Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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78 Chapter 78

Valerie’s POV 1

Three weeks had passed since I’d clawed my way into the rogue pack’s inner circle, and I had to admit- despite the primitive living conditions and the constant stench of unwashed bodies-I was finally beginning

to feel like myself again.

I stood on the makeshift balcony of my new “quarters”-a ramshackle structure built into the trunk of a

massive oak tree, but decorated with the finest salvaged goods the pack could pilfer-surveying my domain

with the satisfaction of a queen surveying her kingdom. Below me, dozens of rogues went about their daily

business, and every single one of them showed me the deference I deserved.

“My lady,” one of them called up, a scarred brute named Marcus who’d been terrorizing small towns for

decades. “The hunting party has returned. They brought tribute.”

Tribute. I smiled, examining my freshly manicured nails-painted with expensive polish “liberated” from a

high-end salon during the pack’s last raid.

“Bring it up,” I called down imperiously, not bothering to look at him directly. Let him strain to hear my

commands.

Within minutes, rogues appeared at my door carrying an armload of designer clothes, jewelry, and what

appeared to be several bottles of French champagne. The hunting party had hit some rich bitch’s mansion in

the suburbs, no doubt.

diamond bracelet from

thoroughly humiliated

cargo. Oh, he was still rough, still demanded his due as an alpha male, but

even something approaching affection, though I doubted a creature like him was

genuine emotion.

to my suggestions. My ideas about strategy, about targets, about how to truly hurt the civilized packs without bringing down their full wrath too

still standing

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him for dinner tonight,” I

him go. If someone had told me

have laughed in

the designer purse I’d claimed from yesterday’s raid, interrupting my thoughts. The caller ID showed Anna’s number, and my mood immediately improved. I’d been wondering when

up the courage to contact

I purred into the phone, settling back into the plush velvet chair that had once

my dear old friend Anna. I was

God, Valerie-” Anna’s voice was shrill

to hell! He fired me! He threw

I was practically vibrating with anticipation. “Start from the beginning.

everything! Damien figured

woman from that night, and now he’s kicked me out of the

ice. “What do

know how, but he knows I just found that pendant! And now Seraphina and her bastard

mansion like some perfect little

phone creaked in my grip as my hand clenched

when I went back to try to get my job

thing in the world.”

into the phone, causing a flock of birds to explode from the trees around my

looked up in alarm, but one glare

little bitch. That pathetic, worthless omega had