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

the region. There was nowhere I could hide where his

Unless…

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

my voice high and strained in the silence

did I have? Go back home and wait for Damien’s enforcers to drag me away in chains? Hope that somehow Sera would show mercy to the woman who’d

Ha. Fat chance.

was setting by the time I reached the edge of truly wild territory. The last functional street light flickered weakly behind me as I drove

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inappropriate for where I was headed, but I hadn’t exactly had time to pack survival

trees 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

then I saw

just one pair-dozens. They moved parallel to my car, keeping pace but staying

conscious thought, bringing the sedan to a shuddering stop in the

the only sound in the oppressive silence

somewhere to my left. Then another, closer this time. The yellow eyes were getting braver, moving closer

where the headlights could catch them

rogues in school, back when we’d studied pack law and territory management. They were wolves who’d been exiled

forgive-murder, rape, treason. Without the civilizing

little more than animals, living by violence and taking what they wanted from

region who might be interested in

as I stepped out of the car, the forest floor soft

out, my voice cracking embarrassingly. “I’m

another, then

cowered deep inside me, every instinct telling her

throat in hopes of

darkness. “Information about the Alpha

The silence that followed was

stepped into the

I’d ever seen. Their eyes were the flat yellow of true

clothes were torn and filthy, hanging in rags

muscle than anything else.

brute with salt-and-pepper hair and a face full of scars, took a step closer.