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

region. There was nowhere I could hide where his reach

Unless…

way to potholed backwoods paths, the neat suburban developments replaced by dense forests and abandoned gas stations. This was rogue territory-the

also where people went to

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

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

Ha. Fat chance.

setting by the time I reached the edge of truly wild territory. The last functional street light flickered weakly behind me as I drove deeper into the forest, following a dirt road that was barely more than a trail. My expensive heels and designer dress

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inappropriate for where I was headed, but I hadn’t exactly had

like fingernails on glass. Every shadow looked like it might contain yellow eyes and bared fangs. My heart hammered against my ribs as

then I

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

without conscious thought, bringing the sedan to a shuddering stop

engine ticked quietly as it cooled, the only sound

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

road where the

read about rogues in school, back when we’d studied pack law

for crimes too severe to forgive-murder, rape, treason. Without the civilizing influence of

animals, living by violence and taking what they wanted from anyone too weak to

region who might

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

you’re watching me,” I called out, my voice cracking embarrassingly. “I’m not here to cause trouble.

from the darkness, followed by another, then another. The

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

hopes of quick

information!” I shouted into the darkness. “Information about the Alpha King that your leaders would want

that followed was somehow worse

they stepped into

six of them, all male, all larger than any wolves I’d ever seen. Their

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

muscle than anything else.

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