Chapter 15 – Ghosts from Before
Eli
The crates are heavier than they look.
My palms burn raw as I drag one from the truck's rusted bed, muscles screaming as I stack it onto another.
The wood splinters bite deep, drawing blood that I taste when I suck my fingers clean. I hiss under my breath, shake it off, keep working.
The ...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1 – Hunted
2. Chapter 2 – The Alpha’s Den
3. Chapter 3 – The Alpha’s Touch
4. Chapter 4 – Caged
5. Chapter 5 – Heat in the Blood
6. Chapter 6 – Teeth and Fire
7. Chapter 7 – Captured
8. Chapter 8 – Bruises and Teeth
9. Chapter 9 – The Bond's Hunger
10. Chapter 10 – Phantom Fire
11. Chapter 11 – Fever Dream
12. Chapter 12 – Caught
13. Chapter 13 – The Table of Wolves
14. Chapter 14 – The Alpha's Game
15. Chapter 15 – Ghosts from Before
16. Chapter 16 – Watchful Eyes
17. Chapter 17 – Blood in the Dirt
18. Chapter 18 – The Redmaw Threat
19. Chapter 19 – Lines in the Snow
20. Chapter 20 – Cracks in the Armor
21. Chapter 21 – The Breaking Point
22. Chapter 22 – After the Fire
23. Chapter 23 – Bruised and Breathing
24. Chapter 24 – Planning the Impossible
25. Chapter 25 – Echoes of the Past
26. Chapter 26 – Fractures
27. Chapter 27 – Knives in the Dark
28. Chapter 28 – Warning in Blood
29. Chapter 29 – Running
30. Chapter 30 – Blood in the Snow
31. Chapter 31 – The Alpha’s Trail
32. Chapter 32 – Hollow Bones
33. Chapter 33 – Ghosts and Chains
34. Chapter 34 – The Watcher in the Dark
35. Chapter 35 – Meat Memory
36. Chapter 36 – What You Call Weakness
37. Chapter 37 – Between Teeth and Ash
38. Chapter 38 – Fever Born of Fire
39. Chapter 39 – All the Ways He Burns
40. Chapter 40 - Ablaze
41. Chapter 41 – The Shape of Silence
42. Chapter 42 – The Hunger Beneath My Skin
43. Chapter 43 – The First Lesson
44. Chapter 44 – What You Take You Give Back
45. Chapter 45 – Teeth First, Questions Later
46. Chapter 46 – Obedience Isn’t a Dirty Word
47. Chapter 47 – Bite the Hand That Trains You
48. Chapter 48 – Lessons in Pain and Other Forms of Foreplay
49. Chapter 49 – A Lesson in Loyalty
50. Chapter 50 – A Wolf with a Mouth on Him
51. Chapter 51 – You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For, Pet
52. Chapter 52 – Submission Is A Language (And I’m Not Fluent Yet)
53. Chapter 53 – Being Alpha Isn’t a Job, It’s a War
54. Chapter 54 – What Wakes the Wolf
55. Chapter 55 – Teeth in the Silence
56. Chapter 56 – Smoke and Teeth
57. Chapter 57 – What the Wolf Claims
58. Chapter 58 – The Wolf’s Terms
59. Chapter 59 – Bruises and Bravado
60. Chapter 60 – A Wolf’s Duty
61. Chapter 61 – Teeth Behind Smiles
62. Chapter 62 – The War Table
63. Chapter 63 – Wolves in the Grass
64. Chapter 64 – Smoke in the Trees
65. Chapter 65 – The Grudge
66. Chapter 66 – Friendly Teeth
67. Chapter 67 – Friendly Teeth
68. Chapter 68 – The Wound You Can’t See
69. Chapter 69 – The Long Game
70. Chapter 70 – Territory Lines
71. Chapter 71 – Quiet Sabotage
72. CHAPTER 72 – A Whisper in the Dark
73. CHAPTER 73 – The Edge of Trust
74. Chapter 74 – The Wolf at the Door
75. Chapter 75 – Tracks in the Snow
76. Chapter 76 – Fault in the Ranks
77. Chapter 77 – The Quarry Shadow
78. Chapter 78 – Stripped Down to Teeth
79. Chapter 79 – I Keep You
80. Chapter 80 – The Whisper Net
81. Chapter 81 – Council of Teeth
82. Chapter 82 – Hunted Eyes
83. Chapter 83 – Not Bait
84. Chapter 84 – Thin Ice
85. Chapter 85 – Without Words
86. Chapter 86 – First Light
87. Chapter 87 – Ash Between Us
88. Chapter 88 – The Weight of Choice
89. Chapter 89 – Teeth in the Dark
90. Chapter 90 – Shackled in Smoke
91. Chapter 91 – The Chain in My Fist
92. Chapter 92 – What a Wolf Promises
93. Chapter 93 – Rut
94. Chapter 94 – The Part That Burns
95. Chapter 95 – No Rest for the Weary
96. Chapter 96 – Hours with Teeth
97. Chapter 97 – Being Devoured
98. Chapter 98 – Burned Into Bone
99. Chapter 99 – Teeth on the Line
100. Chapter 100 – Ash and Sandpaper
101. Chapter 101 – The First Cut
102. Chapter 102 – The Line Between
103. Chapter 103 – What Won’t Be Taken
104. Chapter 104 – What a Wolf Keeps
105. Chapter 105 – Special Medicine
106. Chapter 106 – The Price of Power
107. Chapter 107 – Not For Sale
108. Chapter 108 – Words in Old Ink
109. Chapter 109 – Charcoal and Rope
110. Chapter 110 – Bound to the Flame
111. Chapter 111 – The Bond Unleashed
112. Chapter 112 – Fractures
113. Chapter 113 – Blood Owed
114. Chapter 114 – Quiet Knives
115. Chapter 115 – Smoke in the Council Hall
116. Chapter 116 – The Scent of War
117. Chapter 117 – Breaking Point
118. Chapter 118 – More
119. Chapter 119 – Edge of Obedience
120. Chapter 120 – The Breaking Point
121. Chapter 121 – A Vow Spoken Twice
122. Chapter 122 – Soft Siege
123. Chapter 123 – Professional Patient
124. Chapter 124 – Back in the Ring
125. Chapter 125 – Poking the Bear
126. Chapter 126 – Matchmaking Menace
127. Chapter 127 – Silent Treatment
128. Chapter 128 – First of Her Kind
129. Chapter 129 – A Dangerous Guest
130. Chapter 130 – Flirting with Disaster
131. Chapter 131 – A Jealous Alpha
132. Chapter 132 – Fish on the Line
133. Chapter 133 – A Study in Knives
134. Chapter 134 – Sworn Oaths
135. Chapter 135 – The Banquet
136. Chapter 136 – Smoke in the Council Hall
137. Chapter 137 – The Alpha’s Leash
138. Chapter 138 – Sharp Tongue
139. Chapter 139 – Quiet Storm
140. Chapter 140 – Fractures of Silver
141. Chapter 141 – Whispers and Walls
142. Chapter 142 – The Edge of Ruin
143. Chapter 143 – The Alpha’s Prize
144. Chapter 144 – The Omega’s Reward
145. Chapter 145 – Razor’s Edge
146. Chapter 146 – Uneasy Departures
147. Chapter 147 – Blood and Bruises
148. Chapter 148 – Cupid with Claws
149. Chapter 149 – New Toys
150. Chapter 150 – The Weight of Disappointment
151. Chapter 151 – Brat Games
152. Chapter 152 – Dream of a Bow
153. Chapter 153 – Breaking Ranks
154. Chapter 154 – Weathering Storms
155. Chapter 155 – Feast of Shadows
156. Chapter 156 – Storm on the Horizon
157. Chapter 157 – The Shape of His Mouth
158. Chapter 158 – The Tightest Leash
159. Chapter 159 – The Disobedient Son
160. Chapter 160 – Lines of Loyalty
161. Chapter 161 – A Father’s Fury
162. Chapter 162 – The Weight of His Gaze
163. Chapter 163 – The Cross
164. Chapter 164 – Ghosts of the Past
165. Chapter 165 – Surrounded by Traitors
166. Chapter 166 – The Ritual Plea
167. Chapter 167 – Worship and Vows
168. Chapter 168 – The Betrayed Heir
169. Chapter 169 – The Mediator
170. Chapter 170 – Angry, Needy, Desperate
171. Chapter 171 – Confessions with Kieran
172. Chapter 172 – The Trap
173. Chapter 173 – Salt the Knife, Feed the Flame
174. Chapter 174 – Giving Freely
175. Chapter 175 – The Journey
176. Chapter 176 – Plans and Pretense
177. Chapter 177 – The Gates of Silvercrest
178. Chapter 178 – Dinner of Diplomats
179. Chapter 179 – Private Negotiations
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