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The Tyrant alpha/Cate Jasmine
He leans down, but he doesn’t break eye contact for a second. I know that just like me, he wants to look his fill after being so careful all day not to get caught staring. I love his eyes when we’re alone. It’s like someone threw the sash up and flung the shutters open, and we can see all the way into each other, as far deep as we go.Oh. A thought rouses me from staring. I forgot about the cinnamon cake. My breath catches, and my lips curve higher as I remember. I’ve brought him a present.I dig into my smock pocket and take out a small square wrapped in parchment paper. It’s a little squished but not too bad. I hold it up. My heart sputters when his gaze drops to my hand, but as soon as he sees what I have, his eyes, creased at the corners now from the shy smile lighting his face, return to mine, and I’m floating again.He raises a brow as if to ask, “For me?”I hold the cinnamon cake higher.He takes it from my hand, his fingers grazing mine. Shivers zip from the nape of my neck do
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The Tyrant alpha/Cate Jasmine
It was all an accident. John dropped a putty knife from his scaffold, and the handle clipped me on the shoulder. Clay turned into his wolf so quickly, leaping up and knocking John off his platform and into the dirt, it was almost like he flip-shifted, morphing in the blink of an eye from man to wolf, wasting not even a second in transition. No one can do that except Killian Kelly from Quarry Pack and the ferals from the Last Pack, though.The Claws found out, and they’ve been after Clay to apprentice with them. He should. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime offer, a huge step up in rank. He’d be stupid not to do it. Three meals a day instead of two, and eventually, a room of his own in the Claws’ bunkhouse.My heart drops at the thought. No more kisses. No more company on the walk home. Clay’s been following me to my house to make sure I get there safely ever since I got winged by the putty knife and he told me that I’m only supposed to help him. I guess I’ve been spoiled by the attention. Even
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The Tyrant alpha/Cate Jasmine
“Then what’s the problem?” Eldrick dismisses me in an instant, turning fully back to Clay.“I build. I don’t fight.”“You fought John Broom,” Eldrick argues. “You flip-shifted.”“I’m telling you you’ve got it wrong. You’re listening to bonfire stories.”“Amir saw it with his own eyes.” Eldrick hikes his chin toward the third Claw, who nods in agreement.“Doesn’t matter. I’m a Ditch. I build.”“If I take the matter to Alpha Fireside, you won’t have a choice. Ditches don’t get this kind of opportunity. You’re a fool to throw it away for a female who isn’t even your mate.” Eldrick talks like I’m not even standing here so close that their noses are turning up from the stench of my anxiety.“If you’re worried about pussy, plenty of females give it up when you start winning against Salt Mountain and Quarry Pack on the circuit. Hot females. With rank.” Isaac sneers down at me.Father is going to hear that, too. From the corner of my eye, I see Emmett moving his lips like he’s trying to memor
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The Tyrant alpha/Cate Jasmine
“Go home now! Get!” Clay finally snarls, the words ringing out. It’s a slap to the face, a switch to my wolf’s haunches. I grab my skirts, trip backwards, dodge left, and bolt with the laughter of the males and gasps of the females nipping at my heels.I run as fast as I can, but it’s still not fast enough to escape the sound of Clay’s wolf howling a clear warning in my wake.Leave.Go.Don’t come back.Not my mate.Not mine.2WRENLEEI race uphill along the switchback that leads to town, through the towering riverfront gates with the phases of the moon wrought in iron at the top—a symbol, we were always told, that North Border welcomes all shifters from every pack and continent, as long as they work and pledge their allegiance.Flying down the grand boulevard, I pass the Hunters’ hall and the library where the Books and Numbers hunch behind their big slab desks. I swerve around the big marble fountain and sprint straight through the market square. The shopkeepers have long since sto
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The Tyrant alpha/Cate Jasmine
I force my aching, bruised body onto hands and knees. With my chin tucked and shoulders hunched, I crawl for the door. Over my head, my sisters launch themselves at Father with renewed energy, howling and screaming at the top of their lungs.“She’s getting away!” Emmett shouts, but he’s too far away and my sisters are too frenzied for him to get to me. Soon enough, Emmett and Dale are sure to intervene and my sisters will scatter, but for now, the males aren’t rushing to Father’s rescue. You reap what you sow, and they know Father would let them fend for themselves if the positions were reversed.Gasping for breath, I stagger to my feet as soon as I’m outside. I don’t have to think. There’s only one place I can go.I limp as quickly as I can up the lane, ignoring the biddies peeking out their upstairs windows as I hurry past. Ditchside abuts the low wall that borders the town to the north, but you have to follow it a ways before you reach a gate. When I was a pup, I was confused as to
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The Tyrant alpha/Cate Jasmine
I might not be strong or brave, but I’m intrepid for a female Ditch, and if that hasn’t done anything for me yet, it will. The alternative is taking whatever gets dished out, day after day, year after year, until I’m the one collapsed like a rag doll, half on the floor, half propped against a wall, mouthing for my young to run because I’m too beat down to protect them.I scrub the last tears from my eyes and exhale. It hasn’t been ten seconds, but I don’t need them all. I struggle to sit up, swallowing a whimper of pain, and scowl at my dirt patch. It’s easy enough to know what to do next.Weed.I swear a dozen sprang up in the few minutes I was feeling sorry for myself.I maneuver myself creakily to my knees and begin plucking them out by the root. Worrying about the future can wait. I can’t stop the sun from setting or the ferals deep in the woods from howling. It’ll happen no matter how I feel. Wallowing in fear isn’t going to make anything come out right.I keep telling myself tha
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The Tyrant alpha/Cate Jasmine
“The earth doesn’t want what you want.” The witch shrugs. “There’s nothing you can do.”“What does it want?”She grins, and a gold tooth in the back of her mouth catches the light. “That is exactly the right question to ask, my dear. What indeed?” She stares dreamily at the dirt for several long moments and then she turns to me. “What is it that you want, Wrenlee Ditch?”Clay. I want Clay Pulley.I want him to be who I thought he was. I want that feeling back, that no matter if the work is hard and hot, no matter that the day is long, he exists, and I found him, so there is something to look forward to in life after all. I want that not to have been one big, fat lie.“Nothing that I can have,” I say instead.The witch cackles again. “Well, you know what they say about doors closing and windows opening.”My nose scrunches. I’m not sure what she means. You’re supposed to shut them both.“Never mind,” she says. “It’s a human saying. I should get to the point. It seems I’m in need of a ga
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The Tyrant alpha/Cate Jasmine
CLAY“Focus!” Eldrick cuffs the side of my head, but he’s got to rise up on his toes to do it.I am focused.Way down below the training yard, Wrenlee is making her way up from the very bottom of the great stairs with a full bucket. She’s wearing a scarf today, and she’s stories beneath us. I can’t see her face. Look up. Look up.“Get your head in the game,” Eldrick snaps as he huffs and puffs and bounces on his feet.I swing a lazy blow toward him which he easily blocks.“What’s wrong with you?” He pummels my stomach a few times. He can’t reach much higher without exposing his own midsection. My muscles flex out of instinct. I wish I could leave them soft and feel the pain. I deserve it.Wrenlee isn’t my mate. I knew after that first kiss when she didn’t go into heat. A good male would have left it there, but I was selfish. The way she looked in the shed—flushed and happy, her shy smile, her arms winding around my neck, her tits pressed to my chest, her heart thumping through her shi
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The Tyrant alpha/Cate Jasmine
She’s waiting for a male to throw a rope over his scaffold so she can tie it to her bucket, and she’s standing in the sun like she’s got no sense. A step to the side and she’d be in the shade.There’s nothing wrong with her physically, but she’s a female, and she hasn’t shifted yet. Her arms are weak, her hands aren’t callused enough, and she’s in the middle of almost a dozen brothers and sisters, so she doesn’t get enough meat. Females and pups pass out all the time on the wall on a hot afternoon, and the last place you want to do that is high up on the workman’s ledges or on the great stairs.She doesn’t drink enough water. I got her a canteen and a strap to wear it across her chest, but she forgets about it. She’s not wearing it today. And she is walking slower than usual. My wolf whines. He wants to investigate. He doesn’t understand that’ll cause even more problems.My father came by the bunkhouse and gave me a real beating last night after he heard what had happened at the shed.
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The Tyrant alpha/Cate Jasmine
“Now, you know no one will believe that, but if it’s true—” Eldrick smiles ear to ear. “I’m sure Alpha would pay double. Of course, you have no say in the matter. You aren’t her mate. And somehow, I suspect that when her true mate does find her, he won’t be too pleased that another male tested out his property. If there is no one with rank to stay him, he might hand her over to Alpha for free.”My wolf is still and silent. I can hear everything. A hawk screeching above the temple’s highest tower. Trowels scraping against stone a hundred yards below us. The blood running cold in my veins.I do what I have to do.I tilt my head. It’s the closest to baring my neck that my wolf will allow. And I take my place in the middle of the chalked square. I place my feet shoulder-width apart, one in front of the other. I point my front foot at a 45-degree angle, bend my knees, and distribute my weight evenly between my legs and the balls of my feet.Isaac joins me. I tap fists with him, and I wait
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