TAKEN BY MY ALPHA CAPTOR

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The worst part about being sold like cattle? Realizing my escape lies in the arms of the wolf who vowed to destroy me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Thea</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'd fight for love-but not for Nolan.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>His proposal drips with cruelty. My brothers call it an alliance. I call it a death sentence.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So I run.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But no one shelters a panther. No one... except maybe our sworn enemies-the wolves.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I cross their borders drop to my knees before their Alpha and beg for asylum. Hatred fills the air. But that's not what sends a chill down my spine.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I look up-and see him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tall. Lethal. Too damn handsome. His ice-blue stare pins me in place and my heart stops.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My fated mate... is a wolf.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And with a voice like steel he says I reject you.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lexion</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fate must be joking.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I live for my pack my Alpha my beliefs. And her? A panther. Born from betrayal raised in deception. She's the last thing I should want.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But my wolf doesn't care. Her scent is in my blood. Her eyes make me hesitate. Her presence is unraveling me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So I reject her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Yet she stays forcing me to face her every damn day.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then-she's gone.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One second she was right there stubborn and infuriating. The next vanished.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Did she run to another? Or was she taken?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Either way I won't allow it.</span></p>