Chapter: Arrange a Conference~ Thea’s POV"Yes."The single word was a wet, breathless sob that tore its way out of my throat, completely shattering the heavy silence of the hospital room. I didn't care about the catastrophic media scandal, the plummeting stock of Vaughn Enterprises, or the bruised, battered state of my own body. Looking down at the billionaire kneeling on the sterile floor, his clothes ruined and his pitch-black eyes burning with an absolute, unconditional devotion, the answer was the easiest truth I had ever spoken."Yes," I repeated, the tears spilling freely over my lashes and tracking down my pale cheeks. "Yes, Stellan. I will marry you."A ragged, heavy exhale ripped through Stellan’s chest, as if he had genuinely been terrified I might refuse him. The lethal, untouchable Dragon of Wall Street let his head drop forward for a fraction of a second in pure, unadulterated relief, before his dark eyes snapped back up to mine.He didn't waste a single heartbeat.With agonizing care, his large fi
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Chapter: Let's do it like this~ Stellan's POVI stopped breathing. The relentless, deafening roar of the medical machinery, the plummeting stock tickers, the media apocalypse waiting outside the heavy double doors, it all ceased to exist.I looked down at the twenty-one-year-old girl propped up against the hospital pillows. Her dark hair was a tangled mess. A horrific, blossoming purple bruise marred the delicate architecture of her cheekbone. She was battered, exhausted, and tethered to an IV line. Yet, as she stared back at me, her hands fisted in the blood-stained fabric of my ruined shirt, she looked like an absolute, conquering queen.She had just stared down the barrel of her own destruction, and instead of taking the easy way out, instead of letting me fall on my sword and hand her a clean, scandal-free slate, she was actively choosing to chain her soul to the monster of Wall Street.The fortress I had built around my heart completely, irrevocably shattered.I closed the microscopic distance between us an
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Chapter: I want to marry you~ Thea’s POVSitting on the edge of my hospital bed was simply a man. A man who looked entirely, devastatingly exhausted, his pitch-black eyes stripped of all their titanium armor, leaving only a raw, bleeding vulnerability.I slowly lowered my hands. "What is it?"Stellan looked down at his lap, his jaw clenching tightly before he forced himself to meet my gaze again. "When I first brought you into my home, after Richard's funeral, I made a vow to protect you," Stellan began, his hands resting on his knees, his knuckles white and bruised. "I thought I could manage it clinically. I thought I could be the distant, impenetrable guardian your father asked me to be. But the second you challenged me, the second you looked at me with those beautiful eyes... I was lost."He took a ragged breath, the confession tearing out of him."The control, Thea," he murmured, closing his eyes for a fraction of a second. "The rules, the curfews, the tactical mercenaries at the gates. I know how it looked
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Chapter: I have something to say.~ Stellan’s POVCaught in my shock and confusion, I let her finish talking."He wasn't angry, Stellan," Thea whispered, her voice trembling, her fingers gripping the fabric of my black t-shirt. Tears pooled in her eyes, shining under the harsh hospital lights, but they weren't tears of sorrow. "He told me he knew. He knew exactly what he was doing when he left me to you. He wasn't betrayed... he was happy."My jaw clenched so tight my teeth ached. A profound, crushing weight, a suffocating guilt that had lived in the darkest corner of my chest since the moment I first pulled her into my bed, began to violently fracture."He said you didn't manipulate the will to get to me," she continued, a wet, breathless laugh escaping her bruised lips. "He said he manipulated you. He knew you needed an anchor, and he knew I needed a fortress."A dark, resonant chuckle tore itself from my throat before I could stop it. The sheer, colossal arrogance of Richard Mercer. Even from beyond the grave, the
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Chapter: His Devotion~ Thea’s POVThe absolute, terrifying darkness began to thin, replaced by a dull, pulsing ache that radiated from the very center of my bones. Then came the sounds. A steady, rhythmic, mechanical beep. The soft, pneumatic hiss of an oxygen machine. The faint squeak of rubber-soled shoes on a polished floor.The smells hit me next. The sharp, sterile bite of rubbing alcohol, clean cotton, and a faint, underlying trace of rich cedarwood.Cedarwood. I forced my heavy eyelids upward. The harsh, glaring white light of the room temporarily blinded me, sending a sharp spike of pain directly into my skull. I blinked rapidly, my vision swimming in a hazy, unfocused blur before the sterile environment of a massive, high-tech medical suite finally solidified around me.My throat felt as though it had been lined with crushed glass. Every breath was a monumental effort. I tried to swallow the thick, cotton-like dryness in my mouth, parting my cracked lips."Stellan?"The word was barely a whisper
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Chapter: Meeting Father~ Thea’s POVThe freezing, suffocating weight of the narcotic was gone.The agonizing throb in my cheekbone where my uncle had struck me, the sharp, burning ache in my shoulders, the metallic taste of my own blood, it had all entirely vanished. I was no longer lying on the cold, unforgiving marble floor of the Hamptons estate, trapped in a paralyzed, failing body.Instead, I opened my eyes to a world bathed in an impossible, golden warmth.I was standing in the center of a sprawling, sunlit conservatory. It looked vaguely like the greenhouse attached to my childhood home, but the glass walls stretched upward into an infinite, brilliant sky. Lush, emerald-green vines cascaded from the vaulted ceilings, and the air smelled heavily of blooming jasmine and old paper. It was completely silent, a profound stillness of peace.I looked down at my hands. They weren't trembling. They weren't stained with the dark ink Uncle Robert had forced onto my thumb. I was wearing a simple white dress, t
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Chapter: Mine to Destroy| • Dain’s POVA king doesn’t fall between a woman’s legs—and I would not be the first.In that moment, when I smelled the most delicious blood in the air like a damned vampire, I wanted to kill anything that dared to make me pause and hunger for it.But as I turned around and met her clear blue eyes, silently gazing at me—but not looking at me—I choked on my words.I looked down and saw blood—her blood.Rage surged through my veins, unfamiliar and raw. My legs moved before I could stop them, and I knelt. A king, kneeling. Her scent coiled around my senses like a curse, and my throat went dry with something dangerously close to hunger.Since the millenia I had lived and ruled in Lycos, this was the first time my heart raced at the mere sight of blood.It disturbed me so much that I closed my eyes and grabbed her leg. She tried to pull away, but for someone as weak as her, it was just a disturbance—one I didn’t have the patience to entertain.I licked her wounds like a beast tasting
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Chapter: Your Majesty| • Penelope's POVI was scared. I know I chose this path, even walked into his luxurious car with him—one I didn't even know where it came from—but as we drove out of Ernaut's estate. One thing was clear.I had submitted my fate into the hands of my enemy.With none of my belongings.Something no one in all of Lycos, across the five regions, would dare to do.Much less to the king of Lycos. And it was that same revelation that caused my whole body to tremble as I sat before him in the cabin. A car was usually owned by nobles, while carriages and trolleys were meants for middle-class citizens and bottom-rung commoners who roam the street. The car the king used to return to his palace was something I would never, in all my life, imagine riding in—let alone sitting across from him, in chains.Despite that, I was uncomfortable.At least this king wasn’t outright ruthless to his citizens—despite building a social ladder too high enough for anyone else to climb.As he sat before me, I
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Chapter: Little Penny| • Penelope’s POVGlad there was no one around to hear the words I had just uttered from my lips.A slave? Much less to the enemy who had pointed a sword to my neck?And my answer? I couldn’t care less. Even if it means earning a scowl for my father, who had loved me a little too much all these, I didn’t mind. He would come to realize later that this was the reward I was giving him—for taking care of my life.An Alpha’s daughter submitting herself—not as a wife, but a slave—to the king of all living thing in Lycos.I was intimidated. I felt myself crumbling like wet sand, no matter how hard I tried to hold his gaze. It was as though he could see every corner of my soul through those bottomless golden eyes, that looked like molten lava.It made my skin crawl to the point I tasted bile in my throat.But I bit down on my tongue, restraining myself from doing something foolish—because the power this man held made the lords of the Dukedom look like playacting boys.“A slave?” He repeated
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Chapter: I will be your slave| • King Dain's POVI should have sent my men alone.Instead, there I was—gloves on, battle gear secured—leading the raid myself like some common soldier. Duke Ernaut's territory stretched before me, and my horse’s hooves crushed their manicured grounds.There was something here. Something I needed.The servants scattered like rats when they saw me. Good. Fear kept them honest. But none of them were what I was hunting for. Each face I scanned brought nothing but disappointment and cold fury.Useless. All of them.Then I saw it.Red hair. Even at a distance, she stood out like a flame against ash. I raised my fist, and my men halted instantly. Now this... this was interesting.The pain hit my back. Sharp. Familiar. The kind that meant destiny was about to get messy.My lips curved. Just barely. So you're the one.I closed my fist. My men understood. Arrows were nocked, muscles coiled. I had trained them well. One snap of my fingers, and they unleashed hell.The grand hall exploded. St
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Chapter: I will Stay| • Penelope's POVI guess every living thing has its time to die.I just never imagined mine would come at the hands of the mate I loved eternally.Rain poured down on me, chilling my already-numb body and slowing heart. Out of the corner of my blurry, lifeless gaze, I watched as my mate—the love of my life—swaggered out of view, the sword still gripped in his hand, stained with my blood.I smiled.How Iconic.The words he left me with echoed in my mind.'You were just a plaything. A drug I couldn't get rid of. A replacement for your sister, whom I searched high and low for.'Once again, it was my sister who had turned the skies into pure darkness.I closed my eyes as a single tear slid down my cheek, but it did nothing to dull the silent ache in my chest as my heartbeat slowed to utter silence.And yet, as I lay there—where life should have drained from me—something bloomed in its place.The will to live.The need for revenge.The longing for justice.The desperate desire to see my
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