Chapter: AlwaysLAYLA Three years have gone by. Three years of power, pain and achievement.I still find it hard to believe how far we've come, sometimes, especially when I wake up to Adrielle's laughter reverberating down the hallway or feel Del's arms encircling me before the sun comes up. It feels unreal like waking up in a life that I was previously forbidden to have. After the truth was revealed after Kaelan and Faelan were engulfed by the very shadows they once controlled and after their own greed destroyed them, I did more than simply survive. I remembered how they had paid for their crimes, Kaelan had drunk poison, too proud to go to jail like his brother.Aurelia was never seen again, she just vanished.I never went back to the girl who had pleaded to be heard and seen. They couldn't stop me from returning like a storm. I didn't stop there either. I reshaped what they had burned, not just rebuilt it.All of the laws, customs and walls that once made me feel less than were destroyed and re
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Chapter: Bitter forgiveness LAYLA Aurelia was standing before me. She wasn't looking arrogant or smiling wickedly at me. She simply looks tired. Of what ?She sniffed and that was when I realized that she was crying too. Was this staged or something? Another of her stupid plans? How did she find me here?Her typically bold and sharp makeup was hardly visible. She appeared to have been crying for days because of the swollen red and puffy lids on her eyes. I remained motionless.with a wet cloth in one hand and my heart pounding in my ears.Neither the queen nor rival was making an entrance. This was a completely different matter. Aurelia took one trembling breath before falling to her knees before me on Mama Dena's creaking wooden floor.“I came to say I'm sorry.” She said in a whisper.My heart beat erratically. I was silent at first. I asked the only question I could think of.“What do you want?” I said in a low voice“To tell you the truth,” She replied in a raw voice. With wet lashes and glossy eyes she g
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Chapter: A shadow at the door LAYLA I couldn't remember who came to my rescue. I had fainted from the cold that night in the blizzard following Adrielle's kidnap. With my body too weak to move, I had encircled my body with my arms. Half of my body, buried by snow. In the distance, I could hear wolves howling—low foreboding cries that rose and fell and in my unconsciousness I was wondering if they had come for me too.My breath had been coming in quick frantic gasps until it stopped. Then it was just cold. Then nothing happened. I was rescued though. Someone with powerful arms carefully lifted me out of the snow moving quietly and I didn't know why they chose to help me.“You’re safe now,” someone whispered as they wrapped me softly in thick furs and used trembling hands to brush ice from my face. Their faces were hidden from me. And I felt just warmth. Only safety. I recognized the voice but I trusted it out of instinct. The first thing that hit me with the pain, a stupid headache and I was wishing I had died
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Chapter: Of course, I know DELThe room was quiet, in fact the whole pack was quiet, just the way I wanted it. The quietness meant they I was getting ready to unleash my anger I was planning something that would make my enemies cry, one for which the components had been gathered over several months. And her face appeared each time I closed my eyes. Layla. The night I sent her away her eyes. The disbelief, the suffering. She must have felt so betrayed by this. I had allowed it to happen because I was unaware at the time. But now I did. It hadn't been a sudden revelation. Drop by painful drop, the poison had slowly seeped in. A maid, too inquisitive for her own good, had come to me and I had rewarded her just as we had planned and now she was far away, safe where they wouldn't find her.I had gotten a letter which had all the evidence I needed. A former guard who disappeared after Aurelia revealed she was pregnant reappeared months later, bruised half-mad and eager to tell what he knew. I didn't initially b
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Chapter: A perfect lieAURELIA Soon, it would be time and everything I desired would be mine. I smiled, sipping from my glass as father and his brother discussed.The wine's warmth melted into my throat as it moved down my throat. However, I continued to stare at the door. Holding my breath.Immediately after the door creaked open the room changed. The atmosphere shifted. They'd succeeded. Two men dressed in heavy wet furs came in. Everyone in the room gasped. From the bundle, a tiny muffled cry leaked out. My heart pounded. I stood up. I was afraid not because of the men or the cry but because it was perfect now. Everything was perfect now.Now the sweet plan we had woven together laced with deception and hidden motives was breathing for the first time. The bundle was gently placed in the cradle I had set up in the far corner of the room by the man who stepped forward. Royal crests carved into ivory wood with the finest silks lining the base befitting a princess. My princess. Holding hands behind
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Chapter: My baby and I LAYLA The fire had long since subsided. The only sound left was the crackle of the final ember fighting for air in a frigid room. Adrielle was nestled against my chest as I sat there bundled up in whatever warmth I could find including the hem of my own dress, my cloak and a ragged fur. I was unaware that I had strength until her tiny breaths puffed softly against my skin, the rhythm of her frail life. The storm had slowed down outside. The thick strange silence that followed chaos filled the room and it seemed as though the world was holding its breath. And then I heard it. A pinch. Boots on snow. I went cold. One more step this time closer. And further. Multiple sets.m, consciously and heavy. I knew instantly that something wasn't right. I gasped. My arms automatically clenched around my daughter. After a sharp kick the front door which was barely supported by its rusted hinges shook and then flew open.Shadows appeared as the wind screamed into the space. A trio of them, f
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Chapter: The Woodsman's DiscoveryYvette's PovThe penthouse was too still without him.I was in the kitchen, pain au chocolat dusted with crumbs on the plate, and the silence was rattling in my ears. Joachim had been gone twenty minutes already, and just like that the space felt different—less alive, less humming with that electric charge that followed him like cologne.Stop it. You're not falling for him. This is fake. All of that.But wherever he had been, and whatever it was he was doing, he brushed fingers against my fingers, and I still tingle from that touch getting me the pastry. My ear was still burning from the feel of his breath when heʼd come close.I shook myself. Focus. I had work to do actual work, not pining after some guy who was paying me to pretend I loved him.Except…I had been living here for three weeks and I hadn’t really ever seen most of the penthouse. Joachim kept certain doors locked. His study. His bedroom (the real, his real one not the guest room we pretended was “ours” for show).And I
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Chapter: Blood and Briefs Joachim's POVI fixed my cufflinks in the hallway mirror, the sterling silver reflecting the morning light that was pouring through the windows in the penthouse. Behind me, I heard Yvette bustling through the kitchen — her mind a jumbled orchestra of coffee, coffee, need coffee and why is he psychotically organizing coffee mugs by size?I grinned. A little.“Looking for something, darling?” I shouted without turning around.A door banged shut. "Your OCD-ass mug collection is about to meet my fist.""Violence before caffeine.”She was standing in the doorway, her hair in a messy bun, in one of my dress shirts that had buttons down the front and hummed perfectly against my mid-thigh. My dress shirt. The sight of her did a regrettable thing to my chest that I immediately turned away from.But I wondered where she had seen it but I said nothing."Do you know what else is on-brand?" She wagged a finger at me. "You drink my oat milk. Again."“I don’t drink milk, Yvette. I don’t drink anyth
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Chapter: Yes, My lordHis absurdly large monitor displayed CityPulse Online with our faces splattered across the digital page beneath the headline Billionaire Recluse Sighted with Sunshine Incarnate. I was the sunshine it seems. Because half the city believed our brief romance was real, the comments section was a veritable goldmine of conjecture. I was acting like a publicist while the fake couple deceived everyone. I didn't know he had walked into his office as I continued to smile and feel the warmth of the moment sink into my chest.He held a parcel which he concealed from me.“Just a regular delivery,” he sighed and walked slowly towards me, perhaps to resume what he couldn't finish and I closed my eyes anticipating the kiss when the sharp tap-tap echoed throughout the penthouse again. He was a statue the next minute. The cool aristocratic stillness he wore like armor took the place of the warmth that had been on his face. He became
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Chapter: The first half smile It was as if I had just fled a combat zone with well-placed compliments and courteous smiles used in place of bullets.“Remind me never to agree to a breakfast charity again,” I muttered as my fingers struggled with my emerald silk dress’s absurdly tight collar. The outfit felt more like a finely tailored straitjacket after three hours of playing the adoring girlfriend even though it had looked gorgeous in the boutique. “Remind me never to attend one with you again,” Joachim said behind me. The fact that he had just spent those three hours feigning intense love for the benefit of New York’s elite was not particularly hinted at by the low languid current of his voice. I was about to say something wicked to him when the memory of the previous hours came into my head.The grounding weight of his possessive hand which had been there since we got out of the car was still resting on the small of my back. Nothing more than a c
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด: 2025-10-16
Chapter: Breakfast at Waldorf He extended his hand to me in the midst of the camera’s constant staccato of dazzling white light, I had a moment of vertigo when I realized that the man who had just hours before kissed me until I was out of breath, whose touch had felt like a brand against my skin was now a stranger dressed in a fitted suit. At first, I thought this place was in my dream, a place where I couldn't dare imagine, because tell me how on earth a place like this existed and I wasn't aware. It was a place not just for the rich but for old money. Joachim's hand gently graced my back like I was his prizes possession. An exquisitely chosen item to adorn his arm. We were a masterwork of trickery because with a single misstep or glance the hungry press would eat us alive. I, Yvette Moreno, his sophisticated art curator fiancée and Joachim Knight the elusive billionaire who was finally apprehended had to be the ideal couple. A match made in heaven for public relations profes
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Chapter: An expensive morning Yvette's pov The penthouse. His penthouse. His god-damned penthouse, I shut my eyes, the early morning sun hitting my face as memories of last night came flooding back. I groaned and the images of his sexy lips and dark eyes filled my head. His eyes held somethings hot.Not anger though. It was something much more dangerous: a fleeting recognition of the conflict that was going on between us. “Not today, please.” I groaned.However, my treacherous brain ignored it. Every moment was replayed in agonizing detail like a movie on repeat. His blue eyes, it was the eyes that held me in place like a statue , the way he stared at me like I was a temptation, something forbidden he shouldn't touch.The man who owned it was perfectly reflected in everything, whether it was black white or grey. Days earlier, he had left me lilies which provided the only burst of color. I should have sent them back to him.Rather li
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Chapter: ARE YOU AN OMEGA?~Soren~The words pulled the ceremony down like a tsunami. From every side, there are gasps, Rebecca covers her mouth and Felix stiffens.“That’s impossible,” Alpha Donovan mutter, but his voice seems to empty. Now he’s looking at me, really looking at me like he is just seeing me and I can see him thinking. The pieces clicking together in his head."It's true," calls out one more voice. An elder from Rebecca's pack. “I know people in her father’s pack. The registration is clear. Omega designation, suppressed presentation, but omega nonetheless."Lie, I'm sure he doesn't know my father. "No," says Georgina, standing up, her voice is shrill. "That's - she's beta, like me. Impossible!""She's omega," the first elder insists. “Her father was omega. The bloodline is documented.The amphitheatre explodes. All talking at once, some on their feet, some shrinking back in their seats as if they might catch whatever I’ve got by proximity.Rebecca turns to me her face is pale. “Soren? Is it
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Chapter: THE CEREMONY~Soren~Two days.Two days of Felix dodging me. Two days of him and Rebecca, smiling for pictures, nodding to the venue arrangements, playing the perfect future Alpha.Two days of slowly rotting to death at my core.At last, he came to my room this morning.I was getting dressed—or trying to. My hands were shaking so much I couldn't zip up the ceremonial gown they'd given me, Lunar Witness white. Pure and innocent and mockingly virginal."Soren." His voice was hollow. "We need to talk."I never looked back. I couldn't stand to look at him."I tried everything," he said. "I went to my father. Told him I needed to delay. He threatened to disown me. I thought of reaching out to other Alphas about breaking the pact. It would be an act of war against Rebecca's pack,” he said. His voice cracked. “I don’t see any way out for me that’s not going to cost everybody everything.”"So you're going through with it.""I have to." Two words. They were small and devastating."Get out.""Soren, pleas
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Chapter: DESPERATE NEED~Soren~I fix my makeup as well as I can. The puffiness around my eyes will never go down completely, but at least I don’t look like I just had my soul ripped out, this time by my mother.Although I did.I make my way back to the dining room, and everyone is already sat down. Rebecca is laughing at something Felix’s father said and I feel like jumping into a hole.I sit down heavily at the end of the table. Away from Felix, away from Rebecca, away from everyone.Margot serves the first course, and as she places my plate, she whispers: “I’m so sorry, Miss Soren.”Great. The staff pity me now.Dinner is torture, course after course of expensive food I can’t taste, conversation I can’t follow. Rebecca keeps touching Felix’s arm, and he lets her. He doesn’t pull away, doesn’t even flinch.Maybe Georgina was right.Maybe I am nothing.“Soren?” Alpha Marcus speaks to me, and everyone turns to look. “Rebecca tells me you played a large role in arranging the ceremony. Very gracious of you no
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Chapter: CHAPTER 41: THE DRESS~Soren~ I stay the rest of the morning in my room, crying until my eyes are puffy. At noon, Margot knocks on the door lightly. “Miss Soren? The Presentation dinner is in two hours. Your mother insists you wear something appropriate ” I pull myself to the shower, letting the hot water wash away the tear stains. When I’m done, I face my closet and look at my stash of hoodies and jeans. Nothing worthy here. A know comes through. “Soren?” It’s Indie's voice. “May we come in?” I open the door. Indie, Jazz, and Kyle are there, with makeup, a garment bag, and guilty expressions. “We just heard about the Presentation dinner,” Jazz says cautiously. “Thought you might need backup.” "I don't want to go." "I know, babe. But you have to. " Indie pushes past me gently. “So let’s at least make you look gorgeous while you’re suffering through it.” They work on me like I’m a doll, concealer to cover up the crying, hair styled in soft waves. “Now the dress,” Jazz says, unz
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Chapter: SOMEONE ELSE BUT NOT YOU~Soren~ 2:00 AM. My feet are already moving before my brain processes it. The garage is looming ahead, a single light shining through. He is there, straddling his bike, his helmet in his hand, clad completely in black. When he spots me, a wave of relief so complete that it almost cracks me washes over his face. "Thank God," he breathes as he steps off it. "I thought —" He halts, looking into my face. "What's wrong?" I exhale. "I'm scared, do you think we are doing the right thing? Maybe it's just ....." “Just what? Just biology? Just chemistry?” His laugh is bitter, broken. “So, is that what you think this is?” “I don’t know what to think anymore!” He’s already closed the distance between us in two strides when his hands cup my face, compelling me to look up at him. “I love you,” he says, his voice raw. “Not because of the mate bond. Not because of some cosmic joke. I love you ‘cause you're courageous and broken and breathtaking,” he says. “Because you make me w
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Chapter: PRIMAL NEED~Soren~ I shouldn't be here, I tell myself. It’s 11:00 A.M and I’m standing in Felix's door in nothing but his t-shirt, which I stole, and panties which are already wet with sweat just from walking down the hall. The bond is taunting me, tormenting me, shattering me and I can no longer fight it. I knock once and the door opens. Felix is shirtless, sweatpants sagging painfully low, liquid gold in his eyes and his wolf is right there at the surface. “Soren.” he whispers, checking the hallway. “What are you—” I don’t let him finish. I cup his face and kiss him, hard and desperate. He makes a sound -- surprised, hungry -- and then his hands are on me, dragging me inside, slamming the door. He tears the t-shirt off mine in one swift motion, the cotton ripping. Then his mouth was on my breast, hot and wet, sucking at my nipple so hard I was crying out. His teeth skims the sensitive peak before sucking again, harder this time, his hand is massaging my other breast harshly. H
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