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

Neither Forrest nor Amelia said a word after I told them about Rhiannon. We were on the edge of the woods, no one around for miles, with no one to overhear.

"You killed her?" Forrest asked Mira, who stood just slightly behind me. She hadn't wanted to be here for this, but I wasn't about to leave her alone in the house with Irving and the other alphas.

Balling up his fists, Forrest turned and stalked away. He didn't go far, and I let him have his space. Amelia inhaled sharply. "I knew something was wrong with her. I should have pushed," she whispered. "These past few days, she'd been acting strangely. Did she kill Finn?"

"Finn is in the infirmary. He's healing, but slowly. You'll take over for guard duty with Mira, and I want the two of you to visit him tomorrow and see if there anything else he can remember about the attack. His injuries are being kept under lock and key."

She's Coming With Me