Love's Alpha Redemption - Crimson Eyes, Shattered Chains.

I saw him; I fo

ent before moving on. But when they locked with mine, I felt as if the very air around me had been stolen. The weight of his gaze was suffocating, yet I couldn't look

g more than a shadow-a servant in my very own pack, scurrying around unnoticed, unseen, unheard. It was safer that way.

terrified. Instea

with fairness and love. But that world was shattered the day they died. The accident had come out of nowhere, or so everyone believed. One mo

ighter than any bond of blood. The first thing he did as Alpha was strip me of my wolf. I still remembe

oice cold and final. "The weaker link. Y

ster anymore. I was a scapegoat, a s

ergency meeting-something about a looming alliance with the Malakar pack. I kept to the edges of the

their chatter fading into silence. He wasn't the tallest man in the room, nor t

tly, almost as if in recognition. For years, I had buried her voice so deeply I almost forgot she existed. Yet in that mo

night, I ov

to know too well. "Dane is a threat. His power grows unchecked, a

?" a second voice asked-o

ose. To watch him. And when the

sn't just a visitor; he was a pawn in Kieran's twisted game. And if Kieran was willin

was to linger. If Kieran caught me eavesdropping, his wrath would be unthinkab

ing was unmatched. And in this deadly dance of ambitio

se crimson eyes, and the strange spark of hope they had kindled in me. For years, I had learned to accept

dn't have, couldn't be. And yet, for the first time in y

, and disappointment often came with punishment. Still, as I stare

e looked at

en when Kieran's pl

s much as the thought of staying

the faintest chance to escape this life, I would take it. For freedom, for survival

nding tone echoed down the hall, and I knew he was issuing orders-something

't brave. But I was tir

face another day, one th

t didn't know if it woul

n't see it coming," he had said. But I wasn't so sure. Dane's gaze lingered in

lpha like Dane, he might have underestimate

w I was standing a