Challenging the Alpha (Paranormal Werewolf Shifter Romance) Read Online Free

register in her mind as she tried not to cower at the look Sin was giving her. Inside, her wolf was lying down, exposing her belly, and begging for every kind of forgiveness. Sapphire wasn’t far behind her.
     
    “Get in.” Sin pointed.
     
    Sapphire could only assume he meant the shower, and she reached for his coat, pulling her arms out of it and dropping it to the floor. Sapphire was shaking as she anchored her fingers in the hem of the dress ready to pull it up and over her head, only for her arms to be yanked up and her body suddenly thrust into the shower.
     
    Freezing cold water hit her back as Sin turned on the faucet, making Sapphire yelp. “B-But my clothes…” Her voice trailed off as her eyes hit his, seeing the dangerous swirl of barely controlled rage inside.
     
    Sapphire tried again to reach out to him through their link, but all she got was empty space. “These aren’t your clothes, Sapphire. This isn’t you.” These words forced out as he savagely ripped the clothes from her body.
     
    The strong independent part of her wanted to rebel, wanted to kick him in the nuts and run away. She’d been trying to save someone she loved, but even that excuse suddenly sounded hollow. Sin had offered to help her, and they could have done it together, avoiding all of this, but she’d been selfish and inconsiderate. She still saw herself as a lone wolf. She wanted to give into the impulse and run, to disappoint herself and Sin yet again. But an even stronger part of her knew she had to stay, knew she had to suffer through whatever Sin was going to do; because she deserved it.
     
    “Oh, Sapphire, you more than deserve it.” Sin said as he tossed the remnants of her clothes over the side of the shower stall, not even bothering to disrobe himself.
     
    So, we still have a link. The thought comforted her even as the look in his eye chilled her to the bone. There was nothing she could say to make it better. She fucked up and now she had to pay the price. There was only one thing she could give him: her submission.
     
    “Your submission?” Sin barked harshly, pushing her further into the shower stall.
     
    Sapphire shrunk back into the shower, her back hitting the cool marble. There was nothing to do but wait; wait for the Sin she knew to come back, to kiss her sweetly and take her with a soulful intensity. But it was only the beast that loomed over her, his eyes raging fire and hell.
     
    “I have never once gotten your submission, Sapphire.” He rested his hand on her shoulder, his thumb pressed against the pounding vein in her neck. “No matter what you like to tell yourself in that pretty little head of yours, not once have you submitted to me. You still live as you used to: by yourself, shutting everyone out. You shut your mate out.”
     
    Sapphire winced as his words hit her; Sin didn’t raise his voice to her, didn’t scream or shout or rage, and that was what scared Sapphire the most. She could deal with his fire, his anger, but this sort of seething rage left Sapphire drowning in a sea with no hope of rescue.
     
    “Sin, please don’t do--” But her words were lost on a scream as Sin bit down hard on her shoulder, drawing blood.
     
    Sapphire didn’t claw at him, didn’t fight back as he lifted her against the tile, teeth still buried in her neck and thrust with a sort of cold calculation into her.
     
    There was no emotion in their joining, Sapphire couldn’t even say there was a connection. It was simply about Sin taking what he wanted from her body. Sapphire flinched away as his fist shot out an inch from her head and slammed through the marble of the shower wall. Bits of debris scraped her skin. She yelped.
     
    “Don’t do what, Sapphire?” Sin asked as he thrust his hips into Sapphire with a sort of mechanical quality, as if even he wasn’t enjoying their mating.
     
    “Don’t hurt yourself.” Sapphire whispered, the patter of water stealing the fear and sadness out of her