Chapter: Chapter 66 Cain’s PovThe atmosphere inside the Pit transformed completely once Knox and Drex got rid of the drunk fool who had thought it was a good idea to harass Ava.I watched from the entrance as the two of them dragged him outside without giving him the chance to protest. The idiot cursed and struggled all the way to the door, but neither Knox nor Drex looked even slightly bothered by it. They tossed him onto the gravel outside with enough force to make him stumble before Knox pointed a warning finger at him.“If you’re smart,” Knox said coldly, “you won’t come anywhere near this place again.”The man muttered something under his breath before disappearing into the darkness, rubbing at the spot between his legs where Ava had planted her kick.The heavy doors closed behind him, shutting out the noise from outside.Inside, conversations slowly resumed.Music continued to play.Laughter gradually returned.The tension that had settled over the room moments ago began to dissolve.My attention drifted bac
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Chapter: Chapter 65 Ava's PovEvening settled over Greystone, the Pit no longer felt like the same place I had grown used to over the past few weeks. The usual scent of engine oil and grilled meat had been overtaken by perfume, cologne, roasted food, and expensive liquor. Music drifted faintly from downstairs, growing louder every few seconds as another motorcycle pulled into the parking lot outside.Even from Mara’s bedroom, I could hear the deep rumble of engines arriving one after another.Apparently, word had spread. The guests were coming.I sat quietly in front of Mara’s vanity mirror while she stood behind me, completely focused on my hair.“Hold still,” she complained, gently turning my head back into position. “You move too much.”“I’ve been sitting here for almost thirty minutes.”“And you can survive another five.”I sighed dramatically, earning a laugh from her.She held a curling iron against another section of my hair before letting the curl fall naturally over my shoulder.“There,” she said proudly.
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Chapter: Chapter 64 Cain’s PovThe noise from the garage echoed faintly through the floorboards above, a steady rhythm of impact guns, clanking metal, and engines being stripped apart. It had become background music to the Pit, something I had grown accustomed to over the years. While the others buried themselves in grease and steel, I had work of my own.I shut the office door behind me before walking toward the large bookshelf against the wall.To anyone else, it looked ordinary.Shelves packed with old ledgers, motorcycle manuals, club records, and dusty novels no one had touched in years. But appearances were often the strongest form of camouflage.I reached beneath the bottom shelf and pressed two concealed latches in sequence.A soft click answered me.The bookshelf shifted barely an inch.I wrapped my fingers around its edge and pushed.The entire structure swung inward, revealing a narrow steel compartment hidden inside the wall.Cold air drifted from within.Metal cases sat neatly stacked from floor to cei
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Chapter: Chapter 63 Ava's PovThe atmosphere inside The Pit slowly returned to normal after the federal agents finally drove away. The tension that had settled over everyone while the officers searched the building gradually dissolved into familiar conversations, clinking glasses, and the sounds of men moving in and out of the garage. It was strange how quickly life resumed inside these walls. A few minutes earlier, everyone had been prepared for the worst. Now it almost felt as though nothing had happened at all.I stood behind the counter drying freshly washed glasses while Mara moved around the kitchen with her usual energy. Every now and then she would peek through the serving window just to grin at me before disappearing again.When she emerged carrying a bowl of sliced vegetables, she shook her head in amazement.“I still can’t believe you did that.”I looked up innocently. “Did what?”“Oh, don’t pretend.” She placed the bowl on the counter before pointing at me with the knife handle. “You seriously stood th
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Chapter: Chapter 62 Cain’s PovThe chatter from the bar slowly faded behind me as I pushed open the door to my office. The room felt strangely quieter than usual, perhaps because my mind refused to settle after everything that had happened within the last hour. Mercer had walked away with nothing but suspicions, yet somehow it felt as though he had still won a small battle. He had succeeded in making us react, and men like him lived for such kind of reactions from men like us.That reaction of fear and failure. It filled their pride with satisfaction. And I was certain Mercer wasn’t intending on keeping the fact that my men and I had weapons under the carpet. Grim stepped inside after me, closing the door with a firm click before taking his usual seat opposite my desk. He leaned back in the chair with a long sigh, rubbing his beard thoughtfully while I remained standing by the window. From there I could see part of the garage hrough the glass panel, where Knox and the others had resumed their usual activities on
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Chapter: Chapter 61 Ava's PovMy heartbeat refused to slow even after Mercer stopped laughing.It had been a trap.Not the search warrant. Not the questions. The insult had only been a trick.He had deliberately crossed a line, knowing Cain would react. He wanted to see whether the calm, respectable owner of the Pit was truly the man the town feared. Worse, he had wanted to see how the rest of the club would respond if their leader was provoked.And we had given him exactly what he wanted.There was an immediate united front. The knives and guns didn’t seem to come as a surprise to Mercer.I looked from Mercer to Cain, my pulse hammering inside my ears. Cain’s fist was still clenched around the front of Mercer’s shirt, his knuckles white with restrained fury. Every muscle in his arm looked ready to snap.I gently tightened my grip around his forearm.“Cain.”He didn’t move.I stepped closer until my shoulder brushed against his.“Please.”For a brief moment, I thought he wasn’t going to listen.Then his fingers s
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Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife
For ten years, Seraphina Frostbane was a ghost in her own marriage and the invisible wife to London’s coldest billionaire, Kieran Blackthorne. She was his duty, his mistake, the woman who bore his heir but never his heart. When her father dies and her glamorous sister—the woman Kieran was meant to marry—returns to reclaim everything Seraphina accidentally took, he ends their marriage without hesitation.
Broken but unbowed, Seraphina signs the divorce papers, takes her son, and disappears.
But fate isn’t done with her yet.
At her father’s funeral, an ambush meant to silence her nearly succeeds until she’s saved by Lucian Reed, a mysterious man with a spiral tattoo and eyes that promise danger. Under his brutal mentorship, Seraphina sheds her fragile shell and rises from the ashes as a woman who can bend the city’s elite to her will.
But the stronger she grows, the more unhinged Kieran becomes. Realizing too late that his indifference masked a possessive obsession, he launches a ruthless war to drag her back into his empire and his bed.
Now, caught between a new love that empowers her, an ex-husband who would burn the world to keep her, and a secret pregnancy that could destroy them all, Seraphina must decide:
Will she rule her own destiny… or be devoured by the darkness that once claimed her?
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Chapter: Chapter 195 Seraphina's PovThe last secret Arthur Blackthorne ever gave us was permission to stop looking.Three months later, the archive beneath Ground was closed.It was not destroyed.It was not opened to the public either.Mara would probably have fought anyone who suggested either extreme.Instead, the institutional records documenting Site Ten, Virellan, Elias, Armitage and the network of decisions that had allowed children to become subjects of adult ambition were preserved under strict professional control. The materials necessary to establish what had happened remained available for legitimate legal, historical and safeguarding purposes, subject to privacy restrictions Mara had spent weeks designing and twice as long explaining to the rest of us.The intimate medical observations were different.Where they served no legitimate purpose beyond satisfying curiosity, they were destroyed.Personal belongings were returned where possible.Naomi's letters remained with the Blackthorne family.Father Michael'
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Chapter: Chapter 194 Seraphina's PovSometimes, the saddest evidence is proof that a child knew exactly what he wanted before adults convinced him to want more.The yellow construction paper lay between us, creased through the center and faded around the edges, but Adrian's drawing remained clear enough to make the room hurt.A bicycle shop.A family.A dog.A man with a wrench.And on the back, in uneven pencil:I want to fix things people still want to keep.Samuel stared at the screen without speaking.Nobody rushed him.There was nothing useful to say.For years, Adrian's childhood had been described through assessments, reports, projections and fears. Adults had documented what he could become with such intensity that his actual wishes had nearly disappeared beneath the paperwork.Yet there it was.Age eleven.No ambiguity.No extraordinary destiny.He had wanted a repair shop.And eventually he built one.Lucian leaned against the archive table."He wasn't escaping."Samuel finally looked up."No."His voice was ro
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Chapter: Chapter 193 Seraphina's PovFreedom looked different when carved into the bottom of a child's boat.Lucian turned the tiny wooden hull slowly beneath the lamp, reading Adrian's words again as though the sentence might change if he stared long enough.A bridge only matters if both sides are free.Daniel had already lost interest in the revelation.He had climbed back onto the couch, dragged the blanket over himself and curled against the cushion with the absolute confidence of a child who had solved the important part of the problem and saw no reason to continue discussing it.The adults, unfortunately, were less efficient.I took the boat from Lucian.The carving was almost invisible unless the wood caught the light at exactly the right angle. Adrian must have scratched the letters into the grain with a needle or the point of a small knife. They weren't neat. Some dipped lower than others. The word bridge had been squeezed together because he'd clearly misjudged the available space.He had been eleven.Eleven ye
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Chapter: Chapter 192 Seraphina's PovThere are sentences that change what you know.Then there are sentences that change who was watching you all along.My father chose you.Samuel Vale's words stayed suspended between us, impossible to fit beside anything I had learned over the past several days. Arthur had watched Daniel. Arthur had preserved the photograph. Arthur had written about hope, bridges and children who deserved to remain untouched by old expectations.Arthur had seemed to be the one making the choice.Apparently, he wasn't.I turned away from the living room so Daniel couldn't see my face.Lucian was already watching me.Mara had stopped pretending she wasn't listening.I lowered my voice."Explain."Samuel didn't answer immediately.When he did, the certainty had left his tone."I can only explain what my father told me.""Then start there."Another pause."My father knew Arthur was dying."My grip tightened around the phone."How?""Arthur contacted him."I closed my eyes.That made no sense.Arthur had pr
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Chapter: Chapter 191 Seraphina's PovThree days was a very short time in which to disappear forever.I remained on the living-room floor long after reading Arthur's final sentence, my phone bright in my hand while the rest of the house settled around me. Somewhere upstairs, water ran briefly through the pipes. A door closed. Lucian's footsteps crossed the hallway as he finished getting Daniel ready for bed. The ordinary sounds should have pulled me back into my own life.They didn't.Three days later, Adrian Vale disappeared for good.I read the line again.Then the sentence before it.He returned Naomi's compass and asked me to promise that I would never search for him again.Arthur had agreed.That mattered more than the disappearance itself.The Arthur we had spent days discovering did not simply lose people. He searched. He documented. He hired investigators. He built contingencies around uncertainties most people would have accepted as unavoidable. For Adrian to look him in the face and demand a promise that he woul
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Chapter: Chapter 190 Seraphina's PovThe day Arthur finally believed her turned out to be the day he stopped trying to save everyone.The dried olive leaf lay across Edwin's desk, fragile and brown with age, held to the tiny label by tape that had yellowed almost to the same color as the paper beneath it. After everything we had discovered, nobody reached for it immediately. We had learned that the smallest objects Arthur preserved often carried the largest pieces of his life, and Father Michael's handwritten description suggested this one belonged to a moment Arthur had never recorded for himself.The day Arthur finally believed her.Mara leaned over the desk."Believed which part?"Edwin looked toward Naomi's letter."I think we know."The only debt the living owe the dead is to remain wonderfully alive.The sentence returned to me with unexpected force.Arthur had carried Naomi's death like an assignment. Every trust, every file, every contingency had grown from promises he believed required constant repayment. Perhap
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