Reclaimed By My Alpha (Natalia and Andrei) novel Chapter 39

Andrei

“Stop!”

Natalia’s shriek echoed through the forest, so loud and desperate that even the birds went silent. The sound hit me like a punch to the face, and even my wolf froze.

My jaws were inches from Damon’s throat. Victory was so close I could taste his blood on my tongue, and I yearned to finally end this nonsense once and for all. But there she was my ex–wife, arms spread wide, putting her body between me and my prey.

She loved him.

I shifted back immediately, chest heaving, refusing to hurt her. Damon shifted too.

“Move,” I growled at Natalia.

“No.” Her chin lifted stubbornly, but it wasn’t just me she was angry with. She looked between me and Damon with a fire in her eyes I had never seen before. “This is idiotic. Both of you. Have you gotten so caught up in your Alpha male posturing that you’ve forgotten you’re brothers?”

Brothers. The word almost made me laugh. Yes, we shared blood, but that was where the connection ended. Damon had always been the weaker one, the one who needed protecting, the one who couldn’t handle his own pack. And now he had Natalia. He had her love.

Why was she so loyal to him? She’d thrown herself between us without hesitation, risked her life for his sake. He didn’t love her–he was just using her, and we all knew it. The Natalia I’d married would never have done that, would never have fallen for a man who was so obviously just treating her like a tool of revenge.

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She had changed.

Did she truly never love me like she claimed?

I studied her face, searching for some kind of bluff. But all I saw was fierce, loyal determination and something that looked uncomfortably like actual, real concern for my good–for–nothing brother.

No. This didn’t make sense.

She hadn’t actually fallen in love with Damon, right? Surely she hadn’t genuinely chosen my piece of shit brother over our marriage? Over the family we were about to have five years ago?

Surely she hadn’t actually faked her own death and aborted our child just to elope with him?

No, Natalia wasn’t the type to be cruel like that. She wouldn’t have put me through the agony of believing she was dead, holding a funeral for her and our child, just to run off with another man. Which brought me back to my original suspicion–Damon had manipulated her.

He must have. Maybe he’d found her after her accident, vulnerable and confused, and convinced her that I was dangerous and that she could only trust him. Or maybe he had been poisoning her against me even before she left,

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planting seeds of doubt until he could deliver his final strike.

Hell, maybe he had even caused the accident just to sway her to his side.

And if the accident was what caused her to lose our baby…

“You do love her,” my wolf’s voice said. “Take her back. Take what’s yours-

“No,” I replied. “It’s not that. It’s the child.”

“She says the child is dead. And yet you still try to pull her back to you.”

“I just want answers.‘

“You kissed her.”

My jaw ticked, and I quickly shoved my wolf back down. “This isn’t over,” I said out loud, taking a step forward.

Natalia held her ground once more and bared her teeth, fangs partially extended. “You males need to get a grip,” she hissed. “This land is ceremonial, the law states that there will be no wolf–on–wolf bloodshed, and yet you-‘

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