Chapter: CHAPTER 123: MARCUSCade's POV"wake up! Old man!! someone fell on my body and if i didnt know well enough, i would have thought a building colappsed on me. i groaned and turned and saw Marcus. he was smiling sheepishly."it's just 7am what the hell is amusing you to be smiling this early." i streched, checked my phone and it wasnt even 8am yet. thankfully what happened was just a dream."life is worth celebrating, i am you wont understand because you are constantly being sourounded by drama." he chuckled."Marcus why are you in my house this early.""Because," Marcus said, dropping into the armchair by the window like he owned it, boots and all, "some of us actually answer our phones. I've been calling you since six. Six, Cade. I even called the landline, and you don't even have a landline, so I called the site office landline and asked them to relay a message like it's 1995."I dragged a hand down my face and sat up, and the ceiling above me was just the ceiling, plain and white and blessedly free of M
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Chapter: CHAPTER 122: GUESTCade's POVSomeone fell on my body, and if I didn't know better, I'd have thought a building had collapsed on me.I groaned and turned over to find Marcus standing there, grinning sheepishly."Wake up, old man!""It's seven a.m. "What the hell is so amusing this early?" I stretched and checked my phone. Not even eight yet. Thankfully, whatever had just happened in my head had only been a dream."Life is worth celebrating," Marcus chuckled. "But I guess you wouldn't understand that; you're constantly surrounded by drama.""Marcus, why are you in my house this early?""Because," he said, dropping into the armchair by the window like he owned it, boots and all, "some of us actually answer our phones. I've been calling you since six. Six, Cade. I even called the landline, and you don't have a landline, so I called the site office landline and asked them to relay a message like it's 1995."I dragged a hand down my face and sat up. The ceiling above me was just the ceiling, plain and white
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Chapter: CHAPTER 121: Dinning SagaCade's POVBreakfast smelled like bacon and disaster.I sat at the far end of the table with my coffee untouched in front of me, watching the steam curl off it and die, because drinking it would have required unclenching my jaw, and my jaw had decided sometime around three in the morning that it was staying clenched indefinitely.Ezra sat across from Scarlett with the easy, unhurried posture of a man who had never once in his life worried about whether he belonged in a room. He'd showered. His hair was doing that thing where it looked deliberately unstyled, which took more effort than styled hair ever did, and he was currently explaining something about soil composition to my stepmother, while she hung on every word like he was reciting scripture."....And that's the thing about Bermuda grass," Ezra was saying. "Beautiful in the summer, but it chokes out everything else if you don't manage it.""Fascinating," Rachel said, and she meant it, the traitor.I picked up my fork. Set it down
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Chapter: CHAPTER 120: Caught in the Dark PathCade's POVI paced the room, back and forth, back and forth, my bare feet dragging over the cool wooden floorboards of the boys' quarters. The place was still dim, lit only by that thin blade of moonlight slicing through the blinds and falling in pale stripes across the bed, across her legs, across the mess of sheets we'd left tangled less than an hour ago. It felt like a lifetime had passed since then. A different night. A different life.I could still see the pain in Scarlett's eyes, even in this half-dark. It sat there, raw and glistening, and it hurt me worse than the slap had. The slap I could shake off, my cheek still carrying a faint sting and warmth where her palm had connected, but this, watching her carry the weight of all of this at her age, watching her fold into herself on the floor as the world had just caved in around her, was something I didn't know how to fix. It only seemed to get worse by the hour, like a wound that refused to close, no matter how much pressure I ap
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Chapter: CHAPTER 119: Divorce KnockingScarlett's POVThe room was dark except for the thin slice of moonlight slipping through the blinds, silver stripes falling across the sheets, and somewhere outside, a lone cricket kept up its steady chirp as if it had nowhere better to be. I had my eyes closed, half asleep against Cade's shoulder, when his voice found me in the quiet."Have you thought about a name for my children yet?"His voice was the warmest thing I'd ever heard, low and rough with sleep and affection, and his hand moved in slow circles over the swell of my stomach, two heartbeats stubbornly overlapping on the monitor like they couldn't be bothered to take turns. His palm was warm, calloused from work, and it made something in my chest go soft and stupid every single time."Your children?""Yes. Why?""Nothing. It just sounded funny, that's all. Like you did all the work.""Well, get used to it." He propped himself up on one elbow, the moonlight catching that lopsided grin that had gotten me into this mess in the
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Chapter: CHAPTER 118: Borrowed WarmthScarlett's POVMy mother's voice arrived a half second before she did, bright and unaware of everything simmering beneath the surface of the evening."Ezra, my dear." She smiled at him with the easy warmth she extended to guests, oblivious to what her hospitality was actually housing. "The room is ready for you. Would you like white or red wine sent up?"Ezra rose immediately, the transformation instant and seamless, the careful, cold thing I'd glimpsed a moment ago folding itself away behind manners polished to a shine."Thank you very much, ma'am, but I'm done with alcohol for the night." He offered her a smile that looked, infuriatingly, completely sincere. "Sparkling water will be just fine. And thank you again for your hospitality. You've been more than generous.""You're more than welcome, my dear." My mother beamed at him the way she'd once beamed at me, and something in my chest twisted at the sight of it, at how easily he'd claimed a piece of her warmth that should have belon
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The Hockey Star's Spicy Stripper
By night, She’s the masked temptation he can’t stop dreaming about. By day, she’s the girl he can’t stand. What happens when both of their worlds collide?
By day, she’s a brilliant scholarship student at Wexford Institute of Business & Arts. By night, she becomes Spicy, the club’s most wanted stripper masked in seduction, all for the sake of keeping her sick sister, Ami, Alive.
And then there is Jace Harrington, the hockey star, who is royalty, arrogant, and heir to a billion-dollar empire. He’s got everything! fame, fortune, and a long line of girls begging for his attention. But the one girl he can’t forget is the one hiding behind a mask… and the one he can’t stand is Sabrina. Too bad they’re the same person!
Their worlds were never meant to collide. But secrets have a way of slipping through the cracks. When Jace discovers the girl he craves is the same one he passionately hates, the line between love, desire, and obsession begins to blur. He’s a rising hockey star with everything to lose. She’s a masked dancer living on borrowed time.
Sabrina is barely holding it together. Juggling school, a sick sister (Ami), a reckless one (Skye), and a secret that could destroy everything. Falling in love was never part of the plan. He’s never met a girl who could bring him to his knees. She’s never met a boy worth risking it all for. And when the mask comes off... Someone’s going to get hurt.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 174: From Stripper to Mrs. HarringtonSabrina's POVI've always believed my life was nothing but a sad reality TV show, one tragedy after another, each season more heartbreaking than the last. I'd tossed and turned through sleepless nights ever since my parents died, carrying grief like stones in my pockets.But today, this moment, I was living my dream.I sat on the balcony of my mansion, watching the New York City skyline glitter with Jace on the other end of the phone and my engagement ring catching the first rays of sunlight on my left hand."Baby, I cannot wait for you to move in with me in Texas." His voice was warm honey through the speaker. "We'll have so much fun there. I'll take you to all my favourite places.""I know." I smiled, twisting the ring on my finger. "Our graduation is this morning, and our wedding is this evening. So what's the big deal? You have a few hours until I'm yours forever.""God, you have no idea." I could hear the smile in his voice. "I want you right here in my arms right now. I want to
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Chapter: CHAPTER 173: The Truth Shall Set You FreeJace's POV"You can go back to your duties. I can handle this." The words were heavy on my tongue, weighted with emotions I was still trying to process. I addressed the security guards hovering around Sabrina like sentries awaiting the command to strike."Yes, sir." They retreated like soldiers falling back from a battlefield after their commander's order, melting back into the shadows of the lobby.I didn't say a word to her. She simply followed me into the elevator, and before the doors closed, I felt every eye on the ground floor fixed on us. The staff pretended to work, shuffling papers, typing on keyboards, and speaking into phones, but the moment I glanced away, their gazes locked onto us like magnets drawn to metal.When the elevator doors finally sealed us in that small metal box, silence filled the space like water flooding a sinking ship. We both stood straight as soldiers, backs against opposite walls like two strangers forced to share the same square footage of air.But th
Last Updated: 2026-01-28
Chapter: CHAPTER 172: Forty-Five Floors to Face the TruthJace's POV"Get me the file for the power plant project." I didn't look up from my desktop, my eyes locked on the financial report I was preparing for the next board meeting. Numbers swam across the screen: revenue projections, expense forecasts, and risk assessments. At the same time, I had three other windows open, tracking the shipment currently crossing the Pacific. My father had put me on that project personally because he didn't want anything to go wrong with it. Too much money, too many investors, too many eyes watching to see if the young COO would sink or swim.I'd done all the clearance work myself, approved every payment, and double-checked every invoice. No room for error. No space for weakness.I saw her approach from my peripheral vision: Ella, the new assistant Scott had hired before he'd left for France. She bent over to retrieve the file from the cabinet, and all her curves became visible through the tight red pencil skirt she wore. It matched her lipstick, I noticed
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Chapter: CHAPTER 171: Truth In The Drawer!Sabrina's POV"Shooting recorded outside popular Club Eden last night. No deaths were recorded, but multiple injuries were reported as rival gang members opened fire outside the establishment around 2 AM..."My eyes were fixed on the television screen mounted in the hospital waiting room, the news anchor's voice washing over me like white noise. The headline scrolled across the bottom in that ominous red text they always used for violence: GANG VIOLENCE ERUPTS AT ELITE NIGHTCLUB.I'd experienced one or two shootouts outside Club Eden during my time there, the hazard of working in a place where money, power, and danger intersected like tangled threads. So this news wasn't shocking to me. It was just... sad. Another reminder of the life I'd left behind, the world I'd barely escaped.I simply took my eyes off the screen and focused on steadying my breathing, trying to centre myself before the doctor called me back.Skye was remanded in prison, awaiting trial for accessory to murder. The
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Chapter: CHAPTER 170: When Love Becomes PoisonJace's POVTwelve days later.Not every story has a perfect ending, and not every love story concludes with happily ever after. Some end tragically, violently, with the kind of pain that carves itself into your bones and changes who you are forever.My story was not an exception.Over the years, I had transformed: evolved or devolved, depending on who you asked. From Playboy to protector. From careless to careful. From hating Sabrina Brooks with every fibre of my being to loving her so completely, it terrified me. From arrogant hockey star to romantic boyfriend to heir of an empire I never wanted.And now, finally, to this: a broken man standing in the wreckage of his own naivety, learning that the cruellest betrayals come wrapped in the softest skin.The monster the world created wasn't born from hatred.It was born from loving the wrong person.---The night it all shattered.I can still remember every detail with the kind of clarity that comes from trauma, the way certain moments b
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Chapter: CHAPTER 169: The Grand EntranceJace's POV"Ladies and gentlemen…" I clicked to the final slide of my presentation, watching the projection illuminate the darkened boardroom with charts and projections that represented days of strategic planning, "...now with this approach, we can hit the oil market really hard, and people won't even notice the loopholes in our financial report. This is what I call the master plan."The silence that followed was thick with contemplation. I could feel every eye in the room on me, these titans of industry, these men and women who'd built empires from nothing, studying me like I was a specimen under a microscope.Then I caught my father's eyes across the polished mahogany table.The look on his face was filled with both pride and impression, emotions Richard Harrington rarely displayed publicly. He sat back in his leather chair, one hand stroking his jaw, the hint of a smile playing at the corners of his mouth. Though he didn't say it out loud and would never say it in front of the boa
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Chapter: CHAPTER 58: The CouncilKAEL"Mohan, summon the council to a meeting. They need to be informed before I pour every ounce of my rage directly onto Draven Cole's doorstep."My voice cracked across the study like a whip, and Mohan's hands came up fast, urgent, cutting through the air before I'd even finished the sentence.Alpha, that would be a third strike against you if Draven turns out not to be the man behind this. You have no confirmation. Only a voice on a phone claiming to speak for him."There is a thin line between my rage and outright destruction, Mohan, and you know exactly how easily I can cross it tonight." I paced the length of my desk, every muscle in my body wound tight enough to snap. "Who else in these twelve territories knew about the corridor negotiations with the foreign investors? Who else stood to lose the exact amount Draven lost when I refused his cut? Who else was humiliated in front of the entire council within the same week his own men attacked my home?"You're not wrong. Mohan's sig
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Chapter: CHAPTER 57: The Anonymous CallKAELWe lost them.The van vanished into a warren of unmarked service roads I hadn't mapped in over a decade, my Betas fanning out in every direction until the trail simply dissolved into nothing, no scent, no tire tracks, no scrap of evidence beyond the echo of an engine already too far gone to chase. I stood at the edge of that forest for a long moment, fists clenched at my sides, forcing down the roar building in my chest, before finally giving the order to fall back.We returned to a manor still humming with music and laughter, guests who had no idea their host's mother had just been dragged screaming into the night, and the sight of it, champagne flutes and easy conversation continuing as though the world hadn't just cracked open, turned my stomach in a way the chase itself hadn't managed."Cut the music." I didn't wait for a response before crossing to the sound system myself and killing it at the source, the sudden silence in the room, silence everyone else could actually hear,
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Chapter: CHAPTER 56: Under FireSERAPHINEThe explosion hit before the screaming had even finished travelling across the courtyard, a deep, concussive boom that shattered the west wing windows of the banquet hall and sent a plume of orange fire climbing into the black sky. Guests scattered in every direction, gowns and tuxedos abandoned mid-stride, security barking orders that dissolved instantly into chaos.Kael was already moving before the sound had finished rolling across the grounds, his whole body shifting into something harder, faster, the Alpha rather than the man, and I ran after him without a second thought, my heels tearing off my feet somewhere in the first few strides."Isolde's car!" A guard's voice cut through the pandemonium, breathless, wild-eyed. "It never made it past the north gate, Alpha! Her driver's been found, throat torn out, but there's no sign of her anywhere!""Search radius, now!" Kael's voice cracked out with an authority that sent every Beta and Omega within earshot snapping into motio
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Chapter: CHAPTER 55: My TermsSERAPHINE"You have to send her away. She is going to be trouble."I watched Isolde's hands cut sharp through the air toward Kael in the far corner of the courtyard, her whole frame still rigid with the fury I'd left her carrying. I couldn't hear the rest of it, whatever hissed argument followed, but I didn't need to. I could read enough in the tight set of her shoulders, the way she jabbed one finger toward me across the distance without ever once looking my way directly, as though even glancing at me now cost her something she refused to spend.It gave me a quiet, unshakable satisfaction, watching her unravel like that. After twenty years of being made to feel smaller than the dust under everyone's heels, I found I had no appetite left for guilt over enjoying it.Kael rubbed his temple, the particular gesture I'd learned meant frustration barely held in check, and after a few more clipped exchanges, Isolde turned on her heel and swept toward her car, her driver scrambling to open th
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Chapter: CHAPTER 54: The Determining FactorSERAPHINEThe moment we stepped outside, the world exploded into light and noise, cameras flashing in rapid, blinding succession as guests filtered toward their waiting cars along the red carpet. A reporter called Kael's name, and before I could think to step back, he pulled me forward into the frame with him, his hand finding the small of my back with the same practiced ease he used for everything he did in public.I smiled for the cameras. I let the flashes catch the crimson of my gown and the curve of my composed, deliberate expression. But in the brief seconds between shots, I caught the real question sitting naked in his eyes, desperate, searching, entirely at odds with the effortless calm he wore for the crowd."Oh my God, they look so perfect together!" a voice called out from somewhere in the crowd, and I couldn't help the small, satisfied smile that pulled at my mouth.I caught Mohan's stare from the edge of the carpet, something tight and unreadable pulling at his expression
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Chapter: CHAPTER 53: A Different Kind of FireSERAPHINEI watched the look cross his face, and it wasn't simply surprise. It was longing, raw and unguarded, the particular look of a man staring at something he'd convinced himself he'd lost for good, priceless and impossible and standing right in front of him regardless. I watched the shape his mouth made around my name, the stutter catching halfway through the second syllable, and that alone told me everything I needed to know about how badly the silence had worn on him this past week.Draven stood frozen beside him, and the satisfaction of watching that particular smugness drain clean off his face was better than anything Ree's needle and thread could have stitched onto me tonight."So." I turned toward him slowly, deliberately, letting the silk of my gown pool and shift with every unhurried step. "You were saying?""Seraphine." He recovered fast, plastering on a smile that didn't come close to reaching his eyes, ignoring the woman still standing at his elbow entirely. "You loo
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