Love Me Then Destroy Me
She woke up in a billionaire's arms in a penthouse with a view of the Seine. She was wearing a ring she didn't remember saying yes i do to
When Lana Cruz wakes up after a terrible accident, the only person there is Adrian Black, the powerful CEO who says she is his wife. His touch is familiar, and his voice is strong but all of my memories of him are gone.
They look like the perfect couple to everyone but this is the revenge Adrian has been waiting years for. Lana broke his heart once, and now he plans to make her fall in love with him again, only to break her heart when she is most vulnerable.
But Paris is a city full of life and danger. Rooftop parties under the sparkling Eiffel Tower, moonlit walks along the Seine, and sparkling galleries set the stage for love, lies, and secrets that could ruin both of them.
As they fall in love, the line between revenge and desire gets blurry. Lana and Adrian must choose between letting the past take over their lives or giving in to a love that is strong enough to heal even the worst wounds.
A storm of passion, betrayal, and redemption in the middle of modern Paris.
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Chapter: EPILOGUE: CONTROL AND RELEASEPOV: Lana"You have come a long way," Elias said, his voice carrying the particular warmth that had become one of the most familiar sounds in my daily life over the years that had passed since the trial. He stood beside me in the morning light, watching as I guided the first group of the day's participants toward the van, their faces carrying the specific mixture of uncertainty and tentative hope that I recognized immediately and completely because I had worn it myself once, a long time ago, in a different version of this life.I leaned against the van for a moment, letting the sunlight trace the lines of my hands where they rested against the warm metal. The years had marked them, as years marked everything, but they were steady. "Not just me," I said, shaking my head with the ease of someone who had long since stopped being comfortable with individual credit. "All of us. Every person who has walked through the foundation's doors. They carry this forward. We carry it together."Elias
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Chapter: THE FUTURE WITHOUT FEARPOV: Lana"I cannot believe this is real," Elias said quietly, his eyes following the line of the horizon where the late sun was pressing itself against the surface of the ocean with the unhurried beauty of something that happened the same way every evening and was no less extraordinary for its consistency. His voice carried awe and something close to relief, but not pity. Not the specific quality of looking at a person who needed something from you that you were uncertain you could provide.He was simply there. Beside me. Fully present in the way that some people were present and many people were not."It is real," I said, letting the wind move through my hair without bothering to smooth it back. "And it is ours. Not anyone else's version of it. Not the media's version, not the trial's version, not the story that anyone needed it to be for their own purposes. Just this."The waves came in with the steady and unhurried rhythm of something that had been doing exactly this since long be
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Chapter: THE NEW NARRATIVEPOV: Lana"I never thought I would see this day," Elias said, leaning against the edge of my desk with his arms crossed and a smile at the corners of his mouth that carried more than he was saying.I looked up from the final manuscript spread across the table in front of me, every page of it covered in the accumulated evidence of months of work, and met his gaze. "Why not?" I asked softly, though I already understood the answer well enough that the question was more about giving him the space to say it than about needing to hear it."Because of everything you have been through, Lana," he said, shaking his head with the quiet emphasis of someone who had been present for most of it and understood that the catalog was long. "Publishing this is not just a book. It is a declaration. A life reclaimed in public."I smiled faintly, setting the pen I had been holding down on the top page. "It is not about him anymore," I said. "It has not been about him for a long time. It is about me. The per
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Chapter: THE CHOICE OF FREEDOMPOV: LanaThe sky over the prison was a dull and particular gray, the kind that felt almost hollow, as if the atmosphere itself had paused somewhere between intention and arrival. I walked the path leading to the visiting room with a quiet and deliberate steadiness. Each step was chosen. Not forced. Not performed for anyone watching. Simply chosen, the way I had learned to choose every movement of my life since the trial had ended and the silence had settled in.This was not reconciliation.It was not forgiveness, not in the sense of something offered freely to someone who had asked for it. It was not anger either, though anger had been present in sufficient quantities across the preceding years to have justified a different kind of visit entirely. This was something simpler and more complete than any of those things.This was the final piece of myself, the last fragment I had not yet fully retrieved, and it required me to be in this room, across this table, one final time.The visiti
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Chapter: CORPORATE REFORMATIONPOV: Elias"Elias, can you believe how fast this is moving?" I said aloud as I stepped into the newly renovated conference room, the words arriving before I had fully decided to speak them. The sunlight poured through the large windows, catching the polished surfaces and throwing back a reflection that felt, somehow, like the company's attempt to convince itself it had already become something new. The board had been shaken to its foundation by the verdict. In the weeks that followed, they had moved with a urgency that surprised everyone, including me.The analyst across the table raised an eyebrow without looking up from the digital report I had sent twenty minutes earlier. "Transparency reforms in three weeks," he said. Not a question. A reckoning."Yes," I said, leaning back in my chair and letting my eyes move across the room with the particular attention I had developed across months of looking for the thing beneath the visible thing. "They are terrified of another public disaste
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Chapter: THE LETTERPOV: Adrian"Adrian, are you certain this is the right decision?" The prison counselor's voice was calm but carried the particular weight of professional concern, the kind that arrived without judgment and offered no guidance on which direction judgment might go. She stood in the doorway of the small room they had designated for correspondence, watching me with the attentive neutrality of her training.I held the envelope in my hand without looking at her. I could feel the weight of it even though there was nothing inside yet. Just paper and the anticipation of what would go on it. "I need to do this," I said, keeping my voice low and even. "She deserves the truth. Even at this distance. Even if she never responds. She deserves to know that I see it."The counselor gave a slow nod and withdrew, closing the door behind her with a quiet click that made the room feel both smaller and more honestly itself.I sat down at the table. Pressed the pen to the paper. The first word was the harde
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Omega Rebellion: Shadows Of Power
In the ancient forests of Northern Alder, power is everything—and disobedience can be deadly. Alphas rule, Betas enforce, and Omegas… are expected to obey. But Nova refuses to be invisible. Fierce, clever, and determined, she trains in secret, dreaming of a world where Omegas are more than pawns in a cruel hierarchy.
Then Kael arrives—a ruthless, magnetic Alpha from a neighboring pack. His presence ignites clashes of fire and will, and a dangerous attraction that neither can deny. When a rival pack threatens their home, Nova must lead a secret rebellion, teaching the Omegas to fight, strategize, and reclaim their place.
As loyalty and love collide, Kael faces an impossible choice: uphold the laws of the pack—or risk everything for the woman who could change his heart… and the future of their world.
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Chapter: Chapter 83 — First CasualtyPOV: Lyra“Lyra,” the scream tore through the quiet before dawn had fully broken and I was already awake because none of us had slept deeply since the elder spoke of old stories rising from the north and the air had felt tight all night as if the forest held its breath and was waiting for the moment when the silence that had hung over the northern territories since the coalition retreated would break.The second cry was thinner and it was sharp with pain and I ran before I knew where my feet were taking me because I had heard that sound before and I had heard it in packs that did not know what was coming until it was too late and I would not let it happen again. Boots hit packed earth and wolves burst from their shelters as I passed and the sound came from the eastern edge near the lower stream where younger wolves often trained at first light because the light was soft there and the ground was flat and the trees did not press as close as they did in the deeper forest.When I reached
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Chapter: Chapter 81 — The Silence After VictoryPOV: Lyra“The fires are cold,” Rowan said as he stood beside me at the edge of the clearing where the coalition had made their camp for the long weeks they had pressed against our borders, and his voice was quiet because we had learned that loud voices carried too far in the silence that had settled over the land since the banners fell.I nodded and I let my gaze travel across the empty ground where tents had stood and where fires had burned and where wolves who had come to take what was ours had slept in the shadow of the forest that had refused to yield. “The fires are cold and the ground is empty and the wolves who marched against us have gone back to their own lands because they have seen what the power that Nova carries can do and they are not willing to test it again.”Rowan folded his arms and his breath formed clouds in the cold morning air because the warmth that had held the valley since the blood moon had faded and the forest was returning to the quiet rhythm of the season
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Chapter: Chapter 81 — The Silent ForestPOV: Nova“It is not wind,” I said softly, my eyes fixed on the dark line of trees to the north. “It is walking.”No one laughed at that. No one tried to ease the weight of it with brave words.Kael stood beside me, close enough that our arms brushed. I could feel his strength steady and warm through the bond, not pushing ahead of me, not pulling me back. With me.The sound had stopped, yet the forest had not returned to its usual breath. The air felt held, like the moment before a storm breaks, but there were no clouds above us.Lyra stepped forward slowly. “We should not wait for it to come deeper,” she said. “We meet it on our ground.”Kael nodded once. “A small group. Not the whole pack.”“I am coming,” I said.His gaze moved to me. There was no protest in his eyes this time. Only calculation.“You feel it clearer than any of us,” he said quietly.“Yes.”We moved north before the sun dipped too low. Lyra led slightly ahead. Rowan flanked the right. Two skilled trackers followed be
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Chapter: Chapter 80 — Victory’s ShadowPOV: Lyra“It is over,” Rowan said as he came down the ridge and his boots were heavy with mud and travel dust because he had been walking the borders since the coalition retreated and he had been watching the paths that we had cut and the lines that we had held and the wolves who had come to take what was ours.I did not answer at once because I kept my eyes on the valley below where the last of the coalition banners were being taken down and the wind pulled at the cloth and then let it fall and no one fought to raise it again because the wolves who had carried them were gone and they were not coming back. “It is over here,” I said quietly and I let the words settle into the space between us because I had learned that victory was not the same as peace and that the end of one war was often the beginning of another.Rowan stopped beside me and his voice was steady when he spoke. “Darius has withdrawn fully and the outer packs have followed because they have seen what the power that Nov
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Chapter: Chapter 79 — The Golden CovenantPOV: Kael“Do you feel different,” I asked and the question left my mouth before I could shape it into something calmer because I needed to know what the ritual had done to her and I needed to know if the bond that we had sealed was strong enough to carry the weight that she had been carrying alone.Nova stood within the sacred circle and her fingers were still wrapped loosely around mine and the silver light that had sealed our bond had faded, yet the air had not returned to what it once was because it felt warmer and heavier and it felt like the earth itself was breathing slower and deeper and I felt the pulse of the bond that tied us settle into my chest like a heartbeat that had found its rhythm.She looked down at our joined hands and then back at me and her eyes were no longer drained and they held steady light that was not wild like the night of her ascension and it was not fragile like when she collapsed because it was the light of a wolf who had found the balance that she had
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Chapter: Chapter 78 — The PricePOV: Kael“Nova,” I said and her name left my mouth before I understood what I was seeing because she was still standing and she was still looking at the coalition wolves who were kneeling before her, but something was wrong and I could feel it through the bond that tied us and I could feel it in the way her power was pulsing against my chest like a heartbeat that was losing its rhythm.The coalition still knelt and the forest stood quiet around us and the last red stain of the moon had faded into pale silver, and the air no longer trembled because the power that had moved through her had done what it came to do and it was settling back into the roots and the soil and the stone where it had been sleeping since the old laws were written.But Nova swayed and at first it was small and it was almost gentle like someone who had stood too long without rest and the weight of what she had done was pressing against her shoulders, and then her knees bent and I moved before she hit the ground an
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Chapter: The First BoardroomPOV: EiraThe boardroom was on the forty second floor, with floor to ceiling glass on two sides and Manhattan laid out beyond it in midmorning light, performing itself in a way that reminded everyone in the room whose space this was. The table was long, dark, and expensive in the quiet way of things that did not need to announce their cost. Twelve chairs. Eight occupied. Water carafes placed at measured intervals. A presentation screen at the north end showed the Thorne Holdings acquisition interface, live and connected.She took her place against the back wall.Not a chair and no table. The back wall was where she had been directed to sit. just her presence and she should be silent unless she was asked to say something. She accepted the position without comment. She stood with her hands at her sides and her face into the neutrality she had spent twelve years perfecting, but there was something in the room that answered her anyway, a faint shift she could not have explained if asked.
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Chapter: What Darius TookPOV: EiraThe filing room was on the thirty-ninth floor, not the penthouse archive but a separate level accessed by an internal elevator, reserved for physical records that predated Thorne Holdings’ digital migration and had never been fully converted: old acquisition files, historical pack agreements, land surveys spanning four decades, all filed with the meticulous, almost obsessive care of someone who did not trust that the past would remain legible unless preserved physically.She had been sent to cross-reference a mid-Atlantic property boundary dispute, and she approached it as she approached everything: methodically, drawer by drawer, folder by folder, building a mental map of the room as she moved, noting its quiet hum and the faint tang of aged paper that stirred something deeper within her, an echo of awareness she could never fully explain.Finding the mid-Atlantic survey was effortless. She set it on the reference table, smoothing it with her palm, and then, two drawers dow
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Chapter: First MorningPOV: EiraThe penthouse was different at five thirty.Not quiet because the building never truly slept, its systems moving within the walls in a constant, low hum that maintained order whether anyone listened or not. Yet the silence carried a different texture at this hour, because the city beyond the glass had not yet claimed the day, and the windows reflected the room back at itself, turning the world inward instead of outward.Everything seemed contained and unobserved.She preferred it.She had risen at four forty and completed the suppression ritual in the smaller room, choosing the full cycle rather than the abbreviated version she used for maintenance, because she needed the deeper steadiness it provided. It left her defined and clear, certain of where she began and where she ended.Afterward, she dressed and made the bed with deliberate care, smoothing each line into place, because order, however small, had always mattered. It was the simplest form of control and the most reli
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Chapter: The RulesPOV: KaelenHe had given her twenty minutes.It was a measured allowance. Neither indulgent nor severe, but sufficient for a new arrival to orient herself before stillness hardened into avoidance. Experience had taught him that the first exchange on the first morning established the tone of everything that followed. Too much ease invited misinterpretation. Misinterpretation bred assumption. And assumption always demanded correction.He did not waste time on correction.When he stepped out of the east corridor at six fourteen, he found her already in place.She stood within the office, positioned with quiet precision just beyond the immediate boundary of his desk. Not too close. Not distant enough to appear disengaged. Her hands rested at her sides, her posture composed in a way that did not suggest effort. The phone he had arranged for her the previous evening lay in her grasp, the schedule he had sent open on the screen.She had read it thoroughly.He saw it in the way she held the d
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Chapter: Floor Fifty-FivePOV: Eira The elevator doors opened directly into the penthouse.No lobby, corridor nor transitional space between the outside world and Kaelen Thorne's private domain. The doors simply parted, revealing it all at once revealing the full expanse of it, immediate and overwhelmingly beautiful. Three sides of floor-to-ceiling glass framed Manhattan below like a circuit board someone had set on fire.Eira stepped out and did not stop moving. Stopping would have looked like awe. She was not going to give this apartment that satisfaction.She gave it calculation instead.The space was vast in the way that certain silences are vast and not empty, but deliberately cleared. Every surface had been chosen with the precision of someone who understood that restraint was its own form of power. Dark stone floors stretched beneath her feet. Furniture in charcoal and slate sat low and angular. No art on the walls nor photographs and no evidence anywhere that a person lived here rather than simply ope
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Chapter: The Ride Uptown POV: EiraHe was already on his phone when she got in.It’s not as a power move for she could tell the difference between performance and genuine indifference, and this was the latter. He simply had other things to attend to, and she wasn't one of them right now. The car door had barely shut behind her before his thumb was moving across the screen again, his attention somewhere far removed from the leather interior and the woman now sitting eighteen inches to his left.She settled against the door and let him have his indifference.She was busy anyway.The car moved through the Hudson Valley darkness with the smooth, unhurried confidence of a vehicle that had never once been stuck in traffic it couldn't find a way around. Outside the window, the estate gates dropped away and then there was nothing but road and treeline and the occasional scattered light of a house set far back from the rest of the world.She watched the dark, thought about the contract folded in her jacket pocket met
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