The Devil's Vow
“You don’t know what you’re asking for,” he murmured, his voice strained.
“Yes, I do,” I said, my lips trembling as I leaned closer, tilting my face toward his. “Please… I need this. I need you.”
“Fuck,” he muttered under his breath.
Before I could say anything else, his lips crashed into mine. A moan tore from my throat as I clung to him, pulling him closer, my body pressing against his.
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Thea Leighton had it all; wealth, power, and a marriage to Curtis Blackwood, the man she thought she loved. But in one devastating night, it was all ripped away. Betrayed, penniless, and desperate, she finds herself at rock bottom… until a mysterious stranger rescues her from the darkness.
Noah Blackwood is ruthless, powerful, and dangerously irresistible. The black sheep of the Blackwood family, he built his empire in Europe, far from the chaos of his bloodline. But when fate brings Thea into his orbit, he sees an opportunity. One that involves a billion-dollar deal and the chance to dismantle the man who destroyed her.
In the crazy world Thea now finds herself in, she is forced to ask herself; Can she truly trust the devil she married? Or is this nothing but a game to him?
Flip the page and find out!
Baca
Chapter: CHAPTER TEN{Thea}Standing beside him felt like I was standing on the edge of a ledge, just about to jump off. Noah’s voice flowed over me, settling right between my ears, yet I didn't hear a single word he said. I watched his jaw flex as he spoke, the way his hands rested against the leather of his coat, the pale line at his temple where the light hit. So this was the infamous Noah Blackwood, Curtis’s uncle — a man who had walked into that room and somehow taken the very air out of it. But my mind kept looping around a different fact, one that embarrassed me so badly I wanted to hide inside my collar.He could tell my mind was elsewhere, so he held up his hand and flicked it in front of my face like he was clearing smoke. “Thea,” he said. “Yeah,” My voice came out thinner than I meant, and I was pretty sure he didn’t hear it. Then, before I could even stop myself, the words tumbled out of my mouth. “Why didn’t you tell me?”His face changed instantly, and his eyes… the calm, cold gray orbs da
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Chapter: CHAPTER NINE{Noah}“Good evening, Mr Blackwood.” The doorman greeted with a smile.I wanted to correct him—Claire, not Blackwood—but I sighed to myself, “Why bother?” It didn’t really matter; I would be out of San Francisco in the next forty-eight hours anyway. Business would call me back to London, then to Milan, and eventually, this town and its small catastrophes would settle like dust behind me.The doorman held the door open and bowed before asking if I’d like him to show me the way to the dining room. I said yes because it was easier than dismissing him, and left to me, I would end up anywhere but the room where my family was gathered.We walked through the halls, and it didn’t take long for the sound of voices to reach my ears. We finally emerged into the dining room just as Curtis yanked on a sleeve and shoved someone backward. In that small moment, the light found her, and I took in her appearance. Her dark hair fell over her slender shoulders onto the daring red dress she had on. Her f
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Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHT{Thea}The Uber slowed to a stop in front of a house that looked like it belonged on the cover of a glossy magazine. We’d wound our way into the Marina District, with its all shimmering bay views and manicured streets. It was the kind of place where people with money who wanted to be seen lived.Before I could talk myself out of it, I slid a hand into my purse, fished out the little mirror, and studied my face one last time. My black hair fell over my shoulders on the brand new black dress I had bought that hugged every inch of my body in a… dare I say… scandalous way. And my fiery red lipstick matched my heels“Here’s your stop,” the driver said, glancing at me in the rearview mirror.“Keep the change.” I forced a smile and handed him cash. The door clicked shut behind me, and cool evening air swept over my skin. Curts’ house stared right back at me—white stucco walls, tall arched windows, black iron balconies dripping with climbing vines—it was simply magnificent. Curtis had succes
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Chapter: CHAPTER SEVEN{Noah}I knew the second Thea woke up. I’d been awake long before, lying still, waiting. Pretending to sleep gave me the luxury of seeing what she’d do, but when I heard the door shut behind her, and her footsteps faded down the corridor, I finally sat up, and a sigh slipped out, heavier than I wanted it to be.I should have walked away the moment the bartender shoved that margarita into her hand. If only I had kept my distance the second I saw her, then I wouldn’t be in this mess. Being a tyrant in the business world meant having your own set of rules that you abided by.I had always been a stickler for rules, especially mine. Rules kept empires from crumbling. Rules kept people like me from turning into the very thing I despised: soft, sentimental, messy. And yet here I was, breaking my number one rule.Last night should never have happened. It wasn’t my intention, not in the slightest. Control was my language, the thing that set me apart from every other weak man who drowned in tem
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIX{Thea}I kept calling the number over and over again, but it was useless. At first, the line rang a couple of times, but after a few tries, it went completely dead.My heart pounded so loud it practically echoed in my ears.‘Something was wrong. Something was terribly wrong!’I sat on the pavement outside the hotel, not caring about the numerous stares I got while I constantly replayed my brother’s voice in my head—“They’re going to kill me.”I swallowed the bile that was slowly rising in my throat as I tried to focus on reality. But the reality of it all was that Liam was in trouble, and I was sitting there, helpless.Suddenly, an idea popped into my head. I jumped to my feet and turned my phone on. There was only one person who might be able to help me, and that was Mr William, the Leighton family lawyer.He had been our family’s lawyer for years now, and if there was anyone left in Texas who still had a shred of loyalty to me, it was him.I tapped on his name on my contact list and
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Chapter: CHAPTER FIVE{Thea}Curtis stepped into my hotel room, looking as immaculate as always. Pristine suit, polished shoes, and a smug grin on his stupid face.His presence alone was enough to send a chill through every fibre of my being. But it was the sturdy old man standing beside him that truly made my stomach drop.The hotel manager.His eyes locked on me like I was some sort of criminal. ‘Shit! If they’re both here, then they definitely found out.’“What… what’s going on?” My voice came out hoarse.Curtis folded his arms and smirked down at me, “What’s going on is that I expected you to have a little more dignity, Thea. But here you are, squatting ini a hotel room, living off my credit card like a leech.”“A leech… how dare y—” I was ready to tear him a new one when the manager spoke up. “Mrs. Blackwood, or should I say… Miss Thea.” He corrected himself with an impossibly stern voice. “We have reason to believe you committed fraud by using Mr Blackwood’s identity to book this room.”“You mean my
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The Alpha's Fated Desire
I was an unfortunate omega, auctioned off like a lamb, sold to a ruthless Alpha billionaire named Dominic Bloodhound. I was meant to be nothing but a plaything, a pet. Except, Dominic didn’t treat me like any of those things, he barely even looked at me, but my mother was right… all Alphas are the same, cunning, ruthless, and devoid of emotion.
Dominic never bought me out of the sheer kindness of his heart, he bought me because of the witch doctor he’s been hunting in secret, and I couldn’t let him use me to hunt my own bloodline.
Now standing there after barely having escaped, he looks down at me with his gold eyes gleaming.
“Join me,” he said simply. “And help me bring Dominic to his knees.”
I take his hand, ignoring the voice in my head, screaming that I’m making a deal with the devil.
“Then let’s destroy Dominic Bloodhound.”
The enemy of my enemy is supposed to be my friend, right?
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Lyra Graves strikes a dangerous bargain with an Alpha, but as she dives deeper into the world of deception, forbidden attraction, and mysterious power, there’s only one question that haunts Lyra’s mind.
What if the real monster isn’t the Alpha she seeks revenge against, but the one she’s slowly falling for?
An Omega with everything to lose. An Alpha with everything to prove. And a bond that refuses to die.
Flip the page and jump into the town of Ravenshire, where it all began...
Baca
Chapter: CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVEN{Lyra}Morning sunlight spilled across the curtains in soft ribbons, warming the sheets tangled around me. For a moment, I didn’t move, just lay there, cocooned in the kind of peace I had once thought impossible. I heard Isaac’s laughter floating faintly through the corridors. Bright, bubbling, so carefree it tugged a smile out of me before my eyes had even opened fully.The promise I made to my mother, swearing to protect him. I had kept it.I stretched languidly, blinking toward the tall windows where the light poured in, gilding everything it touched. And there he was.Dominic stood near the window, shirt half-buttoned, cufflinks glinting as he fastened them. The sunlight painted his profile in gold, catching on the hard edge of his jaw and the sweep of his shoulders. Regal. Powerful. But there was something softer too, something human the world never saw—the way his brow furrowed slightly as he fought with the stubborn cufflink, the faint sigh that escaped him when he won the bat
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT{Lyra}The city blurred past in streaks of gold, but all I could see was the hard line of Dominic’s jaw reflected in the window.He looked untouchable, every inch the Alpha who had just walked into a boardroom and taken back his throne without flinching. I turned my hand where it still rested in his, our fingers entwined. His skin was warm, but his grip was absent-minded, like he was holding on out of instinct, not intention. My thumb brushed over his knuckle until his gaze finally shifted toward me.The limo slowed as we turned through the wrought-iron gates of the Bloodhound estate. The familiar sprawl of stone walls and towering glass rose to greet us. Staff lined the entrance, bowing their heads as Dominic stepped out first. I followed, their eyes flickering to me with something new—curiosity, whispers pressed into hushed breaths at the corners of the hall.They looked at me differently now. Not as some nameless girl trailing in his shadow. Not even as an interloper. Something els
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVEN{Dominic}The frosted glass doors whispered shut behind me, sealing the boardroom into silence so sharp I could hear the faint tick of the gilded clock on the wall. Twelve seats, eight familiar faces, and a fracture that spread down the length of the table like a scar.I saw it instantly—who still remembered where their loyalty belonged and who had bartered theirs away like scraps on a street corner.Brad, Ian, and Alexis straightened at once, relief blooming across their features like they had been waiting for this very moment. On the other side sat Stark, Wilmer, Voss, and Lenny—whose presence among them made my jaw tick. They’d finally bought him, then. At the head of the table lounged Mariela, draped in a burgundy suit sharp enough to cut glass, her hand curled lazily over the armrest of what was meant to be my chair.Her gaze collided with mine. Surprise first, then calculation.“Dominic,” she purred, masking her tension with silk. “What a… surprise. We weren’t expecting—”“Get o
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX{Dominic}The morning sun caught on every inch of NovaCore’s glass-and-steel towers, gilding them until they looked like they had been carved from the heavens themselves. It should have looked beautiful to me, but instead it looked like a challenge, a fortress I’d once conquered and now had to reclaim.The limo slowed at the barricades. Beyond the tinted windows, a sea of bodies surged—reporters pressing against the cordon, cameras flashing like relentless lightning. Security wrestled to keep the lines intact, but still the voices only grew with each passing second, overlapping in a chaotic chorus.My reflection in the glass stared back at me, I was dressed in a sharp black suit, tie knotted by Lyra. For a second, I simply breathed, pulling the air deep into my chest, steadying the rhythm of my heart. I had faced rogues who wanted to tear me limb from limb, blood feuds older than the walls of Crownshaven, even death itself. But this battlefield was different; it had clean floors and p
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE{Lyra}The first thing I felt was warmth. Not the kind born of fire or fever, but the gentler warmth of morning sunlight spilling across sheets, wrapping everything it touched in soft gold. For a moment, I let it pool over me, allowing the silence of Crownshaven to sink into my bones. It had been so long since I woke without dread pressing at my ribs, without fear scraping at my throat.My eyes fluttered open. Curtains billowed faintly with a draft from the balcony doors, carrying the faint hum of the city alive beyond the gates. Somewhere below, laughter rang out—Isaac’s laughter, sharp and bright, echoing through the marble halls as though the boy had made them his playground. The sound curved a smile onto my lips before I even realized it.Dominic was still beside me.I rolled slightly, propping my head on one arm. He lay on his back, dark hair mussed across his brow, the lines of his face softened in sleep. For once, he wasn’t the Alpha or the CEO or the man carrying a curse on hi
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR{Dominic}We stood in the courtyard the next morning, watching as Myra single-handedly orchestrated our departure with an efficiency that could’ve put a general to shame—carriages of supplies rolling in, servants darting back and forth with cloaks and travel cases.If she weren't the daughter of the great Alpha of the Nort,h I would've honestly considered hiring her as my assistant. Grimhold leaned heavily on his cane, but the gleam in his golden eyes hadn’t dimmed since the feast. Myra hovered near his shoulder, her mouth pressed thin, though I caught the way her hands gripped his arm tighter than necessary.I bowed my head to him once. “You should be in bed, not standing in the cold.”He bared his teeth in a grin. “And miss bidding you farewell? I’d sooner let frost rot my bones.”Lyra stood beside me, Isaac’s small hand tucked in hers, Odessa draped in a heavy cloak that nearly swallowed her whole. Kael lingered a pace back, shadow-silent but watchful.“Thank you,” I said, and my
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