Chapter 17 – Blood in the Dirt
Eli
They drag the man in just after noon.
Two enforcers have him by the arms, his boots carving deep grooves in the frozen earth.
His head jerks like a trapped animal’s, hair matted with sweat and blood.
The clearing stills as the pack forms a wide ring, the low chatter dying until all I hear...
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
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