All Chapters of The Mate They Threw Away: Chapter 281 - Chapter 290

 The walk back to my room felt strange in a way I couldn’t name for the first few minutes then I named it: it felt normal. Ordinary. The hallway was the hallway it had always been. Pack members moved through it on their way to breakfast, to training, to wherever their ordinary mornings were taking them. Some nodded. Some smiled. One of the younger women asked me how I’d slept. I told her fine. They didn’t know yet. The rumors were probably already moving through the pack the way rumors always did, fast and shapeless, picking up detail and distortion in equal measure as they traveled from mouth to mouth. But they hadn’t reached everyone. The morning was still new enough that I could walk through it without the knowledge of what I

SageHe stumbled away without speaking.I watched him go. The crowd did not fill the silence the way crowds usually fill silences, with noise, with movement, with the instinctive covering-over that groups do when something uncomfortable has happened in their midst. Instead they stayed where they were and stayed quiet, and the quiet had a texture to it. The weight of people recalibrating.They had felt it. All of them within range had felt the magic, and the feeling of it was written across their faces in different combinations of the same essential ingredients, unease, fascination, the particular wariness of people who have just encountered something they do not have a category for.A werewolf with magic.I understood the reaction. I had spent long enough being the thing people didn’t have a category for to recognize it on sight.“Perhaps Lady Sage would prefer somewhere private.”Argos materialized at my right side with the timing of someone who had been watching carefully and had ch

Dominic“You may be the Alpha,” Lord Baron said, leaning back in my chair with the relaxed insolence of a man who had badly miscalculated his own importance, “but in here, you are just another debtor.”I showed nothing on my face.There was an art to that, to letting a man talk himself further into the grave he was digging, to giving him just enough rope and just enough silence that he mistook my patience for uncertainty. Lord Baron had never been intelligent enough to recognize the difference between a predator that hesitates and a predator that waits.He was a low-ranking Beta, noble by birth and a failure by every measure that had ever mattered to me. He had been born into privilege he had done nothing to earn and had spent his life since compensating for the fact that he had never once proven himself capable of holding power through anything other than money. The result sat in front of me now, overweight in the particular way of men who substitute appetite for ambition, his chin f

​Sage.Sixty million. Twice.That was the amount of bounty he put on the head of his enemies and the funny part was that, he did not even now their faces.“And so, the killing begins,” Argos said to me. “It is always like this whenever he returns.”“Being a prince of Black Crest means that he has to deal with a lot of assassination attempts and usurpers.” Argos added.I was still reeling from the large sum of money he just casually called. That was someone’s net worth. Was this how money flowed easily around here?The lift opened and Dominic walked in. He gave his long coat to Argos and went to the cabinet. He fixed himself a drink’“Lord Baron, I presume,” Argos said. “He is working with some people and I intend to find them out.” Dominic said.“But is such an amount not too much for them?” Argos asked.“Lord Baron is worth exactly that amount.” Dominic answered. “I wanted him to know that his wealth is not anywhere near mine, nor will it ever be.” “You must have crippled his ego.”

​​​​Alistair.Death sang to me but I paid no attention. I still had plenty to do before her cold hands was ever going to touch me. I was a bit disappointed that Dominic had not died during the explosion but at the same time, I was looking forward to testing my new weapons on him.I had become an abomination to my park. I was neither alive nor dead. I could no longer even classify myself as werewolf. That part of me died in years ago. After the little incident that I had caused with Dominic, it made me realize that all the monsters that I had created were not going to be a fitting match for the Alphas when I needed to strike. I was not going to make the mistake of underestimating them.Even with their DNAs in my possession, I could still fail if I was not careful but failure was not an option. The Alphas of Silver Crest will fall to their knees in front of me. I had dreamed and visualized it. It was going to happen, even if it killed me.“Mind Link complete,” the computerized female v