Goodbye Alpha, I'm No Longer Your Blood Bag

lle's

Ashmoor, I learned my true place. I was not hi

iorating again. The blood bond ritual is r

ache of cold resignation. This lunar cycle alone, I had dragged myself to the treatment room three times, offering u

? You were three minutes late. T

never once shown me the gentleness

oved, until she chose his brother for

reased to 100,000.

for the money. That I was

playing at? You had twenty minutes to

t was what he ca

ecious Thessaly alive, he wouldn't have spared me a second glance. Three

ed my eyes. The first time I ever saw Calde

nearly brought the city to its knees, but Calden had appeared in time to stop the disaster. That day,

ospital room while I was

ou be m

I had never felt that way about any man in my entire life. So

d the price beh

truth: Calden had chosen me for the value of my rare blo

igned. "But your primary role is to be her donor. Whenever Thessaly needs

at least my blood gave me a reason to stay by his side. I thought that one day, I could shed

ter, I had fai

s to mingle. At first, I thought it was because of our difference in status-that my Omega scent w

ster-in-law. And the wom

at made me fall for him at first sight-he had been so frantic

ver truly

ain. This time, the

s message.

eath

ut: a jawline that could draw blood, lashes dark as midnight, lips that seemed designed for sin and cruel

she was.

a faint smirk curving her lips ev

ase. As if he had come home. As if thi

the photo slid in li

a moment like this. Know

ceived such a taunt. It always arrived like clockwork, after eve

indow, illuminating my reflection in the glass

ones that seemed sharper each day, threatening to break through. Dark circles carved hollows beneath my eyes,

this up, Zarelle. Even the strongest bloodline has its lim

r feared death-my fat

died with purp

rained for a woman who saw me as nothing more than a supply line?

o

into fists against

er, for a pack that only valued my veins. I had let them hollow me, piece by piec

r had. He n

g for people who di

n. Another message.

f you don't show today, I'll make s

t time in three years, I laughed. A holl

und to him all this time? It wasn't his Alpha

Foolish, despera

That hope

one-not him, not her, not th

around the wheel. I

dn't wait for the driver to open my door-I pushed it o

my hand to knock when

ow-primal, intoxicating; my wolf cowere

beneath. When his gaze landed on me, irritation flickered first-then, as his eyes ca

ugh to freeze the space between us. "Then why the fuck weren't

uel line of his jaw. Those predators' eyes that could bend an entire pack to his will. The corded muscle

d be the

ng around my wrist hard enough t

blood roaring in my ears. I steadied myself against the doorframe, every

ous smile. "Then what the hell

ne wolves who tore their own bonds rather than live as slave

ver. "I'll give her my blood.

ng. "The money's already in your account." He ju

y voice was te

reverberated through the room,

aze and did

my throat on the way out. "I w