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Chapter 76
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2026-07-17 15:55:04
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Marked by the Alpha Chapter 77
RyanI didn't want to look either, but somebody had to, and it wasn't going to be Zara."Martha, get her up. Get Jude up, whatever it takes, we're moving.""He can't move, Ryan, look at him, he can't even hold his own head...""Then we carry him, we are not standing here."Zara's arm was rigid under my hand, every muscle in her fighting the order not to turn around, and I understood that fight because I was losing the same one myself, my eyes dragged sideways toward the tree line no matter how hard I told them not to.What came out of the dark wasn't Elias. I'd braced for Elias, for that same slow, patient shape we'd been running from all night, and some small, stupid part of me had already decided I knew the shape of my fear. I was wrong. This was smaller, quicker, wrong in a different key entirely, and it took me a full second of staring to understand why my stomach had dropped before my mind caught up.It was Simon, not Simon standing at the tree line the way he had been, sympathet
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 78
ZaraThe shapes at the tree line started walking faster, and something in my chest told me faster wasn't the right word for it. It wasn't running. It was worse than running, that same unhurried patience just compressed into something with more purpose behind it, like they'd decided the game of walking slowly had gone on long enough."Ryan.""I heard you the first time. Run.""Not without Jude."Damon still had one hand tangled in Jude's hair, but his eyes were locked on the tree line, on Elias, on whatever ruin his mind was making of a two-year-old grave, and I understood in that second that Damon wasn't going to be the one holding anyone back anymore. Whatever leash Cole thought he had on him, it had just snapped clean through."Damon." My voice came out harder than I expected. "Cut him loose or step aside, I don't care which."He didn't answer me either, just his hand loosening, falling away, like his whole body had forgotten Jude was something he'd been ordered to hold.Jude didn't
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 77
ZaraThe shape kept walking, unhurried, the same way Cole had walked, like the night belonged to it, and I felt Ryan's whole body lock beside me the way it never locked for anything."Ryan." My hand was still buried in his arm. "Who is that."He didn't answer, that was the answer."You said you buried him." My voice came out smaller than I wanted it to. "You said that, I heard you say that.""I did bury him.""Then who is walking toward us right now."Martha moved half a step in front of me without seeming to decide to do it, the way she always did when something in the dark stopped making sense, and I hated her for it a little, hated being handled, but I let her because my legs had gone strange and unreliable under me.The moon caught the shape's face for just a second as it crossed the open ground, and I knew him. Not the way you know a stranger's face from a description, the way you know your own front door in the dark, without needing to look at it straight on. Simon.Except Simon
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 76
RyanJude's eyes were doing something I didn't like, straining toward Zara with a kind of desperation that had nothing to do with fear for himself, and every instinct I had said that was the thing to watch, not the woman on the porch with her calm voice and her rehearsed sadness."He's trying to say something," Zara said again, and I felt her weight shift against my hand."I see him.""Ryan, he's not scared for himself right now, look at his face, that's not fear, that's-""I know what it looks like."Damon crouched back down beside Jude and grabbed a fistful of his hair, tilting his head up hard enough that Jude made a sound through the tape, and whatever he said next was too quiet to carry, but I watched Jude's whole body go tight like a wire pulled to its limit."Stop that," Zara hissed, loud enough that Martha's hand landed on her arm."You want him to hear you," Martha said. "That's the last thing you want right now."Zara's mother was still standing on that porch like she had al
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 75
ZaraThe gunshot didn't come from where it should have. That was the only thought I had room for, one clean fact slicing through everything else, because Ryan's whole body had gone rigid over mine and I could feel it in the way he was holding his breath.Then the cabin door slammed open, and it wasn't my mother stumbling into the light, it was Jude.His hands were bound in front of him with something dark, wire maybe, and his mouth was taped, and he was moving the way a person moves when they've been shoved harder than their legs can handle, stumbling, going down on one knee in the dirt before catching himself."That's..." My voice came out strangled against the cold ground. "Ryan, that's Jude.""I see him.""He's tied up, somebody tied him up.""I see that too."Damon had gone very still by the doorway, and for the first time all night his face wasn't doing anything calm or amused. He looked like a man watching his own plan come apart in front of him, which should have felt like good
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 74
RyanThe world went white and my whole body reacted before my mind caught up, some old instinct screaming move, and I was already running before the sound even hit me.It wasn't an explosion. That was the first thing I understood, half a second too late to matter. It was light, blinding and total, some kind of flare or charge built to do exactly what it did, which was take away every advantage the dark had been giving us."Zara!"I couldn't see her. I couldn't see anything except white, my eyes screaming, and for one endless second I thought the worst thing a person can think, the thing that empties you out completely.Then I heard her voice, and I have never in my life been so grateful for a sound."I'm okay! Ryan, I'm okay, it didn't. It's just light, it's not...""Get down. Get down now!"My vision was clearing in patches, ugly white spots swimming everywhere I looked, but I could make out shapes again, and one of those shapes was Zara, on the ground where the wire had dropped her,
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ZaraWith my hands pinned to my back, I dragged my legs to let them carry as far as I could go, but I was a fool to think they would let me off so easily.Someone was behind me with light steps, almost like they were gliding over the air. Freaking werewolf speed. Everything happened in a blur, and
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 1
ZaraThe email didn’t make sense. I stared at it a few more times, certain there had to be a mistake or some sort of glitch that would disappear if I had to blinked hard enough.Anxiety had me pulling out my phone for the umpteenth time to read through the email, word for word to make sure it wasn’t
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Zara"Rude" I mummured. Judging from the kind of person Alpha Ryan was, it wasn't hard to see that he was a man of pride who didn't beg. He saw begging as a way of being weak and left for me, I was ready to break him until the only thing left for him to do was to beg. I closed my eyes for a bit, th
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RyanShe was here in flesh and blood. The last living Eserai.When my elders told me about an Eserai at first, I was sure they had gone mad. It was impossible. My seer confirmed that the Eserais had been wiped out by my father’s reckless drinking from them, and his abuse.But the moment I saw her, I
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