Chapter: Chapter Two Hundred and FortyElara’s POV~When we reached the pack, my legs were weak and each step that I took felt heavier than the one before. And even when the sight of home met my gaze, it didn't ease me; it just made me aware all over again why I had left in the first place. The house seemed too quiet, and too watchful, as if it had been holding its breath all along while I was gone.The second I got inside, I smelled it. The heaviness of illness. The air was filled with the scent of herbs that had been used in the hopes of holding off death, and they were all unsuccessful. My heart clenched. Nothing had changed. If anything, it was worse.“Mother?” My voice broke, softer than I had meant for it to be.Winifred ran out of the corridor with her hair down. She was dressed in loose clothing from her sleepless nights. She burst into tears and, at the same time, with a smile of relief, when she saw me. She held me to her chest so hard that I could hardly breathe.“Elara,” she whispered, her voice shaking. “You
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Chapter: Chapter Two Hundred and Thirty NineCaspian’s POV~The clearing was too still after the battle. I wiped the blade on my shredded sleeve and looked at Elara. She clutched the pup so hard that he was mashed against her chest, and her eyes gazed without blinking or wavering as though she feared to be betrayed by even the silence. Damien was behind her, panting heavily, with blood streaming from deep cuts across his body. None of us spoke at first.It was I who at last spoke to break the silence.“We have to burn the bodies,” I said, my voice low but unwavering. “If we abandon them, corruption will grow. The trees will never be replaced, and there might be others coming to sniff at what is left.”Elara looked at me, reluctant. She wrapped her arms tighter around the pup, as if it could save her from the picture of fire eating through flesh. I saw the protest in her eyes, but then she nodded. “If it must be done.”Damien muttered something I couldn’t hear, pulling one of the bodies closer to lie near the center path. I follo
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-09-16
Chapter: Chapter Two Hundred and Thirty Eight Elara's POV~The air reeked of blood and fear. My arms shook as I gripped the pup close to my chest, but I wasn’t about to lose it. Its little body trembled with every growl that erupted from all around us. I whispered to it with trembling and faltering words.“You are safe… I’ll protect you. I won’t let them take you as well.”Tears wouldn’t let me see clearly, but I fought them back because if they flowed, then I’d crumble completely. Why now? And why now that I had at last gotten the littlest of hope down from this God forsaken mountain? What kind of Goddess shows me a way to save my father and then throws this storm at us?I leaned against the rock wall in the hope that it would support me. My chest was pained at the memories of Jasmine’s dead body piercing through me. I saw her face in flashes, her eyes fading, and I knew that infant was gone before it ever really cried. I said that seven years ago, but I can still hear the silence that followed it, the one that broke me. I crus
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-09-15
Chapter: Chapter Two Hundred and Thirty SevenDamiens POV~The woods were strangely quiet, too quiet. Their eyes shone with light among the trees as they got closer, and I immediately realized that they'd been watching us long before they came out to meet us.I placed myself in front of Elara, panting, as my claws began to come out, as my wolf demanded to be free. Caspian moved beside me, with his knife out. Elara stared at the pup, hugging it to her chest, with her eyes wide open.“Stay back. Keep the pup safe,” I said to her, my voice low and sharp.She breathed hard and her lips trembled, but she nodded with unblinking eyes. “Damien… please—please be careful.”The sound of her fear alone pierced me. It reminded me of the several times when she had begged me before, and I had let her down. Not this time, though, I promised myself that I would not fail.The first rogue lunged.It burst out of the trees, running fast, with its mouth open. I moved forward, to lunge and leap in one violent thrust. My bones snapped, my claws rippe
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-09-14
Chapter: Chapter Two Hundred and thirty FiveElara’s POV~It took longer to come down from the mountain than it took us when we were climbing. Each step needed to be cautious, measured, or we could hear the mountain show us how hungry it was. I cradled the pup to my chest, swaddled in the edge of my cloak, and its delicate heat served as a consolation against the bitter air. My arms hurt, but I didn’t dare slacken my hold.For the first time in days, I sensed a glimmer of hope coursing through me. The herb had been actual, living, and in Caspian’s pouch. It was no longer just a healer’s legend whispered through the corridors of archives everywhere. It was in our hands. And if the Moon Goddess had just let me have the chance to look at it, perhaps she would also give me a chance to save my father as well.I sucked in the bitter cold through my nose, keeping my eyes on the road. Caspian was in the lead, with the rope placed over his shoulder, walking steadily. When he was talking, I would find myself holding on to his voice, gra
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-09-13
Chapter: Chapter Two Hundred and Thirty FiveCaspian’s POV~ “Hold the rope tight,” I shouted, my hoarse voice booming off the cliff. My arms and legs shook as one of my hands held onto the rock, with the rope tied around my waist. " I'm only a step away, don't you dare let go!" I heard Damien’s growl from above. “Then hurry.”Elara’s voice cut in, sounding weaker but more desperate, stirring something inside me. “Please, Caspian… please be careful.” Her words steadied me. I suppressed my breathing, slowing its pace, and reached for the herb. It grew along the rock, shining in the scant light from above, its green leaves softly luminous. The petals were pale, almost silver, with paths of gold that ran through them. Its roots were twisted and stuck to the cliff, as if the earth were protecting it.I stretched farther, the pressure shooting through my shoulders, until my fingers reached the leaves. The smell overwhelmed me. It was cool, piercing, and felt almost sacred. And at that point, I knew that it was the right one. I st
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-09-12
Chapter: Chapter Eighty TwoLocket’s EchoRosanna’s POV~I was in the study when Valenticia’s feed came from my monitor. Galden Exposed danced on the screen. She had called Ravi Patel by name, linked Lazareth inextricably to the illegal serum trade, and shaken Gregor’s empire to its foundation.I could feel it in my chest — a gradual, creeping terror. Gregor would come for us now. He had always been brutal, but Valenticia’s defiance would lose something much worse from him. I’d seen that rage once, during Eleanor’s time. I had lived beneath it. And now, it was rising again.I fisted the locket around my neck—Eleanor’s locket—its warm silver rose coin burning beneath my hand. It was Eleanor's gift to her now, parent to child, a sign of lineage. But it was more than that. It held something deeper.“That’s your mom’s final gift,” I whispered to Valenticia over the secure line. “It has another chip inside — encrypted information.”There was a crackling gasp in my earpiece. “What’s in it, Nana?”My heart swelled. She
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-22
Chapter: Chapter Eighty OneStockpile's HeartGregor’s POV~I was in the central part of my Lazareth bunker. The machines around me hissed and clicked, and vials of serum flowed from them. My heritage, my rifle, my will—compressed and packed, a row of chemical peace perfected.A smile played at the corner of my mouth while the vials rolled off the line. “Valenticia’s just a waste of life,” I muttered low, my voice nearly drowned out by the buzzing. I was wearing gray today.Vallentcia Clawford had thought she could unravel me with her shabby little leak—board contacts, buyers lists, and financials she could barely read. It was the last thing she knew she was doing.But then her voice came crackling over the command center speakers. Another episode of Galden Exposed appeared on the screen. She was broadcasting again. Loud, smugly and infuriatingly familiar.Her language made me think of Eleanor, not my friend, but my aunt. The woman who had blocked me back then, with shaking hands. “You’re a monster, Gregor,” she’
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-22
Chapter: Chapter EightyShadow's DealStefan’s POV~I squatted in a Seryne safehouse, the stale atmosphere heavy with damp and regret, guilt a blade cleaving through my chest. Valenticia’s face — her piercing hazel eyes, her faith in me broken because of my cafe heart-to-heart with Natasha — haunted me. I’ve hurt her, I thought, feeling my heart like a raw wound. It was Gregor Galden’s doing, driving the deal with the threat to her life—“Spy on her, or she dies”—a bargain I despised but accepted to keep her alive. As the safehouse’s crumbling walls closed in and Seryne’s neon buzz filtered through the boarded windows, terror spiked as I hacked into the logs that tracked Natasha’s serum shipments on a burner laptop. “For you, Valenticia,” I muttered under my breath, sabotaging her lines, shipping crates to no man’s land, resolve dimming like a light with a short in it.There, too, fear pulsed, casting Gregor’s spies a shadow I couldn’t shake. Their drones had been buzzing Seryne’s alleys last night, hunting m
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-11
Chapter: Chapter Seventy NinePier’s Reckoningvalenticia's POV~I was on Seryne’s pier, the waves beating below, a roaring noise, blitzed by the fear in my chest. Ravi Patel stood at the end of the pier, a silhouette against the lights, smirk chilling, slowly turning my way. “You’re late, Clawford.” Mentz snarled, that cutting-in-the-air voice of his, which sounded like sanding boards across salt air. My heart pounded, fear sharp—Christ, he’s Gregor’s mole, but how much more does he know? The tape recorder in my pocket hummed, awaiting his confession, heavy with Rosanna’s file, my satchel. Eleanor’s locket was warm against my clothes, and my mother’s voice whispered against the locket-- Hush, my star--and I was determined. “Speak, Ravi,” I said sternly — “why would you betray us?” His laughter was ice, “Stefan has delivered you to Gregor - your lover has sold you out”. My heart split, agony shard piercing through—Stefan?Fear spiked, piercing doubt—are we already lost? I held the phone, live-feed of Seryne’s und
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-10
Chapter: Chapter Seventy EightTraitor’s GameNatasha's POV~I braced myself against the rusted railing of my Seryne dockside lair, the scent of salt and diesel tearing at my nostrils, a smirk pulling at my lips while I paged through Ravi Patel’s intel on my tablet. “She’s trapped,” I grumbled, Valenticia Clawford’s leaks—the ousting of Galden’s board, the tying of Lazareth to serum—gleaming like pressed metal I’d soon squash. The shadows of the warehouse danced, decoy serum crates slumbering, my effort to bait Valenticia wobbling as purchasers recoiled from her transmission. A small bright flicker of fear—Gregor’s going to turn me in, isn’t he? My leather jacket groaned, red hair spilling over one eye, my knife’s handle cool in my hand, a leash to hold on to. Gregor’s sham arrest, his cold voice echoing in my head from our previous conversation, was a chain I would’ve broken, but now his silence bit at me— what was he up to? And drove the fear down, the ambition searing to overtake him.The tablet’s blue light ca
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-09
Chapter: Chapter Seventy SevenDr. Patel's POV-Rosanna’s file lay open on my desk, and it screamed betrayal: Ravi, my brother, named as Galden’s mole. How could he? I thought, my hands shaking, our memories as boys — sharing kites under Mumbai’s sky — in flames now. Fear shot through me like a cold pulse as I opened a secure line to Valenticia, my voice quavering: “Ravi’s double-crossing you, releasing your plans to Gregor. Her breathless voice snapped: “Patel, you’re sure?” I clutched at the desk, “Rosanna’s evidence—it’s him. The thing was, my Galden past — as a serum trigger-maker — was smothering me with shame. I had made this bad dream, I thought, feeling a surge of fear. Valenticia’s firm, “Get proof,” centred me, but dread murmured — can I meet my brother?The monitors hummed, Valenticia’s Galden Exposed leak looping, Ravi’s name a wound. I hacked a drive stolen from him, serum formulas I’d designed, reworked now for warheads…and I can’t do it, Ravi, my fingers fumbling, heart pounding—he’s not the Ravi I u
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-09
Falling for my Billionaire Ex Again!
I stepped inside the office and sat before the doctor. But my thoughts suddenly drifted.
"Mr. Blackwood?" The doctor’s voice pulled me back to the present.
"How is she?"
The doctor sighed, flipping through Natalie’s chart before meeting my gaze. "She suffered a severe head trauma. We managed to stabilize her, but…" He hesitated.
My stomach twisted. "But what?"
"She has retrograde amnesia. Right now, her memory is… fragmented. From what we’ve assessed, she doesn’t recall the last five years."
Ethan froze. "How do you mean, five years?"
"She believes it’s still 2018. In her mind, she’s still your wife."
The words punched the air from my lungs. Still my wife.
"This kind of memory loss can be temporary or permanent—we can’t say for sure. She may recover bits of it over time, or it may come back all at once." The doctor’s gaze softened. "It’s important, Mr. Blackwood, that no one tries to force her to remember anything. Pushing her could make things worse, even more dangerous."
I swallowed hard, my pulse roaring in my ears. Five years of pain, five years of regrets—wiped away.
"Can I see her?"I pleaded.
The doctor hesitated before nodding. "Go easy on her....And Mr. Blackwood?"
"Stay strong."
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Five years ago, Natalie Elise Blackwood walked away from her husband, Ethan Blackwood. After discovering his betrayal, she left without a trace. But when a tragic accident erases her memories, she wakes up believing she’s still Ethan’s devoted wife, unaware of the past that tore them apart. Seizing the opportunity to fix his mistakes, Ethan is determined to keep her by his side, even if it means hiding the painful truth. But when the memories return, will Natalie stay...or will history repeat itself?
Baca
Chapter: Chapter FiveEthan's POV:The air left my lungs.I swallowed hard. "Can I see her?""She will be moved to a ward soon. You can see her then.""I want a private ward arranged for her,” I said without hesitation. "The best one. The most expensive."The doctor nodded. "I’ll have that done."I barely heard him as he walked away. My gaze was fixed on the doors leading to her.Five years of searching. And now, I could only pray she’d wake up.Suddenly, the door swung open and the nurses wheeled Natalie out on a stretcher. An IV drip was connected to her arm. Bandages covered her head, and legs.She looked nothing like the fiery, stubborn woman I had spent years searching for. She looked... broken. And I hated it.I followed closely as they guided her down the hall. Now and then, one of the nurses would glance at me. But, I ignored them.They entered a private ward and gently transferred her onto the hospital bed. Adjusting the monitors and IV stand, they made their final checks before stepping back.“Sh
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-02-26
Chapter: Chapter FourEthan’s POV:“Mr. Blackwood?”I barely heard the voice calling me. My mind had drifted again, back to her. Natalie.God, how could I not think of her? Even after all these years, she still haunted me.She used to sit beside me in meetings like this, taking notes with a wide smile.She was my secretary—until she became my wife. But life had a way of proving my father and grandfather right: Kindness was a weakness. And losing her—losing us—was all the proof I needed.I clenched my jaw, pushing away the memories. The past had no place here.Murmurs swept through the room as my silence stretched too long. My secretary, Samuel, leaned toward me and whispered the question I had missed.I blinked, shaking my head slightly to clear my thoughts. Straightening, I adjusted my cufflinks and finally spoke. “The question was regarding our investments in the European sector, correct?” I asked.The CFO nodded. “Yes, sir. There have been fluctuations in the market due to political instability. Our st
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-02-26
Chapter: Chapter ThreeNatalie's POV: FIVE YEARS LATER:I sat in my art studio, surrounded by canvases covered in several colors. Some were unfinished, while others were completed yet waiting for meaning. I dragged my brush across the canvas, blending hues of deep blue and ivory. Suddenly, the door was pushed open."Miss Natalie!"A small voice filled the room, followed by hurried footsteps. I turned just as a little boy, no older than six, rushed to my side, clutching a medium-sized whiteboard in his tiny hands. His dark eyes were bright with excitement, his cheeks flushed from running."Did I do it properly?" He asked, his voice tinged with eagerness and a little nervousness.I smiled and set down my brush, placing my palette on the wooden stand beside me. Wiping my paint-streaked hands on my apron, I pulled it off and knelt before him, taking the board from his hands."It's looking great, Kelvin." I praised, scanning the sketch of a small house surrounded by trees, the lines were wobbly
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-02-26
Chapter: Chapter TwoNatalie's POV:Stepping out of the house, I hurried past the front porch and through the gates, my feet carrying me aimlessly down the road.My vision was blurry from the tears that refused to stop. I wasn’t just crying—I was wailing. I fought for this marriage.I endured the whispers, the disapproving glances, the silent judgment of people who thought I didn’t belong in Ethan’s world.But Ethan… he never made me feel like I was beneath him. He never felt like a billionaire to me.He loved eating greasy pizza on the couch while watching his favorite sports, his arm lazily slung around my shoulders. He loved cooking, taking over the kitchen with a kind of reckless passion that always ended in a mess, and surprising me with breakfast in bed. He laughed with me. Held me. Kissed me like I was the only woman in the world.So how? When?There were no signs—no distance, no arguments, no strange behavior.What went wrong?My hands trembled as they landed on my stomach. Was he unhappy becaus
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-02-26
Chapter: Chapter OneNatalie’s POV:"What a hectic day.” I sighed, relaxing in the driver’s seat. But despite how exhausted I was, I couldn't stop smiling.Tonight was everything I ever dreamed of. My paintings debuted at the gallery, and I received recognition from some of the most renowned artists in the industry. I glanced at my phone, half-expecting a message from Ethan. He came early but left almost immediately for an emergency meeting. I understood, of course. He always worked hard for us, for our future.I bit my lip, to suppress a smile. I couldn't stop picturing him, waiting for me. Already changed into his sweatpants, lounging on the couch with a glass of whiskey in hand. Maybe he asked the maids to prepare something extraordinary. Maybe he ordered takeout. Maybe he’s waiting to celebrate my success properly.Pulling into the driveway, my heart swelled with anticipation.The house was dark except for the porch light. Strange. Ethan usually makes sure the maids leave a few lights on whenever
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-02-26
Masuk
