn't expecting her absence to hit me this hard, so hard that I've become a completely different person. Almost obsessive. I need to have her back. If I don't get her back, I might very well make the world burn. I don't care about what anyone has to say about this either. I know that, by now, everyone knows that it's Rayne that is making me feel this way, even Alaska. Still, she hasn't left the House yet. I'm not sure what she's waiting for but then again, I don't have the time to think about that. Getting Rayne back is nearly impossible these days, and it's
The Alpha’s Accidental Mate Chapter Seventy-Eight
RayneAfter dinner, Darla and I talk a little bit about womanhood. An odd topic, yes, but she doesn’t make it awkward at all. She tells me, under her breath, just about everything she can think of, including topics about personal hygiene amongst other things. Some things I already knew, but others were new to me and I am incredibly grateful for the advice. At the end of our evening together, she pats my hand and says, “You know, having you here is absolutely wonderful. I haven’t had someone to talk to in years.”I nod, unsure of what to say. Then, I add, “It’s great being here, too.”My days here are somewhat full. I’m not holed up in my room and waiting for Veronica to call for me. There is a lot to see and even learn, if that is my wish. Darla is very attentive, and I don’t feel at all like a burden here. She offers me a wide smile and then we rise wordlessly and start toward the stairs. It’s somewhat late and I do feel tired. She senses even this. I wonder if there is ever anyth
The Alpha’s Accidental Mate Chapter Seventy-Nine
RayneVictor isn't wearing a shirt. He cuts into the apple as we maintain eye contact and then slowly brings a wedge up to his mouth. I am sure my face is the color of a tomato right now and I don't know where to look after I was staring for so long. It's become an awkward situation now and there is no getting out of this. "Sorry," I say, "I just wanted water."He gestures at the vastness of the kitchen as if to say 'do as you wish' and I immediately walk toward the large container of water. There are rows of glasses right beside it and I grab a clean one. I turn the tap and watch my glass fill with water. I can feel his eyes on me even though I'm not looking at him. I wonder if it's paranoia. I tip my head back and gulp the water down. I then refill the glass. I hear him eating the apple from somewhere behind me, aware of every little sound that is made in this kitchen. Once I've finished drinking, I put the glass down on the other side of it as I'm not sure where to wash it, and
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RayneI caught a rabbit today. I can hardly believe it. I never thought I’d be able to catch anything, much less with a bow and arrow. Victor was patient with me. It took many tries to get this one rabbit. He could have gotten many rabbits and even a deer if he hadn’t spent so much time teaching me, but I’m glad he did. I never would have guessed that I would be able to learn how to hunt anything. Yet I’ve managed. My rabbit is slung over Victor’s shoulder. He has removed the arrow from its small body but there is a bloody gaping hole right at the center. We’re making our ways back to the house. By now, everyone else is probably done. “I’ll teach you how to skin it,” he tells me. “You never know when it might come in handy.”“It’s probably going to take all afternoon,” I comment.“I have time,” he answers mildly. I try not to make too much of it as we walk toward the barn. The whole family is already there, as I guessed. They all turn to look at us as we approach them and Darla
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Rayne Reaching MoonWater fills me with excitement and dread. The last time I was here, we were still in the middle of the war. It was Max’s idea for me to leave and go to Iron until things cooled down. I agreed because frankly, I was tired of the bloodshed. I felt I had nothing left to do but go away, and so that’s what I did. I haven’t been back since. Max and I have been communicating with each other but not as often. Our communication is mostly nonverbal. I can’t hear his words in my head or even send a message across; it’s more of a swapping of emotions. This has gotten stronger over the weeks, and now that I’m here, closer to him, I feel the bond’s strength. I exit the carriage and near the gate. I inform the guards of who I am but they don’t ask me to wait for them to call someone. They open the gates for me instantly. I walk through them, leaving the carriage behind. Everything looks as I remember, pre-war. This has to be a good sign. I continue walking until I reach the f
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RayneThe war with GrayLeaf only ended with their Alpha’s death. It was Max himself who killed him. There was no way around it. He never believed it was Veronica’s doing, and when he found Albert dead, he assumed Max was the culprit. There were many casualties. My father lost men he trusted. AmberMane lost some of their own, the biggest loss being Victor. I have to admit that I thought they would hate and blame me for his death because I most certainly blamed myself, but nothing between us changed apart from the loss we now shared. I didn’t know Victor as well as I could’ve, but he’d been a friend to me, and he had helped me make myself stronger. I wish things had gone differently. I wish he didn’t have to die. Things took a long time to settle down after the war. GrayLeaf collapsed completely. The remaining members of their pack became rogues. I offered to help them but Max said it wasn’t the right choice to make. A lot of the people who remained were widows and children of the f
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RayneI watch her slowly shift back to human form, hissing in pain. The arrow went straight through her shoulder. She tries to touch it but groans in pain when she touches it. I’m afraid that she’ll break it in half and slide it out but that doesn’t happen. I near her and nock another arrow. I point it straight at her face this time. “If you dare to move, I’ll shoot you.”Her eyes meet mine. Her lips are starting to get pale. “You’re going to hit me anyway, so why should I bother? You didn’t follow me all the way here to talk to me.”“You’re right, I didn’t,” I reply coldly. She shifts and cries out. I’m tempted to hit her again. Her pain is comforting to me. I want to tell her that now she knows how it feels, yet the pain she’s experiencing now can’t be compared to mine. That pain left scars that will never go away. Because of her selfishness, I’ve lost parts of myself that are irretrievable. “What are you waiting for, then?” she asks breathlessly as she tries to sit against the
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Rayne Lambert changed plans halfway to GrayLeaf. He said he had a better idea. Rather than attack GrayLeaf and cause an unnecessarily high death toll, we could simply try to frame Veronica instead. He said he would speak to Albert and convince him to be in a certain place, at a certain time, where he would then confront Veronica. Naturally, this would still make him lose his place amongst his pack, but he said he never cared much for the pack anyway. He always wanted to be a rogue, where he could live life in his own terms and not have to follow strict rules all the time. I have to say that at some point, I wanted to be a rogue, too. I wanted nothing but freedom whenever I thought about my life. There are times when I forget I was even a slave, but there are others when it's all I can think about. I see myself on my knees in the middle of the grand hall, scrubbing until my fingers bleed. I'd wonder what it felt like to be free. Now that I know what it is, I realize that it comes
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Max It doesn’t take long after Veronica leaves for someone to come for me. I don’t ask questions as they untie my hands and then tell me to walk. Humiliation burns inside of me but I keep it down and walk. I walk through the relatively empty dungeon all the way up the short stairs I used on my way down here. There are currently three guards behind me. Any thoughts of trying to run flee from my mind. It would be a reckless decision to make and would undoubtedly bring me more humiliation. The only thing assuring me that I won’t be killed today is Veronica’s alleged plan. She wants me to mate with her, after all, so how could she let them kill me? It all depends, of course. I try not to think too much about it as I walk outside. I take a deep breath of fresh air and instantly feel better. The air down there is stale. It felt like I was slowly being smothered to death. We’re walking toward the mansion. My guess is that there is going to be a discussion of some kind where I will once
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RayneThe plan we come up with is simple yet effective. I go with Iron and AmberMane to MoonWater and take over. As the Luna, it’s my right to do so. Word will spread to GrayLeaf, undoubtedly, but by then, we’ll be ready. Lambert thinks that we have to attack them first and we have to do it hard. We tell them that we only have two requests to end this war.The first request is that we want them to release Max. The second is we want Veronica. At that point, we’ll tell them everything they’ve done. Lambert will confess everything he did and they’ll probably exile him from the pack, but he says he doesn’t care about that. “Why?” my father asked him. “Why do you want to be exiled from your pack?”“I don’t have anything to do there,” was his answer. “I hate those bastards more than you do. If they hadn’t insisted on marrying her off to an Alpha, she would be alive by now.”I wanted to ask him where he would go but I figured it was too intrusive. It didn’t matter, anyway. What mattered wa
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Rayne I look back at him. He’s running his fingers through his hair in despair. I’ve already pieced this together. I know why he’s here demanding this truth from me. Why he’s given me this letter to read. It makes perfect sense. The only reason why I’m not saying anything is because my own heart is shattering. I’ve doubted Max. I thought he was a scoundrel and now I have proof that he isn’t. Veronica did it all. The man gets on his knees, his back facing me. A few beats pass and then he says, “I loved her. You don’t understand how much I loved her. You can’t begin to imagine.”I lick my lips and say, “Sure I can. You literally sabotaged her mating day. You put me there just to prevent her from mating with Max.”He glares at me over his shoulder. I glare right back. I’m trying to keep an eye on him while sorting through the mess in my head simultaneously. It isn’t easy. I’m just thinking about Max and how Veronica ruined us. Tore us apart. I can’t take my attention from him entire
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RayneI still haven’t decided if we’re going to go to war against GrayLeaf. I want to. I can’t say that I don’t. They’ve done enough to hurt me and I would be thinking solely of revenge if I chose to fight. The time I spent in that prison was something I’d only wish upon my worst enemy. I have lost too much because of them. I want to fight. I want to bring them to my knees. At the same time, I have no idea if it’s the right move. A leader has to think of everyone else, not just themselves. I would hate it if my father, Darla, or even Victor got hurt because of this thirst for revenge of mine. It’s not fair to them. Besides, fighting means we have to join arms with MoonWater, because otherwise we don’t stand a chance. Do I really want to get that close to Max?I’m going to have to be the one to talk to him, which is why my father said the choice is up to me. He’d probably do it if I asked, or insisted, but that’s a coward’s move. I have to be the one to do it, not him or anyone else
