Love, Lies, and a Billionaire's Regret
I once saved Jonathan’s life, but he never knew it was me. Instead, he gave his heart to my younger sister, Seraphina. When tragedy struck, I became the villain in everyone's story especially in Jonathan's story.
Years later, a forced marriage filled with resentment and silence, binds us together. When my sister returns, healed and ready to reclaim Jonathan, I walk away only to discover something that will change the course of my fate.
I rebuild myself from nothing, rising into power. But the past begins to resurface, and the truth comes out about an unquestioned detail in our childhood memory, and the person I trusted the most was the reason my life was destroyed.
Now Jonathan wants forgiveness but this time, I'll only seek the truth even if it burns us all.
Basahin
Chapter: 147: The last stancePENELOPE The wedding came as a surprise, as it was never meant to be an event.We booked no venue months in advance. We debated no guest list for weeks. We ordered no flowers from somewhere that required notice.It happened on a Saturday, because that was the Saturday Adrian came back from Geneva, "It will happen today, if you want," he said.I said yes before he finished the sentence.Mrs. Park cried when I called her. She has watched as all this resolve and had watched it happen from too close to pretend she wasn't invested.She arrived within forty minutes, carrying Nora's best dress and wearing her own good coat. She has already done a lot, and nobody was going to tell her otherwise.I asked Jonathan to come, and he did. He didn't act surprised, he has finally learnt to let things slide.He wore the same dark coat he'd had on the night Seraphina collapsed at the hospital. He walked into the registry office and sat in the front row beside Mrs. Park.Seraphina sat beside him.They
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Chapter: 146: Before the EndPENELOPE Jonathan swam at the coast for the second time, where he had spent months standing at the water's edge, trying so hard to overcome his fear of water. I was there when he was showing me. Then he walked in, still in his usual tuxedo, and the water reached up to his knees. He stopped, and I could see how heavily he was panting. Then he took off his outfit, leaving nothing on but his shorts. I could see how shaky his legs were, and it made me wonder whether it was from the cold water or from fear. He went further this time; his waist went deep, and his legs were completely buried by the water. He stopped again and turned, and at this point, he was indecisive about whether he should submerge himself or not. Then he pushed forward, went under, came up, and started swimming. He swam for about twenty metres, then swam back, and walked out to stand on the pebbles. He was soaked through, and his clothes were clinging to his skin."I wish I could go back to when all thi
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Chapter: 145: It Almost Broke ItPENELOPE Six weeks after the gallery closed, Adrian's mother came to London to stay and not the casual visiting she does.She had sold the Hertfordshire property, the workshop, the garden that would have been extraordinary in summer.She arrived at my door on a Saturday morning with two suitcases and the look of a woman who had made a decision and was standing inside it now, daring anyone to question her.I had known she was coming. Adrian had told me. What I hadn't known was that she was bringing something with her...The table.It came in a van and two men carried it up the stairs. They set it down in my kitchen."He said you wanted it here." She lamented."I did. I wanted a table." i responded.She nodded. "It is made from good wood. It'll last.""So will I."She almost smiled but held it back which was unusual for her appearance.Adrian came up behind the men and stood in the doorway. He looked at his mother, then at the table. "It fits properly.""It does. Look at how beautiful t
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Chapter: 144: She didn't expect thatPENELOPE Three weeks later, the Hartwell situation resolved faster than Tessa had predicted because Jonathan walked into Hartwell Capital's offices on a Tuesday morning without an appointment and bought their entire position in my company outright as a hostile acquisition of their stake.He then transferred the shares to Nora, in trust, for when she was old enough to decide what to do with them.Tessa called while I was in the Clerkenwell office, staring at the documentation."He can do this?" I asked excitedly."He already did it," she said. "The shares aren't his to give you. They are Nora's. He is her father, he can put assets in trust for her without your approval."I set the document down and looked at the wall, at the print of Velour I had hung there...one of the smaller projections from the gallery show, framed simply."He protected your company's ownership structure," Tessa said. "No external party can make a claim through those shares until Nora decides.""Which is never. Sh
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Chapter: 143: The DeclarationPENELOPE Tessa called later on. "It's weak," she said. "The clause is standard, but their application of it is a stretch. Seraphina's introduction was informal, never documented as a formal referral, and Hartwell has no direct contractual relationship with your company. We'll fight for this. But it takes three months minimum." "I don't have three months," I said. "Why not?" "Because I'm ending this today." I stayed. "Ending what?" "All of it." I hung up, got dressed, left Nora at Mrs Park's care and drove to Seraphina's building. She answered the door in pyjamas and looked at my face before stepping back to let me in. Her flat was half-packed with boxes everywhere, the walls already stripped. She was moving out even though she has already sold the house. " About Hartwell Capital," I started. She looked at me, and something moved through her face that wasn't quite guilt. It was more like watching a buried thing surface exactly where she had buried it. Then she said. "I introd
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Chapter: 142: The Woman With the CameraPENELOPE I went downstairs. The woman was still there when I came out. She saw me coming and didn't run, which told me she was professional and was willing to confront me. "Who hired you?" I asked"Ms. Westfield. I can explain...""Who hired you?" I asked again.She lowered the camera down. "I'm not able to...""You've been standing outside my building," I said, "photographing my window. My daughter is upstairs. Tell me who hired you, or I'll call the police right now and you can explain the camera to them."She looked at me, deciding if she would reveal too much or not. "Hartwell Capital."I stared at her. "The investment firm?""Yes." she responded."They withdrew their claim against my company months ago." I muttered "They withdrew the legal claim," she said. "They retained a separate interest in the situation.""What interest?"She reached into her bag, pulled out an envelope, and handed it to me. I opened it. Inside was a printed document. I read the first paragraph, then the
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Reborn at the Last Howl
Sixty days before the world freezes, Cryssara Wolfe gets a second chance at life.
In her first life, she was an unwanted omega without a wolf, betrayed by the man she loved and abandoned when the deadly Ice Age struck. She gave everything to her pack, yet when survival became a luxury, they left her to die.
Now, she remembers everything.
This time, Alpha Dorian won't get her trust, her money, or her anything of her. But escaping her past won't be easy, especially when the ruthless Rogue Alpha, Caelus Mooncrest, enters her path.
With the temperature falling and time running out, can Cryssara survive the coming winter or will her second life end before the first snow?
Basahin
Chapter: 5: I refuse your rejectionCryssara's POV "On what grounds?" I questioned. Quill's jaw tightens as he looks straight at me. "Dorian refused your rejection. By old pack custom, the Alpha can claim a mate's share, and that applies to you." His voice drops to something darker. "And the elders aren't helping him out of loyalty. They want the money. They always want the money." I don't need him to say it twice. The trap is already closing, precise like iron settling around my wrists, tightening with every second I waste standing still. "If I reach the Hold first and hold it, the claim has no power."That is what I think, even though I don't know if that will work. But Quill nods indicating that he thinks the same too. Lyanna already has her bag slung over her shoulder, her face set with the kind of determination that used to terrify me when we were children, back when she meant every threat she made. Caelus waits at the door, his eyes scanning the dark beyond the threshold as though counting threats that hav
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Chapter: 4: What my real mother leftCryssara's POV Dorian yelled. "Shut the gate!" Guards sprint forward, slamming their bodies across the road. The lawyer's car lurches to a stop. My heart hammers against my ribs, each beating a drum of panic I cannot silence. Caelus steps into the road without hesitation. He says nothing. He stands there as if he has weathered worse storms than this one. The guards falter, exchanging glances, and back away. Nobody wants to test a rogue Alpha with his reputation. Then he enters the car. The car surges through the gap. I refuse to look back, though every instinct yells at me to check whether Dorian still watches, still waits, still plans his next move. The road stretches open ahead. Trees smear past the window in a blur of silhouette and shadow. In the back seat, my breath ripped out of me in ragged gasps, my hands shaking in my lap like leaves caught in the wind. Lyanna is already pressed against my side. She had chased the car down, and I yanked her through the door seconds
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Chapter: 3: I must get her backAlpha Dorian's POV "Cryssara, wait." She does not stop. The lawyer already waits at the door. Her adoptive mother sits pale and silent, her hands twisting in her lap as though wringing out some private grief. Seraphina stands there with her tears glistening. Then the room tilts under me. Before I can follow her, the elders summon me to the small room. Three of them sit behind the old table, with their faces deepened by wrinkles. the weight of decades pressing down on their expressions. The lawyer has already spoken to them. One elder fixes me with flat, merciless eyes, the kind that have watched a hundred foolish Alphas make the same mistake and choke on the consequences. "If you want that money, do not accept her rejection," he says, each word a nail driven into the silence. I stood there, with my hands clenched at my sides, my pulse hammering against my ribs. I never say sorry. I only count what I stand to lose, running the numbers like a man balancing a ledger instead of
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Chapter: 2: Everyone is in the roomCryssara's POV My mother freezes in the doorway. Both stared at me as though my words were a smoke, refusing to fade. She finds her voice first. "How dare you? After everything this family has done for you? You don't even have a wolf. We took you out of pity, and this is how you repay us...with betrayal?" I kept my eyes on her, my hands steady at my sides. For the first time in seven years, nobody is telling me what to do, and the silence roared louder than any shout. It fills the room, pressing against the walls, against everything I have swallowed for so long. Dorian shoved past her, his jaw was tight which made a vein pulse at his temple. "I picked you when no one would. Who will want an omega with no wolf? Tell me that." The words intentions were meant to wound, meant to remind me of my place. I did not answer. He waits, clenching his fists, the muscles in his forearms banged with a fury he no longer bothers to hide. Nothing comes from me. His face shifts, the anger giving w
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Chapter: 1: The Moon Goddess Pitied meCryssara's POV Ice climbs my legs at the shelter gate.I cannot move as the cold bites through my thin coat and sinks into my bone. My breath comes out foggy and dragged. Around me, tears of people were heard, as they cried and begged. The guard holds up one hand."One place left for just one wolf," he announces, and the crowd surges like a single desperate animal.Dorian stands in front of me, snow coats his dark hair. Seraphina clings to his arm like she belongs there. He does not look at me when he speaks, as though looking might guilt trap him, one I'm sure he doesn't want to be associated with."The Moon Goddess can't curse me twice," he says, like a verdict. "First it's the apocalypse, and now it's you."He pushes Seraphina forward. The guard lets her through. The gate clangs shut, which was a sound that splits the world in two.I am outside, and I'll continue to be outside for as long as he wants.The ice keeps climbing past my knees, past my hips. My fingers goes stiff. My wo
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Chapter: Chapter 113: The Enclave's ArchiveBUTTERCUP"They are back," Marcus said from the outer door. "Same three. Archive packet in hand. No residual tools visible. They asked for the same room and the same rules."I stood. "Bring them in. Full log. Lyssa stays inner with Rose. If anything feels wrong, we end it the moment it starts."Draven's hand brushed my back as we walked, his grip harder than it needed to be. "They offered a map of people like you. Do not let the map decide the road."Kai checked the wards one more time, his jaw tight. "I want every page they put on that table copied into our private record before they leave. If they balk, we stop there."Asher's voice stayed quiet, but an edge ran beneath it. "Listen for what they leave out. Archives always have gaps where the truth was too costly to keep. These people have lied to us before by omission."Cael and the two others entered without ceremony. The scholar set a thin bound summary on the table. No seals. No flourishes."As agreed," Cael said. "Limited histor
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Chapter: Chapter 112: The Enclave's ContactBUTTERCUP"They sent a formal request." Kai slammed the sealed note onto the table, his jaw tight. "Three representatives. No banners. No weapons declared. They ask for Neutral Buttercup, with guardians present if she chooses. They use the name Enclave in the signature line. No threats. No offers. Only a request to speak about classification and pattern."Draven's eyes narrowed to slits. "Classification. That's just a prettier word for a cage."Lila clutched Lyssa tighter against her hip, her knuckles pale. "If they already have a file on us, why bother asking permission now?""Because watching from shadows is one thing." Asher cut in before I could respond, his voice edged with something dangerous. "Sitting across a table is another entirely. Formal contact means they've judged the subject stable enough—or valuable enough—to risk exposure."I broke the seal myself, ignoring the tension crackling between them. The language was spare. Meeting under Neutral record. No residual collectio
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Chapter: Chapter 111: The Intelligence ThreatBUTTERCUP "Say it again," I snapped at Kai as we stood over the map table. "Slow. No assumptions. Only what you can put in a log."Kai rubbed the road dust from his hands, not meeting my eyes. "A quiet group with no public name is compiling a profile. Buttercup's Vessel marks. How the three Alphas share load. The guardian thread. Lyssa's field and the way it targets specific emotional knots." He paused, jaw tight. "They pay for residual readings and secondhand accounts. Not samples. Not a bounty. A structural study. Red Hollow intermediary went dark after a handoff. Scholar-house residue from people who lost status after the research regulation.""Endgame?" I pressed."Learning whether the bond system can be stabilized without a true Vessel. If yes, they may not need us." He let that hang. "If no, they come back to the source."Draven's jaw locked, a muscle ticking beneath the scar along his cheek. "Replication without consent is just another form of collection." His voice dropped to
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Chapter: Chapter 110: Lyssa's First Year MilestoneLILA"She is one," I said, setting Lyssa on the blanket in the center of the outer courtyard. The afternoon smelled like bread and crushed grass and too many people trying to be careful at the same time. "One year of light and noise and not letting any of us sleep through a full night. We are celebrating that."Kai crouched beside us with a wooden wolf he had carved himself. "And the fact that she has not burned the wards down yet. Small victories."Buttercup laughed once, though her eyes stayed sharp. "Do not give her ideas. The academy students are already watching her like she might grade their meditation drills."Draven stood at the edge of the crowd with Marcus and two trusted dens, his eyes cutting through the gathering the way they always did when outsiders mixed with pack. "Aldric's people are here. Eastern exchange observers are here. Continuum is not—that is the best we get." His jaw tightened. "Keep her in the inner circle of the yard. No long walks to the ridge. I mean it.
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Chapter: Chapter 109: Asher's Expanded RoleASHER "Power without a limit becomes appetite," I told the ethics circle as the afternoon light moved across the academy floor. "That is not a modern invention. It is the oldest pattern we have. The question is not whether you will feel the pull. The question is what you will bind yourself to before the pull decides for you."Jorik, still carrying Eastern formality, frowned, his jaw tight with the effort of restraint. "In our houses the limit is lineage and rank. Clear structure. Your version sounds like endless self-doubt dressed up as wisdom."Vex stretched her legs, her voice sharpening to a blade's edge. "In the networks the limit is whatever keeps you alive until tomorrow. Your version sounds expensive—and I have watched expensive ideas get people killed."Torin kept his arms folded, his glare fixed on me like an accusation. "In the dens the limit used to be the Alpha's word. Now we have packets and logs. Which one are you actually teaching? Because from where I sit, it looks li
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Chapter: Chapter 108: Kai's MissionKAI"You still smell like exile to half the rooms I walk into," I told the neutral trade contact as we sat under a plain awning two territories east of Black Moon ground. "A formal corps pin does not erase the years I spent outside a banner. So if you're going to waste my time testing whether I'm still a problem, say it now, and I'll walk out."The contact, a lean woman named Oren who dealt more in information than goods, let a thin smile cross her face. "Direct. Good. Most of Draven's people arrive with speeches about new eras. You arrive with a list. What do you want?""Alliances that don't require selling a child. Routes that stay open when someone tests the academy. And any quiet noise about people building files on Buttercup or the trinity." I leaned forward. "I'll trade fair information for fair information. I will not trade access to Lyssa or the inner wards. Push me on that, and this conversation ends."Oren poured two cups of bitter tea, unhurried, as if my warning meant noth
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