Chapter 6 One Fking Mistake
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Kael
I should’ve let her walk.
That was the rule. Simple. Clean. No complications.
Escort the human out at dawn. Wipe the incident. Move on.
Instead, I’m standing in the corridor listening to her footsteps fade, and my wolf is losing its damn mind.
She doesn’t smell like fear.
That’s the first problem.
Humans stink of it when they realize where they are. Cold Sweats. Heartbeats spike. They flinch. They beg. They submit or they run.
Sienna does neither.
Her scent is wrong. Not wrong like weak. Wrong like unfinished. Like something buried under skin that doesn’t know it’s alive yet.
I drag a hand down my face and growl under my breath.
F**k.
Rylan is already watching me from the far end of the hall. Arms crossed. Jaw tight. Beta instincts flaring.
“You’re hesitating,” he says.
“I’m thinking.”
“That’s worse.”
“She’s human.”
“Then she shouldn’t still be here.”
I don’t answer because my focus snaps back to the door she disappeared through. The pack can feel it now. The shift in me. The tension crawling through the walls like a warning siren.
A human doesn’t talk to an Alpha like that and walk away breathing.
Unless the Alpha lets her.
And I did.
I turn sharply. “Lock the perimeter.”
Rylan stiffens. “Kael”
“Now.”
He moves, but I catch the hesitation. The calculation. He’s already weighing the consequences.
So am I.
The scent hits again. Stronger. Closer.
She’s not leaving.
I spin and she’s right there at the end of the corridor, hand on the door, shoulders squared like she’s bracing for a fight she knows she shouldn’t win.
“You don’t get to trap me,” she snaps.
“You don’t get to wander my pack,” I shoot back.
Her eyes flash. “I’m not yours.”
The words hit wrong. Too sharp. Too deep.
My wolf surges forward, furious.
Mine.
The thought is instinctive. Violent. Possessive.
I stalk toward her before I can stop myself.
“You don’t know what you are,” I say.
“I know what I’m not,” she fires back. “Property.”
She tries to push past me.
That’s the moment.
The exact second everything goes to hell.
My hand snaps out, gripping her wrist. Sparks explode up my arm like static and bone-deep recognition slams into my chest.
She gasps. Not scared. Shocked.
Her pulse jumps under my fingers. Fast. Strong.
Too strong.
“Let go,” she says.
My jaw locks.
The corridor empties. The pack scatters. All I hear is blood. Her blood. Calling. Singing. Screaming for something it doesn’t understand.
My wolf howls.
I drag her into the nearest empty room and slam the door shut.
“What the f**k is wrong with you,” she spits, shoving at my chest.
I barely feel it.
“You’re not leaving,” I growl.
“You don’t get to decide that.”
“I do here.”
She laughs. Short. Furious. Unafraid.
“That’s your problem,” she says. “You think being bigger makes you right.”
I should’ve stepped back.
I should’ve walked away.
Instead, my control snaps.
I crowd her against the wall. Not touching. Close enough she can feel the heat rolling off me.
“You are standing on pack land,” I say low. “Breaking laws older than you.”
“Then arrest me,” she snaps. “Kill me. Do whatever it is you monsters do.”
The word lands like a slap.
Monster.
My wolf rears.
Her scent spikes. Not fear. Challenge. Desire. Rage. Something deeper.
“You don’t know what you’re asking for,” I say.
“Try me.”
That’s the second mistake.
The final one is instinct.
My teeth sink into her shoulder before my mind can stop it.
The bite is sharp. Precise. Controlled.
Illegal.
She screams. Not pain. Shock. Her body arches and slams against mine like something snapped into place.
F**k.
The bond detonates.
It hits like fire through my veins. Like lightning wrapped around my spine. My wolf roars in triumph and terror.
I rip my mouth away instantly.
No. No no no.
Her knees buckle. I catch her without thinking, dragging her upright as she gasps for air, fingers clutching my jacket.
Her eyes lock onto mine. Wide. Burning.
“What did you do,” she whispers.
The mark burns against my lips. Against my soul.
I’ve just claimed a human.
The pack will feel it.
The Elders will know.
Rylan pounds on the door.
“Kael,” he snaps. “What did you do.”
I look down at her trembling body. At the mark already sealing itself under her skin.
One f**king mistake.
And the entire world just shifted on its axis.
I don’t answer him.
Because I already know there’s no undoing this.
And I can feel her heartbeat syncing with mine whether I want it to or not.
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