Trapped In Between The Devil's Claws
Blurb
“Tell me you want it, Rainey,” he whispered, his breath warm against my ear. I felt my pulse quicken, my resolve wavering under the intensity of his gaze. “You know I can give you everything you’ve ever desired.”
My heart raced as I swallowed hard, torn between fear and the allure of his promises. “You think you can just take me? You don’t understand what you’re dealing with.”
He chuckled softly, the sound sending shivers down my spine. “Oh, but I do. You don’t know how long I’ve waited for this moment.”
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In a world shrouded by secrets and power struggles, Rainey is unwittingly thrust into a dangerous game after discovering she is the hidden child of a long-lost lineage. Caught between the ruthless desires of Silas, a man who has been watching her from the shadows for years, and an unknown destiny that threatens to unravel everything she believes, Rainey must confront her past to seize control of her future.
As heat ignites between her and Silas, Rainey must decide: will she succumb to the passion that draws her in, or will she fight back against the chains of control and forge her own path?
Will she embrace her true power or be consumed by the shadows of her past?
But what happens when secrets are uncovered, and the fight for freedom ignite a fire neither can resist?
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Chapter: 007Dario Reyes had the kind of smile that made you want to check your pockets afterward.It spread slowly across his face as I approached — or maybe as he approached me, because by the time I registered the distance closing between us, he was already within arm's reach, already extending his hand, already looking at me like I was something he'd been waiting to find all evening."I don't believe we've met," he said.His accent was faint. Spanish, maybe. His grip when I took his hand was firm but brief, the kind of handshake that communicated restraint — that said *I could hold on longer, but I won't. Yet.*"Angelina Jordan," I said."Dario." He released my hand. "You're with Valetti?""I am."Something flickered across his face. Not quite surprise. More like recalculation. He took a slow sip of his champagne, his eyes drifting briefly across the room to where I assumed Silas was, then settling back on me."Interesting man to be with," he said."Is that your polite way of saying dangerous?
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-11
Chapter: 006RAINEY A gun. He pulled out a gun. I staggered back a step, my heels catching on the pavement, and I almost face-planted right there in front of the gala entrance. "Silas—" "Relax." His voice was calm, almost bored, the way someone might sound while checking the weather. He tucked it back inside his inner pocket and straightened his lapel like he hadn't just nearly given me a heart attack. "It's for emergencies." "Emergencies," I repeated flatly. "Mm." "You pulled out a *gun* and said 'relax.'" He glanced at me sideways. "Would you have preferred I pulled out a knife?" I pressed my lips together and said absolutely nothing. The gala was already buzzing when we stepped through the grand double doors. Crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling like frozen waterfalls. Men in tailored suits moved through the room with the quiet confidence of people who had never once worried about where their next meal was coming from. Women in gowns that probably cost more than my ent
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-11
Chapter: 005005RAINEY“You're forcing me to go against my will in broad daylight and dragging me into the unknown at night.”I wasn’t looking at him; I was staring out the car window, biting my lip so hard that I could taste blood on my tongue.“This dress makes me uncomfortable.”He turned to me, a smirk on his thin lips.“Are you going to take it off, Ney? I swear I won’t stare.”I turned to him and shot a deadly glare.“The next time you call me Ney, I might end up in prison for murder, Silas Valetti.”He slowly nodded, smiling at me, and Holy Mary, I almost peed myself.Why did he always have to look so hot?!!“What’s the ceremony?”“It’s an event.”“An event?”He nodded, “Yes, a gala event.”“Am I invited to dine with the elites?” I raised an eyebrow, hoping he would put an end to my confusion right away. “Why should I be there? You know I can sense this gloomy cloud hanging over your head, and with the last few hours I’ve spent with you, I’ve never felt so threatened in my life.”“I feel l
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-03
Chapter: 004RAINEYThe dining room was silent except for the clinking of cutlery against china. I wasn't eating or doing anything except stabbing the pork with my fork.I could feel his eyes on me, and it made my blood boil. He didn’t seem disturbed by the anger written on my face; instead, he took pleasure in watching me bend, twist, and finally break in front of him.“The meat is so soft,” he said, “why are you stabbing it like it’s leather?”I looked up to meet his gaze, and my heart thudded—not out of fear, but because of a feeling I couldn’t quite place.“Last night was hell,” I said, setting my fork down. “I thought I could finally have my peace, but even at midnight, you didn’t let me have that. You watched me all night and…”“And you liked it?” he asked, grinning from ear to ear.I picked the fork back up, gripping it tightly. My gaze was stern, and I ground my teeth together, as if I might murder him soon.“One thing I’d never do in my life, Silas Valetti,” I said, pausing to watch the
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-02
Chapter: 003RAINEY“Mister, what do you think you're doing controlling me like this?” I shot at him, my arms crossed over my chest.How foolish of him to believe he could bring me down here and dictate that this was my new home.He paused, glancing over his shoulder without turning around. “Don't argue, Ney. It won't end well.”My blood boiled as I watched the smirk curl up his lips. He must have thought his words would silence me, but that was just a lie he told himself.“Why should I follow you? I don't even want to be here.” I shrugged, stamping my feet stubbornly against the marbled floor.“Rainey.” He called my name, the sound slipping from his mouth like a haunting song.I took a step forward as he approached me.“Don’t come close.” I raised my finger to warn him, but he simply shook his head.“This is my mansion, and I call the shots here, Rainey Wyatt, not you. Don’t be a jerk; it didn’t end well for your father.” He cackled, each step reminding me that I needed to figure out a way to esc
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-02
Chapter: 002RAINEYI drew in a sharp breath, freezing in my spot.How on earth did he know my name when I was only meeting him for the first time?I pushed him away before he could pull me any closer.“You pervert!” A loud scream escaped my lips before I could help it. “Have you been following me?” I asked, my voice dropping to a whisper.I wrapped my arms around myself, my chest pounding.“I need to leave here. I need to run away.”“Hey!” My brows widened with amusement as he stepped closer, ignoring my warning and closing the gap between us.With a low growl, he pulled me into his chest as if daring me to break away.“Stop being nosy and come with me.”With that, he covered my mouth with his palm and dragged me away while I struggled to break free.We didn’t go through the front area where the police were scattered; he took me through the back doors as we hurried along the dark path.Soon, we reached a black van parked nearby, and he shoved me inside before I could argue.“Help! Somebody help!”
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-01
Chapter: 011DARIUSShe didn't know I watched from the greenhouse light.I hadn't planned to start doing it. The first morning she went out there I was at the study window with my coffee and I saw it come on through the glass panels in the early dark and I stood there longer than I had any reason to. Then I went back to my desk. Didn't mention it to anyone. Didn't particularly examine it myself.That was eleven days ago.Now I looked for it every morning the way you look for something that has quietly stopped being optional. Whether it was on. Whether it stayed on. Whether she came back inside before or after Hilda put breakfast out.Useful information. None of it.I was collecting it anyway.---I knocked on her sitting room door at nine on a Tuesday. Told her to dress warm. She looked at me the way she did when she was deciding whether to push back or just move, and then she went to get her coat without saying anything. One of her quieter mornings. I had started being able to tell the difference
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Chapter: 010MeiraSera arrived at eight in the morning with a garment bag over one arm and the expression of someone who had already made seventeen decisions before breakfast and was prepared to make seventeen more before lunch.She hung the garment bag on the back of the sitting room door and unzipped it without preamble."Before you say anything," she said, "try it on."It was a deep green dress, simple in the way that took considerable effort to achieve. Long sleeves, a clean neckline, nothing fussy about it. The kind of thing that didn't ask anything of the person wearing it, just let them exist inside it without having to compete."It's not what I would have chosen," I said."I know. That's why I chose it." She held it out. "You would have chosen something safe. Something that disappeared. This doesn't disappear but it also doesn't perform." She looked at me evenly. "There's a difference."I took it and went to change.She was right, which I wasn't going to tell her while she could still loo
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Chapter: 009MEIRAI changed my outfit three times.The first was too formal, the kind of thing you wore when you needed people to take you seriously, and I didn't want to walk into that appointment looking like I was trying to impress anyone. The second was too casual, a soft knit I'd been sleeping in most of the week, and I wasn't ready to sit across from a doctor in something that still had yesterday in it. The third was just a dress. Blue, simple, nothing remarkable about it. I put it on and looked at myself in the mirror for longer than I needed to and then went downstairs before I could change again.Darius was already in the entrance hall, jacket on, keys in hand, checking something on his phone with the focused quiet of a man who had already organized the entire morning before I'd finished brushing my hair.He looked up when I came down the stairs.He didn't say anything about the dress or the fact that I had clearly been crying at some point in the last hour, which was perceptive of him b
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Chapter: 008MEIRA The statement went out at nine in the morning. I knew because Sera sent me a copy at eight fifty-five with a single line underneath it: Goes live in five minutes. Put your phone down after you read it. It was one paragraph. Clean, direct, nothing in it that could be pulled apart and reassembled into something else. The Lycan King had taken a chosen mate. Her name was Meira Nicholas, formerly Luna of the Silver Fang Pack. The ceremony would take place within the week. That was all. I read it twice, set my phone face-down on the nightstand, and went to make tea. By the time the kettle boiled my phone had vibrated itself to the edge of the nightstand. I watched it from across the room. I didn't go back for it. The numbers could wait. Whatever my father was saying, whatever Kaelan was saying somewhere with Isabella's head on his shoulder and his hand on her stomach — it could all wait until I had finished my tea and eaten something and sat with myself for ten uninterrupte
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-09
Chapter: 007MEIRA The estate sat at the end of a long private road flanked by trees so tall they blocked out the sky on both sides, turning the drive into something that felt less like an arrival and more like a descent. I watched it through the car window with my hands folded in my lap and my overnight bag on the seat beside me — all I had managed to pack in the hour Sera had given me before the car arrived. Everything else I owned was still at the packhouse. I left it. I wasn't sure I'd go back for it. The main house came into view as the road curved, and my first thought was that it didn't look the way I'd expected. I had imagined something cold — all hard lines and dark stone, the kind of place that announced power by making you feel small the moment you looked at it. The scale of it was undeniable, vast, three stories, built from pale stone that caught the morning light and held it. But there were old climbing roses on the eastern wall, dormant and scraggly in the winter, and the ground
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-09
Chapter: 005 The Devil's BargainMEIRA"How dare you, Meira."I didn't need to turn around. That voice had been the soundtrack to every bad thing that had ever happened to me. I'd heard it through walls, through closed doors, through the thin partition of my childhood bedroom while it told my father things about me that weren't true — or worse, things that were.Alpha Cain. My father.Darius's hand shifted at my back. Just slightly. Just enough. I don't think he even meant for me to notice, but I did, and it was the only reason I didn't visibly flinch.I turned around slowly.My father was standing at the edge of the dance floor with two of his enforcers behind him like furniture. He was dressed the way he always dressed when there were people watching — sharply, deliberately, every button done up, every crease in the right place. The face he showed the world was composed and commanding.The eyes he turned on me were neither of those things."You." He didn't even glance at Darius. Just looked at
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