All Chapters of Alpha Picked: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

*** Manzitti ***I tell Slayne to leave her motorbike and travel with Helen and me, and despite her moans, she does as she is asked. It's nice having Helen here. Slayne seems to want to make a good impression and isn’t half as annoying and outspoken as she usually is. I could get used to this.We decided in the café before we left that Brad, and I would knock and pose as businessmen since we both have a shirt and tie on. We will make enquiries and try and listen out for signs of a child. When we give the signal, Helen will approach with Slayne and Halle and demand that this Carole woman tells her where Summer is.“I will mindlink Slayne when the time is right for you to come to the door, okay, Shortie?” She nods at me and then frowns.“When you say mindlink, do you mean you can talk to each other in your heads, like telepathy?” My sister laughs and I growl at her. She had best not mock my mate, I will kill her if she does.“Sorry, Alpha,” Slayne says and she sounds contrite, so I let

Back then, being sexually humiliated by my husband and then scorned by him caused me to feel like life wasn’t worth living anymore, but that is nothing in comparison to not knowing what has happened to my daughter and facing an eternity not knowing how or where she is.Alan is well and truly out of my life now and I will never, ever want or need him again. I stayed shackled to him for far too long for all the wrong reasons. My marriage never failed because of me or because my mother has several failed marriages too. It failed because the piece of shit I married treated it as a joke and made a mockery of every pledge, vow and promise we made to each.I do shoulder some of the blame. I am starting to suspect I never truly loved Alan. I married in haste because my new stepdad frightened me, and because I felt flattered by all the attention Alan showered on me. Whatever it was that drove me to accept his proposal, I tried to give our union my best shot, but he never did and therefore it w

*** Ivan ***Slaynes' hurt and resentment is building up inside me and blending with my own. Why did the Moon Goddess mate me with such a resisting and challenging woman? I have nearly turned back on three occasions and told her it's ok, she doesn’t have to decide but I know that I will end up begrudging her and her unwillingness to be as one with me.I love her, probably too much, and I don’t want to hate her. I cannot hate her because deep down I know it’s not me she’s resisting. What she really fears is commitment and abandonment. I don’t want to leave her, leave my home, leave my friends and family, or my position. I hate it all.Pushing past the desire to turn around, I drive the van to Helen’s house and set up a discrete perimeter for us to maintain, and only ten minutes pass before a dark figure approaches Helen’s house. I stay back, assessing what is happening but I feel giddy in anticipation of a ruckus, and I am amazed that what I thought would be a lazy and pointless babysi

*** Halle ***“Sal, did you hear what I said?” My ears are ringing and I feel like I am separate from my body. This cannot be happening. This cannot be true.“Bebe, please look at me, I am so sorry. Your mother found him this morning when he didn’t wake as usual.” I hear his words, but they don’t make sense, it can’t be real. I shake my head at Brad, the man my father chose for me and the one I had resisted until last night when we finally had sex and I agreed to marry him. And then my father, the man who orchestrated this very union goes and dies just as it began.He can’t be dead; he is the strongest person I know.Brad had insisted on us getting back into his car when we left Helen’s house and he drove us a short distance away to an empty car park. He shut off the engine and took my hands in his as he told my father had passed away.“No, he is not dead. He can’t die.” I see the torment in Brad’s eyes and the truth starts to dawn on me: my papa is really gone. I hear a distressed cr

*** Slayne ***I haven’t left my bed today and I haven’t allowed anyone access to my room. Even the Omega assigned to us has knocked on the door several times begging me to eat and drink but I am so down I cannot even bring myself to respond other than to tell them no. I want to be alone.In the past, I have spent weeks not speaking to Ivan, keeping my distance and watching him from afar. Waiting for him to fuck up. I had expected him to start sleeping around again, like he did before we found out we were mates, and I would watch jealously and enviously when he spoke to girls I knew he had fucked before. However, the distance between us this time causes an overwhelming physical pain deep down in a soul. My wolf, Lizzie, whimpers and cries and I feel my strength deserting me.Ivan always said that he wouldn’t break his promises to me, and especially that he wouldn’t touch another she-wolf while we explored our bond, but only six months after my 18th birthday, Ivan did break a promise h