MARKED BY MY ALPHA BEAST

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I was supposed to be his mate. Instead I became his pawn. And the only way out? A wolf who never should have claimed me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Zara</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My life ended the day my fated mate betrayed me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Howard was my future-until he tore our bond apart and left me to die.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My pack fell into chaos-leadership stolen women stripped of power. I was powerless.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until Jason arrived.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My dead best friend's mate.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A wolf from another pack.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A man with no reason to save me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when Howard rejected me Jason stepped in. He marked me. Claimed me. And just like that I became his.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now I have a second chance. A second mate. And if I play this right a shot at taking back my pack.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But the real danger? Wanting this to be real.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jason</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She was never supposed to be mine.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I came to her pack out of duty. To honor a promise.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not to save a woman who had no business being my mate.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But then I saw Zara-broken betrayed... seconds from death.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Instinct took over. I marked her. Claimed her. Saved her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She swears it's just a means to an end. A way to survive. And maybe that's all it is.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So why do I want more?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Why does the thought of losing her feel like losing everything all over again?</span></p>