The Alpha's Broken But Defiant Mate

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ek were a cruel joke framed by the

name while the drugs tried to smother the wolf inside me into a faint, drugged whimper. But s

metal on ceramic sh

sterile as the room itself. Built like a linebacker,

d the tray onto the bedside table. Wh

thday. The real Miss Blackwood. They say she's getting a diamond bracelet from Spencer Sterling himself. Imagine that. A

ut I had learned. My wolf and I had become

oward me. I said nothing.

a single long strand of blonde hair. Not hers. A

the pills onto my tongue, took the water, swallowed.

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ng my cheek. My muscles, trained by desperation, held the

he grunted.

off-key "Happy Birthday" as

he bathroom and spat the bitter pills in

le, hollow-eyed ghost. But the

And one day, every sing

rough the facility. The VIP alert. S

y spine. That level of respo

lackw

sive shoes on linoleum. The syc

A true honor. We've taken the

opped. Directly

against my ribs.

cked. The do

kwood. My o

eneath the expensive cologne, I caught the unmistakable scent of Alpha-pine and musk and the hot-copper tang of dominance th

ller beamed, his smil

recognition, no kinship. He looked at me the wa

your things. Y

ilted. Leav

trap. It

ce, rusty and

oyance. "It's a

et his icy gaze. My family

lifted in a sneer. A

expensive cologne and powe

n front of all our guests, you will make a public apolog

om my lungs. My b

monster they painted me as. A crazed

el before the people who destroyed me? The inju

e years had taught me survival. And survival meant knowin

hesitation, of doubt, of brotherly co

nd of cage. A public humiliation served on

ly has been so generous, Estella. Y

ered around a corner, her fac

r rot. I was getting out-a

umiliation. The rage. The bitter despair. I pac

my only

and met my brot

in

isfaction flickered in his gaze. He had wh

eave. "You hav

s alone once more in

e white walls wer

the star