Chapter: Chapter 70: The ReturnAdrien's POVThree months of peace.Three months of waking up beside Morgan without guilt clawing at my chest.Three months of being Marcus Bennett without the ghost of Adrien Sterling haunting every decision.Three months since Singapore. Since I told Elena the truth. Since INo. I wouldn't think about that anymore.I'd made my choice. She'd accepted it. The data hadn't been released. Life had moved on.I had moved on."Morning," Morgan murmured beside me. Hair messy. Eyes still sleepy. Beautiful."Morning."She kissed my shoulder. "Coffee?""Please."She got up. Put on my shirt. The domesticity of it the casual intimacy still amazed me.This was real. This was mine. This was the life I'd chosen.And I didn't regret it.Not anymore.I got up. Showered. Dressed in one of Marcus Bennett's perfectly tailored suits. Looked in the mirror.The face staring back was the one Morgan loved. The one she knew. The one that wasn't connected to Adrien Sterling, Elena Santos, or any of the ghosts f
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Chapter: Chapter 69: The AwakeningElena povDay FourteenMy eyes opened.Bright lights. White ceiling. Hospital.Miguel's face appeared above me. Exhausted. Unshaven. Eyes red from crying."Elena?" His voice cracked. “you're awake."I tried to speak. My throat was raw. Dry.He held water to my lips. I drank."How long?" I whispered."Four days. You've been unconscious for four days.” "You're back. Thank God, you're back.""The data," I said. Voice hoarse but clear. "I want the data."Miguel stared. "What?""The data. Everything we have on Apex. On Morgan. On all of them. I want it.""Elena, you you almost died. You need to rest""I want the data, Miguel."He studied my face. Searching for something.Whatever he saw made him pause."You're different," he said quietly."Yes.""What happened?""I made a choice.""What choice?""To stop being the person who dies for love. And become the person who destroys for it instead."Miguel's eyes widened."The old Elena is gone," I continued. "The one who waited. Who hoped. Who bel
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-12
Chapter: Chapter 68: The BreakingElena's POVThe flight back to Chiang Mai was a blur.I remember boarding. I remember Miguel sitting beside me, speaking words I couldn't hear.I remember landing and walking through the airport and getting in a taxi.I remember none of it mattering.Because somewhere in that Singapore hotel lobby, watching Adrien walk away after saying he'd fallen out of love with meSomething inside me broke.Day OneMiguel unlocked our apartment door. I walked inside. Went to my room. Lie down on the bed."Elena?" Miguel's voice. Distant. "Do you want to talk about it?"I didn't answer. Couldn't answer.What was there to say?He doesn't love me anymore.He chose her.He manipulated me to protect his lie.Two years of waiting for nothing.Miguel stood in the doorway. Waiting. When I didn't respond, he left quietly.I stared at the ceiling.Watched the fan spin.Around and around and around.Like my thoughts.I've fallen out of love with you.Morgan makes me feel alive.You're the past. You're pain.
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Chapter: Chapter 67: 72 Hours Later - SingaporeElena’s povThe flight was long. Quiet. Miguel sat beside me, reviewing contingency plans."If this is a trap," he said for the hundredth time, "if Apex security shows up.""We run. I know.""And the data?""Is set to auto-release if I don't check in every six hours. If something happens to me, the world learns everything."Miguel nodded. "Good. At least we have that."We landed. Checked into separate hotels under different names and met at a predetermined location to review final plans."Raffles Hotel. Main lobby. 8 PM tonight," Miguel confirmed. "I'll be in the bar. Close enough to help. Far enough to stay hidden."Miguel looked at me. Really looked at me. "Are you ready for this?""No. But I'm doing it anyway.""Elena," He hesitated. "What are you hoping he'll say?"I thought about it. Honestly."I don't know. Maybe it was all a lie. That he was maintaining deep cover. That he's ready to extract now. That he" I stopped. "That he still loves me."I sat in a plush chair facing the en
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-09
Chapter: Chapter 65: The Last MessageElena's POVThe next seven days were torture.I monitored every email Miguel intercepted. Watched Adrien's relationship with Morgan deepen. Watched him lie to her. Lie to us. Build a fantasy that would collapse the moment truth emerged.Day One: Dinner at her apartment. Security logs indicated that he left at 2 AM. She kissed him goodbye at the door.Day Two: He sent her flowers. Card read: Thank you for seeing me. -MDay Three: Lunch together. Public. At a restaurant where Apex executives saw them. No more hiding. Official.Day Four: Morgan sent apartment listings. He responded with favorites. Marking them: Love this one. Let's schedule a viewing.Day Five: He bought her a bracelet. Expensive. Personal. The kind of gift you give someone you love.Day Six: They spent the entire weekend together. Saturday and Sunday. Completely off-grid. Just together.Day Seven: Monday morning. The final day. The deadline I'd given myself before releasing the data.Miguel's laptop pinged.New email. F
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-08
Chapter: Chapter 64: The BetrayalElena's POVSeventy-two hours.That's what he'd said. Extraction in 72 hours.I counted everyone.Hour one: Monday morning. His message said the extraction was set. That it mattered.Hour twelve: Monday evening. No contact. But that was expected. He was maintaining cover.Hour twenty-four: Tuesday morning. Still nothing. I told myself he was preparing. Being careful.Hour forty-eight: Wednesday morning. The extraction window was closing. I checked weapons. Reviewed contingency plans.Hour seventy-two: Thursday noon. The deadline.Nothing.No coordinates. No signal. No extraction.Just silence."Maybe he's delayed," Miguel said from his laptop. "Complications with the timeline.""He would have messaged. Warned us.""Not if he couldn't. Not if something went wrong.""Then check. Check everything. Tell me if he's been compromised."Miguel's fingers flew across the keyboard. "I'm monitoring Apex's internal systems. No alerts. No security breaches. No indication of compromise. If Adrien we
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CROWNED BY BLOOD
“I, Marcus Steele, Alpha of the Silver Moon Pack, reject you, Luna Blackwood, as my mate and Luna.”
Luna Blackwood’s wedding day becomes her nightmare when her Alpha publicly rejects her, declaring her too weak to bear his children. As her former best friend steps forward as his chosen replacement, Luna’s world crumbles.
But what Marcus doesn’t know could destroy them all.
Luna carries the last royal werewolf bloodline, a secret that makes her the most powerful supernatural being alive. Hidden from those who hunted her kind to extinction, she possesses abilities that could reshape their world forever.
When mysterious Alpha Kai Nightshade reveals the conspiracy behind her rejection, Luna faces an impossible choice: remain broken and hidden, or embrace her destiny as the prophesied Lycan Queen who will unite all supernatural beings.
From public humiliation to ultimate power, Luna’s transformation will prove that being rejected was the best thing that ever happened to her.
But first, she has a war to win.
Baca
Chapter: Epilogue: The Keeper of Stories(Two Hundred Years Later)The child asked the question all children eventually asked."Was Luna real?"The Keeper of Stories, an old woman whose silver hair caught the light from Kai's Tree just so smiled and set down her pen. The library around them hummed with the quiet energy of thousands of volumes, each one containing fragments of truth passed down through generations. But none were as worn as the book she had been transcribing, its pages filled with Luna's own hand."Real as the tree that shelters us," the Keeper said, gesturing to the window where ancient branches spread wide, their bark still glowing faintly with celestial light. "Real as the stones you walk on. Real as the air you breathe.""All of that is true," the Keeper replied, and at the child's confused expression, she laughed softly. "Come. Let me show you something."She led the girl through corridors lined with portraits, some painted, a few captured in the newer art of light-drawing that the scholars had recently p
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Chapter: Chapter 126: Love Beyond the VeilI sat beneath Kai's Tree, my back resting against bark that had grown smooth and familiar over years of coming here to think and remember and simply be. My fingers traced the glowing patterns that pulsed beneath the surface, following veins of light that mapped his essence like rivers on an illuminated manuscript. The tree hummed with his presence, not metaphorically but literally, I could feel the vibration in my bones, could sense his consciousness distributed through wood and leaf and root.My children rested beside me very grown now, their faces carrying the lines that come from years lived fully rather than merely endured. Their eyes held echoes of all we had survived together: the curse and the wars, the transformations and reconciliations, the long slow work of healing that never truly ended but which had brought us here, to this moment of profound peace.Seraphina sat to my right, Alexander was to my left, solid as stone but gentler than he had once been, having learned that t
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-28
Chapter: Chapter 125: The Circle of StonesThe air was still that evening in a way that felt intentional rather than accidental: no wind disturbing the leaves, no birdsong breaking the silence, just the rhythmic sound of chisels against stone that rang like heartbeats across the garden. The students of the Sanctuary knelt in concentric circles around the monument.The monument had grown over the years since its founding, expanding organically as more names needed recording. Rows upon rows of letters etched into pale marble that seemed to glow faintly in certain lights, circling the sacred tree that had grown from Kai's seed and which still pulsed with his lingering presence. The tree had become massive now, its branches spreading wide enough to shelter dozens beneath its canopy.I stood at the edge of the gathering. I watched as each child stepped forward in turn when their name was called, approaching the stone with expressions that ranged from solemn to fearful to quietly determined.I stepped forward into the circle where t
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Chapter: Chapter 124: The Story They Will TellThey sang about me now, and the songs had taken on lives of their own. Not in Hollowshade alone, where memory was still fresh and people could point to actual places where specific events had occurred. But across the realms in distant kingdoms and hidden valleys, in places I had never visited and among peoples who knew me only through reputation.Some called me the Flame Queen, the one who burned kingdoms for love and watched the ashes scatter without remorse. Their songs painted me as a force of nature, passionate and destructive as wildfire, consuming everything in my path while claiming it was for protection. They weren't entirely wrong, but they missed the quiet desperation, the slow corruption, the thousand small choices that accumulated into catastrophe.Others whispered about the Moon Curse, the creature who devoured her own soul and nearly took the world with her. These stories emphasized transformation over intention, focused on the wolf rather than the woman, made me into a
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Chapter: Chapter 123: Ashes to GraceThe air smelled of rain and forgiveness, that particular scent that comes after a storm has passed and the earth is washing itself clean. I walked barefoot through the glade where so much had happened, my feet finding the same paths I had run as wolf, where claws had torn earth and blood had stained stones. Each step sank into ground that was soft and welcoming, earth that once rejected me as contaminated but which now welcomed me home like a mother embracing a wayward child.This was where I screamed as my body remade itself, bones breaking and reforming, humanity bleeding away as the wolf emerged. Where I became the monster my children would have to fight, the nightmare that would haunt them for years.The memory burned, immediate and visceral despite the years that had passed. But it no longer owned me the way it once had, no longer defined every thought and feeling, no longer dictated who I was allowed to become.I lay down on my side, lowering myself slowly until my cheek pressed
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-27
Chapter: Chapter 122: The Mother's FlameLanterns swayed from the trees like luminous fruit, woven with moonflowers and silver threads that caught starlight and transformed it into something softer, more intimate.It was the first Festival of the Mothers since peace had truly returned, since the last threats had been defeated and the slow work of healing had progressed far enough that people felt safe celebrating rather than merely surviving. I stood at the center of the courtyard, barefoot upon the stone circle.They had asked me to light the first flame, to stand as representative of all mothers who had struggled and failed and somehow continued anyway. The invitation had come from the council of village elders, presented with careful formality, giving me every opportunity to decline if the honor felt too heavy or the symbolism too fraught.It felt strange after everything I had done, after all the ways I had failed at the very role I was now being asked to represent to be honored in this way. The whispers still followed m
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-25
Masuk
