Bonded to My Ex's Alpha Brother (by CalebWhite) novel Chapter 11

Chapter 11

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responsibilities. That’s what mis father abwass said when I was growing up. As the Alpha of the Dar

the Darkwood Pack, El formed to balaner nothless efficiency. I made decisions based on facts, not feelings. I put the Pack’s needs above my own devices, Aberes.

ents of last night were so infurting

ndow of my oftion, watching the ran slam Against the glass. Down was breaking, though you would barely tell through the storm clouds. My

-hand eves, terved jam, the face of a leader who didist tolerate complications

Rickwood. The name itselt had become an ititation on

over the past twenty–four hours. A nobody, An Omega wolf trym a family with no significant

in the Pack. Aaron Blackwoods little sister

Die let it though. That was the part I couldn’t dismiss, no matter how mach I wanted to. When her scent hit me in that smiled tom–wild honey, summer brain, and something unique her—my wolf had surged forward with such force that it had taken every once of my control to hold him back.

“Mine Mate, MINE

I’d never felt my wolf so adamant about anything before. Even now, he paced restlessly inside me, sensing her nearby.

Because she was still out there. I glanced down at the main gates where that slip of a ghi had been standing for hours in the pouring rain. Soaked to the bone, shivering, but refusing to leave.

Four hours. What kind of person stood in a freezing downpour for four hours just to speak to someone who had just threatened them?

Probably both

the most determined person lid ever met, or the most foolish,

It had been easy enough to punish her brother. Stripping Aaron of his Enforcer badge had been a calculated move–a warning that I wouldn’t tolerate his unters daruption of Pack hasiness. But watching her stand there, hour after hour, made me question if I miscalculated.

The

a wasn’t the behavior of someone playing games or seeking attention.

“You can’t avoid this forever, na wolf growled inside me. “She’s ours.”

I pushed him down again, refusing to entertain the thought. I had important plans that had been years in the making. The alliance with the Siberpine Pack would double our territory and cement our position as the dominant Pack in the region. My might be cold and calculating, but she was the daughter of the Siberpine Alpha, which made her the perfect political match.

I didn’t need a Soul Bund complicating everything, especially not with someone like Erin Blackwood.

“Enter.” I commanded, cut turning from the window.

““Alpha,” my father’s deep voice resonated through the room. “We need to

Robert Stone had been Alpha before me, stepping down due to his poor health. He still commanded respect, his tall frame only slightly stooped with age, his silver hair the only real sign of his advancing years. Even without the Alpha power, he carried himself with the dignity of a born leader.

“This in a good time,” I replied, finally turning to face hum

He sighed, shutting the door behind him. “But we need to discuss w ( happened last night. The guts claims –

“Is being handled,” I cut him off sharply:

My fatherx eyes narrowed. By handled, do you mean firing her brother? Or leaving her to stand in the rain until she collapses from hypothermia?”

“I didn’t ask her to stand in the rain.”

“Yet she’s been there for hours.” He moved closer, his eyes finding the small figure by the gates. “A girl from a respectable family, claiming to be your Soul Bond, and you’re leaving her out there like a stray dog.”