My Secret Mate Is The Alpha
I was bound by blood to a mysterious cloaked male named Rafe to secure a vital alliance. I was supposed to be the new Luna of the Nightfall Pack.
But the moment I arrived, I was stripped of my expected title and forced to be a mere personal assistant to the brutally handsome Alpha Kaelen. My fated mate never even showed up.
Alpha Kaelen treated me with icy disdain. He even dragged me to a high-end jewelry store to pick out a mating gift for his "future Luna." When the shop owner assumed the gift was for me, Kaelen coldly humiliated me in public.
"She is just my assistant."
Yet, when a rival Alpha tried to lay a hand on me at a summit, Kaelen nearly started a war. He shielded me with his body, his eyes blazing with furious possessiveness.
"She is mine."
I didn't understand. If I was nothing but a discarded political pawn, why did Kaelen's touch send electric sparks straight to my core, exactly like my fated mate? Why was he fiercely protective of me one second, only to treat me like absolute garbage the next?
Staring at the moonstone necklace he forced me to carry for his "real mate," the fragile hope in my chest finally died. I wouldn't wait for a phantom husband anymore; I was going to uncover Kaelen's secret, and then, I would leave this pack for good.
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Chapter 6
Elara Thorne POV:
The throbbing in my head eventually faded to a dull ache. Leo, bless his heart, had insisted on getting me a glass of water, his face etched with worry. I assured him I was just tired, overwhelmed by the new role. He left, still looking concerned.
I slumped onto my bed, attributing the strange episode to stress and lack of sleep. A message buzzed on my phone. It was from Serena Croft, one of the two friends who had come with me from Silvermoon.
*Dinner? Poppy and I are starving. We saved you a seat.*
The thought of seeing friendly faces was a balm to my frayed nerves. I met them in the pack's communal dining hall. Serena, with her bubbly personality, and Poppy, whose sharp tongue was her primary defense mechanism, were a welcome sight.
"You look like you've been wrestling a rogue," Poppy commented, her green eyes scanning my face critically as I sat down.
"Worse," I sighed. "I've been wrestling with Alpha Kaelen's filing system. And his other assistant, Dax, is a piece of work."
"But the Alpha is so handsome!" Serena gushed, her cheeks flushing. "I saw him walking across the courtyard today. I almost fainted."
"Handsome doesn't pay the bills," Poppy retorted dryly. "And a man with that much power is usually a nightmare to be around. Cold as ice, I bet."
I thought of his surprising praise in the car, the flicker of something in his eyes. He was more complicated than just ice.
"So, what about your mystery man?" Serena asked, leaning in conspiratorially. "Any word on 'Rafe'? Has the Alpha said when you'll finally get to meet him?"
I shook my head, picking at a piece of bread. "Nothing. The Alpha is… preoccupied." The lie tasted bitter. I couldn't tell them the Alpha had made me his assistant. They would worry, and I didn't want their pity. The失落感, the feeling of being forgotten by my supposed mate, was a private burden.
"Maybe he's just shy," Serena offered hopefully.
Poppy snorted. "Shy? Serena, this is a political arrangement, not a romance novel. He's probably some ugly old warrior they pawned off on her."
Her words stung because they echoed my own fears. But then I remembered the sparks. The jolt of electricity when our hands had touched. That hadn't felt like a transaction. I unconsciously rubbed my wrist, where his touch had lingered.
"Stop torturing yourself, Elara," Poppy said, her voice softening slightly. "Focus on what you can control. You're working in the Alpha's office. That's power. That's a real opportunity. It's more valuable than some phantom husband."
Serena chimed in with the latest pack gossip. "I heard Alpha Kaelen hasn't been with anyone since he took over from his father. Not a single female. They say his heart is made of stone."
As they talked, Dax and a few of his cronies walked past our table. He caught my eye and let out a loud, contemptuous sneer before moving on.
Poppy glared daggers at his back. Serena just looked nervous.
I ignored him, calmly finishing my meal. "Don't waste your energy on him," I told my friends. "A barking dog rarely bites."
But later, alone in my room, the exhaustion hit me like a physical weight. A hostile colleague. A demanding, enigmatic boss. And a mate who didn't exist. I was adrift in a sea of strangers, and I had no idea which way the current would pull me.
One thing was certain. Poppy was right.
Whatever was coming, I would have to face it alone. "No matter what," I whispered into the darkness, "I can only rely on myself."
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7.9
I was lying in the emergency room with acute gastroenteritis on my birthday, but my mother ordered me to rip out my IV needle.
She threatened to freeze all my accounts if I didn't show up to my adopted sister's high-society matchmaking party.
When I arrived, dragging my weak body, I caught my fiancé Julio protecting his mistress.
Worse, my adopted sister Billie framed me for stealing my own grandmother's heirloom earrings just to play the victim in front of New York's elite.
I refused to be their stepping stone and projected the evidence of Julio's affair on the massive ballroom screen.
In a rage, my father cursed me, and my mother slapped me across the face so hard my mouth bled.
During the ensuing physical struggle, my adopted sister, the mistress, and I all plunged into the freezing outdoor swimming pool.
My fiancé desperately swam to save his mistress, while my own brother rushed to pull my adopted sister above the water.
I stopped kicking and let my heavy, soaked clothes pull me down to the bottom of the black pool.
Why did my own flesh and blood treat me like garbage?
After a mysterious bodyguard pulled me from the water, I watched my family frantically wrap the other two women in warm blankets.
I didn't shed a single tear.
"I am no longer a part of this family. I never want to see any of you again."
I publicly canceled the engagement, turned my back on the wealthy estate, and walked away into the freezing winter night.
7.4
"You can't escape me, Aurora. You are mine!"
The Alpha King's roar echoed through the palace walls.
But Aurora just tightened her grip on the blade hidden beneath her cloak.
She would never-never-give herself to the monster who murdered her father.
Even if the Moon Goddess cursed her to be his mate.
***
Aurora Regalia once had everything-a loving father, a prosperous pack, and a future that glittered with promise. Her father, the king, even chose her a mate: Logan Charming. Powerful. Charismatic. Cursed.
She thought he was her destiny.
Then she watched him tear her father's head from his shoulders.
One night. One betrayal. Her entire family, slaughtered. Her pack, reduced to ashes.
Aurora jumped off a cliff that night-not to die, but to survive. To become something her enemies would never see coming.
An assassin. A ghost. A blade wrapped in silk.
For years, she trained in the shadows, fueled by one single purpose: revenge. Blood for blood. She would make Logan Charming suffer the way she had suffered. She would carve his heart out and feel nothing.
But fate had a cruel sense of humor.
The Moon Goddess looked down at her shattered daughter and laughed.
Because the man who destroyed her life?
The monster who wore her father's blood on his hands?
He was her fated mate.
Now Aurora stands at a crossroads she never asked for. Every instinct screams for vengeance. Every fiber of her being recoils at the bond pulling her toward him.
But Logan? He doesn't care about her hatred. He doesn't care about her blade.
"You can run, little mate," he whispers, crimson eyes gleaming in the dark. "But I will always find you."
And when he does?
He won't just cage her body.
He'll claim her soul.
7.3
Lukas Reiner built his life based off a promise 9 years ago with Viktor Volkov... the only person who actually saw him and knew him for what he actually was. They dreamed of the same future, the same ice, the same victory together. Until Viktor disappeared without a word, leaving Lukas behind with nothing but silence, rain... and feelings he never got to confess.
Now, Lukas is at the top of college... Captain, prodigy and untouchable on ice until Viktor comes back.
Colder and older, acting like the past never existed.
Their reunion explodes into violence, but being forced to work together drags them into something far more dangerous than hate.
The tension turns into stolen moments and those moments turn into a habit but before either of them can stop it, the line between resentment and desire begins to blur.
Lukas never let go of the past.
Viktor never planned to face it.
But on the ice, there's nowhere left to run.
8.4
My love. My ruin.
Ashton Hampton saved me from my mother's scandal. I gave him my whole heart.
Then he told me he was marrying another woman for business. My role? His hidden mistress.
At our engagement party, his new fiancée accused me of ruining her brooch. Ashton didn't question it. He demanded I apologize.
The crowd attacked. He watched.
I climbed onto a helicopter and disappeared.
Eighteen years later, I saw him on a park bench—broken, hollow, begging for one more word.
I gave him two: “No comment.”
8.3
Two sisters born with unimaginable power but only one is allowed to carry it-allowed to rule.
Naidira Thornton lives her entire life as a shame to her powerful parents-an alpha without a wolf, a daughter without her parents' favour, a mate left unclaimed. When she is banished for a crime she is innocent of and replaced by her own twin in a marriage built in lies, the pack believes the weaker sister has been erased.
They are wrong.
The secrets pile sky high till a perfect Luna's crown and an alpha's authority shatters under bloodshed and betrayal, Naidira returns and triggers a chain of events no one can stop. Bonds awaken, wolves arise.
Power was never taken from Naidira. It was buried.
And when it breaks free, nothing-family, throne, or fate-will survive unchanged.