Saved by the Alpha

By Kayla Gabriel

Spurned by his best friend and the female he wanted for his own, sexy alpha male Lucas is on a dark path to self-destruction. Can sapphire-eyed Scarlett save him from his torment, or will she push him over the edge?
Lucas’s brother Garrett talks Lucas into taking on two violent alpha males, both fighting for the same female. The object of their affection is gorgeous Scarlett, caught in a dangerous turf war. The second Lucas lays eyes on dark-haired stunner Scarlett, he knows he must possess her.
Scarlett is caught between two ill-intentioned males, and when Lucas and Garrett show up and offer to save her, she doesn’t hesitate to accept. Lucas and Scarlett confront the growing heat between them, baring their scarred souls to one another in the process.
Steamy, sweet, and satisfying, the fourth book in the Werewolf’s Harem series wraps up Lucas’s story with lots of hot alpha male/fiesty female action. This story contains white-hot material not for the faint of heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: KSA Publishing Consultants, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 26, 2020

Book preview

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1

Lucas paused in the woods, panting. He’d shifted into his wolf at least two days ago… or maybe three? Since then, he’d run a hundred miles north of his Asheville Compound, probably even further. Aside from short breaks to hunt and eat, he’d pushed his wolf on and on. One pulsing need drove him, and the feeling seemed bottomless.

Fear. Fear of what he might do to himself if he spent more than half a minute thinking about her.

Lucas spurred himself on, trying to regain the smooth lope he’d held for untold hours. He slowed, weakened by exhaustion and lack of food. His legs shook, buckled underneath him, his own body failing him.

He slid, coming to rest in a soft pile of late summer leaves. He was unable to move, to cry out. He’d run so far and pushed so hard that he was now prisoner in his on mind. As he waited for the looming unconsciousness to take him, the blackness itself a kind of desired reprieve, he turned his thoughts to the wellspring of his pain.

Aurelia.

His mind went over the moment for the thousandth time. He’d entered the house on silent feet, eager to surprise Aurelia with a bouquet of lilies. Following her scent, Lucas had found her in one of the private studies that lay off the house’s main floor. Ben’s study, to be exact.

Lucas’s mind went blank when he found Aurelia and Ben together. They hadn’t been fucking or anything. Nothing so obvious. Still, Lucas had taken one look at them, at the way their hands clasped together, at the closeness of their bodies, and he’d known. He didn’t need to take a deep breath and find Ben’s scent thick on her skin. He didn’t need to examine the guilty looks on their faces, or the fact that they didn’t jump apart when he entered.

He’d known, then and there, that Aurelia had indeed chosen a mate… it just wasn’t Lucas.

Lucas, I’m so sorry… she had whispered, tears glittering in her eyes.

Lucas hated himself for the weakness of his heart, the poor decisions he’d made that allowed Aurelia to slip away.

He’d left her at the Compound for a week, and there lay his fatal mistake. The fiery, insatiable redhead, the female he’d obsessed over, wooed, rescued, and finally won… he’d left her in the care of another male for seven days, even telling Aurelia that she could share the man’s bed if it pleased her. As long as she came back to him, he couldn’t care what she did in his absence.

Looking back on it now, rage racked him as he considered how foolish he’d been. It was like leaving a bowl of sparkling jewels out of the safe during a house party, just to show off. You couldn’t leave the room and come back expecting every sapphire to be in the bowl.

To his credit, he’d left her with one of the two males he trusted most in the world. Ben Fincher, the compassionate and soft-spoken software analyst and co-owner of Lucas’s company, was the last person on earth to make Lucas feel threatened. Lucas and Ben had been friends for decades, and Ben’s big heart was the largest factor in their successful friendship.

That was what hurt the most, Lucas decided. Not the loss of Aurelia, exactly. She was a female of the highest order, and unspeakably beautiful, and great company. Her defection was a terrible blow.

But more than her rejection hurt, it was killing Lucas that his honest, caring friend was involved in it. If Ben was brought so low, the fact was, Aurelia and Ben must really be in love. No half-assed thing, no ‘maybe we’ll be mates, one day’ shit. He’d known Ben too long to think anything less, and Aurelia was no mercurial temptress.

There it was, Lucas sighed to himself. The thing he didn’t want to admit, the thing he’d been running from for the past few days.

Beneath his anger, his sense of betrayal, beneath his heartsickness…

A glimmer of truth.

Ben and Aurelia made a kind of sense that Lucas couldn’t deny. Seeing them together in that instant, the way Ben had wedged himself in front of Aurelia, ready to protect her…

To protect his mate. She’d balled a fist in his shirt, seeking comfort. His scent had rolled off her skin in waves. There was simply no doubt there, only certainty.

The look on both their faces said that they expected Lucas to do his worst, and they were accepting of whatever happened. If Lucas were so inclined, Ben could lose his fortune, his company, and every person in his life, including Aurelia. If Ben left her unattended for even a moment, Aurelia could easily be captured, could be dropped in one of the many countries where her past criminal activity would quickly catch up to her. She could lose her lover, her family, her freedom… even her life.

Yet there in Ben’s study, their hands had remained clasped. Their fear was overruled by their love. Lucas felt a sense of awe, even as anger flared bright within him.

He could not stop them, couldn’t change the decision they’d made. Still, he had his