MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET
I’ve always been the shadow behind Bianca, the golden girl of the Hartwell Pack beautiful, graceful, perfect. Me? I’m the broad-shouldered one everyone overlooks, with a gift nobody values. I sense the threads binding our pack, taste truth and lies in a wolf’s scent. The elders laugh, calling it a distraction for the fat girl while the real wolves handle what counts.
Everyone expects Alpha Prince Kaelan Ashford to choose Bianca at the Mate Ceremony. But when the bond snaps into place, it’s me.
For one wild heartbeat, I believe fate picked me.
Then Kaelan laughs right in my face.
He doesn’t just reject me he mocks my weight in front of everyone. The bond splinters, leaving something raw and bleeding inside. Kaelan has no idea what he’s done. Rejecting a true mate isn’t just cruel. For an Alpha, it’s a curse. The bond will eat away at him, slow and merciless, until nothing’s left.
After the ceremony, Hartwell turns to nightmare. Bianca’s jealousy grows sharp and cruel, and every day reminds me I don’t belong. I have nothing left to lose. So I run.
But before I can vanish, Alpha Rhys Sterling finds me. He’s young, respected, and his eyes see through me. He doesn’t care how I look, only what I can do. Rhys wants me in his pack. He thinks I matter.
I’m shoving the last of my things into a bag when Kaelan storms in, his grip iron, eyes burning with a fury I’ve never seen.
“You’re not leaving,” he growls.
Now I’m trapped between the prince who broke me and the Alpha who sees me. I must choose where I belong before fate rips the choice away.
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Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and Fifteen: The City That Forgot ItselfSomething was off about the capital. I felt it crawling under my skin before I could even see what it was.At first, I thought it was the buildings. But it was the people. The market in the lower district was still open, stalls lined up, coins passing from hand to hand. But nobody spoke. No laughter, no greetings, just a heavy silence that pressed down on everything. Vendors didn't call out. Customers didn't smile. Everyone just moved like ghosts, like they were stuck in a life they couldn't remember choosing."They're not afraid," Wren said, watching a woman hand bread to a child without once looking at the child's face. "That's what's wrong. They should be afraid. Something's taking pieces out of them every hour, and they're just continuing.""You can't be afraid of a gap you don't remember having," Corvin said quietly. "Fear requires knowing what you've lost. This isn't fear. This is simply what's left once fear has nothing to attach to."Lady Wexford waited at the palace gates. Fo
Last Updated: 2026-10-02
Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and Fourteen: The Road East ForgetsThe second day vanished while we rode. One moment it was morning, the next, gone.Not everything disappeared. I remember Rhys gripping the reins, the sky stuck between storm and surrender, Wren humming to herself just to stay awake. But when I tried to remember crossing the river at Farrow ford that night, there was nothing. Not even a blur. Just a hole, like someone ripped a page from my life and left the rest of the story hanging."We didn't cross a ford," Serrin said, when I asked her about it. "We took the north road the whole way. There's no ford between here and the capital.""There is," Corvin said, frowning at his own certainty even as he voiced it. "I remember it. Stone pilings, half-collapsed, from the old Ashford road network.""I don't," Serrin said.Bianca still remembered everything. For now. She stuck by my side all day, repeating our names, tracing the silver crawling up my arm, reminding me who I was. Every time we stopped, she pulled out a strip of parchment and scri
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Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and Thirteen: What Only Bianca Could See"Corvin." Rhys's voice had gone flat and fast, the voice he used for orders in a fight. "Corvin, her arm."Corvin turned. His eyes landed on my hand, on the silver lines crawling up toward my elbow. He didn't even blink."Her arm is fine," he said, already turning back to his notes. "Ivy, I want to record exactly what you felt when you reached for Bianca. The texture of the resistance, if you can describe it""Corvin, look at her arm," Rhys said again, louder."I am looking at her." Corvin's voice was confused, like when someone points at an empty table and swears there's a cup sitting right there.Wren's eyes had gone distant and then sharp, her gift straining. "I can't see it," she said, quiet with real fear now. "Ivy, I can't see it either. I know something's wrong with your arm because Rhys is looking at it like it's on fire, but when I try to look myself, it just slides. Like my eyes don't want to stay on it.""It's not hiding from your sight," Serrin said slowly. She hadn't move
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Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and Twelve: Everything I Still HadI didn't cry. I wish I had. It would have been easier. Instead, I stood in Sterling's war room, my sister staring at me with that polite, distant look she used to give strangers at court. And inside me, everything just went silent. Sharp. Like the world was holding its breath."Bianca," I said. "Look at my face.""I am," she said, gently. "I'm sorry. I'm usually good with faces.""You are. You're the best I've ever seen." My voice didn't shake. I don't know how. "Remember when we were nine? You cut my hair while I slept because you wanted us to match. Mother screamed for an hour. You told her I begged you to do it."Bianca's brow furrowed. Not recognition. Something worse. Like she was reaching for a memory and finding nothing there."That's a strange thing to say to a stranger," she said, but her fingers pressed to her temple, like she was trying to force the memory out."Ivy." Rhys had moved beside me. "Stop. If you push, you may only make it worse.""Or maybe better." I turned to C
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Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and Eleven: The Silence AfterwardThree days after the Hollow vanished, the kingdom started losing pieces of itself.No one noticed at first. That was the worst part. A baker in the capital stared at her own street and couldn't remember its name, even though she'd walked it every day for thirty years. Two of Rhys's warriors argued over a drill they both knew by heart, but neither could say who taught it to them. In Sterling, a little girl asked for her father. Her mother opened her mouth to answer, then froze, lost, and the question slipped away like it had never been asked.I only understood because of the mark burning on my skin.It woke me before dawn on the fourth day. Not warm this time, cold. A thin, silver line of ice across my palm. And with it, a gut-deep certainty: something had been holding a door shut, a door I never even knew was there. Not the passage. Something deeper. Something the Hollow had guarded so quietly, we didn't even feel its absence until now."Say the names," I told Rhys, sitting up in the
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Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and Ten: What RemainedThe crack didn't collapse. It simply stopped.No violet light. No explosion. Nothing like the scorched circle that once swallowed Kaelan and Serrin. The ancient wall just went dark and silent. The seam closed itself, gentle and final. That gentleness felt worse than any blast. Like something huge had just let go, careful not to break anything, but gone all the same.I stood at the ward line, my hand flat against stone. Cold. For the first time since we fixed it, the stone was just stone. I felt nothing. No warmth. No patient attention. No heavy, grieving presence deciding if we were worth it. Just emptiness."Ivy." Rhys's hand was on my shoulder. I didn't remember him moving. "Ivy, look at me.""It's gone," I said. My voice didn't sound like mine. "It chose us, and it's just gone."Nobody spoke. The crowd behind us was silent. The kind of silence that means everyone knows something huge just happened. Something you can't fix or talk over. Something you don't dare interrupt.Corvin mov
Last Updated: 2026-09-27
BETRAYED BY THE BILLIONAIRE, CROWNED BY FATE
“She was never his weakness—she was his only shield.”
When Aria Chen divorced billionaire Leon Hart, New York’s elite sneered, betting she’d crawl back within days. She never did.
Three years later, the world is rocked when Dr. Aria Vale, CEO of a revolutionary cybersecurity empire, steps into the spotlight. The mysterious genius who built a billion-dollar company from nothing is none other than Leon’s discarded wife, the woman everyone thought was just a pretty ornament.
But Aria was never the naive socialite she pretended to be. She was an undercover operative, protecting Leon from enemies while he betrayed her. The wife, mocked as “weak” was actually his hidden shield, sacrificing her career and her heart to keep him alive.
Now, every powerful man wants the queen Leon threw away a renowned scientist seeking partnership, a financial titan proposing an empire, and an actor offering devotion. Each sees the brilliance Leon ignored.
Then Leon discovers the truth: Aria’s sacrifices, her secret double life, and the daughter she’s been raising without him. For the first time, the man who once took her for granted must fight for her love. But can he compete with men who valued her from the beginning?
A story of love, betrayal, and power where the king must kneel before the queen who never needed saving.
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Chapter: Epilogue - The BeginningTwo Years LaterSophie stood backstage at her graduation ceremony, eighteen years old and terrified in ways that had nothing to do with public speaking.Her mother adjusted Sophie's cap, hands trembling slightly."You don't have to do this," Aria whispered. "You can give a normal graduation speech. Something safe.""When have I ever chosen safe?"Marcus appeared with water Sophie wouldn't drink. "The auditorium is packed. Every enhanced child we've helped is watching. Their families. Media from seventeen countries.""No pressure."Elena entered with last-minute updates. "Shadow confirmed secure communications. Victoria has emergency extraction routes if things go badly. Your grandmother is in the third row, looking simultaneously proud and terrified."Sophie laughed despite her nerves. "Sounds about right."The past two years had been transformative. The network she'd built with twelve children had grown to over three hundred enhanced individuals worldwide. Not an organization, just p
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Chapter: The Next GenerationForty-Eight Hours After the ExposureThe world was burning with the knowledge Sophie had released.Every news outlet carried the story. Seventy-five years of family enhancement research. Seven generations of genetic manipulation. Twelve children in the current generation identified for future development.And Sophie Vale at the center of it all, the sixteen-year-old who had exposed her own family's legacy.The hotel in Oslo where they'd retreated was surrounded by media. Security had to be tripled. And Sophie's encrypted communication devices wouldn't stop buzzing with messages from people she'd never met."They're threatening to prosecute," Elena reported, reviewing legal documents. "Multiple governments claiming you exposed classified research.""Let them try," Sophie said, though her voice carried exhaustion. "Everything I released is about programs that violated international law."Victoria was monitoring social media responses. "Public opinion is split. Half the world sees you as
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Chapter: The Journey NorthEn Route to NorwaySophie read Leon's letter for the fifth time, her fingers tracing his handwriting like she could somehow touch the father who had died to protect her.The private plane Elena had arranged carried them north toward coordinates that promised answers and probably more questions.Marcus sat across from her, reviewing the key Leon had included. "It's biometric. Uses genetic markers for authentication.""So only certain people can use it," Aria said."Or only certain genetic profiles. Which suggests whatever facility we're visiting has been secured for specific bloodlines."Shadow was analyzing the coordinates against historical records. "The location is remote. Northern Norway, near the Arctic Circle. No documented settlements. But satellite imagery shows structures that have been there for decades.""How decades?" Elena asked."At least sixty years. Possibly longer. The facility predates digital surveillance, which makes it nearly impossible to research through normal c
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Chapter: Vows and TruthsTwo Days After the Awards CeremonySophie was safe.The extraction had worked. Elena's contacts in Swiss intelligence had raided the facility citing human rights violations. Sophie was recovered, shaken but unharmed, and currently sleeping in the hotel room, adjacent to where Aria stood at the window watching Stockholm's morning light.They had their daughter back. That should have been enough.But Aria couldn't stop thinking about Marcus's confession. About her mother's forty-year deception. About the fact that every relationship in her life had been built on lies or manipulation.Marcus entered quietly with coffee, the gesture so familiar it hurt."Sophie's still asleep. Elena's watching the room.""Good.""Aria, we need to talk about what I told you.""You mean about being a operative assigned to monitor me? About your memories surviving the brainwashing that was supposed to make you forget you were planted in my life?"Marcus flinched at the bitterness in her voice. "Yes. That.""
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Chapter: Recognition and RevelationThree Days Later – Stockholm, SwedenThe award ceremony was held in a concert hall that felt too grand for scientific achievement.Aria stood backstage, adjusting the formal dress that felt wrong when her daughter was missing. Marcus stood beside her, his hand finding hers with familiar comfort."We don't have to do this," he said quietly. "We can leave right now and focus on finding Sophie.""Shadow and Elena are tracking leads. Victoria is monitoring Morrison's movements. Standing here accepting an award I don't want is the strategic play.""Strategic doesn't mean necessary."Aria looked at her husband the man who had stood by her through enhancement programs, congressional hearings, fake deaths, and five years of careful hiding."If the people who took Sophie are here, I need to see their faces. Need to understand what we're fighting.""And if they're not?""Then I accept recognition for work that was stolen from me twelve years ago. Either way, I'm not hiding anymore."The ceremon
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Chapter: Five Years GonePresent Day – Copenhagen, DenmarkAria had learned to sleep lightly over the past five years.So when her phone rang at three a.m., she was awake before the second ring."Dr. Vale?" The voice was professional but strained. "This is Director Hansen from the International Academy. I'm calling about Sophie."Aria's heart stopped. "What happened?""She's gone. Disappeared from campus sometime between midnight and two a.m. Security is reviewing footage, but""But what?""The cameras show nothing. She was in her dormitory, and then she simply wasn't. No footage of her leaving. No indication of how she got past security checkpoints."Aria was already dressing, Marcus stirring awake beside her."We're coming. Don't touch anything in her room. Don't let anyone leave campus.""Dr. Vale, the police have been notified.""I don't care about the police. My daughter is enhanced. Which means whoever took her knows exactly what they're dealing with."She disconnected and turned to Marcus, who was alre
Last Updated: 2025-11-06
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