Chapter: CHAPTER 175POV: MayaThree months later.I stood on the rebuilt southern wall, watching the sunrise paint the kingdom in shades of gold and amber. The scars of battle remained, but new growth pushed through the cracks. Literally and metaphorically.Below, in the courtyard, wolves and Lycans worked side by side on the final repairs. Not because they were ordered to. Because they chose to.That was the difference three months had made."You are up early," Asher said, joining me on the wall. He carried two mugs of tea, offering me one.I accepted it gratefully. "Could not sleep. Too much to think about before the ceremony.""Nervous?""Terrified." I smiled despite the admission. "What if I mess up the words? What if people still do not accept this?""Then you improvise. And we convince them." His hand found mine. "Like we have been doing for months."He was right. The past three months had been an endless series of negotiations, councils, and delicate diplomatic dances as we built the framework for
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Chapter: CHAPTER 174POV: MayaThe Devourer was emptiness given form.Not darkness in the way night was dark. This was the absence of everything. Light. Sound. Hope. Even time seemed to slow and fracture near it.It towered over the clearing, a writhing mass of void that hurt to look at. Like staring at a hole in reality itself.And it was hungry.I felt its hunger pressing against my mind. An endless, gnawing need to consume. To unmake. To return everything to the primordial nothing it had been birthed from."Maya, what is that thing?" Asher asked, his voice tight with fear."Something that should not exist in this world." I raised my hands, silver light blazing. "Something Mordain was insane enough to summon."The light touched the Devourer and simply vanished. Absorbed into the void without effect.My blood ran cold.Every attack I had learned, every manifestation of power I had mastered, all of it relied on the silver light. And the Devourer was eating it like it was nothing."You cannot fight what wa
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Chapter: CHAPTER 173POV: MayaPain.Not physical. Worse than physical.The binding stone tore at something fundamental inside me. Ripping away pieces of myself I had not known existed until they were being destroyed.I felt the Moon Goddess bloodline being dragged out of my body like roots being torn from earth. Every strand of power pulled free sent fresh waves of agony through my entire being.But beneath the pain, something else stirred.Something ancient and furious.The corruption in my veins, the black tendrils that had been slowly killing me, suddenly blazed with silver light.I understood then. Miriam had been right about why the power was destroying me. But she had been wrong about the cause.The bloodline was not rejecting me because I hated myself.It was preparing for this. Knew Mordain was coming. Knew I would need every ounce of strength to survive what came next.The corruption was not death. It was transformation.And Mordain had just triggered it."Impossible," Mordain gasped as silver l
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Chapter: CHAPTER 172POV: MayaThe world narrowed to a single point.Olivia. Chained. Gagged. A binding stone pressed against her throat by a man who had spent three centuries perfecting the art of killing people like me."Let her go," I said, my voice steadier than I felt.Mordain smiled. It was the smile of a predator who had already won and was simply enjoying the game."But we have only just begun our conversation, Alpha Queen. It would be terribly rude to end it so quickly." He tilted his head, studying me like a specimen under glass. "Besides, your friend is perfectly safe. As long as you cooperate.""What do you want?""To talk. Nothing more. I promised information about your bloodline in exchange for this meeting. I intend to honor that promise." His fingers traced the binding stone almost lovingly. "Though I do appreciate having insurance that you will listen rather than simply attacking."Asher's hand found the small of my back, a steadying presence. Through the bond, I felt his rage barely cont
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Chapter: CHAPTER 171POV: AsherThe location was buried deep in the palace archives, in records Kael had tried to destroy but missed.An unmarked grave in the northern garden. Far from the royal crypts where my father rested. Far from anywhere visitors might accidentally discover it.Erik had buried my mother like she was shameful. Like her existence was something to hide.Maya found it three days ago while searching for information about Elara's research. She had not told me immediately, understanding I would need time to prepare myself.But time had run out. Mordain's parley was scheduled for this afternoon. And something in me needed to do this first. Needed to speak to the mother I barely remembered before potentially walking into a trap.The rain started as we left the palace, a cold drizzle that matched my mood perfectly."You do not have to come," I told Maya as we walked through the gardens."I know. But I want to. If you will let me."I nodded, grateful for her presence even though I could not fin
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Chapter: CHAPTER 170ASHERThe location was buried deep in the palace archives, in records Kael had tried to destroy but missed.An unmarked grave in the northern garden. Far from the royal crypts where my father rested. Far from anywhere visitors might accidentally discover it.Erik had buried my mother like she was shameful. Like her existence was something to hide.Maya found it three days ago while searching for information about Elara's research. She had not told me immediately, understanding I would need time to prepare myself.But time had run out. Mordain's parley was scheduled for this afternoon. And something in me needed to do this first. Needed to speak to the mother I barely remembered before potentially walking into a trap.The rain started as we left the palace, a cold drizzle that matched my mood perfectly."You do not have to come," I told Maya as we walked through the gardens."I know. But I want to. If you will let me."I nodded, grateful for her presence even though I could not find wo
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UNTOUCHABLE: MY EX-HUSBAND'S BIGGEST MISTAKE
"Maybe I do not mind this one standing close."
"Juliette." His hand found my jaw, cold from the snow. "If I stay any longer tonight, I am not going to be very good at keeping my distance. You should know that before I decide anything."
"I did not ask you to keep your distance."
His hand came up to my jaw, cold from the snow, warm everywhere it touched anyway. When he finally kissed me, it was slow enough that I could have stopped it a dozen times over. I did not want to stop it once.
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On the day she buries her husband's brother, Juliette Marsh asks for a divorce. Three nights before, she flew home early to surprise Sebastian on their anniversary, only to overhear the truth. He has been in love with his own brother's wife, Delphine, since before the woman ever married into the family.
So when grief tears the family apart, Juliette does not stay and fight for a man who never once fought for her. She signs the papers. She keeps the house. She says nothing when Sebastian does not even read what he is signing.
Then Adrian Kingsley comes back. Her first love. The man she was told cut her off the moment she married Sebastian. Except Adrian swears he never blocked her number at all. Someone else built that lie, and he means to find out who.
Now, with her ex-husband's family falling apart, a death that was made to look like an accident, and a billionaire she never stopped thinking about standing too close in the snow, Juliette has to decide how much truth she can survive.
Some doormats do not just get back up. They come back untouchable.
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Chapter: Chapter 5JULIETTEFor one full second, nobody on that driveway moved.Then everyone moved at once.Sebastian reached the front door before I did, Adrian right behind me, Constance already screaming Delphine's name from somewhere inside the house. I found them in the front hallway, Delphine on the floor with her back against the wall, one hand pressed to her stomach, her face gray in a way that scared me more than any of the shouting had."What happened," Sebastian demanded, dropping to his knees beside her."I don't know." Rosa's hands were shaking so badly she nearly dropped the phone. "She just went down. She said something about cramping and then she couldn't get back up.""Call an ambulance," I said. "Now, Rosa. Not the family doctor. An ambulance.""I already am, ma'am."Sebastian looked up at me, something raw and unguarded crossing his face for the first time since the papers were signed. "Thank you," he said quietly, like the words cost him something. I did not answer. This was not the
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Chapter: Chapter 4JULIETTEConstance Hartwell crossed the driveway like the snow owed her an apology for existing."Where is he." She did not look at me once. Her eyes went straight to Delphine, straight to Oliver on her hip. "Where is my grandson. Is he hurt.""He's fine, Constance. He's fine." Delphine's voice cracked with relief the second the attention landed somewhere other than the painting."Fine." Constance rounded on me now, coat still open, snow catching in her dark hair. "I heard there was an accident in this house. An accident involving my only grandson.""Oliver knocked a painting off the wall," I said. "He's not hurt. He shoved me into a banister, if anyone's counting bruises.""Don't be dramatic, Juliette.""I'm not being anything," I said. "I'm answering your question."Constance's mouth thinned into a line so familiar it could have belonged to Sebastian. "This family has lost enough this week. I won't stand here in the cold and listen to you turn a four year old's grief into a weapon a
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Chapter: Chapter 3JULIETTESebastian's hand was still on the table, right next to the folder he had just signed without reading, and his eyes had not moved from my phone screen."Why is Adrian Kingsley texting you?" His voice had an edge I rarely heard from him. "You told me you two hadn't spoken in years.""We haven't." I turned the phone face down, unbothered. "Apparently that changed yesterday, at your brother's funeral, when he showed up and stood at the edge of the cemetery like a ghost.""And you didn't think that was worth mentioning to me?"I almost laughed. "You're asking me that. Tonight. At this table."Something in his face flickered, guilt trying to fight its way past the jealousy. "That's different.""Is it?" I stood and gathered both folders into my arms, calm in a way that seemed to unsettle him more than shouting would have. "You spent three years keeping a locked drawer full of someone else's photos, and you want to be upset that a man I haven't spoken to in three years said five word
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Chapter: Chapter 2JULIETTEHarper showed up at eight the next morning with two coffees and a folder under her arm, and she did not even say hello before she started talking."Okay. Start from the beginning. What did you actually find?"I let her in, and we sat at the kitchen island while the house was still quiet upstairs. "Three nights ago, when I got back from the trip early and sick with fever, I remembered something. A drawer in his study he's kept locked since the day we moved in.""And you finally opened it.""I finally opened it." I wrapped both hands around the coffee cup like it could steady me. "There was an album inside. Every page was Delphine. Birthdays, graduations, a photo from before she ever met Griffin. He's been keeping it since before either of them got married."Harper's mouth fell open. "Juliette. Please tell me you're joking.""I wish I was.""Wait." She set her cup down hard enough that coffee sloshed over the rim. "This whole time I thought you two just weren't sleeping togethe
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Chapter: Chapter 1JULIETTEOn the day my husband's brother was buried, I asked him for a divorce.Sebastian stared at me like I had spoken a different language. "Because I took a slap meant for Delphine?"Delphine. He said her name so gently, like it belonged to something breakable.I smiled, and I felt how cold it was on my own face. "Yes. That's exactly why."A single slap should not have been enough to end a marriage. But the mark on Sebastian's cheek that night had said everything the rest of the family refused to see. He had stepped in front of his own sister in law without a single moment of hesitation, and every person in that room had gone quiet watching him do it. Every person except me. I had simply stood there, holding my glass of wine, wondering how many other rooms he had done that in without me ever noticing.Three nights earlier, on our wedding anniversary, I flew out to surprise him.I had planned the whole trip in secret. New dress, late flight, a reservation at the restaurant where he
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