Crowned by Fate (Skye) novel Chapter 146

Chapter 146

“Think …

di’s been present when

1 wann‘) deliberach, hiding anything firm you all. I just didnt want engine pleasant bedtime tale,

cant to hear the mo

You and he were loverst i probed gently

deeply

“Care“” India let out a bitter laugh that made my heart clench. “Let me tell you

exactly how he ‘caret bar na

Her eyes grow distant, focusing on something far beyond the hotel room walls. The mask the always wore couldn’t hide the pe

face

him

up with my mother in a small town on the border between the United States and Mexico. My mother was a witch, and as for my father–I never met

wasn’t until my first shift at eighteen that I discovered I had werewolf blood running through my veins.

Before that awakening. I lived like any ordinary human girl. No father, no pack, but these absences never troubled me mich. My mother s and the quiet life w led suited us both

ove was enough.

But at nineteen, a rullege.

hiking trip changed the trajectory of my entire existence.

I found Rodrigo bleeding and broken at the bottom of a ravine. His leg was twisted at an unnatural angle, and deep gashes covered his torso

Any normal human would have died from those injuries, but somehow, he was still breathing

My instincts kicked in immediately. I used what little medical knowledge my mother had taught me, cunshined with makeshift splints from my own clothes. It took hours to stabiler him enough to move

s and bandages tom

The way he looked at me when he finally opened those dark eyes, like I was his personal miracle, his salvation…

He was the first werewolf I’d ever knowingly encountered.

Strong, confident, devastatingly handsome–it was impossible not to be drawn to him.

What I didn’t know then was that he was an Apha. What I certainly did

wow was that he already had a m

Our first year together was like a dicam.

Rodrigo pursued me with the intensity of a hunter tracking pory, but his touch was always gentle, leverent. He’d dave six hours just to spend a weekend

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with me, bringing extle flowers and stories of pack life that fascinated my Molated heart.

He taught me about my wolf side, my self grew stronger, more confident. I ilimught Fit found my place in the world–b

The vernd year of our relationship began with subtle changes.

His visits became less frequent, his excuses more elaborate. But whenever doubt crept in, he’d appear with that ranked smile and those p that made me forget every question.

Then one night, everything shattered

Three female warriors burst into my apartment. Before I could react, they

by had me bound and gagged, dating mint a black SUV.

The drive felt endless, my wolt bowling in confusions and fear.

They threw me into a basement cell–no windows, just concrete walls and a single flickering braidh. For hours, I waited in terrified silence.

When she finally appeared, I understood immediately. The Luna mark on her neck, the rage in her eyes, the way she carried herself with entitled fury–this was Rodrigo mate,

“Bitches like you are all the same! She backhanded me so hard I tasted blood. “A pathetic half–breed thinking she can seduce an Alpha?”

“I didn’t seduce him!‘ I gasped, spitting crimson. “Rodrigo and I are truly in love! I had no idea he was an Alpha, and I certainly didn’t know he had a gater

Every word was truth. Having lived outside pack society my entire life, how could I have known?

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The concept of mates, of Alpha obligations–these were foreign to me. All I knew was that during our first year together, Rodrigo had been everything Id ever dreamed of in a partner.

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