HIS to CLAIM ALPHA ZEKE
He marked her like property.Then Completely turned on her
Cecelia was never meant to survive the bond, she was just meant to bleed for it.chosen for her pack use for an alignment, discarded when she became inconvenient.zeke took everything from her: her freedom, her future,and something she never meant to give; her heart
But she didn't die.
She learned.
Now she's back, unrecognizable, with poison in her smile and vengeance stitched into her skin. His mark still burns on her body.But the girl he broke is gone
And the woman she's become want nothing to do
with him she doesn't want his love
She wants him to break
And this time, she'll make sure he stays broken
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Chapter 1
"Get out, Layla.""I'm pregnant, Cecelia.And it's your husband's baby."
I looked up at her stunned.The crystal wine glass slipped from my fingers, shattering against the marble floor of the pack house dining room.Red wine spread on the floor, soaking my shoes and hers.
"What did you just say?"My voice shook.I was not understanding.How?Why?
Layla, my beautiful, perfect sister, stood across from me, the definition of everything that I thought I was not.She was graceful, could get anything she wanted, men worshipped the ground that she walked on.Why my husband?Even as she delivered the news that rocked my world, she looked like a goddess.Her hand rested protectively over her still-flat stomach, and tears glistened in her blue eyes.
"I'm so sorry, Cecelia.I never meant for this to happen."
"You're lying."I gripped the edge of the dining table until my knuckles went white."Zeke wouldn't... he wouldn't do that to me."
"Wouldn't he?"Layla's voice was soft and full of pity."Be honest with yourself, sister.Has he ever truly been yours?"
The mate mark on my neck ignited at her words and my hands flew to the pain point in an attempt to soothe it.I struggled to stand up, as I glared at her with all the hate in me.
She always had everything.Why couldn't she let this one thing I was happy with be?She just had to ruin it.Six months ago, Alpha Zeke. Brooke had shocked everyone by choosing me, the plain, adopted Cecelia over my stunning sister for the peace treaty marriage.I felt too bare in his gorgeous world.But he made me feel loved, and perfect.Six months since I'd foolishly started believing in fairy tales.
"He chose me," I said, hating how desperate I sounded."At the betrothal ceremony, he chose me over you."
"Did he?"Layla walked over to me with graceful steps."Or did he choose the path that would let him have us both?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Think about it, Cecelia.If he'd married me, you would have left the territory.Gone to find your own pack, your own life.But by marrying you..."She paused, letting the implication hang in the air."By marrying you, he ensured I'd stay close.Family always stays close."
My legs gave out, and I collapsed into the nearest chair.
"No.No, you're wrong.Zeke and I... we've been happy.He's been kind to me, gentle-"
"Kind?"Layla laughed, but there was no humor in it."Cecelia, whywhen was the last time he told you he loved you?"
The question hit me like an arrow to my chest.My world spun as I considered it.Six months of marriage, and those three words had never passed his lips.Not once.
"When was the last time he looked at you the way a mate should look at his chosen?"she continued relentlessly."When was the last time he came to your bed without you having to initiate it?""Stop."Tears burned my eyes, but I refused to let them fall."Just stop talking."
"I can't stop, because I can't keep lying to you anymore."Layla sank into the chair across from me, reaching across the table to take my hands.I yanked them away."Cecelia, he's been meeting with me in secret since the week after your mating ceremony.At first, it was just to apologize, to explain why he'd chosen you.But then..."
"But then what?"
"Then we remembered why we fell
in love in the first place."
My eyes burned, my hands shook with rage."You were enemies.Layla's voice dropped to a whisper."We were heartbroken children forced apart by our fathers' pride.The hate was easier than admitting we still loved each other."
I stood up so fast my chair toppled backward."Get out."
"Cecelia-"
"I said get out!"
"Listen to me!"Layla shot to her feet as well, her own temper flaring."Do you think this is easy for me?Do you think I wanted to fall pregnant with a married man's child?"
"You should have thought about that before you spread your legs for my husband!"
The slap came so fast I didn't see it coming.My cheek stung, but the physical pain was nothing compared to the agony tearing through my chest.
Layla's hand flew to her mouth in horror."Oh goddess, Cecelia, I'm sorry.I didn't mean-"
"Yes, you did."I touched my burning cheek, tasting blood where my teeth had cut my lip."You've always meant it, haven't you?Every cruel word, every moment you made me feel small and worthless.You've always resented that Father chose to adopt me instead of giving you a brother."
"That's not true-"
"Isn't it?"I laughed bitterly."Tell me, Layla, wasn't sleeping with Zeke always part of your plan?Ever since we got married, you have not been happy.You always wanted to destroy it.'
"It wasn't like that!"Tears streamed down her perfect face now."I came here to make peace with you, to try to be the sister I should have been.But when I saw Zeke again..."
"The mate bond you thought you had came flooding back?"
"Yes," she whispered.
"Well, here's something you might have forgotten in your reunion," I snarled, letting every ounce of hurt and rage filter Into my voice."Zeke and I are actually mated.He marked me.We completed the bond in front of the Moon Goddess herself."
"Cecelia-"
"Which means that whatever you think you have with him, whatever pretty lies he's been whispering in your ear, you're nothing but his whore."
This time, I was ready for the slap.I caught her wrist before her hand could connect, my adoptive father's Alpha blood lending me strength I rarely used.
"Don't," I warned, my wolf rising to the surface."Don't you dare hit me again."
Layla tried to wrench her arm free, but I held tight.For the first time in our lives, I was the one with power over her.
"Let me go," she hissed.
"Not until you tell me the truth.All of it."
"I already told you-"
"No, you told me what happened.I want to know why.Why now, Layla?Why come here and confess?What do you want from me?".
She stopped struggling, her blue eyes meeting mine with an expression I couldn't read."Zeke asked me to tell you."
The words hit me like ice water."What?"
"He said... he said it wasn't fair to keep lying to you.That you deserved to know the truth about who he really loves."
I released her wrist so suddenly she stumbled backward."He wants a divorce."The words scratched my throat.
"He wants you to choose," she corrected quietly."He won't break the mate bond against your will, but if you release him..."
"He'll marry you instead."
"Yes."
I turned away from her, walking to the massive windows that overlooked the pack's territory.In the distance, I could see the sea cliffs where I'd spent so many hours dreaming of a future that would never come."And the baby?
""He wants to claim it officially.He wants the baby to be his heir."
His heir.The child I'd never been able to give him, despite six months of trying.
"Get out, Layla."
"Cecelia, please-"
"Get out before I do something we'll both regret."
I heard her footsteps on the marble, then the soft click of the door closing.Only then did I let myself break down, sliding down the window until I was sitting on the floor, sobbing like my heart was being torn from my chest.
Because it was.
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What begins as tension and denial soon becomes a desire neither of them can control. But in a house full of secrets, lies, hidden agendas, and a father who will ruin anyone who threatens his legacy and reputation... falling for each other isn't just forbidden. It's dangerous. A love born in the dark may cost them everything, even their family, their future, and each other.
7.6
Have you ever eaten "Reptilian" meat?
My grandfather said he had.
Creatures that looked exactly like us on the outside, but were fundamentally different on the inside. Extremely dangerous, yet incredibly delicious.
Before he died, my grandfather left behind a notebook. The first page read: "Reptilian look exactly like humans, but human instinct can tell them apart."
The moment my cousin Braden returned for my grandfather's funeral, my gut told me: he wasn't human!
8.6
Today was my father's grand second wedding, but for me, it was the anniversary of my mother's death.
My new stepmother, Marley, who was only four years older than me, cornered me. To establish her dominance as the new Luna, she ordered her servants to force me to my knees and violently ripped my late mother's necklace from my neck.
It was the only memento my mother had left me. Marley sneered, threw it to the ground, and shattered the gems. When I scrambled to pick up the broken pieces, she dug her high-heeled shoe into the back of my hand, mocking me as dirty trash. No one stepped in to help. My father was too busy celebrating his new marriage under the dazzling lights, completely erasing my mother's memory and leaving me to be abused in my own pack.
My heart was full of grievance and despair. Why did my mother's lifelong devotion end with her grave desolate and her daughter humiliated? I swore I would never become a weak, discarded she-wolf whose life depended on a man.
Desperate to escape the suffocating wedding, I ran outside and stumbled right into the chest of a terrifying stranger.
"No one should ever touch what is precious to you."
His golden eyes blazed with fury as sparks instantly shot through my veins. He was Kade Blackwood, the ruthless Alpha of the feared Blood Moon Pack—and my fated mate.
7.5
Lila Ashworth is believed to be the weakest omega in Silver Moon Pack since the night she was found nearly drowning as a child, when the Elders failed to detect her true powers. She shares the secret of her unexpected pregnancy only with Elena, her surrogate mother, having no idea how it happened. When Alpha Kai publicly rejects her as his mate despite their true bond, choosing duty over love, her rival Raven exposes the pregnancy, leading to Lila's exile from the pack.
During her exile, Lila discovers she carries the ancient Moon Goddess bloodline, making her one of the most powerful werewolves alive. Under the training of Marcus Chen, a former military supernatural expert, she transforms from weak omega to formidable warrior while raising her twin children, Aria and Ash, who display extraordinary abilities. Through her wolf Eryndra, she learns to control her supernatural powers.
Years later, Lila returns to Silver Moon Pack intending to collect Elena and take revenge, but finds the pack under threat from devastating war. When pack members doubt her again, she reveals the full extent of her powers in battle. Her return catches the attention of ruthless Alpha King Dante Blackwood, who demands to claim her through forced mating, threatening to kill anyone who opposes him. Though Lila wants to fight back, the Moon Goddess appears in her dreams and warns her against it.
Caught between her remorseful former mate Kai and the politically powerful Dante, Lila must navigate deadly pack politics while protecting her children. As supernatural war erupts, she embraces her destiny as the prophesied leader who will unite all werewolf packs.
8.2
In the year 2333, humanity has fallen and ruled by werewolves. Bellatrix Sinclair, an 18-year-old weapons prodigy that despises werewolves for destroying her family has been secretly planning to join the human rebellion.
However, she is forced into the Mate Selection Process and matched with Lazarus De Loughrey, the ruthless Werewolf King obsessed with claiming her.
He shouldn't want her and she should hate him but they cannot resist each other. It's a twisted connection, entirely physical because all I am is his slave.
My heart should belong to my best friend Emmett, a human. Atleast the guilt of betrayal wouldn't be eating away at my insides.
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"Yes please." She begs.
"Then fucking let me in." I growled, this fury exploding with vengeance. I wanted to destroy her pussy.
It was maddening, it was sickening, it was barbaric.
But I never claimed to be saint.
"Here that baby, that's the sound of your greedy pussy sucking on my cock. Give me more, drench me."
"Lazarus." She moans painfully, "Please let me come."
I'm doused in gasoline and set alight, sweat coats my skin as I pound into her faster and harder. I'm definitely hurting her, "Wanna come?" I rasped, "Not until I say so."
Pressing my lips onto hers, pushing my tongue into her mouth until I feel the sweetness of hers. The kiss is sloppy and filthy. She cries as I drive my cock into her, the intensity too much to handle, sweet tears sliding onto her cheeks.
"Fuck yes." I smile sadistically, licking her tears. "Cry for me Ma Cherie."
"Please, please let me come My King." She pleads.
"Say it again." Lightening shooting down my spine as she begged, "My King, please let me come. I'll be good."
I chuckled, "Try your luck to kill me Ma Cherie, I dare you."
8.9
I was the lead architect for the Pack's billion-dollar tech company, and I was secretly carrying the Alpha's heir.
I thought the merger would finally make Caleb Mark me.
Instead, I walked into my office to find a mistress sitting in my chair.
Caleb didn't just fire me. When I refused to hand over the encryption keys to the system I built, he locked me in a reinforced closet lined with silver mesh.
For a pregnant wolf, silver is poison.
I pounded on the door until my knuckles bled.
"Caleb! Please! It burns! I'm losing the baby!"
I screamed until my voice broke, feeling the life drain from my womb.
But outside the door, his mistress laughed. "Don't listen to her, Caleb. She's just a weak Omega faking it for attention."
And my Fated Mate believed her.
He left me in that dark box while our son died in a pool of my own blood.
He thought he had broken me. He thought I would die a silent death so he could parade his fake heir around.
He forgot one thing: I wrote the code that runs his entire life.
Three days later, I didn't show up to the hospital morgue.
I rolled my wheelchair onto the stage of his global press conference, flanked by the rival Alpha he feared most.
I held up the remote to the main server.
"You killed my son for a lie, Caleb," I smiled into the microphone as the screens behind him broadcast the footage of his crime. "Now, say goodbye to your empire."