Page 1 of The Alpha's Bounty
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She’s my bounty, but I’ll risk everything to keep her.
Mina
I ran.
From my past.From the people who hurt me.From a system that never once protected me.
I missed my court date, and now there’s a bounty on my head.
I never expected a bounty hunter to track me down so fast.
Or for him to be the most dangerously handsome man I’ve ever met.
Cyrus is relentless, intimidating… and completely unreadable.
But the moment our eyes meet, something shifts.
He’s not just here to bring me in—he’s something else.Somethingmore.
And the way he looks at me makes me wonder if running might finally be over for me.
Cyrus
Each of the Alphas has a responsibility, and mine is cracking down on crime.
That means that I hunt fugitives for a living.
Bring them in.Collect the reward.Move on.
That was the plan—until I found her.
Mina.
The moment I see her, I know the truth.
She’s mine.My fated mate.
But she’s also my job.
If I turn her in, I lose her.
If I don’t, I could lose everything else.
Now I have a choice to make.
And it’s not much of a choice at all.
ONE
Cyrus
The forest is quiet today.Too quiet.Usually, the birds chirp, the wind whistles through the tree branches, and various animals scurry across the forest floor.
Not today, though.Today, it’s silent.The kind of quiet that settles deep in your bones, prickling under your skin, making you listen harder for what you already know isn’t there.The air is cool, carrying the scent of pine, wet earth, and faint traces of deer somewhere upwind.My bear paces in my head, restless.He doesn’t like the quiet.Not this kind.
I adjust the strap of the rifle slung across my back.I don’t need it; my claws and teeth are more than enough if trouble comes calling.However, as the Alpha of the East Pack, walking patrol means showing my people that I take their safety seriously.That I’ll bleed for them if necessary.
