IM_Spooked

He called me his ruin. Then he made me one. 

Alpha Shiloh's rejection wasn’t just a scar—it was a betrayal. He left me shattered. Broken. And I had to rebuild myself in silence. 
I almost forgot the way his touch once burned like salvation.  

Now he’s back.  

Not to beg forgiveness. To bargain. A deadly mission, he says. He promises freedom.

But then presence ignites my wolf into a frenzy. She thrashes, desperate to claim him again. But I remember the coldness in his eyes when he exiled me. The way the pack turned their backs as I crawled into the wilderness, half-dead and wholly broken. Hate simmers hotter than desire.

Yet here I am, bargaining with the devil who shattered me. Every moment we share is a lie. He doesn’t know about the shadows I’ve fed, the truth I’ve buried.  

Or the child.  

One whisper of its existence, and the pack will paint the forest with my blood. 

But the closer we get to completing his mission, the harder it is to hide… from him, or from the part of me that still craves him.  

Freedom has a price.  

So does vengeance.  

And I’m not sure which will destroy me first.

Mira: Her Alpha, Her Ruin

With every breath, Shiloh seemed to grow weaker under my touch. The bullet was lodged in his chest. If he remained human for much longer, it would be fatal.

There was only reason I could think of that the maiden would be here was if she was here to betray us all. Everyone else around us had.

But she was my friend, and if there was even the slightest chance that I was wrong, I had to cling to it. "Please help him. The spell is already latched on to him. I can't absorb it."

"You can," she said as she crouched down and examined him. "You are bonded with him. You can absorb the spell and turn it to dust."

"I don't know how to do that. He's going to die!"

"Mira, the power you have is not something that you do. It's simply who you are. Release the panic, focus on the bond, and let your instincts take over. You can do this."

Out of This Hole