Chapter: Chapter 160Chapter 160 Ethan I sat in the passenger seat of Jovian’s dad’s car with both hands locked around my phone so hard my knuckles had gone white. The air inside the car felt thick enough to choke on. Every time I tried to take a normal breath it got stuck halfway down my throat. He drove with one hand resting easy on the wheel and the other lying quiet on his own thigh like this was just another Saturday afternoon drive. He was not yelling. He was not even looking angry. He was treating me like some kid who had snuck out after curfew and now needed a calm talking-to.“You ran,” he said, voice low and even, eyes on the road. “You grabbed my son and the two of you took off like that was going to fix anything. That was a mistake, Ethan. Naughty boys who make mistakes get corrected. You understand that, right?”I kept my eyes on the dashboard because looking at him made the panic worse. “ I didn’t grab that psycho som of yours, he took off before I did. Also, I didn’t know what the deal
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Chapter: Chapter 159Chapter 159 Aiden Waking up was not a sudden moment. It was a slow, agonizing drag back into a body that felt completely shattered.When my eyes finally fluttered open, the room was wrapped in a suffocating darkness and a bitter, biting cold. My instinct was to pull the blanket up over my shivering shoulders, but when my hand reached out, it found nothing. The sheets were completely gone. The mattress beneath me was bare, rough, and cold against my exposed skin. The space beside me was empty, carrying a terrifying stillness, like no human being had ever been there at all.I tried to sit up, but the moment I shifted my weight, a sharp wave of white-hot pain shot straight through my lower body. A gasp tore from my throat as I collapsed back onto the bare mattress, my heart wildly hammering against my ribs.Everything hurt. My thighs were trembling uncontrollably, unable to hold any strength. My wrists were raw, marked with deep red indentations where leather had bitten into my skin. A
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Chapter: Chapter 158Chapter 158Chris I went to the bathroom and ran warm water over a washcloth. I came back and knelt between his legs. The bar still held him open. I pressed the warm cloth against his hole and he flinched, a sharp intake of breath."I know. Be still."I cleaned him gently, wiping away the blood, the lube, the mess I'd made. His hole was swollen, angry red, but the bleeding had already slowed to a stop. I cleaned him until the cloth came away mostly pink, then just wet. He was shaking through all of it, making small sounds every time the warmth hit his skin.I tossed the cloth aside and looked at him.Blindfold wet. Chest marked with bites and wax and my mouth. His nipples red and swollen from my teeth. His cock soft and spent against his thigh. And between his legs, the evidence of how far I'd pushed him."I'm not sorry," I said quietly. "You needed this. You needed to know that I can take you apart. That I will take you apart. That there's nothing you can do to stop me when I decide
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Chapter: Chapter 157Chapter 157ChrisI watched him shake for a while. The plug was still locked in, the spreader bar still holding him open, the blindfold still wet against his face. He was breathing in these short, broken gasps, chest heaving, the nipple rings catching the dim light every time his ribs expanded. He looked wrecked. He looked perfect.But I wasn't done.The branding thought had been sitting in my chest all night, that quiet wish for something permanent, something that would stay even after the marks faded. I knew I wouldn't do it. Not really. But the wanting made me hungry in a way that needed an outlet.I reached down and unclipped the strap that held the plug to the bar. He made a small sound when I pulled it free, something between relief and fear. Then I wrapped my hand around the base and pulled it out slowly, watching his hole stretch around the widest part before it slipped free with a wet sound. He gasped. His body clenched around nothing."heyy, please...""Please what?"I didn'
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Chapter: Chapter 156Chapter 156 Chris I dragged the ice up over his balls, over the soft mess of his cock that was starting to fill again even though he had already come. He hissed. I did the same to the other side, then back down to the plug, pressing the cube against the place where silicone met skin. His stomach jumped. The rings on his chest rose and fell faster.I set the ice aside and reached for the wax tin again. The warmer had kept it soft. I dripped a thin line across his lower stomach, just above where the plug sat. He sucked in a hard breath. The heat after the ice made him shake. I dripped more, careful lines that ran toward the base of the plug. One drop landed right on the stretched rim. He cried out.“You feel the difference,” I said. “Your body does not know which way to go. That is the point. I decide hot or cold. I decide how open you stay. You do not get a vote.”I sprayed the menthol mist next, light across his open thighs, across the wax trails, across the wet skin around the plug
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Chapter: Chapter 155Chapter 155 Chris I kept my hand on his hip and stayed right there between his legs. The bar held him open like it was made for this. His hole was still shiny from earlier, a little swollen, clenching every few seconds around nothing now that my fingers were out. He was breathing hard, chest rising fast, the rings on his nipples catching the light every time he pulled air in. Blindfold damp. Wrists locked behind him. He looked like he belonged exactly where I put him.I leaned in close again, mask almost brushing his ear.“You heard me. I am nowhere near finished.”He made a small sound, half protest, half something else. I ignored it. I shifted down, settled between his forced-open thighs, and put my mouth back on him.I licked a slow stripe right over his hole. He jerked hard against the bar. The metal stopped him from closing anything. I did it again, slower, pressing my tongue flat and dragging it up, tasting the leftover mess from before. He was already wet but I wanted him wet
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Chapter: Chapter 185Alex The shame twisted harder. I wanted to scream that it had been my decision. That I had been the one in charge. That every touch had happened because I said so. But the words stuck. Under the bright lights with half a dozen people watching it did not feel like control anymore. It just felt like I had been caught.“You do not get to talk about that,” I said. My voice came out quieter than I wanted. “You were not in there. You do not know what it was like.”“I know enough,” Lily said. “I know you were trapped. I know the air was running out. I know they confessed and then the walls started coming down. And I know what I saw when we broke through. Do not try to dress it up as something else.”Lila finally spoke. Her voice was careful.“Maybe we should get them out of here first. The medics are waiting up top. We can talk about this later.”“No,” Lily said. “We talk about it now while it is still fresh. Because if I walk away from this without saying it I am going to explode.” She poi
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Chapter: Chapter 184Alex The beam of a flashlight cut straight through the dust and hit us dead on.I froze with my hands still on them and theirs still on me. Jax’s face was flushed dark under the sudden light. Damien’s eyes were wide and locked on mine like he could not look anywhere else. My shirt was half off. Their jackets were on the wet floor. Everything that had felt private and mine in the dark was right there in the open for whoever held that light to see.More lights flooded in. Voices shouted. Boots scraped concrete. It was not one person. It was a whole team tearing the sealed entrance apart.Lily stepped through first. Lila was right behind her. Lily’s flashlight beam stayed fixed on the three of us for a long second that felt like it lasted a year. Her face went blank, then twisted into pure horror mixed with disgust. She looked at me, then at Jax, then at Damien, then back at me again.“What the hell did I just walk in on?”Her voice was sharp and loud enough that the rest of the team st
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Chapter: Chapter 183Alex “Anything. Tell me how many times you wanted to run after that night and didn’t.”He was quiet for a few seconds. “Every day for the first year. Then I stopped counting because running would have meant never seeing you again and I couldn’t do that.”“That’s not a good reason.”“I know. It’s just the true one.”Jax spoke without looking at me. “I stayed because I thought if I controlled enough of your life I could make up for the part I broke. Turns out that just broke more of it.”“Yeah. It did.”Another long shake. This one brought water higher. It reached our boots. The cold climbed my legs. I shifted closer without meaning to. Damien’s arm was right there and I grabbed the sleeve of his shirt instead of his skin. He let me. Did not move. Did not comment.The air was bad enough now that talking took more effort. My words came slower. “If this is it, I need you both to hear something.”“We’re listening,” Jax said.“I meant what I said earlier. No more secrets. No more deciding
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Chapter: Chapter 182Alex I kept moving even when the air started to taste wrong. The last turn brought us into a dead end chamber that looked like it used to be some kind of old storage space for pipes and broken equipment. Jax hit the far wall first and spun around with his light up. Damien came in right behind me and the second he cleared the entrance the whole thing started coming down. Rocks and concrete poured in from both sides. The noise was so loud I felt it in my teeth. When the dust settled enough to see anything the way we came in was gone. Completely sealed. No light from the other side. No sound of boots anymore. Just us and the slow drip of water and the way the air already felt thinner.Jax kicked at the pile once and then stopped. “That’s it. We’re boxed in.”Damien’s voice was flat. “Victor’s men sealed both ends like the message said. They knew exactly where we were.”I leaned against the wall because my legs still felt useless after everything that had come out of their mouths earli
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Chapter: Chapter 181Alex The second explosion hit harder than the first one. The whole tunnel shook and dust poured down from the ceiling like someone had kicked a bag of flour over our heads. Pieces of concrete broke off and smacked the floor around our feet. The emergency lights flickered once, twice, then half of them died completely. The ones that stayed on turned a weak yellow and made everything look sick.I did not wait for anyone to tell me what to do. I just started moving. My legs still felt like they belonged to someone else after everything that had just come out of their mouths, but standing still was not an option. Jax pushed past me without a word and took the lead like he always did. I kept my eyes locked on the back of his head the entire time. I was not letting him get more than three steps ahead of me. Not after what I had just heard. Not after what he had admitted.Damien stayed close on my right side. He was quieter than I had ever heard him. His face looked empty, like someone ha
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Chapter: Chapter 180Alex I stopped walking in that dark tunnel and turned around so fast both of them almost ran into me. The emergency lights were low and yellow and the air smelled like wet concrete and old pipes. My chest felt tight enough to crack.“Say it again,” I said. “Say exactly what your father just told the whole estate.”Damien’s face had gone white. Jax’s mouth was open but nothing came out at first.“Alex,” Damien started.“No. You do not get to soft talk me right now. He said you two were there the night I got drugged. He said Jax put something in my drink. He said you touched me first and then Jax did too. He called it rape. So I want to hear it from your mouths, not from a loudspeaker, Damien I know you had sex with me but you said it was consensual, you told me you never meant to and had no idea how it happened!.”Jax dragged a hand down his face. “It was not….”“Do not finish that sentence with ‘it was not like that.’” My voice came out sharper than I meant. “I remember pieces. I re
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Chapter: Chapter 51Rowan I burst through the main gates with Areum limp in my arms, his head lolling against my shoulder like dead weight, skin clammy and way too pale, every shallow breath he took hitting me like a punch because fuck, he looked half-gone already, that void-pain thing eating him from the inside even while he was out cold. The compound was buzzing, pack members clustered everywhere some on the steps, some spilling out from the mess hall, all staring, whispers flying fast and ugly the second they saw us. "Rowan actually did it, raided the bastards?" "Heard the Luna took the curse hit, idiot hero move." "Who's the girl? And that smug fucker trailing her like he owns the place?" I didn't stop, just barked over my shoulder at the nearest betas, "Clear the infirmary room now! Get the doc here, he's crashing hard!" One of them jumped, scrambling, "On it, alpha!" but the murmurs kept coming, louder, angrier, "We lost three good ones out there for what? A fake Luna and her babysitter?" "Yeah,
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Chapter: Chapter 50~Rowan~We sat there in that stuffy room for what felt like forever after he dropped his bomb about using Elara as a stand-in, me, Jace, Niki, and him hashing out the details like we were planning a heist instead of trying to save our asses from a pack meltdown, and yeah, it was tense, everyone throwing ideas back and forth, Jace cracking stupid jokes to lighten the mood but nobody really laughing because this was serious shit, life-or-death serious, and I kept glancing at Areum, his face all determined but eyes showing that flicker of hurt like he hated the idea of hiding but knew it was the only play."Alright, so Elara it is," Jace said finally, rubbing his hands together like he was excited, "but how do we get her without starting a full-blown war with her dad's pack? Because that's exactly what we don't want, right, more enemies?" I nodded, leaning back, arms crossed, "Yeah, but think about it, a mini war with them is better than civil war here, at least it's external, we can con
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Chapter: Chapter 49AreumI sat on the edge of the bed with my hands locked together so tight my fingers hurt, staring at absolutely nothing, thinking about everything at the same time, which was my least favorite mental activity because it always ended with either a headache or me saying something unhinged out loud and Rowan giving me that look like he loved me but was also preparing for chaos.Rowan kept pacing. He paced like a man whose world was one bad sentence away from exploding, boots hitting the floor too hard, turning too sharp, muttering under his breath like the walls personally offended him.“Stop pacing,” I said.“I can’t,” he snapped.“You’re going to wear a hole in the floor.”“I’ll replace the floor.”“That’s not the point.”He stopped suddenly and looked at me, eyes sharp, jaw tight, and for a second the room felt too small for the amount of tension sitting between us.“They know,” he said.“There won’t be an issue if the Elder does not open his mouth.”I exhaled through my nose, lean
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Chapter: Chapter 48Areum's POVI was curled up in the corner of the hall, knees to my chest, because being me meant that every five minutes the universe decided it was hilarious to put me in a position where I could either scream or pass out, and honestly, both sounded equally appealing right now. My chest was tight, my breaths coming too fast and too short, and I could feel Rowan right there beside me, his presence like a damn steel wall I wanted to cling to but also punch because panic doesn’t care about logic.The guard, yes, that idiot, the one who had eyes like a squirrel on meth and clearly no concept of personal boundaries was back, and I swear I could feel his smug grin all the way from here. He looked like he had just realized he might have actually screwed up, and I was supposed to find sympathy for him? Nope. Not today. Not ever.“Areum,” Rowan’s voice cut through the chaos, low and rough and terrifyingly calm, and I swear I almost lunged at him like a lifeline. “Look at me.”I tried. I real
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Chapter: Chapter 47~Areum~“Good.”“You sure?”I twisted my head, glared at him over my shoulder even though tears were running down my face now not sad tears, just overload. “If you stop I will literally murder you. Keep going.”He stared at me another second really looked. Then something shifted in his expression. Not softer. Hungrier. Like he finally understood.“Okay,” he said quietly. “Okay.”The next hit wasn’t with his hand.He doubled the belt over in his fist, snapped it once against his own palm like he was testing. The crack made me flinch.Then he brought it down across my ass.I screamed full-throated, broken. Fire streaked across skin. My whole body locked up, then shuddered hard.“Again,” I choked out.He did. Twice more. Each one landing exactly where the last one had so the pain stacked. I was shaking now, ass on fire, wrists throbbing, cock so hard it hurt worse than the belt.Rowan dropped to his knees behind me suddenly, mouth on the welts hot, wet, soothing. Licking over the marks
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Chapter: Chapter 46~Areum~The knot finally went down enough that I could peel myself off Rowan without feeling like my guts were being yanked out backward, but the second I tried to roll away, another cramp hit like someone kicked me square in the lower belly. Not the slow build this time straight-up vicious, made my vision tunnel and my thighs clamp together so hard I nearly crushed his dick still half-inside me.“Fuck fuck fuck,” I hissed through my teeth, curling forward until my forehead smacked his collarbone. “Not done. Not even close. Why is this heat trying to murder me today?”Rowan’s arms came around me instantly, big hands sliding up my back like he could hold the cramps in place with sheer willpower. “Breathe, Luna. I got you.” His voice was wrecked, hoarse from all the begging and groaning, but still stupidly gentle. It pissed me off how much I liked it.“Don’t ‘Luna’ me right now,” I snapped, shoving at his chest even though I didn’t actually want him to let go. “I’m not in the mood for
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