Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Valerie’s POV 1

My hands shook as I gripped the steering wheel, the cheap plastic hot and slippery with sweat despite the air conditioning blasting at

The highway stretched endlessly ahead, a ribbon of cracked asphalt leading toward the wild territories where civilized wolves

feared to tread.

full power.

*What the hell am I doing?*

The question had been circling through my mind for the past three hours, ever since I’d thrown my designer bags into Gabriel’s beat-up

sedan and peeled out of our driveway like a woman possessed. My face still throbbed from where Sera’s claws had raked across my

cheek, leaving angry red welts that would probably scar. The bitch had actually managed to shift and fight back-something I’d never

seen her do before.

Something was different about her now. Stronger. More dangerous.

I caught my reflection in the rearview mirror and winced. The once-perfect features that had caught Gabriel’s eye were now marred by

three parallel scratches running from my left temple to my jaw. Foundation could only do so much to cover the damage.

That omega freak ruined everything.

A horn blared behind me, jolting me from my self-pity. I’d been driving twenty miles under the speed limit, lost in my spiraling thoughts.

I pressed harder on the accelerator, watching the speedometer climb as the landscape outside grew wilder and more desolate.

The truth was inescapable: I was fucked. Completely and utterly fucked.

Sera would tell Damien everything-about me kidnapping her brat, about trying to sell her to that disgusting old man. And Damien, as

the Alpha King, wouldn’t just let it slide. He had resources I couldn’t even imagine, connections that stretched across every pack

was nowhere I could hide where

Unless…

for hours now, watching the well-maintained roads give way to potholed backwoods paths, the neat suburban developments replaced by dense forests and abandoned gas stations. This was rogue territory-the lawless lands where pack exiles and criminals made

people went to

the silence of the

back home and wait for Damien’s enforcers to drag me away in chains? Hope that somehow Sera

Ha. Fat chance.

behind me as I drove deeper into

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I was headed, but I

pressed closer on either side, their branches scraping against the car’s windows with sounds like fingernails on glass. Every shadow looked like it might contain yellow eyes and bared fangs. My heart hammered against my ribs as the road

I

eyes gleaming in the darkness between the trees. Not just one pair-dozens. They moved parallel to my car, keeping pace but staying just

pedal without conscious thought, bringing the sedan to a

quietly as it cooled, the only sound in the oppressive silence of the

time.

road where the headlights could catch

pack law and

packs for crimes too severe to forgive-murder, rape, treason.

and taking what

the region who might be interested in what I

felt like jelly as I stepped out of the car, the forest floor

embarrassingly. “I’m not here to cause trouble. I

then another. The sounds seemed

wolf cowered deep inside me, every instinct telling her to

hopes

have information!” I shouted into the darkness. “Information about

that followed was somehow

they stepped

all larger than any wolves I’d ever seen. Their

with old blood. Their clothes were torn and filthy, hanging in rags from frames that

muscle than anything else.

hair and a face full of scars, took a step closer. When he smiled, I could