All Chapters of My Alpha Mate Wants Me Back: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

RenaeHands clasped behind her back, she watched from a distance, having gotten banned by her son from The Hunt. It didn't matter. She could only take pride in knowing the wretch wouldn't be returning with the rest of the contenders.She watched as the woman tried again and again to get on the horse. She watched the Gamma approach her, and Renae saw the emotions that flickered briefly in her son's eyes as the Gamma lifted the maid and placed her on the horse.Renae felt no regret for what she had planned.There would be casualties, perhaps, even deaths, but it was all for the greater good. For the pack, for Neredia, she would never let an outsider take the sacred seat from her.Did she hate the miserable maid? Yes. Why did she? Because there was none she hated more than Madeline Everhart. The whore. The one who could tell fortunes by reading one's hand. The one she had confided in once about her impossible love, and she had gone behind her and stolen him from her.Once upon a

We convene in a wide clearing, where an Elder awaits us, a long brown rifle in his grasp. There's a rogue woman kneeling on the floor beside him. She is bound in ropes and her lips are gagged, but when her eyes meet mine, I feel like I have been pinned in place for a more thorough scrutiny.Her eyes, they're a very light shade of blue, it almost looks white. I take one look at her dirty greasy hair that still retains the feathery look and her olive skin and I instantly know she's not from Neredia.In the same exact moment I come to that realization, pure hate slips into her gaze, bitter, raw and cold. It makes me shiver and I look away, focusing my attention instead on the Elder as he addresses us.The woman will be cut loose and given a head start of ten minutes. After which we will follow and hunt her down. The one who kills her and returns with a cut of her greying hair as proof wins.I swallow, eyes darting back to the woman. She looks unperturbed by her impending death. She looks

JessamineFinding the cave was hard. Gamma Lloyd conveniently forgot to add that I had to swim to get into it. I’m cold, shivering and risking hypothermia remaining in these clothes, but there isn’t a change of clothes hanging anywhere.Screams echo through the forest and I’m grateful that I’m not out there. Outrunning Moira and Katherine happened on pure luck. They were much too distracted trying to kill each other to even notice me slip into the water, and I’d almost drowned, remaining under as they searched for me.I stand from the rock I’d been sitting on and blow hot breaths into my freezing palms, rubbing them together as I risk a step towards the cave’s entrance. I look beyond the water and I freeze when I spot someone at the edge of it.The rogue, I recognize her from her clothes. She halts when her light blue eyes land on me and she looks back, trying to decide if I’m a high risk. She suddenly lets out a cry when an arrow pierced her shoulder, toppling her into the wate

“Jessamine.”I jolt awake, sitting up so fast, stars explode in the back of my head. I squint through the darkness in the cave. The fire has died out, but moonlight filters in, illuminating the cave a little. The rogue is gone, and so are my bow, my daggers, and Alpha Kier’s tailored jacket.Alpha Kier is awake, his head leaning against the wall and his elbow rests on his knee. Tears of relief spring to my eyes and I raise my gaze to the hollow ceiling to keep them from falling. “How do you feel?”“Dead,” he breathes. After a moment of awkward silence, he adds, “Thank you.”“There’s no need to. I take care of those I consider mine.”He snorts. “You’re delusional. I belong only to me.”I smile a little and say the silliest thing I used to say to my mother as a child. “You are me, I am you.”“What?”My grin widens. “You’ll understand on the night we consummate our marriage.” I get a blank look in response and my grin falters. Not funny, point taken. “You came here for me. Why?”He is s

Kier "Not now, Mother." "When then? She won the Hunt. How in the world does an Omega win the Hunt?!" I turn, jaw clenching tightly. "I don't know, and I don't fucking care, Mother! I have other things to ponder on, like the rogues that attacked. You have questions, ask the lady yourself!" Tedious, all of this. I didn't want the selection in the first place. Hell, I didn't even want to get mated yet. Nobody seemed to care I was injured and still feverish with wolfsbane. Not when Jessamine held up the lock of hair they'd been asked to retrieve at the Hunt and Elder Bane had named her the winner, howbeit reluctantly. She wins two more tasks and she'll undeniably be the winner of the selection. It isn't about the selection for me anymore. It's about getting her in my bed and out of my skin and mind. I have to bed her. I need to. I'd visit the brothel again, but I know bedding the brothel owner will do nothing to quench my hunger. "Have you heard the