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Chapter 112 Zoey White “No… no please no.” “One way or another‚ Zoey. That thing you call a son? It has to disappear. I don't care how. I don't care where. But that child will not exist in this world‚ do you understand me?" She was talking about Liam. My baby. My son. Camilla's hands slammed in

Chapter 111 Zoey White They laughed. All three of them‚ together‚ synchronized‚ that exact same laugh I'd heard a thousand times growing up‚ the three of them laughing at me like it was choreographed. I moved. My body lurched off the wall‚ trying to squeeze past Casablanca‚ trying to find the gap

Chapter 110 Zoey White "That's not true‚" I whispered‚ but my voice broke apart on the last syllable. "You're so fucking pathetic it actually makes me nauseous‚" Carina said from behind her mother. "Walking around with the Wolfe mark on your shoulder like you actually deserve it. Like you're actu

Chapter 109 Zoey White "Well‚ well‚ well." Casablanca stepped forward‚ her heels cracking against the marble like gunshots‚ each step driving me further back until my spine hit the cold wall behind me so hard it knocked the breath out of me. "Look at you‚ Zoey." Her eyes dragged down my body. "S

Chapter 108: Stepmother ZOEY WHITE Serena Castell. She was standing alone. Champagne in hand. And she was smiling at me. Satisfied. She looked satisfied. Like a woman watching something go exactly the way she'd arranged it. My fingers dug into Killian's arm hard enough to leave marks. He stop

Chapter 107: Her ZOEY WHITE I recognized their faces from the news. Six men who controlled pack law‚ approved alliances‚ decided the fates of entire territories over morning tea. And every single one of them was staring at my shoulder. "Gentlemen‚" Killian said. "Killian." The tallest one steppe

Chapter 183Skye’s POV The thought made my skin crawl but I was out of options and out of people I could trust and if Drake had answers then I needed to hear them even if they came from someone I didn't want to be anywhere near.I was almost to the front doors when a figure stepped into my path.Kael.He was leaning against one of the marble pillars near the entrance as if he had been waiting there for exactly this moment‚ and the expression on his face made every nerve in my body go cold.His usual playful smirk was gone. The teasing‚ the casual flirtation‚ the way he always looked at me like everything was a game he was winning‚ all of it had been stripped away and replaced by something I had never seen on him before.He took a step forward‚ and I instinctively took a step back."Kael‚ I don't have time for—""He still denied it‚ right?"I blinked. "What?""Thorne." Kael tilted his head slightly‚ studying me the way someone studies something they've already figured out. "He denied

Chapter 182Skye's POV"You're not breaking up with me. You don't have the right to‚ Skye. You are mine. Only mine.”I wiped my face with the back of my hand and let out a laugh that sounded nothing like a laugh. "Watch me."I turned toward the door but his hand closed around my arm before I could take two steps‚ his grip firm enough to stop me but not enough to bruise‚ and I spun around and shoved both my palms flat against his chest as hard as I could.He didn't move.Didn't even sway.I shoved him again and he just stood there absorbing it like it was nothing‚ like I was nothing‚ while his hand stayed locked around my wrist and his eyes burned into mine with something between fury and desperation."Let go of me.""No.""Let go of me‚ Thorne!""No.""Now what?" I stepped closer to him instead of pulling away because if he wanted to hold me here then fine‚ I would stand right here and make him look at what he was doing. "You wanna forcefully have me? Huh? Take me? Pin me down so I'll

Chapter 181Skye’s POV"My biological parents‚ Thorne. Who are they?""Skye‚ we've talked about this—""No. No‚ we haven't talked about this. I've asked you and you've denied knowing every single time and I'm done letting you deny it so I'm asking you right now‚ right here‚ and I need you to look me in my face and give me an honest answer."He came around the desk slowly‚ his hands raised slightly as if he was approaching something fragile. "Where is this coming from? What happened?""Just answer me.""I don't know anything about your biological family‚ Skye. I've told you this. I don't know who they are.""There you go. Lying again.""What— I'm not lying to you.""Then why does everyone keep telling me you are?" My voice cracked and I hated it‚ hated the way it broke right in the middle of the sentence as if my body was betraying me. "Why does everyone keep saying that you know exactly who my real parents are and you're hiding it from me?""Who is everyone?" His voice dropped low. "W

Chapter 180Skye's POVI was sitting on the edge of Thorne's bed contemplating if I would go to work today or stay back in when my phone buzzed.Unknown number.Again??I almost ignored it. Almost set the phone facedown on the nightstand but something made me look.*I know everything about who you are and your biological parents. Didn't want to believe it but it is so. Thorne is not what you think he is. He is lying and keeping a whole lot of information from you. If you think I'm lying let's meet up and I'll tell you the real truth. You think Thorne is the good one but he's the real villain.*My hands went cold.I read it again.And again.What exactly was going on? And who exactly was this?The same number popped up with another text.*This is Drake.*Drake?I stared at my phone as if it had just spoken out loud. How does Drake know about my biological parents when clearly Thorne doesn't? Or when Thorne claims he doesn't?I had asked Thorne about this before. More than once. And eve

Chapter 179Thorne's POVShe was shaking in her sleep. Her fingers kept twitching against the pillow and every few minutes a small sound would escape her throat as if she was trying to scream but something inside her wouldn't let it out.I pulled the covers up over her shoulders and stood there watching her for a long moment‚ my jaw tight‚ my hands curled at my sides.She hadn't been okay in that car. She'd said she was tired but that was a lie and we both knew it. The way she pressed her forehead against that window‚ the way her hands wouldn't stop trembling no matter how hard she pushed them into her thighs.I brushed the hair off her face and left the room.Reed was waiting downstairs in the study with two of my enforcers standing behind him‚ all three of them straightening the second I walked through the door."Tell me about the prisoners in the dungeon back at the island."Reed stepped forward. "Still alive‚ Alpha. Although barely.""Good. Make sure they don't die from the tortur

Chapter 178Skye's POV"I'm not leaving without telling my mom something.""Then write a note. You have two minutes to do that." He was already off me‚ already pulling out‚ and I gasped at the emptiness as he tucked himself back in and stood from the bed like he'd flipped a switch.“Take a chill pill.”“I can't. Pack what you need for tonight. Everything else gets picked up tomorrow.""Thorne‚ I can't just disappear on her—""You're not disappearing. You're writing a note and you're leaving with me." He pulled my closet open and started grabbing things‚ my work blouse‚ jeans‚ hoodie‚ tossing them onto the bed while I was still lying there naked and wrecked. "Two minutes‚ Skye. I mean it."My duffel came off the top shelf. Clothes shoved in. Phone charger. Laptop. Toiletries from the bathroom when I insisted because he tried to tell me he had everything at the mansion and I told him I wanted my own stuff and he stared at me for one second before walking to the bathroom without a word.

Chapter 47Aria's POV"Long day." I exhaled slow through my nose while she bottomed out again‚ throat working around me‚ swallowing. I could feel her tears dripping onto my thigh. Hot little drops soaking through the fabric. "You were saying. The youth vote.""Right. The youth vote." Vance pulled a folded page from his portfolio‚ leaned forward to set it on the desk‚ angling it toward me. "I took the liberty of putting together some rough numbers. These are the registered voters between eighteen and twenty-five across all four packs. Look at that‚ Alpha Kael. Nearly forty percent of the total electorate. Forty percent. Most of them are either current students or recent graduates who still remember you from your classes."He tapped the page with his finger‚ eyes dropping to the numbers.The moment his gaze left my face I looked down.She was looking up at me. Those dark eyes‚ wet with tears from the stretch‚ locked on mine through the shadows of the desk cavity. Her lips were swollen‚

Chapter 46 Kael's POV "Professor Vance." My voice came out controlled‚ even though my body was far from it. Every muscle below my waist was still wound tight‚ my cock still throbbing‚ still wet from her mouth‚ the smell of what we'd just been doing hanging in the air like smoke I couldn't wave away fast enough. I cleared my throat. Straightened my spine. "Come in." He stepped through the doorway with a leather portfolio tucked under one arm‚ wearing that tight formal smile he always had when something was on his mind. Tall. Grey at the temples. Wire-rimmed glasses sitting low on his nose as his eyes swept the office once before landing on me. Vance had been a Blackridge elder since before my father died‚ one of the most respected voices on the pack council‚ so when he showed up unannounced it usually meant he had opinions he wanted heard. "I hope I'm not interrupting‚" he said. The word almost made me choke. "Not at all." I gestured toward the chair across from the desk whi

Chapter 45Aria's POVThe next day was worse.Or better. Depending on how sick you thought we were.It was noon. The campus was packed. Students everywhere‚ filling the quad‚ pouring in and out of buildings‚ lining up at the coffee cart outside the humanities block. The busiest hour of the busiest day.And I was on my knees under Kael's desk.It started with another text. Sent during his morning lecture while I sat in the third row pretending to take notes.-Fuck. I can smell your arousal from up here.I looked up from my phone. He was at the podium‚ mid-sentence‚ not even glancing my way. Voice steady and authoritative as he talked about territorial sovereignty. Like he hadn't just texted his stepdaughter from across the lecture hall about her arousal.I texted back under my notebook.-Then do something about it.His jaw twitched. The tiniest movement. Nobody else caught it.-My office. Noon. Don't be late.I was early.Eleven fifty-eight. His door cracked open and I slipped inside.

Chapter 44Aria's POVThe next afternoon I was walking across the south quad between lectures when my phone buzzed.One text. From a number I'd memorized but never saved.-My office. Now.I texted back.-Kael‚ It's 1:30 in the afternoon.Three dots appeared. Then disappeared. Then appeared again.-I didn't ask what time it was. I said come to my office‚ now.I stared at the screen. My thumb hovered over the keyboard. My thighs pressed together.-Someone could see me walk in.His reply was instant.-Then be fast.I turned around and walked toward the faculty building.Up three flights of stairs. Down the long corridor with the polished floors and the framed portraits of past Alphas lining the walls. Past Professor Whitmore's open door where I could hear him lecturing. Past the administrative assistant's desk where she was eating her lunch with her headphones in‚ not even glancing up as I walked by.His door was at the end of the hall. A brass nameplate that read ‘Professor K. Stone’.I

Chapter 43Aria's POVI stared at him for a long time. At this man kneeling on a wet bathroom floor in a ruined suit with tears on his face‚ confessing something that could end both our lives. And I felt the last wall inside me‚ the one I'd been building since the night at the club‚ the one I'd reinforced every time he called me a name or looked through me like I was nothing‚ I felt it come down. All at once. Like a building collapsing."Then don't."He blinked. "What?""Don't stop." I reached up and grabbed the collar of his soaked shirt. The fabric was cold and heavy in my fist. "I'm so tired‚ Kael. I am so goddamn tired of this. Of you pushing me away and pulling me back and calling me names and then touching me like I'm the only thing keeping you alive. I can't do it anymore. I can't keep pretending I don't want you when we both know—""Aria—""No. Let me finish." My grip tightened on his collar‚ knuckles going white against the wet fabric. "You want me. I want you. It's sick and

Chapter 42Kael's POV"I want you to go to HELL—ahh—""You keep saying that." I picked up the pace. Faster now. Harder. My hips snapping against hers‚ the wet slap of impact echoing off the tiles. "And yet you're clenching around me so tight I can barely move.""Fuckkkk—""Your body doesn't lie." I drove in deep and held there‚ grinding against her front wall from this angle that had her seeing stars. Her raised leg trembled violently against my hand. "It's never lied to me. Not once.""I HATE you—" She shoved my chest with both hands and I stumbled back half a step and she came with me because her leg was still hooked in my grip and she gasped‚ grabbing my shoulders‚ pulling herself against me‚ and for one second‚ one raw and honest second‚ she stopped fighting. Her arms wrapped around my neck and she buried her face in my shoulder and held on.Then she shoved me again. Pulled me closer. Shoved. Her whole body at war‚ hating me and needing me and drowning in the exact same way I was

Chapter 100 Celeste POV The wedding was nothing like the first one. The first one had been massive. Three hundred guests‚ most of whom I didn't know. A ceremony dictated by tradition and politics where I stood in a dress someone else chose and said vows someone else wrote and married a man who barely looked at me. I remembered feeling like a prop in someone else's production‚ moved around a stage for the benefit of an audience that didn't care whether I was happy. This one was small. Forty people in the garden behind the estate on a Saturday afternoon. "Mommy‚ you look so pretty!" Aurora was bouncing beside me in her white dress‚ holding a basket of flower petals that she had been instructed to scatter down the aisle but would probably throw in one aggressive handful instead. She had declared herself the little bride weeks ago and no one had the heart to correct her. "Thank you‚ baby." "I look pretty too‚ right?" "The prettiest." "Prettier than you?" "Much prettier

Chapter 99Darius POVI had been planning this for weeks.Every spare hour when Celeste was painting in her studio or playing with the kids or having coffee with Lena‚ I was on the phone with Rylan coordinating details. Every lunch meeting that I told her was pack business was actually me driving to the cemetery to check on construction progress. Every late night in my office that I blamed on paperwork was me reviewing designs with artisans I hired from three territories away.Rylan thought I was losing my mind."You called me at midnight to discuss flower species‚" he said during our last call. "Midnight‚ Darius.""Jasmine or wisteria. Which one climbs better in partial shade?""I'm your Beta‚ not a botanist.""Then find me a botanist.""It's midnight.""Rylan."He sighed. "Jasmine. It's hardier and it smells better. Can I go to sleep now?""One more thing. The marble wolf. The sculptor sent two options for the positioning. Lying on its side or curled up with its head on its paws.""

Chapter 98CELESTE'S POVI straddled him‚ pulling my shorts and underwear to one side while I positioned myself above him. The head of his cock pressed against my entrance‚ hot and blunt‚ and I sank down onto him in one slow motion that made us both groan.The stretch was intense in this position. He was deep‚ so deep I could feel him against my cervix‚ filling me completely while my thighs trembled on either side of his hips. I braced my hands on his shoulders and tried to breathe."Move‚" he said through gritted teeth. His hands were on my hips‚ gripping hard enough to leave marks. "Ride me‚ Celeste."I rolled my hips forward. The friction was devastating‚ his cock dragging against my front wall with every movement while the angle kept him buried to the hilt. I ground against him in slow circles‚ using his shoulders for leverage‚ and the sounds he was making beneath me were wrecked and desperate in a way that made me feel powerful."Faster." His fingers dug into my hips. "We're runn

Chapter 97CELESTE'S POVAround three in the afternoon‚ Aurora was starting to flag. Her steps were slower and she was leaning against Darius's leg while we stood near the food court deciding what to do next."I wanna ride the carousel again‚" Aurora said‚ yawning. "The one with the horses that go up and down.""I'll take her‚" Lena offered immediately. She had Ash balanced on one hip and reached for Aurora's hand with the other. "We'll do the carousel and then the little train ride. That should keep them busy for a while."She gave me a look. It was subtle but unmistakable. The kind of look that said go spend time with your husband‚ I've got the kids. Lena had been doing that all day‚ quietly steering the children away at strategic moments so Darius and I could have five minutes alone. I hadn't acknowledged it and neither had she but the understanding was there."You sure?" I asked. "Ash is getting heavy.""Please. This child weighs nothing." She bounced Ash to prove her point and he

Chapter 96Celeste POVDays blurred into weeks.Life without a crisis felt foreign to me‚ like wearing clothes that were too comfortable after years of armor. I woke up every morning without the immediate spike of fear that used to hit me before my eyes even opened. No one was drawing my blood. No one was taking my children. No one was scheming in the next room or plotting my downfall over breakfast.It was disorienting at first. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop‚ for someone to knock on the door with bad news‚ for the fragile peace to shatter the way it always had before. But the days kept passing and nothing terrible happened and slowly‚ gradually‚ my body started to believe what my mind already knew.Miranda was dead. It was over.Richard had come to see me the day after. He stood in my living room with his hands in his pockets and his shoulders curved inward and he said he was sorry. Not the performative kind of sorry that people offered when they wanted absolution. The k

Chapter 95Darius POVI was in my office that evening when Rylan walked in without knocking.That alone told me something was wrong. Rylan always knocked. It was one of those small courtesies he maintained regardless of how urgent the situation was‚ a habit from years of military training that he never dropped. So when the door swung open without warning and he stepped inside with that particular tension in his shoulders‚ I set down my pen and gave him my full attention."What happened?"Rylan closed the door behind him and stood there for a moment as if organizing the words in his head before speaking them. His face was carefully neutral but I had known this man for fifteen years and I could see the strain beneath the surface."I told Miranda‚" he said. "About Elena. Like you asked.""And?""She didn't react the way I expected." He moved further into the room but didn't sit. "When I told her Elena was gone‚ she just... stared at me‚ and I thought maybe she was in shock so I called fo