Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE ~~“SOAK MY HAND LIKE A GOOD GIRL.”SOFIA.Although Dante seemed to act like everything was okay, I knew he hated seeing my kiss Marco even if it was an accident. He even broke the glass in his hand. I really didn’t mean to drop the paper and kiss Marco and I don’t think he meant to do so either, but now all I could think about was the injury on Dante’s hand and what he was planning. The family gathering at Marco’s parents’ house was still in full swing when my phone vibrated in my clutch. I excused myself from the conversation with one of Marco’s aunts, heart already sinking as I slipped into the quieter hallway near the powder room.Dante’s text glowed on the screen.Grand Palace Hotel. Presidential suite. Now.A second message followed almost immediately.**If you aren’t standing in front of me in ten minutes, I will put a bullet in Marco’s head. Don’t test me tonight, Sofia.**My stomach dropped. I knew that tone, even through text. He wasn’t bluffing. Not after what he’d witnessed
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Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTY TWOONE WEEK LATER."Jealousy is just love with nowhere to go and no way to breathe."DANTEI am in a good mood when I arrive.That should have been my first warning. Good moods have never lasted long in my life and by now I should know better than to trust them.The drive to Marco's parents' house takes forty minutes from the estate and I spend most of it with the window down, one arm resting on the door, actually enjoying the Italian countryside rolling past in the late afternoon gold. The meeting this morning went well. The alliances are solidifying. The succession vote is closer than it's ever been and every calculation I'm running puts me exactly where I need to be.And Sofia is here.That is the part my brain keeps coming back to. She is forty minutes ahead of me in a car with Marco and his parents and Isabella and in a few minutes I will be in the same room as her again and that simple fact has been sitting warm in my chest the entire drive.I told you. Good mood. Should have known
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Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTY ONE"The cruelest thing about wanting a life that isn't yours is how clearly you can see exactly what it would look like."DANTEThe meeting runs forty minutes longer than it should.By the time I shake the last hand and walk the last Don to his car and watch the last black vehicle disappear down the estate's long driveway, my jaw aches from holding the same composed expression for three hours straight and I want nothing more than coffee and quiet.I loosen my tie as I walk back through the main entrance. Nico falls into step beside me briefly, already running through the afternoon's outcomes in that efficient way he has — who committed, who hedged, who needs more pressure, who is already secured.I let him talk. I process it. I give the necessary responses.But my mind is already elsewhere.It keeps doing that lately.Finding its way back to them.—----------------------Everywhere was quiet, really quiet. I couldn't hear Isabella constantly fighting with luca or laughing at a stupid jok
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Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTY“IT IS TIMES LIKE THESE I CHERISH THE MOST.”SOFIA.I am still in my clothes — a light cotton dress, no shoes — which in retrospect was my first mistake because I should have known the moment I got within three feet of the water what was going to happen.I crouch at the edge, intending to sit and dangle my feet in. A reasonable compromise.Dante is right there.He looks up at me from the water, the morning light doing things to his face that are genuinely unfair, and his dark eyes are warm and full of everything from last night and he reaches up and takes my hand."Dante—" I start."Don't," he says. Almost gently."I'm still dressed—""Sofia.""I have a dress on—"He pulls me in.The water hits me all at once, cool and clean and completely shocking, and I surface sputtering and absolutely furious for about two seconds before Isabella's laughter hits me and then I cannot maintain the furious face at all."Dante!" I push wet hair out of my eyes.He is grinning. Fully, properly grinning,
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIXTY NINE"The most painful lies are the ones we tell to protect the people we love the most."SOFIAI hear them before I see them.Isabella's laugh first — that big, uncontained laugh she has that she gets from absolutely no one on my side of the family because none of us have ever laughed like that in our lives. Free and loud and completely unbothered by who might hear it. Then Dante's voice, lower, saying something I can't quite make out, followed immediately by an enormous splash and Isabella screaming with delight.I step out onto the terrace with my coffee still in my hand and stop. We were now back home.The pool at the house is long and blue and catching the morning light in a way that makes everything look warm and a little dreamlike. Isabella is in the shallow end, her dark curls soaked flat against her head, absolutely beside herself with laughter. She is six years old and she has never once in her life been afraid of water and right now she is using that fearlessness to splash Dante
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIXTY EIGHTSeven years ago.“YOU BROKE ME FIRST.”SOFIA.I wake up alone.This part I remember with a clarity that has never faded, not in seven years, not through everything that came after. The particular quality of that morning light. The particular feeling of reaching across the bed and finding nothing.His side is cold. Not just empty — cold. He has been gone for a while.I sit up. Look around the apartment. His shoes are gone. His jacket. I find the note on the pillow and read it once. Family emergency. Be back soon.I'm not worried, not at first. Families have emergencies. He loves me. He will come back.I get up. Make coffee. Sit by the window and watch the street below and wait.He doesn't come.I call his phone. It rings four times and goes to voicemail. His voice, warm and familiar, asking me to leave a message."It's me," I say, because I don't know what else to say. "Just checking you're okay. Call me when you can."He doesn't call.Day one I tell myself he's busy. Family crises are
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Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY SIX~~ZYRAN“WITH YOU I LOSE EVERY OUNCE OF CONTROL.”I held her trembling body against mine, still buried deep inside her as we both came down from the high. My heart was hammering like I’d run a marathon. Myra was so small beneath me, flushed and teary-eyed, her virgin pussy still fluttering around my cock. I’d just ruined her. Broken every promise I’d made to Luca. And fuck… I didn’t regret a single second.“Baby…” I whispered, pressing soft kisses to her damp forehead, her closed eyelids, the tip of her nose. “You were so perfect. My sweet girl. You did so good for me.”She let out a shaky little breath and smiled up at me, shy and glowing. That smile wrecked me more than anything else tonight.I slowly pulled out of her, groaning at the sight of my cum leaking from her freshly fucked pussy. Instead of filth, all I felt was a fierce wave of protectiveness. I gathered her into my arms and carried her toward the bathroom.“You’re shaking, angel. Let me take care of you.”I ran us a warm b
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Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE ~~~ZYRAN.“I AM GOING TO RUIN YOU FOR ANYONE ELSE”I kissed her like I was starving, like the taste of her mouth could erase every second I’d been gone. My hands roamed down her back, gripping her ass through the thin silk, yanking her harder against the bulge already straining in my pants.Myra whimpered into my mouth, needy and trembling, and that sound snapped the last shred of my control.I pulled back just enough to look at her flushed face, her swollen lips, those wide blue eyes already begging.“Look at you,” I growled, voice low and cruel. “Fuck baby, look at how soaked you are. I promised Luca I wouldn’t touch you. Told your brother I’d keep my hands off his innocent little sister… and here you are, rubbing yourself against me, so desperate my cock aren’t you baby.”Her breath hitched, shame flooding her cheeks. She tried to look away, but I grabbed her jaw, forcing her eyes back to mine.“Say it. Tell me what you want.”“I’m… Fuck me please,” she whispered, voice shaking with h
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Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR“DO YOU MISS ME LIKE I MISSED YOU, FUCKED AROUND AND GOT ATTACHED TO YOU.”ZYRAN."Don't." She backed away from me, wrapping the blanket around herself like armor. "Don't you dare."I stood up slowly, hands out like I was approaching a wounded animal. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left like that. I was—""Why do you keep doing this to me?" Her voice was shaking, raw with emotion. "You come close to me, you possess me, you touch me, and then you pull away from me, leaving me hanging. I'm not your fucking toy, Zyran!""I know—""No, you don't know! You have no idea what the last three days have been like. What it's been like sitting here wondering if you were ever coming back. If I meant anything to you at all or if I was just—just some obligation you had to deal with!"Every word was a knife twisting in my gut because she was right. About all of it."You know the situation," I said, even though I knew it was a weak excuse. "You know why this is complicated.""I don't care about complica
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Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY THREE" I'M JUST TRYING TO PRPTECT YOU FROM MY OWN DEMONS."ZYRANCristian's words kept echoing in my head. You're being a coward. You're about to throw away something real because you're scared.He was right. I was scared. Terrified, actually. Of my own feelings, of Luca's reaction, of losing control, of wanting something this badly.But I was more terrified of losing her.She hadn't answered a single call. Hadn't responded to any of my texts. Three days of complete radio silence.Elena had called me this morning, her voice tight with worry."Mr. Theon, I'm concerned about Myra. She hasn't left her room in days. She's not eating. I've tried talking to her but she won't open the door. I think... I think something's very wrong."I'd dropped everything and left immediately.Now I was pulling through the gates of our estate, my heart pounding so hard I could feel it in my throat.The house was dark except for a few lights. I parked and practically ran to the front door, letting myself in."Myr
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Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY TWO"TO THOSE GIRLS WHO FEEL THEY ARE NEVER ENOUGH, IT WOULD BE OKAY."MYRADay three.Or was it day four? I'd lost track somewhere between the messages that wouldn't stop coming and the blade that had become too familiar in my hand.I was sitting on the bathroom floor again. My usual spot now. The tiles were cold against my back, grounding me in a way nothing else could. My phone was face down beside me, still buzzing periodically with calls and texts I wouldn't answer.Zyran had called seventeen times yesterday. Eighteen the day before. I'd counted.I didn't answer any of them.What was the point? He'd say he was sorry. He'd make excuses. He'd tell me it was complicated, that he was trying to do the right thing, that I needed to understand the situation.I was tired of understanding.I was tired of everything.My thigh was a mess now. New cuts layered over old ones, some still healing, some fresh from this morning. I'd stopped being careful about placement. Stopped worrying about whethe
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Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY ONE“I AM SO FUCKING STUPID.”ZYRAN.I couldn't focus.The meeting had been going on for forty-five minutes and I'd absorbed maybe ten percent of what was being said. Something about territory disputes in Brooklyn, expanding our operations into New Jersey, dealing with the Serpents who were getting bold again after we'd blown up their main warehouse last month.Important stuff. Stuff that normally would have my full attention.But all I could think about was her.Myra. And then I'd left her with nothing but a fucking note."Zyran? You with us?"I looked up to find Cristian staring at me from across the table, one eyebrow raised. The conference room at our Manhattan headquarters was full—all the core Kingsmen members. Luca was to my left, Lorenzo was across from me taking notes, Nikolai was slouched in his chair looking bored as always. "Yeah," I said. "I'm here.""Could've fooled me," Nikolai muttered. "You've been staring at that same page for twenty minutes."I looked down at the repo
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIXTY THREEAva's Pov The past two months had been a blur of quiet miracles. The doctors kept using words like “against all odds” and “fighter,” and they weren’t just talking about me. My little one had held on with a stubbornness I was sure came from their father. We’d survived.And Dante… he had become my shadow, my guardian, my slightly overbearing, incredibly loving fortress. I couldn’t so much as pick up a throw pillow without him swooping in.“Ava! What are you doing?” his voice, laced with panic, had echoed through the living room just last week.I’d frozen, a light blanket in my hands. “I… was going to put this on the couch?”He’d crossed the room in three long strides, gently taking the blanket from me. “No. No carrying things. You rest.” His hands had then come to rest on the small, firm curve of my belly. Our baby bump. It was there, a perfect, beautiful swell that made my heart ache with a love so fierce it was terrifying.“Dante, it’s a blanket,” I’d laughed, but I leaned into his to
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIXTY TWODante's Pov The only sound in the room was the soft, steady beep of the heart monitor. Each beep was a tiny anchor, proof that she was still fighting, still here with me. Ava looked so small in the white hospital bed, her skin pale against the stark sheets. Tubes and wires snaked from her arms, and a large bandage was taped to her side, a brutal reminder of the hole that monster had put in her.I held her limp hand, my thumb stroking over her knuckles. It was cold.“Why didn’t you tell me, baby?” I whispered, my voice rough from lack of sleep and unshed tears. I leaned closer, my forehead almost touching her arm. “Why didn’t you tell me about the baby?”The memory of finding out slammed into me all over again, a fresh wave of pain.---It was chaos when we got to the hospital. I was covered in her blood, shouting at the doctors, my voice cracking. They rushed her into surgery, and I was left in the stark, bright hallway, my hands stained red. I couldn’t breathe. The image of her fall
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIXTY ONEAva's Pov The morning sun was warm on my skin as we walked hand-in-hand along a secluded coastal path. It was our last full day in Santorini, and Dante had wanted to show me a hidden cove he’d found. The path was narrow, winding through fragrant wild thyme and crumbling stone walls, with the turquoise sea glittering far below. It was just us. No guards, no men. Just the two of us and the sound of the cicadas.“I still think we should have brought someone,” I murmured, even though I loved the privacy.“And have them listen to me try to convince you to go swimming with me?” Dante teased, squeezing my hand. “No, thank you. This is just for us.”I leaned into his side, feeling safe and utterly content. The secret I carried felt like a warm, humming light inside me. Tonight. I would tell him tonight.We rounded a bend, and the cove came into view—a perfect, tiny crescent of white sand embraced by steep cliffs. It was breathtaking.And then, the world froze.A figure stepped out from behin
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIXTYAva's Pov The gentle sound of waves lapping against the villa’s private dock was my new favorite sound. Two weeks. We’d been in this little slice of heaven in Santorini for two whole weeks, and every day felt more perfect than the last.White buildings with brilliant blue domes clung to the cliffs against a backdrop of the endless, sparkling Aegean Sea. Our villa had its own infinity pool that looked like it spilled right into the ocean. In the mornings, we’d have breakfast on the terrace, surrounded by pots of pink bougainvillea, eating fresh figs and yogurt. Dante would read the news on his tablet, his brow furrowed, and I’d be hunched over my laptop, lines of code glowing on the screen.After the fall of my father’s empire, I needed to build something of my own. Something clean. With Dante’s quiet backing and the contacts he’d vouched for, I was launching my own cyber-security firm. The app I was designing was one of my own steps to a success that didn't invite father for the firs
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Chapter: CHAPTER FIFTY NINEAva's Pov The second Dante's lips touched mine I was lost for words, his kiss was ravaging hungry, we both left the party early just for this to spend time with each other. He didn't waste a single second as we heard the click of our bedroom door, he instantly captured my mouth a hasty hungry kiss directing me towards the bed without breaking the kiss. I moaned softly as he trail his kisses down my neck his teeth grazing against my skin, he was making his mark and I was more than happy to be marked by him. He kissed me again, this time even deeper, I ran my hand through his hair tugging it , he groaned roughly his voice filled with lust and so much passion. Dante kissed like a man starved, he devoured me with so much precision and hunger that equally matched mine, it had been so long since I had sex, I hadn't been with anyone except him since. For five years of being celibate, I was here with him being completely unraveled, bring seen by him but I need more, I need more friction betw
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Chapter: CHAPTER FIFTY EIGHT Ava's Pov The news played on a constant, quiet loop on the large screen in the living room. Financial analysts looked stunned, talking about the "unprecedented collapse" and "catastrophic data loss" within the Cavallaro corporate empire. I sat with a cup of tea, watching it all burn. There was no joy in it, just a cold, quiet satisfaction. A chapter was finally closed. I beat him at his own game.My phone buzzed on the marble countertop. The screen flashed: Denis Cavallaro. I let it ring three times before I answered, saying nothing."You are responsible for this, aren't you?" His voice was a ragged, furious snarl, stripped of all its usual power. "You little brat. Just like your mother. Defiant until the end. I gave you a chance to live, and this is how you repay me?"The mention of my mother was the final spark. Any last shred of doubt or guilt evaporated."Father? No. Sorry, Denis Cavallaro," I said, my voice icy and steady. "You got exactly what you deserved. You know, if I wante
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TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)
“You are mine, Firefly. Only mine, Mine to touch. Mine to kiss. Mine to fuck,,.” he whispered slowly against my neck, my body drenched with the warmth of his breath against my skin, my thighs clenching tighter with every word and claim he utters “If you let another man touch you he dies. I am the gates of hell Firefly, If you walk in I wouldn’t let you leave.”
To Escape her dangerous Ex and fulfil her family’s ultimatum Addison make a deal with her billionaire neighbour “Axel Rex” who unknown to her is a devil with a devastatingly gorgeous face, he proposes a a simple two months contract; she will be his charming plus one to corporate events, important gatherings… and he will provide the build of the boyfriend she wants and her family will accept to keep her obsessive Ex-boyfriend away.
Addison believes his fierce protectiveness over her is just an act for the public, however she’s completely blinded to the real reason: Axel is an Alpha, a descendant from the house of Orion, and she is his mate, he never saw their agreement as a lie, for him it was a step closer to getting her, a step closer to claiming her as his, but will she still be his after knowing who he truly is? Would she choose to stay even with lies? Will what was turning real shatter back to dust? Will their love reign over the curse of his existence?
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Chapter: CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEENADDISON.She opened the door, put her hand gently on my back, and guided me through it.And then she pulled the door closed behind me.The room was extraordinary.I didn't fully take it in immediately — I was looking for him, scanning, and found him at the same moment that the details of the room reached me. Candles everywhere, hundreds of them it seemed, on every surface, casting everything in warm gold. Flowers — white and green and deep red, arranged with care throughout the space. The smell of them mixing with the candle wax and the old stone of the building and underneath everything the faint salt of the sea coming through a window somewhere.And Axel.Standing in the center of it, in a suit — dark, perfectly fitted, the kind of thing he wore when he was being deliberate about something. His hands were at his sides and he was looking at me with an expression that I had seen pieces of before, in different moments, but never quite assembled like this — all of it present at once, no
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Chapter: CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEENADDISONFive months.Five months since we arrived at the estate and I had become an actual werewolf. I had decided to stay somewhere around the end of the second month.It hadn't been a dramatic decision. No single moment where everything crystallized and I made a declaration. It had been more like a gradual, honest acknowledgment of something that was already true — I was happy here. Genuinely, sustainably, specifically happy in a way that had nothing to do with novelty or escape and everything to do with the particular rightness of a place and a life that fit.I had called Devin first.He had been quiet for a long time after I told him, the specific quiet of someone processing something they hadn't expected and were deciding how to receive it. Then he had said, in a voice that was carefully even, "Is this what you want? Not what makes sense, not what's practical. What you actually want.""Yes," I had said.Another silence. "Then okay," he had said. "I'll visit."My mother had been h
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Chapter: CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENADDISON We went outside, Axel walked me through the basics first, which I appreciated even if Khyra was vibrating with impatience. How to let the speed come naturally rather than forcing it. How to distribute my weight differently than I used to. How to feel the difference between human instinct and wolf instinct and let the second one inform the first.I listened carefully.Then we walked to the far end of the lawn and he pointed to the old stone wall at the opposite end, maybe three hundred meters away, the oak tree growing beside it."There," he said. "That's the finish. Ready?"I looked at the distance. Felt Khyra assess it with the particular focused attention of something that had been born knowing how to run."Khyra and I are going to absolutely kick your ass," I said.Axel looked at me. Then at the finish line. Then back at me with an expression I couldn't immediately read. "Who's Khyra?""My wolf," I said. "I named her. Don't be a jealous bean.""I'm not—"I started running.
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Chapter: CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWELEVEADDISONI was glad to be here, back in Axel’s estate in Greece. It was gorgeous as always and even felt fresher and better now. Khyra was absolutely losing her mind and honestly I was too. I know, I thought at her. I know, it's beautiful."Are you alright?" Axel was looking at me."Fine," I said. The gate opened and the estate came into view properly and I stopped thinking about whatever I was going to say next because the estate had that effect on me — that full-stop, breath-catching effect of something that was simply and immediately beautiful.It was large. Significantly larger than I had fully registered the last time — stone walls and old olive trees and the main house sitting at the center of it all with the particular grace of a building that had been designed for the place it was in rather than dropped into it. The grounds rolled away in every direction, the gardens near the house and beyond everything the sea.Just the sea. Enormous and present."Axel," I said."Yes.""Thi
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Chapter: CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENADDISONI called Devin first to tell him about my plans with Axel, I chose him because it was just so much easier. I had sat on my sofa with my phone and my coffee , in a mug I was holding with very deliberate care — and called my brother and told him I was going to Greece for a few weeks, that I needed some time away, that everything was fine but I just needed space and quiet and the particular kind of reset that only came from being somewhere that wasn't this city for a while.Devin had said, after about four seconds of silence, "Is Axel going with you?""Yes.""Okay." And that had been essentially the whole of his reservation. "Take care of yourself. Call me when you get there.""That's it?" I said. "That's all you want to know?""Addie," he said, with the calm of someone who had spent thirty years being the most emotionally intelligent person in a family that didn't value emotional intelligence, "you sound better than you've sounded in months. I don't need the details. Just call
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Chapter: CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TENAXELI knew it was starting before she said anything. I had taken her to her room, she had fallen asleep against my chest sometime in the early hours, her breathing slow and even, and I had stayed awake the way I always stayed awake when something important was happening The mark on her neck had settled into a clean line, already beginning the process that would take weeks to complete, the bond deepening from the point of contact outward through her system like roots finding water.I had watched her sleep and felt something so large and so complete that I didn't have a word for it. Just held it. Let it be whatever it was.Around dawn she shifted against me and made a small sound that was not quite discomfort and not quite pain but somewhere in between, and I was already sitting up before she was fully awake."Hey," I said. "I've got you."She opened her eyes. Looked at me. And I could see it already — something was different. Not dramatically, not yet. But her eyes were slightly brig
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