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

could hide where

Unless…

roads give way to potholed backwoods paths, the neat suburban developments replaced by dense forests and abandoned gas stations. This

was also where people went to disappear.

voice high and strained in the silence of the car. “This is insane, I can’t actually be

what choice did I have? Go back home and wait for Damien’s enforcers to drag me away in chains? Hope that somehow Sera

Ha. Fat chance.

last functional street light flickered weakly behind me as I drove deeper into the forest, following a dirt

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headed, but I hadn’t exactly

car’s windows with sounds like fingernails on glass. Every shadow looked like it might contain yellow eyes and bared fangs. My

then I

trees. Not just one pair-dozens. They moved parallel to my

foot found the brake pedal without conscious thought, bringing the sedan to a shuddering stop in the middle

cooled, the only sound in the oppressive silence of the

somewhere to my left. Then another, closer this time. The yellow

where the headlights could

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

too severe to forgive-murder, rape, treason. Without the civilizing influence of pack bonds,

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

in the region who might be interested in what I had

the car,

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

answered me from the darkness, followed by another, then another. The sounds seemed to come from all directions at

up their prey. My wolf cowered deep inside me, every instinct telling her to submit, to roll

hopes

about the

that followed was somehow worse

stepped into the

were six of them, all male, all larger than any wolves I’d ever seen. Their eyes were the flat yellow of true predators, and

fangs stained with old blood. Their clothes were torn and filthy, hanging

muscle than anything else.

and a face full of scars, took a step closer. When he smiled, I could see that half his teeth