Page 224 of Unmarked
Mine, it says.
Mine. Mine. Mine.
And it fucking breaks me.
Not the jealousy. Not the image of Kai’s smug face buried between her thighs. Not the roaring, caveman need to reclaim what should be mine.
It’s that she still wants me. Still reaches.
Instinctive. Blind. Devastating.
Like her soul forgot it wasn’t supposed to want me anymore.
A seam that’s been stitched shut since I was a boy snaps wide open under the weight of it. The years of training, of discipline, of quiet resentment at the world’s unbending laws -don’t bond outside your pairing, don’t share what’s yours, don’t deviate from the bloodline-
It's gone.
And suddenly, I am not Alpha Vale, heir to a bloodline of dominance and power and generational emotional repression. I am just a man, cracked wide open, realizing too late that the only thing I’ve ever wanted is already tangled in the arms of people I was raised to hate.
To keep her, I have to keep them too.
Ash, with his discipline and deadpan death threats.
Theo, with his steady, unshakable calm.
And Kai - the feral, shirtless, chaos dragon currently eating cookie dough straight from the tub between orgasms.
I want to scream. I want to throw up. I want to walk into that kitchen and throw Kai out a window.
But I won’t.
Because she wants this.
Because I want her.
Because she’smine.
And if claiming her means learning how to live in a house full of knot-happy, territory-sharing, touchy-feely Alphas, then so be it.
I’ll burn the bloodline down myself. With a smile.
And then I’ll mark her so hard it carves me into her bones.
Forever.
Chapter Forty-Four
Kai
She’s still shaking.
Boneless. Slick. Stuffed full of my knot like she was made for it.
And she’slaughing.
God, I fuckingloveher like this.
No mask. No posture. Just wrecked, radiant, omega glow-in-the-dark chaos nestled in my arms.
