Chapter: Chapter 250THREE MONTHS LATER.Elena’s POVI remember my first wedding day, and this can’t be any more different.There were flowers back then. Also music.But somehow, it wasn’t happy.Now, my family is gathered in the church, decorated with so many flowers and little lights that it almost feels like I’m in a castle. I’m wearing a pretty dress, and Linda is moving over me to put a veil on my hair. Sophie is holding a bouquet of pink and white roses, handing it to me with a kiss on my cheek.“You look so beautiful, Mommy,” she says.“You too, baby.” I kiss her. “I love you so much.”“I love you more, Mommy.” She pulls away, winking. “It’s starting!”“Everyone, fall in line!” the coordinator barks, and Sophie runs off.Uncle Marcus and Grandpa Harold appear next to me, taking my arms. “It’s showtime, my darling girl.”The music starts, and I walk slowly towards the altar.Towards Tristan.The love of my life.As I walk, all our moments flash before my eyes. The good and the bad. Our years apart a
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Chapter: Chapter 249Tristan’s POV“It’s just a graze. The bullet didn’t go right through.”The news hit the waiting room like a soothing salve, and after hours of standing and pacing the room even with my busted leg, I finally sit down.Elena is alive.Elena is okay.“She’s bruised and sore, but she’s good to have some visitors now.”“Thank god,” everyone heaved, rushing inside the room.Elena is right there, sitting on the bed. Her face is a bit puffy and pale, but as soon as she saw us, she smiles.“Don’t speak just yet,” Uncle Marcus says as Elena tries to open her mouth. “We know that you’re bruised and wounded. Just relax, okay?”Elena nods, still wincing a little in pain.“We’re so happy you’re okay, Mommy,” Liam says in a low voice, carefully kissing her cheek.Sophie sits on the lower side of the bed and hugs Elena’s legs. “We were very scared.”Even though we can all tell that Elena is having a hard time speaking, she still says, “I’m good now. Your daddy saved my life. Mine and Linda’s. He went
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Chapter: Chapter 248Tristan’s POV“I think this is it,” I say, taking the ring in my hand and showing Sophie and Liam. “A paraiba tourmaline. It’s the same kind of stone as your mom’s necklace. The very first necklace she made. Do you think she’s going to love it?”Sophie is staring at the gem in awe. Liam is smiling. “I thinks she’s going to be really happy, Daddy.”“Then I’ll take it,” I declare, grinning like a fool as I hand it to the lady. “I want that in a nice velvet box. The best one you have.”“Wonderful, sir,” the lady says, walking away.“Do you think she’s going to say yes, Daddy?” Sophie asks, which makes my heart stumble.“Don’t ask me things like that!” I tell her, chuckling. But I would be lying if I said that her words didn’t make me nervous. “I really hope she would say yes. But if she doesn’t, it’s fine. I can wait. We’re still together. We still love each other.”We sit at the lounge, and the two kids sit on either side of me. I wrap my arms around them, pulling them close.I’ve never
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Chapter: Chapter 247Why Linda wanted to meet up in one of her dingy, small offices in the middle of nowhere, I don’t know. But I learned long ago not to question her, seeing as she’s a big diva and a control freak. I love her for that, but she’s the last person I want to doubt.I pull up in front of the office, frowning. The place is still under construction. The roof doesn’t look done, and some of the walls are still unpainted. There are no workers around either.There’s just this eerie silence that’s ringing in my ears…Am I just being paranoid, or does it feel like something else is hanging in the air?I would be lying if I said that everything was smooth for the past weeks. Well, it was all smooth in the external front, but inside my mind, it’s been a little hellish.Don’t get me wrong—I’ve never been happier. Things seem to be looking up.But that’s exactly the problem.The good things just made the silence all the louder. I feel like something bad is just waiting to happen, lurking in the corner li
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Chapter: Chapter 246Third Person POVThe vault contained… everything.Elena and Tristan sat on the floor of her office, rifling through the papers one by one.The evidence was… stacked.The contractors, the fleets. The locations of the warehouses. Neither of them could figure out how Portia managed to haul the entire vault out of the house and bring it to them, but they weren’t complaining at all.The next morning, they showed Uncle Marcus and Grandpa Harold.Needless to say, they were shocked.“He’s going to get a fast trial,” Grandpa Harold said. “A case this big—an operation this huge… there’s no way he could ever get out of it.”“Should we all submit this to our lawyers?” Elena asked.Uncle Marcus nodded. “We also need eyes on this. We need to let the world know that it’s not Portia but Russell himself.”And so the news spread. Uncle Marcus gave enough information to the media and caused a frenzy so big that it basically became a witch hunt, all out to get Russell.The press conference that he’d been
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Chapter: Chapter 245Elena’s POV“What?” I splutter, my heart leaping immediately to my throat. “Just… okay, just keep her at the gate. I’m coming.”“But Elena,” Tristan protests.I shake my head. “This needs to be dealt with.” I turn to the tree house, seeing that both Liam and Sophie are happily playing. When they see me, they wave, and I say, “I’ll be gone for a little while. I’ll be back soon.”“Where are you going?” Sophie asks.“Just over there to talk to someone,” I say vaguely, stepping away with the guard before they can ask anything more. Tristan tries to follow, but I say, “Please keep a lookout for them. I need you here to keep them safe in case something happens.”He stops. “And who’s going to keep you safe?”“I got it,” I say. “I’ll have guards with me. Everything will be okay.”As soon as those words leave my mouth, I feel like a liar.When has it been okay? Why is it that we just don’t win?I’m so angry and so tired of it all that I just rush to the gate, flanked by ranks of guards, seeing
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Chapter: END.MONICA.ONE YEAR LATER.“Roman, will you be careful?” I ask in an exasperated voice as Roman picks up our son from his crib and starts to raise him to the air like he’s some sort of a relic. “If that child gets shaken….”“Come on, he’s not a normal baby,” Roman reasons out, making faces. “Aren’t you, boy? Look at his eyes. Look at his legs. This one’s going to be a warrior!”“Yesterday, you said he’s going to be a smart bookish king when he recognized the word I was saying,” I point out, and Roman laughs.Things are amazing now. I gave birth to our baby half a year ago, and every day, he grows stronger. He grows bigger.He’s the light of our lives.Our little Gabriel.It was Roman’s idea to name him after the boy who sacrificed his life to save me, and it just felt so right.I watch Roman take Gabriel into his arms, dancing him around. It’s a view that I can get used to seeing every single day, but our baby is growing fast. I know that soon enough, he’s not even going to fit in Roman’s
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Chapter: One Hundred Seventy-SevenMONICA.I just feel his weight being lifted off me like it was nothing, and when I open my eyes, I find Gabriel there in the room, grabbing Deimos by the collar and throwing him against the wall. Deimos falls to the ground, getting up like nothing happened and kicking Gabriel in the stomach.But Gabriel retaliates with a punch that splits Deimos's lip. He spits blood on the ground and tries to fight back, but Gabriel seems to be much stronger and more solid. He seems to be more determined to win this fight too.Before I can do anything, Gabriel grabs Deimos by the neck and slams him to the ground. I can hear Deimos's head cracking, and I thought that this must be the end of it. We both wait for him to get up but he doesn't move.He must be dead. I hope to all the gods that he is indeed dead.Gabriel tries to pull me to the door but then Deimos gets up and lunges at him, tackling him to the ground and straddling him. He punches Gabriel in the jaw and he groans, but he bucks off Deimos a
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Chapter: One Hundred Seventy-SixROMAN.To my surprise, he gets down on his knees and starts to bow to me. “But if you’re suspicious of me, just kill me right now. I don’t want to go back in there.”I don’t know what to do. I just stand in front of him. I don’t think I can kill a boy who just made himself really vulnerable to me. There’s something just plainly awful about doing that, so I just lower my knife and touch his back.“I won’t hurt you, but if you betray me, you’re going to die a slow death and I will make sure of it,” I declare. “Get up. How did you know that I was coming?”“Because I gave the Luna Queen a potion that would help her connection get stronger and contact everyone important to her,” he says, trying to get up with shaky knees. “My name is Gabriel.”He’s rambling. His face is pale and it really looks like he’s going to pass out at any moment. I look around to make sure this is not an ambush, and even as we walk together, there’s no one else around.He leads me to a smaller path in the mountain, a
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Chapter: One Hundred Seventy-FiveMONICA.“Bring her back to the bedroom,” Deimos orders, motioning the men to take me.But I keep staring at the young man, who’s the only one who’s not looking at me with lust. In fact, he looks like he’s afraid. I don’t know if he’s afraid of me, or what the men around him are asking of him. Either way, he looks like he just wants to get out.I want to look him in the eye so we could communicate something. I feel like he could help me out of here. But of course, that’s just an idea. I want to look at him first, to know if he’s really against this or not.But he doesn’t look up at me.And the men walking with Deimos are now grabbing me by the arm, throwing me back into the room. I fall on my knees, and I instinctively wrap an arm around my belly. I don’t want my baby to be hurt.It’s harrowing that this is what we have to go through. I’m starting to really think about what they plan to do to me, and the more I think about it, the more it gets fucked up.So this is what they want. To ma
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Chapter: One Hundred Seventy-FourMONICA."You promised me!" Deimos is saying in the background.I look down again, my heart beating in my ears now.I think there's only one way to do it without incurring lasting damage.I take a deep shaky breath and call on my wolf. "Are you in there?"Silence. For a while there's only the howl of the wind and the distant rustling of the leaves of the trees in the hill far away. But then, after a few tense moments, the voice of my wolf whispers in my head."It’s time.”Relief floods me. She's the only connection I have from my real life as of now, and I can't be happier."I want you to take over," I reply to her in my head. "I want you to be me and take us out of here.”Her strength fills me. I lean towards the ledge below, but as I do so, the door of the room closes and Deimos's attention is once again focused on me.I whip around and freeze. His eyes are wide with shock. For a second none of us move or speak, but then his face takes on an angry expression. "Get down the ledge," h
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Chapter: One Hundred Seventy-ThreeMONICA.“NO!”A scream leaves my mouth, so loud and so hoarse that my vision spins. Black spots start to dance in my eyes, but I don’t care.The last boost of adrenaline from my defense mechanism kicks in, and it’s enough for me to break through my restraints and dodge Deimos’s bite.His teeth clack on thin air. And when he lifts his head again, I notice that his eyes are bloodred – he’s overcome by bloodlust. His look is dazed, animalistic, like a wild predator whose only concern is to feed.And that’s when I realize that this is the mating ritual he was talking about. He’s going to actually mark me like Roman did long ago.“Stay back!” I yell at him as he slowly approaches me, his hands snaking around my wrists “Come any closer and I won’t hesitate to kill you!”“This will be quick, sweetheart,” he croons, his long incisors giving him a slight lisp. He looks at me and that wild animalistic look intensifies. He’s like a lion stalking a prey, or a snake coiled to strike. “Don’t shy aw
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Chapter: EPILOGUEEpilogueFIVE YEARS LATER.Third Person POV“Are you serious?” Melissa splutters, staring at the monitor in awe. “I… how did that happen?”The ultrasound technician laughs. “Do you want me to tell you how babies happen?”“Yeah, I think we know that process pretty well,” Zane jokes, and Melissa slaps his arm.They’re in a clinic, celebrating their third wedding anniversary together. It’s an odd place to celebrate for sure, but Melissa can’t deal with her nausea anymore and she figured maybe it’s time to find out if her suspicions are true.And they are true.Melissa is pregnant.With twins.“Six weeks pregnant,” she says, roaming the ultrasound wand around. “Did you not have any symptoms apart from nausea?”“No,” Melissa says, shaking her head in amazement. “My period became a bit irregular for the past year, but that’s only because my clothing line is going international, and I’ve been stressed out.”“You would be less stressed out if you let me help.” Zane kisses her hand. “Come on.
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Chapter: 188 - New StoryMelissa’s POVMy chest tightens. “Andrew, please. Drive faster….”“I am,” Andrew says, shaking as he glances at Zane. “You need to hold on, brother. You need to make it. Please!”With that, he guns it. The police are way too busy going to the area to stop him. I look back as Lottie settles on my lap, and I manage to see the officers pinning Eleanor to the side of the street, arresting her.It’s all over.Eleanor will be put behind bars.Hunter is dead.But Zane….I don’t want to think about it. Even when we arrive at the hospital, I refuse to think about it.The nurses and doctors take Zane in immediately, bringing him to the operating room.Andrew and I sit out front, getting treated by nurses. Lottie is snuggled against Andrew, still crying. That’s the only sound that passes between all of us. I just watch the door, wondering what they’re doing to Zane. Wondering what happened to him.Wondering if he’s going to make it.Hours pass. I’m heavily reminded of waiting around for Allie’s r
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Chapter: 187 - TrickeryMelissa’s POVTime was already slow before, but now, it completely stops.The bullet I fired shoots to the side, completely useless, while Zane sinks to his knees, his eyes still wide in shock. Blood starts to flow from the top of his head to his face, streaming down his cheeks like tears. He raises a hand like he’s reaching for me, but I stand there, completely frozen.Meanwhile, Hunter spits out blood and laughs, raising his gun to fire more. “I warned you. I will kill all of you.”I don’t know what hit me. The idea of death and killing someone has always been too much for me, especially when Allie died. It’s too dark, a concept that I never allowed myself to think about, even when Eleanor’s abuse was at its worst.But seeing Zane like that, understanding the possibility that this is the end of his life… it broke something in me.I start to fire the gun. Over and over. As many times as I can. This time, my aim remains true. The bullets don’t ricochet. They all hit Hunter. On his che
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Chapter: 186 - Lucky ShotMelissa’s POVEverything around me is dark.The last thing I remember is Hunter grabbing me by the hair and slamming the side of my head against the open panel in the elevator. I remember the blood. I remember the vision blurring. I remember flashes of being taken into a car, right into a warehouse. Lottie was there, and Eleanor too. Eleanor who slapped me many times and brought me into complete darkness….And now I’m waking up.The first thing I feel is pain. It seems to be… everywhere. In my head, my wrists, my ankles, my mouth. I try to take a deep breath, but then I feel the gag in my mouth. I almost throw up. My mouth opens into a muffled scream.But then I feel a hand behind my back.Thinking it’s Eleanor, I try to push my chair back. My eyes are adjusting to the dim light of the small candles around me, and I’m almost certain I will see her face.Only to hear a familiar voice.“It’s me. Calm down.”Did I die? Am I dreaming?Or is it really Zane that I’m hearing?My eyes fill up
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Chapter: 185 - Zane's HelpThird Person POVZane can feel that something is wrong.Something thick and foreboding hung in the air, like a warning. He can’t stay still in his seat, so he exits his car and looks at the building, trying to see if he can spot Melissa either from the penthouse window or at the entrance.But just then, the lights in the penthouse turn off. Some of the staff start to leave. His heart jumps out in his chest, and he starts to walk to the office.“Hello?” Zane says to one of the women. “My girlfriend went in there to see someone it’s been twenty minutes and she was supposed to see Andrew.”The women look at each other. One of them looks familiar. Zane is almost certain he’s seen her with Andrew many times. She must be his secretary. “I’m sorry, but no woman came to see me for the last, like… five hours. Are you sure she went here?”That’s all the confirmation Zane needs.Forgetting about everything, he rushes to the building. It’s still open, bright and inviting. But there’s something si
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Chapter: 184 - PanelMelissa’s POV“There must be something that we can do. Something more.”Zane’s hands are tight around the steering wheel, his knuckles white. His eyes are intense on the busy street. Even though he’s focused and still, I can tell that he’s tense. It almost feels like his soul is trying to jump out of his body.I don’t blame him.We just came back to the city after what happened. We called the authorities in the province informing them of what happened. We turned the man in, and he did confess.But it seemed that the local police is in Eleanor’s pockets, because they didn’t do anything.“There’s no evidence,” was all they could tell us. “Now this man is a known drug addict here. His word can’t be trusted. For all we know, you bribed him to tell us what you wanted him to tell us.”No matter what we said to them, no matter how hard we tried to convince them that we’re not lying, they didn’t listen.Now we’re back, and it’s like nothing happened. The only thing that reminds me that everyth
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