Alpha Your Warrior Ex-Wife is Back (by Aurora Starling) novel Chapter 85

Chapter 85

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Claire’s POV

The air around us felt stifling, tense and heavy and Gideon slammed his arm against the wall beside my head trapping me. The sound echoed through the whole hallway, making my bones shudder. He leaned so close that the space around us shrank, I held my breath as I dared not breathe around him so close and felt heat radiating from his body.

I stood still, my instincts on the edge of flight.

“Alpha Gideon-“I whispered his name with a trembling voice. But he didn’t hear me. Or perhaps he couldn’t. His breath was ragged, uneven, every inhale was like an animal begging to be unleashed.

I lifted my eyes to his face.

What I saw there chilled me and burned me all at once. His eyes, those commanding sharp eyes that always made me stand on guard were now filled with storming, molten hunger that didn’t to him at all. Not the Gideon I knew. He was not longer the Alpha who carried his pack’s burden with pride and discipline. This was something else, something darker, something that reeked of poison.

The realization dawned upon me. He is drugged.

My pulse quickens. Who could had done this to him? Someone had drugged his body, his mind, twisting him into this… this predator before me.

But no matter how much my mind screamed the truth, my body betrayed me.

Every nerve in my body remembers him, his scent, strength and warmth. This situation reminded me of the memory of that night which I kept buried deep in my mind.

Our first night.

The night none of us had thought would happen but due to circumstances and weakness it did. His touch had seared me then, confusing and sinful, leaving me ashamed and hollow by morning. I had sworn I would never let it happen again.

And now this situation has awakened the same fire from that night.

My traitorous wolf stirred, pressing at the edges of my control, howling for me to give in. His chest slowly pressed against mine, I felt his hot breath against my neck. I trembled not just because of fear but because of the desire and longing I didn’t want to acknowledge.

“Alpha stop-” I managed to gasp out those words with a small crack in my voice, as I felt weak against his demanding strong presence.

“Claire…” His voice was low, guttural, a growl pulled from somewhere primal. The sound of my

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name on his lips sent a shiver through me, but it wasn’t right–it wasn’t him.

I looked at him tense as he spoke my real name, did he find out..no. I looked into his eyes and saw haziness in them and sighed with relief. He was hallucinating.

This wasn’t his choice. This wasn’t love.

This was his drug speaking.

I tried to push him as my hands pressed against his chest, but his body was too strong to get pushed, I felt his tense muscles he held my waist, I winced as his fingers dug into my skin. I gasped as he pulled me close to him, his touch felt burning even through the thin fabric of my clothes.

No. No. No.

I bit my lower lip, fighting the part of me that said to let him have his way with me and feel what I had felt that night. I hated myself for wanting even a flicker of it.

But I wasn’t that woman anymore.

I was Raven now. I was a mother. I was stronger. I knew I couldn’t give up, I didn’t wanted to history repeat itself, not fall into Daphne’s schemes again.

“Alpha Gideon!” I screamed and gathered every ounce of strength I could and pushed him away with

all the force I had.

He staggered back a bit as he looked at me surprised but unfortunately the hunger in his eyes was still there. If anything, it grew sharper, darker.

I pressed my back against the wall as I breath heavily trying to calm myself down. His gaze raked over me, and the hunger there made my skin crawl and burn all at once.

I needed to keep him away. I needed—

He lunged again, one hand reaching toward me, his breath quick and ragged, and for a split second, I thought I had lost.

And then-

“Well, well,” a voice purred. Smooth, venomous, dripping with satisfaction. The atmosphere turned colder instantly as recognising the voice instantly. Daphne.

I didn’t need to see her face to know she was smirking, her poisonous delight filling the air. She sounded like a snake who was now circling her pray to ravish and devour.