Chapter: Chapter 193Thalasa POVI couldn’t breathe as I stared at Karen, my mind refusing to accept what my eyes were seeing, because everything about this moment felt unreal in a way that made it impossible to process. My chest rose and fell, but no air seemed to reach me, and my hands hovered near him as if I was afraid that touching him would confirm the truth I was desperately trying to deny. He wasn’t moving, he wasn’t breathing, and no matter how long I stared, nothing changed.Then I heard it.Cynthia was laughing.The sound filled the space around us, sharp and careless, and it didn’t stop. It wasn’t nervous or forced, it was real, like she genuinely found something amusing in everything that had just happened. That sound hit me harder than anything else, echoing in my ears until it drowned out every other thought, and when I turned to look at her, I realized I didn’t recognize her anymore.Or maybe I never did.Something inside me gave way, not in a loud or dramatic way, but in a quiet, final wa
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Chapter: Chapter 192Thalasa POVI was still holding Karen, my hands trembling against his face, my mind refusing to settle, when a sharp sound cut through everything. It wasn’t loud, but it was sudden and clean, the kind of sound that didn’t belong in the middle of everything I was feeling, and it snapped my head up instantly.My eyes landed on Kael.For a second, I didn’t understand what I was seeing.His arm was extended, his grip steady, and his sword had gone straight through his brother’s body. The blade had pierced deep into his chest, and the look on his brother’s face shifted from confidence to something else entirely. His lips parted slightly, but no words came out, only a weak breath as his body jerked from the impact.Blood followed slowly, dark and thick, sliding down the blade.“Kael—!” I screamed, the sound tearing out of my throat before I could stop it. I pushed myself up immediately, my body moving without thinking, my mind only focused on reaching them.But I didn’t get far.Something s
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Chapter: Chapter 191Thalasa POV“No… no, that’s not true,” I said, the words coming out too fast, too desperate, like if I said it quickly enough it would become real. My eyes stayed locked on Cynthia, searching her face for anything that would tell me this was some kind of misunderstanding. “He’s lying. Kael just wants to break us apart. That’s what this is. You know how he is.”My voice cracked at the end, and I hated that it did.Cynthia didn’t rush to respond.She didn’t look confused. She didn’t look angry.She just looked… still.And that silence was worse than anything she could have said.“You still don’t get it,” she said finally, her voice low, almost tired.My chest tightened painfully. “Get what?” I asked, my fingers curling into my palms. “Cynthia, say something that actually makes sense because none of this—none of this is adding up.”She looked straight at me then, and there was something in her eyes I had never seen before.“I poisoned him.”The world didn’t shatter all at once. It cracke
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Chapter: Chapter 190Thalasa POVThe door opened slowly, and the moment I saw who stood there, my body went completely still.For a second, my mind refused to understand what my eyes were seeing.Cynthia.She stood at the front, breathing slightly uneven like she had rushed back, her clothes carrying faint traces of dust from the road. Right beside her was her brother, his expression hard and unreadable, his presence filling the doorway like he owned the space. Behind them, more figures stepped into view—Alphas and soldiers, their eyes already locked on Karen, their stance deliberate, controlled, and ready.My chest tightened.They weren’t here by chance.They had come for him.Before I could even react, Cynthia moved.She ran forward quickly, stopping a few steps ahead of them, her voice cutting through the heavy silence. “They saw me,” she said, her words coming out fast, slightly breathless. “They followed me. I didn’t bring them here. They forced me.”Her eyes flickered toward me for just a second, an
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Chapter: Chapter 189Thalasa POVThe moment we stepped inside, I paused.From the outside, the place had been nothing more than a quiet structure hidden between trees, almost too ordinary to notice, but inside… it felt different. The space was small, yes, but everything had been arranged with care. The walls were smooth, the furniture simple but well-crafted, and there was a faint warmth to the place that made it feel lived in, not abandoned. It wasn’t luxurious, but it wasn’t rough either. It was the kind of place someone had built to stay hidden without feeling like they were surviving.I walked further in, my eyes taking everything in slowly. “For a hideout,” I said, letting my fingers brush against the edge of a table, “this is actually nice.”Karen didn’t say anything, but I noticed the slight shift in his shoulders, like something in him had loosened. Cynthia, on the other hand, didn’t look impressed. Her gaze moved across every corner, sharp and alert, like she was measuring the safety of the place
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Chapter: Chapter 188Thalasa POVThe ground felt cold beneath me.Too cold.My body barely responded as I tried to push myself up, but the weight pressing me down was stronger. The wolf’s breath was hot against my skin, its claws still buried deep, and every movement I made only seemed to drag the pain further through me.This was it.The thought came quietly, almost calmly, even as everything else inside me was screaming.I couldn’t win this.My fingers curled weakly against the ground, my vision blurring as the strength drained out of me. The world around me started to fade at the edges, the sounds becoming distant, like I was slipping away from it all.Then—A sharp crack split through the silence.The weight vanished.Just like that.The pressure lifted off my body, and something heavy dropped beside me with a dull thud. For a second, I couldn’t even move. My chest heaved as I forced air back into my lungs, my body shaking as I tried to understand what had just happened.Slowly, I turned my head.The
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Too Late for Regret, Mr. Vale
BetrayalSecond ChanceRegretProtectivePossessiveDecisiveContemporaryFast-Paced PlotDark Romance
Her husband killed her for her inheritance. Reborn three years before her death, she refuses to be the obedient, "useless" wife she once was.
For three years, Ahtisa lived as a submissive wife to Adrian Vale, enduring his coldness and his mother's bitter humiliations. She gave up her career as a police officer and her identity just to support his ambitions. But on the night of their anniversary, the illusion shattered.
She caught Adrian in a hotel room with Isabella the very girl Ahtisa had saved from the streets. Instead of showing remorse, Adrian struck her down, leaving her to bleed out on the floor while they gloated over stealing her late father’s forty-billion-dollar fortune.
As her vision faded, only one man arrived to save her: Lucien Blackwell, the ruthless billionaire she had once personally arrested because of her husband's lies. With her last breath, she vowed to make them pay.
Waking up three years in the past, the docile wife is gone.
Back in the interrogation room on the day of her greatest mistake, Ahtisa refuses to arrest Lucien. Instead, she offers him a dangerous pact: Power for revenge.
When Adrian arrives at the reading of her father's will, expecting her to blindly sign over her fortune, Ahtisa tears the contract to pieces in front of his greedy eyes.
"I won't be transferring a single dime. And I am filing for divorce."
Adrian begs for a second chance. But she is already untouchable with the city's most feared man guarding her from the shadows.
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Chapter: Chapter 15The morning air was cold as I walked through the glass doors of Jehanna Holdings. Elara was right beside me, holding a thick stack of folders against her chest. Every single person in the main lobby stopped what they were doing to watch us walk toward the private elevator. I could feel their eyes on my back, full of curiosity and doubt. They all knew my father had passed away, and they all knew I was a former police officer who had never spent a single day running a major business.When the elevator doors opened on the top floor, the hallway leading to the boardroom was completely silent."Are you ready, Ahtisa?" Elara asked, her voice dropping to a low whisper as we reached the double doors. "The entire board is already inside. They have been talking since eight this morning.""I am ready," I said, keeping my breathing steady. "Where is Mr. Harrison?""He is inside with the others," she said, checking her tablet. "Do you want me to call him out?""No, I will go in and speak to him
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Chapter: Chapter 14I barely slept a wink all night. By six in the morning, I was already in my car, driving down the empty streets toward my office building. My head was pounding, and my eyes felt hot from staring at my phone for hours, hoping for a message from the bank saying the glitch was fixed.When I turned the corner onto the main street where my firm stood, my heart dropped straight into my stomach.There was a crowd of my employees standing out on the pavement. None of them were inside. They were all gathered in small groups, whispering to each other and pointing at the main entrance.I slammed on my brakes, parked the car haphazardly by the side of the road, and threw the door open."What is going on here?" I shouted, pushing my way through the crowd of workers. "Why is everyone standing outside?"My main supervisor looked at me, his face pale. "Mr. Vale, we arrived twenty minutes ago, but we can't get in. Look at the doors."I stepped around him and stopped dead in my tracks. The large glass
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Chapter: Chapter 13The afternoon was slipping away, and I was back at my office desk, staring at a stack of new files. After Adrian left my room, the entire building felt quiet, but I knew the calm would not last very long.My phone buzzed on the desk, and I saw Elara’s name on the screen. I picked it up immediately."Ahtisa, you need to look at your computer right now," Elara said, her voice sounding tight and fast. "I was monitoring the internal mail system for Jehanna Holdings, and something very strange just popped up. An outside email address just sent a private message to Mr. Harrison, one of your father's oldest board members.""Who sent it?" I asked, leaning forward and opening my laptop."It is a private address, but the name attached to the account registration is Isabella Thorne," Elara explained. "I managed to intercept it before it reached Mr. Harrison's inbox. She is trying to leak a story about you."I clicked on the file Elara forwarded to me. My eyes scanned the lines of the email.I
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Chapter: Chapter 12The morning was a complete nightmare. I sat at my desk, staring at three letters that had just been delivered by a courier. They were formal legal notices from my top three suppliers, and the words on the paper made my stomach turn. They were demanding full payment of my outstanding debts by five o'clock this afternoon. If I didn't pay, they were going to freeze my shipping routes and take me to court.I picked up my phone and called Marcus for the tenth time. "Any news from the bank?" I demanded before he could even say hello."Nothing, Adrian," Marcus said, his voice shaking. "They are still running a security check on our accounts. The two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is completely stuck. We cannot move a single dollar out of the firm right now.""We need that cash today!" I shouted, slamming my hand on the desk. "If we don't pay the suppliers, they will shut us down by tonight. Do you understand what that means?""I know, Adrian, but my hands are tied," Marcus whispered.
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Chapter: Chapter 11"What do you mean it is not there?" I shouted into my phone, pacing across the living room floor. "A quarter of a million dollars does not just disappear from an account overnight, Marcus!"On the other end of the line, my finance manager sounded like he was sweating. "Adrian, I am looking at the system right now. The transfer went through on our end at ten last night. But the receiving bank says they never got it. There is no tracking number, no glitch report, nothing. It is like the money vanished into thin air.""Fix it!" I snapped, running my fingers through my messy hair. I hadn't even buttoned my shirt properly, and my jacket was thrown over the back of a chair. "That money needs to be in that account today. Find out where the error is and call me back!"I slammed the phone down on the table, my heart hammering against my ribs. That was a massive amount of cash, and losing it right now was a disaster.My mother was sitting at the dining table, completely rigid. She didn't lo
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Chapter: Chapter 10The clock on the wall showed it was past ten in the evening.Elara sat on the floor of my bedroom, surrounded by stacks of paper. She was checking the numbers on the files from my father's old business, while I sat at the small desk, highlighting the names of people who were still loyal to my family."Ahtisa, look at this one," Elara said, holding up a thick report. "This account has been sending monthly payouts to a marketing firm that doesn't even exist. It has Adrian’s signature on the bottom from two years ago.""Mark it with the red pen, Elara," I said without looking up. "We will need that when we audit the entire logistics department next week."Elara didn't answer right away. I felt her eyes on me, and when I finally looked up, she had stopped working. She was leaning back against the side of the bed, staring at me with a very puzzled look on her face."What is it?" I asked, putting my highlighter down. "Is there a mistake in the numbers?""No, the numbers are clear,"
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Chapter: Chapter 33Calyx povIt was a normal day. Too normal. The kind of quiet that makes your thoughts feel louder than the room itself. I lay on my bed staring at the ceiling, thinking about everything that had become my life here. Every day felt like the same cycle—wake up, watch the guards, obey rules that were not mine, and survive another night. And the only thought that kept repeating in my mind was escape. I didn’t even know where I would go if I ever got out, I just knew I couldn’t stay here forever under Iskander’s control.That was when I felt it.A presence at my door.At first, I thought it was one of the maids. They usually came in without warning, sometimes knocking, sometimes not even bothering at all. Even the guards had gotten too comfortable walking in and out like I didn’t have privacy anymore. But this felt different. No sound. No footsteps announcing arrival. Just silence pressing against the door like something was waiting.I sat up slowly, my eyes fixed on it.A shadow formed
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Chapter: Chapter 32Dragan's POVI sat comfortably in my chair, slowly swirling the wine inside my glass as I stared at the flames dancing inside the fireplace.For years, I had searched for a weakness.Just one.One weakness that belonged to Alpha Iskander.But there had been nothing.Absolutely nothing.The man was powerful, feared, respected, and annoyingly difficult to destroy.Every plan I had ever created ended up failing because Iskander never gave anyone something to use against him. He never cared enough. Never loved enough. Never trusted enough.But now?Now things were different.A slow smile spread across my face as I remembered the information my spy had brought me.A mate.Not only a mate.A mate who hated him.A mate who constantly tried to escape.A mate who wanted absolutely nothing to do with him.For the first time in years, I felt genuinely excited.This was useful.Very useful.The knock on my office door pulled me from my thoughts."Come in."The door opened and a young woman steppe
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Chapter: Chapter 31Calyx pov And then he turned to me.“Get ready. We’re going to the dining table together,” Iskander said calmly. “Take your bath and wear something decent.”I blinked at him, trying to process his words properly. My confusion quickly turned into irritation.“What do you mean?” I asked. “Do you want to watch me bathe, or are you planning to sit in here while I change? Because this room is my space.”He didn’t even hesitate.“I’m not leaving,” he said. “I don’t care. I’ll wait right here. I cannot risk you escaping again.”That sentence hit my brain like a slap.My eyes widened instantly. “You cannot be serious.”But he was. He looked completely serious.I scoffed, shaking my head slightly. “You pervert.”His expression didn’t change.“I am not a pervert,” he said. “You are my mate. You are mine. That means I can see whatever I want. You don’t get to decide boundaries for me.”I stared at him, stunned for a second.What kind of logic was that?My chest tightened in frustration. He said
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Chapter: Chapter 30For years, I had searched for a weak point in Iskander.Any weak point.Something I could use.Something that would finally make him fall.But there was nothing.No cracks. No clear vulnerability. Nothing I could properly exploit. Just a frustrating wall of control, strength, and reputation that made every attempt feel useless.Until now.Now things were finally starting to make sense.Because for the first time, there was something I could actually use against him.A mate.That alone changed everything.If handled correctly, it wasn’t just a weakness. It was leverage.A direct path into his control.I leaned slightly forward in my seat as I spoke.“So,” I said slowly, looking at my beta, “you’re telling me she isn’t from his pack?”My beta nodded immediately.“That’s correct, Alpha.”I exhaled lightly, processing the information.“Good,” I said.That single word carried more satisfaction than I intended to show.“Then I want a full background check,” I continued. “Everything. Where s
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Chapter: Chapter 29Iskander povAfter leaving Calyx’s room, I returned to my courtroom.The atmosphere inside felt familiar again. Controlled. Quiet. Predictable. The kind of silence I usually preferred.I sat down on my chair and leaned back slightly, letting the tension of the situation settle in my mind.But even then, my thoughts didn’t stay still.Calyx. The maid..the letter.The way she had collapsed right in front of everyone.I exhaled slowly, trying to push it aside.That was when my beta entered.He stopped a short distance away from me, watching carefully, like he was studying my expression before speaking.“Why didn’t you kill the maid?” he asked directly. “You don’t usually show mercy. So tell me… why spare her?”I looked at him for a moment before responding.“There was no reason to kill her,” I said calmly. “She didn’t know anything. She wasn’t part of the plan. Calyx manipulated the situation. The maid was simply… misled.”My beta didn’t respond immediately.His eyes stayed on me a littl
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Chapter: Chapter 28Calyx povI wasn’t sure how long I had been unconscious.It felt like a long time.When I finally opened my eyes, the room was quiet, except for a faint sound coming from somewhere nearby. At first, I didn’t understand what it was. My vision was still slightly blurry, and my body felt heavy, like I had been asleep for days.Slowly, I turned my head and noticed a middle-aged woman sitting near a small table in my room. She was carefully mixing something in a bowl, herbs from the smell of it filling the air.I pushed myself up immediately.The memory of the courtroom came rushing back.The maid. The punishment. Her crying. The fear.My chest tightened instantly.I swung my legs off the bed and stood, even though my body still felt weak.Is she alive? Did they execute her?What happened after I passed out?My heart started beating faster as panic set in again.I walked quickly toward the woman.She looked up immediately when she noticed me moving and gave a small, calm smile.“You are aw
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