Claimed by My Fiancé's Brother: An Opposites Attract Enemies to Lovers Werewolf Shifter Romance (Loyal Wolf Book 1) by Krista Lark

Author:Krista Lark [Lark, Krista]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

ELEANOR

You are my mate. My responsibility, as unfortunate as that may be.

What kind of animal would look at me the way he did, touch me the way he did, and then utter such terrible words?

Only my mate, Alexander Hawthorne.

I hated him so much I could barely think straight when he was near.

But whenever he touched me or showed me even a second of kindness, I forgot that I should hate him.

Alexander was an asshole. A big one.

But he was an asshole who’d saved my life and helped me more than I cared to admit.

When I faced down that pack of rogues single-handedly, I didn’t think I would win, much less survive.

At that moment, I’d thought about a lot of things.

Sure, I thought about all the reasons I never should’ve trusted Dylan, but I also thought of why I’d come to the brook in the first place.

Because of the letters from Alexander.

Why had Alexander’s letters mattered so much to me? Why had I thought of the mate I could barely stand for the whole two months he’d been away?

As I bled out and my vision blurred into darkness, I’d wished to see Alexander one more time before I died.

Just once.

So when I woke up to him at my bedside, his eyes bloodshot and full of worry, I wondered if I was hallucinating. Maybe I’d wanted to see him so desperately I’d made him up in my head.

None of that mattered now.

Alexander was back to being his usual hateful self and I…I was done trying to figure out this thing between us.

I had more important things to worry about.

Like confronting Dylan and uncovering why he’d attempted to kill me.

My side still ached even though my wounds were healed, so I ignored the pain as I waited.

I didn’t want to think of how Alexander would react when he discovered I’d snuck out of the house the moment he’d left, instead of resting as he’d ordered.

Maybe I should have told him about Dylan and the note that had lured me to the brook, but I couldn’t.

As hypocritical as it was, I didn’t want to damage the relationship between the two brothers any more than I already had. Confronting Dylan directly wasn’t the safest idea, but it was all I had.

I heard pounding footsteps, and then Dylan was right there, rounding the corner on his routine evening run. I stepped right into his path.

“Eleanor?” Dylan halted, his eyes wide with surprise. “You⁠—”

I didn’t let Dylan finish speaking.

“I’ll ask you just once,” I said, stepping right up to him. This close, I could see splotches of red around his neck, almost as if he’d been…strangled. Strange.

I focused on the task at hand.

“Why did you try to have me killed?”

Dylan’s jaw dropped.

“Someone tried to kill you?” he echoed. “Eleanor, what’s going on?”

I gritted my teeth.

“Don’t play dumb with me,” I growled, tossing the note he’d sent at him. “You mean to tell me that you randomly chose a meeting time that coincided with your sentries leaving

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