Chapter: CHAPTER TENKIARASix years ago, I almost died. If Chavez and Summer hadn’t found me when they did, if they hadn’t taken me in, helped me, believed me, then my son and I… we wouldn’t be alive today. Not like this. Not breathing. Not surviving.“Please be careful in whatever you do, Kiara. Don’t let yourself get hurt again,” Summer added softly.I nodded, even though the weight in my chest was already pulling me under. “I’m going to be careful,” I promised her.But even as I said it, I knew it was a lie.……Because I couldn’t stop thinking about Chase. No matter how much I told myself I would be careful, I couldn’t shut my mind off. I couldn’t stop being curious. I couldn’t stop wondering what his life had been like. What he’d been doing. Who he’d become.For six years I stayed away. Six years I buried every question, every thought. I never tried to find out anything about him. Or my parents. Not a word. I didn’t let myself.But now?Now I was cracking.He looked fine when I saw him. Better than f
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Chapter: CHAPTER NINEKIARAI was getting ready to go to work when someone knocked on my door. I turned to see that it was my cousin's fiancé, Summer. She smiled at me. "Can I come in?" She was just asking to be polite. She knew that she could come in whenever she wanted. "Of course. Is there something?" I asked her. Summer sat on my bed. "I just wanted to talk to you. You seem to be out of it these days. Is everything okay with you? You know that you can talk to me about anything right?" Summer looked me straight in the eye as she said this. I could not avoid her invasive look. She had been a good friend to me ever since Chavez gave me a place to stay. But I did not know how I was going to explain to her that seeing Chase again had messed with my mind too much. For the past six years, I thought that I had gotten over Chase after the way he rejected me and didn't even give me a chance to explain myself. But seeing him again made me realize that I was far from getting over him. Besides not wanting t
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Chapter: Unannounced.CHASEI sat across from Keagan Farkas. Kiara and Kylie’s father. I hadn’t been expecting him at all today, hadn’t even wanted to see anyone, but he’d shown up unannounced, saying he had something urgent to talk about.The moment he sat down and looked at me with that fatherly seriousness, I already knew what this was about.But still, I waited. Let him say it. Let him be the one to bring it up.“Alpha, I apologize for showing up like this without prior notice, but I couldn’t wait any longer. This is about my daughter. I need to clear a few things up,” he said, voice calm but heavy.There it was.The second he said daughter, I knew exactly where this was headed.“It’s no problem. What do you want to talk about?” I asked with a polite smile, but I wasn’t interested. I already knew what he was going to say, and I was already tired of hearing it.It was the same thing. Over and over.“Well, actually… you and Kylie have been engaged for six years now. I didn’t say much before because I und
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Chapter: SECONDKYLIEI clenched my fists so hard I almost tore my nails into my palms as I stormed out of the palace.Six years. Six whole years. And I was still stuck in the same damn place with him.Still his fiancée. Still nothing more.He treated me like I was nobody. Like I hadn’t waited. Like I hadn’t fought.I’d worked my ass off to chase Kiara away. I planned every step so I could finally have him to myself. But even now, even after all that, I still wasn’t the one he looked at. I still wasn’t in his heart.And what was I supposed to do now? Just sit and wait another six years?I loved him. I loved him before she ever entered the picture. But somehow, she got to him first. My younger sister. My weak, pathetic younger sister got mated to the man I wanted.She got everything I ever dreamed of without lifting a finger.I couldn’t take it. I refused to let that continue. I’d gotten rid of her once. And I’d do it again if I had to.Even after all this time, Chase hadn’t forgotten her. I saw it. I
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Chapter: TRIGGERED.CHASEI walked into my bedroom, numb, my mind all over the place. I hadn’t expected to see Kiara today. I hadn’t even expected to ever see her again.I thought I was done. I thought I had buried the past. I thought what she did to me didn’t matter anymore.But the second I saw her face, everything I’d locked away for six goddamn years exploded in my chest like it never left.She betrayed me. She humiliated me.And now what? She had a kid?A kid. Which meant she might be married. Living her life. Doing just fine while I was stuck in this limbo.It was like none of it ever meant anything to her. Like I never meant anything.I sank into a chair, gripping the edge, trying not to let the thoughts drown me, but they were louder than ever. The image of her holding that little boy. His eyes. His smile. That kid didn’t just exist. That kid belonged to her.The woman who once begged me to love her. Who once looked at me like I was the only one.Now she had someone else. She’d moved on.And I fe
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Chapter: Exposed.Kiara.The second Chase walked out of the shop, I could finally breathe. Relief flooded me like I’d been holding my lungs hostage.I clutched Billy closer to my chest. My hands were still shaking. I bent down and kissed the side of his forehead. “Billy, you—”But I didn’t even get the words out, because the door opened again.Chase.He came back.My heart jumped. No, it didn’t jump. It actually thrashed.Why? Why was he back? Did he figure it out? Did he suspect something? Did he see it? Did he see him?“Mommy!” Billy called again, innocent and loud, completely unaware of how everything inside me was unraveling.He clung to my waist, and I held him tighter. So tight I was scared I’d break him, but I didn’t care. I couldn’t let him go. Not now.I looked up to see that Chase was staring at me.And that scowl on his face, Goddess.I was about to say something, anything, but then Erica showed up.Of course. She always had to show up at the worst moments.And then she started yelling. Some
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Fatal Flames
She knew the wedding was inevitable. That’s why she let herself have one last night, one reckless, sinful night with him.
Nico Moreti. The man who made her forget the world.
It was supposed to be their final goodbye. A stolen moment before she was forced into a marriage she never wanted.
But when she walks down the aisle the next day, ready to marry the most feared mafia boss in the country, she looks up and sees him.
Her Nico.
Standing beside the groom as his son.
The realization hits her like a bullet to the chest as his cold, burning gaze strips her bare in front of everyone.
She never thought she’d see him again much more him turning out to be her new stepson.
She never wanted this marriage. Never wanted to belong to Salvatore Moreti, a man who buries his wives before their bodies go cold.
But she’s trapped. And the man she loves? He’s part of the people sharpening the knife.
Because Nico won’t forgive nor let her go. And he sure as hell won’t let her forget who touched her first.
Now, there’s no way out. Because in this world, love doesn’t save you.
It destroys you.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 005: The Reception.Sapphire’s POV.Nico nudged his body against mine again, while that stupid, delicious grin of his was still etched on his face like he knew exactly what he was doing to me.He was enjoying this so much. The bastard was definitely enjoying every second of this moment. Watching me squirm like I was the joke in some private game only he knew the rules to.His arm stayed around my waist, firm and familiar, and I could feel his body pressing into mine like it belonged there. That grin alone was enough to make my brain melt as it was the same one from last night when he made me forget who I was.The power had shifted, and now he was the one playing with fire while I stood there burning.I should’ve known better than to start anything with someone as dangerous as Nico. He wasn’t stable. He wasn’t safe. And now I’d poked the devil, and the devil was having fun.The panic was there, real and loud, but so was the heat. And he could feel it. He could feel how much I still wanted him, and he was
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Chapter: Chapter 004: The Price Of Survival.Nico’s POV.She was smiling.That cruel, mocking smile that used to be mine.And the second I saw it, I just could not help but feel like she was lying.“Why chase the pup when I can have the beast?” she said, mouth curving like this was all some sort of cosmic joke. Like I was just the idiot in her carefully orchestrated plan. “Seriously, you, Nico, can’t compare to your father.”The fuck?Her eyes glittered like she’d won something. And maybe she had. Maybe this was all a game to her—fuck the son, marry the father and just walk away like she didn’t set fire to everything in her path.I should hate her.But all I could think was: God, that smile.I wanted to wipe it off her face.No. Actually, I wanted to steal it. I wanted to lock it away. Make it something only I got to see. Something only I got to ruin.“So Nico,” she added, “you don’t have to cling to that one night like you were some sort of scared virgin. Or should I have sent you a thank-you card for taking mine?”My blood tur
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Chapter: Chapter 003: The Bridal Suite Breakdown.Sapphire’s POV.I honestly don’t know how I made it through the rest of the ceremony at the altar.I don’t even remember saying my vows, nor do I remember the weight of Salvatore’s lips pressing against mine as he sealed me into this prison of a marriage.All I know is that the moment I stepped away from that altar, he was still around.Nico.He was still watching me. His eyes was burned into my skin like some sort of accusation. A question or a promise.I did not dare meet his gaze. I just couldn’t. Not anymore.I could feel his rage and anger swirling in the air around me like a storm about to break. So I did the only thing I could. I tried to hide.The moment the first part of the ceremony ended, I made some excuse to Alessia, my friend. I told her that I needed to change, that the reception dress was waiting for me upstairs and that I could go alone.She of course hesitated, she knew me too well after all. But in the end, she nodded.And so I slipped away.The bridal suite was wel
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Chapter: Chapter 002: My Father’s Bride.Nico’s POV.I shouldn’t be here.Hell, I should never have stepped foot back into this same space that had my father in it. Into the empire of rot and darkness that always seemed to choke the air out of my lungs.I should have just burned that invitation the second it landed in my hands. I should have simply laughed like I usually did, at my father getting married again, and then tossed it into the nearest fire.But then I saw her picture and my entire world shifted.At first, I thought she must have had a twin or some sort of doppelgänger.Even now, as I stood at the back of this cathedral, I almost convinced myself that I was still wrong, that I was simply seeing things. That my mind was still fogged from last night, still drunk off her taste, and that was why I was seeing her in this woman.But then she turned and our eyes met.And the way she immediately paled, the way her eyes went wide with shock, confirmed it all for me.It was her.It was indeed Sapphire. My Sapphire.My mind
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Chapter: Chapter 001: The Husband I Never Chose.Sapphire’s POV.“You know, Sapphire. A wife must always obey. If he asks you to kneel, you kneel, anything he asks of you must be done.”I scoffed as I stared at my fingers rather than the mirror before me. “Even if he asks me to jump into fire?” I asked in a sarcastic tone.“Yes, even that. You must also learn to spread your legs as widely as he—”I choked on my own breath. “Mother!”My fingers curled into the silk of my wedding gown, but my mother did not care about any of it. Her hands, ice cold and devoid of care, simply fastened the pearl necklace around my throat, tightening it as if it was some sort of leash.But then, maybe it was her own version of a leash.“Oh please, don’t be so dramatic,” she muttered as she took a few steps back to inspect me.Dramatic? Really?She was marrying me off to Salvatore Moreti, the most feared man in the country. A widower whose past five wives have mysteriously disappeared, and she expected me to do what? Smile about it?“You need to learn to
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Masuk
