The Widow's Game
At her husband's funeral, Evangeline Thorn should be grieving. Instead, she's plotting murder.
Daniel Harrow died in a building collapse that killed seventeen workers—a collapse Evangeline believes was caused by his older brother's criminal negligence. Nathaniel Harrow is everything Daniel wasn't: ruthless, powerful, and dangerously magnetic. He built a billion-dollar empire on corruption, and Evangeline is certain he killed his own brother to secure control of the family fortune.
She should hate him. She does hate him.
So why does she show up at his penthouse the night of the funeral?
What begins as a violent seduction becomes a twisted game of psychological warfare. Evangeline will gather evidence, destroy Nathaniel's empire, and make him pay for every life he's taken. But Nathaniel has been obsessed with her since the day she married his brother—and he's been waiting for her to make the first move.
As they circle each other like predators, secrets unravel: the surveillance he's kept on her for years, the pregnancy that could belong to either brother, the betrayals that run deeper than murder. In this deadly game of revenge and obsession, the only question is: who will destroy whom first?
Or will they destroy each other?
قراءة
Chapter: Chapter 22: The First KillNathaniel's PovDavidson called me Thursday morning while I was reviewing the prenuptial agreement and he used the tone that meant someone was dead and I needed to know about it."We have a situation," he said."What kind of situation?""The kind that needs to be handled quickly and quietly."I closed the prenup and walked to the window because these conversations were easier when I was looking at something other than the walls of my office.
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Chapter: Chapter 21: Now AlliesEvangeline's PovVictor knew the editor and the editor knew the journalist and the journalist wrote the hit piece and now I was public enemy number one.I took screenshots of everything and sent them to Marcus with a message.Trace the money. I bet Victor paid for this.His response came immediately.Already on it.I closed my laptop and sat there trying to think clear
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Chapter: Chapter 20: Public EnemyEvangeline's PovI woke up Wednesday morning to seventeen missed calls and forty three text messages and when I finally checked my phone I saw that half of them were from people I barely knew and the other half were from blocked numbers.Something was wrong.I opened the first text and it was from an old college friend who I had not spoken to in two years.Is this true? Are you okay?There was a link attached and when I clicked it my stomach dropped because it was a
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Chapter: Chapter 18: The Funeral RecordingEvangeline's PovMarcus called me at seven in the morning and told me to meet him at the same coffee shop and to come alone and to make sure nobody followed me and I knew that meant he had found something bad.I took three different cabs and walked the last six blocks and checked behind me every thirty seconds like he taught me and when I finally got to the coffee shop he was already sitting in the back corner with a laptop and headphones and a look on his face that made my stomach hurt."What did you find," I said as I sat down.He did not answer right away and instead he pushed the headphones across the table."Listen to this first. Then we will talk."I put the headphones on and he clicked something on the laptop and the audio started playing and at first it was just static and background noise but then I heard voices.Two men talking.The first
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Chapter: Chapter 17: FiredNathaniel's PovI stood up fast enough that my chair scraped against the floor and Ryan pulled his hand back like he had been burned."Nathaniel I was just.""Get out.""What?""Get out of this restaurant. Get out of my sight. And when you get back to the office clean out your desk because you do not work for me anymore."His face went white.
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Chapter: Chapter 16: Touch Her and DieNathaniel's PovI was reviewing contracts in my office when my assistant knocked and told me that Evangeline had arrived at the restaurant and was waiting for me and I looked at my watch and saw that she was exactly on time which meant she was serious about whatever she wanted to talk about.I told my assistant to cancel the rest of my afternoon and I grabbed my jacket and took the elevator down to the parking garage and drove to the restaurant thinking about what Evangeline might say and what I would say back and how this conversation was going to change things between us.The restaurant was one I owned through a shell company and I had chosen it specifically because the staff knew to give me privacy and
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Chapter: Chapter 27 – The Game She Already WonCruz didn’t sit.That was the first thing Ivy noticed.She stepped into the penthouse like she owned the space, her gaze sweeping once, slow and deliberate, taking everything in without appearing to. The kind of observation that didn’t miss anything, even when it looked casual.Sebastian remained near the bar, relaxed in posture but not in presence. Ivy could feel the tension coiled beneath his stillness.Cruz stopped a few feet away from them.“You’ve been busy,” she said.Her tone was calm. Too calm.Ivy til
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Chapter: Chapter 26 – When the Hunter TurnsDetective Elena Cruz didn’t check her phone immediately.That was what made her dangerous.She let it sit on the table beside her untouched, screen lighting up once before dimming again, as if whatever waited there could afford to wait. Cruz had learned a long time ago that urgency was often a performance. Real threats didn’t beg for attention. They arrived quietly and stayed.She finished her coffee first. Black. No sugar. Then she reached for the phone.The message wasn’t long. It didn’t need to be.
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Chapter: Chapter 25 – The Lie Beneath the TruthThey didn’t agree to it out loud.They didn’t need to.The moment they stepped out of Victor Blackwood’s study, the air between them changed—not softer, not easier, but sharper. Defined. Like a blade that had finally found its edge.Ivy didn’t speak as they walked down the long hallway. The estate felt different now. Colder. Like it wasn’t just a house but something constructed to hold power, secrets pressed into its walls over decades. She could feel it watching them.Or maybe that was just the feeling Victor left behind.
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Chapter: Chapter 24 – The Price of KnowingNo one moved. Not immediately.Victor stood in front of them, close enough that Ivy could see the fine lines at the edges of his eyes—proof of age. But nothing else about him felt old.Not his posture.Not his presence.Not the way he looked at them like he already knew how this would end.“You’re being dramatic,” Ivy said coolly.Victor’s gaze flicked to her. Amusement. Brief.“You think so?”“Yes.”She stepped forward slightly, refusing to give him space. “You shot your own son,” she said. “Let’s not pretend this is about anything other than control.”Sebastian didn’t interrupt. Didn’t defend. Didn’t soften it.Victor studied her for a long moment. Then—He laughed. Quiet. Low. Dangerous.“Control?” he repeated.His eyes shifted to Sebastian. “Is that what she thinks this is?”Sebastian’s voice was flat. “Answer the question.”Victor’s smile faded. Not completely. Just enough.“You’re both asking the wrong ones,” he said.Ivy’s patience snapped slightly.“Then give us the right ones.
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Chapter: Chapter 23 – The Man Who Built the CageThey didn’t leave immediately. That was the first smart decision they made.Victor Blackwood wasn’t a man you approached impulsively. He was a man you prepared for.“Where is he?” Ivy asked, standing near the bar as she poured herself a drink she didn’t need.Sebastian didn’t answer right away. He was staring at his phone, scrolling through something old. Something buried.“Not in Los Angeles,” he said finally.“
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Chapter: Chapter 22 – The First Lie They ShareThe silence after the message didn’t break. It stretched. Thick. Suffocating.Ivy stood by the window, arms crossed, staring out at the city lights below Sebastian’s penthouse. Los Angeles glittered like nothing had changed.Like people weren’t being tracked. Controlled. Owned.Behind her, Sebastian hadn’t moved.She could feel it.That stillness of his—the kind that meant he was thinking too fast, too deeply, already ten steps ahead.
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Chained by Bond
It began with blood.
The first rogue attack left the Hollow Moon Pack in ruins, its warriors slaughtered, its Alpha gravely wounded, and its heir, Silver White, desperate enough to cross into forbidden rogue territory in search of help.
That’s where she met him.
Arthur, the untamed Alpha of the Rogues, was born unwanted, raised in ash, and crowned in blood. He didn’t trust pack wolves. He didn’t believe in mates. And he certainly didn’t want her.
But the moment her scent hit him like wildfire laced with moonlight, the bond snapped into place.
And Arthur shattered it.
Coldly. Publicly. Without hesitation.
“You’re not mine,” he said. “You never will be.”
قراءة
Chapter: Chapter SeventeenSilver used to feel her wolf like a second spine, not like a voice or a presence with words, just a steady awareness, a low hum beneath muscle and bone that told her when space shifted, when danger crept close, when someone’s intent sharpened.But now, there was nothing, not quiet or sleepingShe noticed it in the early morning when the mist still clung to the ground and the pack compound smelled of wet stone and old pine. The wolves moving through the courtyard made the air ripple with dominance cues: subtle shoulder angling, deliberate steps, controlled breathing that signalled rank.Silver felt none of it.She should have.Her body responded late to everything now, like her instincts were buffering.
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Chapter: Chapter SixteenThe corridors of the Alpha quarters had grown smaller, everywhere she went, she felt the weight of eyes on her, watching, cataloguing, judging. Even the stone walls seemed to hum with scrutiny, as though they remembered every step and whispered thought.Silver moved from her room to the training hall, and back to the common quarters, like a ghost tracing the same path, invisible yet impossibly observed. At first, she tried to ignore it, focused on drills and grounding herself, but the feeling persisted, a low hum behind her skull, never fading or kind.Guards followed her, no longer at a distance or discreetly, close enough that she could feel the brush of their presence, and every time she turned, there they were, stone-faced, silent, their eyes measuring her reactions, memorizing her pace.Arthur had tighten
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Chapter: Chapter FifteenArthur did not ask her if she wanted to train, he told her.It started at dawn.Silver was halfway through dressing when the knock came, sharp. It wasn’t a request but a summon. She opened the door to find a guard waiting, eyes respectful but unyielding.“The Alpha requests your presence in the lower ring,” he said.Lower ring meant combat, not sparring or conditioning.Combat.She swallowed. “Now?”“Yes, Lady Silver.”She followed.The pack was already awake. Warriors were stretching. The clink of metal
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Chapter: Chapter FourteenSilver realized she was no longer free when she tried to open the door.It was subtle at first.She reached for the handle, fingers brushing cool metal, expecting it to turn. It did not. There was no dramatic clank, no audible lock sliding into place, just resistance.She frowned and tried again, slower this time, still nothing.A soft voice came from the other side. “Lady Silver?”She stepped back. “Why is the door locked?”A pause.“It’s not locked,” the guard said.She tilted her head. “Then open it.”
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Chapter: Chapter ThirteenSilver woke up twice.The first time, she opened her eyes and saw the familiar stone ceiling of the Alpha quarters. The second time, she realized she did not feel like she was inside her body.She lay still, staring upward, watching the shadows of torchlight ripple across the carved beams. The room smelled the same, cedar, ash, faint iron from the weapons hung on the walls, everything looked right.She felt nothing.No fear, warmth or sense of time passing. Her heart beat, but it felt like a sound she was hearing from far away.Someone was holding her hand, and she turned her head slowly.Arthur sat beside her bed, unmoving, his forearms braced on his knees, his head bowed. His fi
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Chapter: Chapter TwelveSilver did not fall, she slipped.One moment, Arthur’s hands were on her shoulders, grounding. The next, the world tilted inward, folding like wet paper. Sound drained first, then colour, and then weight. Her body still stood in the Alpha’s quarters, still breathing, still trembling, but her mind was being pulled somewhere else.Somewhere deeper, she tried to scream, but nothing came out.The room blurred, stretching like a reflection on water. Arthur’s voice became distant, distorted, as if it were being shouted through a tunnel.“Silver!”
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