Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Valerie’s POV 13

The rogues dragged me through the forest for what felt like hours, their claws digging into my arms whenever I stumbled on the uneven ground. My designer heels had been abandoned somewhere in the first

mile, leaving my feet bloody and torn by roots and stones. The silk dress that had cost more than most

people made in a month was now little more than tattered rags clinging to my shivering frame.

But I was alive. That had to count for something.

The camp, when we finally reached it, was exactly what I’d expected from a pack of exiled criminals-a

collection of ramshackle shelters built from salvaged materials, scattered around a central fire pit where

something that might once have been an animal roasted on a makeshift spit. The smell of unwashed bodies

and rotting meat hung heavy in the air, making my stomach churn.

Dozens of yellow eyes watched our approach from the shadows. These weren’t the civilized wolves of proper

pack society-these were predators in the truest sense, reduced to their most basic instincts by years of exile

and violence. Some still wore the remnants of human clothing, while others had abandoned pretense entirely,

their bodies more beast than man.

At the center of it all, seated on what could generously be called a throne made from welded car parts and

animal bones, sat the Alpha.

He was massive—easily the largest wolf I’d ever seen, with shoulders broad enough to snap a normal man in

half. His dark hair was streaked with premature silver, and scars crisscrossed his chest and arms like a

roadmap of violence. But it was his eyes that truly marked him as dangerous-not the flat yellow of his

subordinates, but a deep amber that held an intelligence that was somehow more terrifying than mere animal

cunning.

approach, revealing teeth filed to sharp points, my wolf whimpered and tried to

across the camp and causing conversations to die mid-sentence.

captured me shoved me forward, sending me stumbling to my knees in the

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“Found her at the border, Boss. Says she’s

be useful.”

I must look-hair tangled, makeup smeared, clothes torn and dirty.

wanted from men.

Nightshadow,” I said, letting my voice tremble just the right amount.

I can help you.”

scraping stone. “Attachments?

but power.”

wrong,” I said, forcing myself to meet those terrifying black eyes. “He has a mate now. A

bitch named Seraphina Knight.”

saw interest

quickened with hope.

leaned back on his throne, considering me with the

predator sizing up prey.

propose to do with

despite the pain in my knees, and took a step closer to his throne. Several of the other rogues growled

want to bring down the Alpha King.

other needs.”

long moment, then suddenly stood. The sheer size of him was overwhelming-I barely came up to

he asked, circling me slowly like a predator toying

hand shot out and gripped my throat. Not hard enough to cut

make my helplessness crystal

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show you exactly where

in the dirt while he and his pack jeered

I was shaking with exhaustion and suppressed tears, he hauled

my feet.

“Strip,” he commanded.

to ice

me. If you want to be part of my

at him in horror. This wasn’t supposed to happen. I was supposed to be the one in control, using

the circle of leering rogues, I realized how