Semua Bab Sold to My Enemy Alpha: Bab 1 - Bab 10

Three hundred wolves watched my life end. Not with blood. With seven words.Dane stood on the ceremonial platform, his silver eyes fixed somewhere above my head. He couldn't even look at me.I, Alpha Dane of Silver Crescent, reject you, Aria Gray, as my fated mate and Luna.His voice echoed off the stone walls. Clean. Bored. Final.The Great Hall went silent. Then someone laughed. I don't know who. The sound multiplied, bounced around, turned into a wave of snickers and whispers that crashed over my head.My wolf collapsed inside my chest. Curled into nothing. She didn't howl. Didn't fight. Just… died.Dane finally looked at me. His eyes were cold. Empty. Like I was a stranger."Say something," he said.I opened my mouth. Nothing came out.Mira stepped forward from behind Alpha Marcus's throne. She wrapped her arm around Dane's waist. Pressed her perfect body against his perfect body. Smiled at me. Slow. Sweet. Poisonous."Don't be dramatic, Aria," Mira said. "Everyone knew he'd never

The pack stared at me like I was already dead.I felt their eyes the moment I walked into the dining hall. Dozens of wolves. All of them Bloodmoon. All of them hungry for something I couldn't give them.A blonde woman near the window whispered to her friend. The friend laughed. A man by the fire placed his hand on his knife and didn't take it off.I kept walking.The dining hall was huge — twice the size of Silver Crescent's. Stone floors. Dark wood tables. A fire burning in a hearth big enough to roast a whole deer. The ceiling was lost in shadow.At the far end, a table sat empty. One plate. One cup. One chair.Kael's chair.I stopped in front of it."No," I said to no one in particular. "I'm not sitting there."A deep voice came from behind me. "Then you don't eat."I turned.An older man stood by the kitchen door. Grey hair. Grey eyes. A body that had been built for fighting thirty years ago and never got the memo to stop. He held a tray of food — bread, meat, something steaming i

The kiss followed me to bed.Not Kael. Just the memory. Just the way his mouth felt against mine. Just the sound he made when I didn't push him away.I lay on the left side of his bed. The same spot as last night. The same clothes. The same bite mark throbbing on my neck.Kael wasn't here.He'd disappeared after the truck stopped. Told Elias to take me upstairs. Said he had work to do. Didn't look at me when he said it.I touched my lips."Stop it," I whispered to myself.My wolf didn't listen.The door opened.Not Kael.Vera.The blonde from the dining hall. She stood in the doorway with her arms crossed and her eyes burning."You're in his bed," she said."Apparently.""You don't belong here.""Tell that to the man who bought me."Vera walked inside. Didn't ask permission. Didn't care. She stopped at the foot of the bed and looked down at me like I was something she'd scraped off her shoe."I've been waiting for Kael for three years," she said. "Three years of being patient. Three y

Vera showed up at breakfast with a knife on her hip and murder in her eyes."Kael says I have to watch you," she said."Kael says a lot of things.""He says I go everywhere with you.""Then sit down. You're making the table look lonely."Vera sat across from me. Her blonde hair was pulled back in a tight braid. Her jaw was sharp enough to cut glass."I don't like you," she said."I know.""I've loved him since I was fifteen.""I know that too.""And you just showed up. Bought. Sold. Like you're nothing."I put down my bread. Looked her in the eye."Vera," I said. "I'm going to say something. And I want you to hear it. Not fight it. Just hear it."Her hand moved to her knife."I'm not trying to take him from you.""Then what are you doing?""Surviving."Vera's hand relaxed. Just a fraction."He's different with you," she said. "Softer. I've never seen him soft.""Maybe he was always soft. Maybe he just forgot how to show it."Vera stared at me. Her blue eyes were wet."I hate that you'

The border looked different in the daylight.No shadows. No fear. Just snow and trees and grey sky pressing down like a lid. Every breath I took turned to white smoke in front of my face. The cold bit through my coat, through my skin, through to my bones.Kael stood beside me. His shoulder brushed mine. His hand rested on the knife at his belt.Elias stood behind us. Ten warriors flanked the group. Vera had wanted to come, but Kael ordered her to stay."If I don't come back," Kael had told her, "you protect the pack. You protect her."Vera had nodded. No argument. No anger. Just a quiet acceptance that made me like her more than I wanted to.Now we waited.Marcus was late."Trap," Elias muttered."Probably," Kael said."Then why are we here?"Kael didn't look away from the tree line. "Because if we don't show, he wins. Because my pack needs to see me stand my ground. Because if I hide behind my walls every time Marcus snaps his fingers, I'm not an Alpha. I'm a coward.""You're not a c