Chapter: Chapter 90Emma’s POV I was confused on what to do. It had been a night since the fire and so much had happened, still I found myself thinking about the moment just before. He had been just there, about to give everything to me and then suddenly it had been ruined again. I found myself wet under the table as I stared at him eat, I wanted it to be me. Inside my room, I stared in the mirror, unsure what to do. It would be selfish to just go into his room and seduce him again like that and I doubted it would work but I needed him. My body had been wet and wanting for him since that night and the last thing I wanted to do was give up when I had just been right there. So I stood there in my shorts and tight tank top. It was seductive, it would catch his eye but it wouldn’t be too obvious because I knew with the stress he had on, he was not going to want this. I took the files from the table, the ones I was going to lie to him about and went on to his office. “Come in” I heard him say from the ot
Last Updated: 2026-11-06
Chapter: Chapter 89A day had gone by since the fire, most of the servants had been moved into the east side of the house that had been empty for ages. I made sure they were all comfortable since the servant quarters would take a while to build. It annoyed me that so much work had been burned down to near ash. And the message rang in my head, what gift had been in the house. There had to be something that he wanted to show me or hide from me. The thought hadn’t left my mind since that moment just like I had hardly left my office all day. I remained locked in there, trying to understand who I was dealing with. My phone rang just then and I picked the call, waiting for the other person to speak without checking the ID but thankfully it wasn’t him. My lawyer’s voice came through instead. “The case comes up in a week and it’s different this time” he went straight to the point after a brief pleasantry. “Their laywer sent me a briefing of their line of questioning and Aaron, I know you’re not gonna like t
Last Updated: 2026-11-06
Chapter: Chapter 88 For a moment, neither of them spoke. The distant clatter of equipment being packed away filled the silence. Aaron's gaze drifted back towards the quarters. Emma followed it, but there was nothing left to see except the damage. Whatever he was looking for, it wasn't there anymore. Or perhaps it had never been there to begin with. “Aaron?” He drew in a slow breath. “Let's go.” “That's it?” “Emma, please.” The plea was quiet, but it carried an exhaustion that made her hesitate. She wanted to argue. She wanted to demand an explanation and remind him that whatever troubled him didn't have to remain his burden alone. He looked away. The response stung more than she wanted to admit. Only a short while ago, they had been alone together, wrapped in the fragile comfort of a private moment. Now he seemed determined to shut her out completely, as though she were a stranger who had wandered too close to something she had no right to see. She folded her arms. “Did something happen before to
Last Updated: 2026-11-05
Chapter: Chapter 87Aaron pushed away from Emma so abruptly that she barely had time to register the change in his expression as well as the words accompanying the knock on the door. “What is it?” she asked, reaching for his hand. “Fire.” The word came out sharp and breathless. Before she could ask another question, he was already scrambling out of bed, searching for his trousers. He dragged them on without bothering to button them properly, snatched his phone from the bedside table, and rushed towards the door. “Fire where, Aaron?” “The quarters!” he shouted back, hardly turning back to look at her. Emma froze. For a moment, she could only stare at the doorway through which he had disappeared. Then the distant shouts reached her ears, followed by the unmistakable sound of people running. Her heart lurched. She hurriedly pulled on her clothes, fumbling with the buttons of the shirt beside her. She struggled to get her hands to cooperate. By the time she stepped into her shoes, Aaron was already
Last Updated: 2026-11-05
Chapter: Chapter 86Now when he was pressing her, Emma felt the bulge of his cock press against her. She felt the size of it and inhaled sharply, her eyes shutting close for a moment at the thought of how he would feel sliding into her, opening her up for him. She inhaled the sweet cologne of him happily, “I did and you refused me” He grinned, “And so you decided to be a little slut for me. Come to my dressed like that” when he scanned her outfit again, he took his sweet time, “Knowing the thoughts you would put in my mind, breaking my defence” he leaned into her neck, smelling her hard, “Maybe if you had asked politely I would have given you” She rolled her eyes, her hands aching to wrap around him but wanting him to break entirely, “I did ask as politely as I could and you refused still” she stared at the big bed behind him. “I decided not to ask any more, just give it to me” Aaron felt himself go mad at her voice, the soft sultriness, he couldn’t believe himself. Her tits pressed into him from belo
Last Updated: 2026-11-04
Chapter: Chapter 85 He sighed, “Look I know how it all looks but then this is business I would rather deal with alone. It’s nothing to do with you and I would like for it to continue that way” he began to lean back towards the laptop, “So if you don’t mind, I’ve got some office work to deal with, if that’s all of course” His dismissal had been so smooth that for a moment I didn’t realize. I stood there, mouth open in shock. There was nothing else to ask him and even I didn’t see the need to press any further when he himself didn’t want to offer any information. I nodded slowly, defeated, “Alright then” and then I left. A few hours later, it was past midnight and I had been working all night. Suddenly my mind had begun to replay the images of him nearly fucking me on his office table. At that moment, I could feel his hands on my ass, grabbing and squeezing. In between my legs, I felt myself start to dampen a little. A whimper left my mouth, I needed him and I didn’t do anything to stop the next thing
Last Updated: 2026-11-04
HOTTIE NEXT DOOR
Arielle has had enough of her father’s suffocating control. When he freezes her accounts simply because she took ONE trip without telling him, she decides it’s time to take charge of her own life.
With nothing but borrowed money from a friend and a desperate need for independence, she moves into a chic apartment downtown, determined to start fresh.
But fate has other plans.
Her new living arrangement puts her dangerously close to Victor Knight, her arrogant, devastatingly handsome neighbor. Their unexpected proximity is a recipe for disaster. They barely exchange words, yet every glance, every accidental encounter, and every moment spent in the same room sends her carefully guarded emotions into chaos.
Victor is everything she should stay away from. After all, she already has a boyfriend, and the last thing she needs is a complicated attraction that could turn her life upside down.
But Victor is fighting a battle of his own.
Behind his cool demeanor lies a dangerous secret—a wild, untamed force he struggles to keep under control. The closer he gets to Arielle, the harder it becomes to silence the instincts urging him toward her. Keeping his distance may be the only way to protect her… and himself.
Two stubborn hearts. One irresistible attraction. A secret that could change everything.
How long can they deny what’s growing between them before their darkest desires come to light?
Read
Chapter: CHAPTER 115Arielle's POV The pack gathered at dusk, lanterns strung between the trees, the same clearing that had seen so much blood over the past year finally hosting something worth celebrating instead. It was a celebration and it was also a memorial, just like Michael wanted, the names of those we'd lost spoken aloud before we ever played a note, grief and joy side-by-side, instead of being given a choice between them. Behind, Renner took his place as the next name was called, uncomfortably donning a tuxedo that was not his own as he held up a glass with a hand that appeared to tremble. "I lived my whole life being somebody else," he said, his voice rough and gravelly in the silence of the clearing. "Whoever was keeping me breathing for another day, that's who I was. I don't think I ever thought I would get the chance just to be Renner, whoever the hell that turns out to be." He looked to Victor, then Michael, then the rest of the gathered pack watching him with a set of expressions I di
Last Updated: 2026-09-29
Chapter: CHAPTER 114Victor's POV We named her Lucia on the fourth morning, sitting together in the sunlight pooling through the window of our own room back at Bloodclaw, finally somewhere that felt like home instead of a battlefield. "Lucia," Arielle said, testing the word against our daughter's small, sleeping face. "It felt right. After everything she did the night she was born." "Lucia." I tried it out loud myself, and something in my chest settled the second I said it. "I like it. It suits her." "She's going to be insufferable about it when she's older. 'I'm literally named after the thing that saved everyone,' she's going to say, and none of us will have a comeback for that." "We'll manage. We've survived worse arguments." "Have we, though? I feel like this one might actually break us." I laughed quietly and for the first time in longer than I could remember, the sound didn't feel like something stolen from a war. It felt like something we'd actually earned. Arielle laid Lucia in the bassine
Last Updated: 2026-09-29
Chapter: CHAPTER 113Arielle's POV My dad's condition worsened overnight despite everything Clara tried, and by the time Victor and I reached his bedside back at Bloodclaw, my father's skin had gone the same gray, hollow color I remembered from the night he collapsed. "The ritual took more from him than we accounted for," Clara said, exhaustion carved deep into every line of her face. "His body's still trying to recover from eight months as a living battery, and now this on top of it. I've done everything I know how to do, Arielle. I don't have anything left to try." "There has to be something." "I wish there was. I really do." Victor's arm tightened around my shoulders, steady even though I could feel the same helplessness running through him. "What about the pack healers? Anyone outside Clara's own training?" "I already sent word to everyone I could think of," Clara said. "Nobody's answering, and even if someone did, I don't think there's time left to wait for them to arrive." "How much ti
Last Updated: 2026-09-29
Chapter: CHAPTER 112Arielle's POV Somehow, the outside noises changed after Victor returned to us, turned into something softer, more puffy. There was a sense of last remaining quiet that blankets itself when the roar of a battle has vanished leaving only its residual huff. I couldn't make out the words people were calling to each other anymore, only the worn out breath of everyone kept alive. Clara moved quickly and softly beside me, tidied up, examined my daughter for the second time, her hands working with the exhausted efficiency of someone working on nothing but the stea of efficiency. "Everything's normal," she said, though her voice shook with relief as she said it. "Early, small, but strong. She's going to be fine, Arielle." "And Augustin?" "Gone. His own people finished it." Clara's eyes didn't quite meet mine. "I don't have the details yet. I don't think anyone does. I think we're all just grateful it's actually over." "And Michael? Sarah?" "Michael's stable. Barely, but stabl
Last Updated: 2026-09-29
Chapter: CHAPTER 111Victor's POV I stood in the doorway with my daughter's cries still ringing behind me and watched a hundred-year-old monster reach for something he'd already lost. Augustin's hand drifted towards her, cautious, reverent even and the second his fingers brushed the sheen of gold still emanating from the tiny newborn, he let out a scream. It was not a human sound, no. It was older than that, ripping out of him as the light spit him out flat on his back, staggering backwards over the battered yard like he had no weight whatsoever. "She's not compatible," Clara breathed behind me, staring at the scene with wide, stunned eyes. "Whatever he calculated about the transfer, whatever he thought this power would let him do, it isn't working the way he planned. Her power's rejecting him completely." Gideon appeared at my shoulder, favoring one leg, blood dried dark along his jaw. "Please tell me that means what I think it means." "It means a hundred years of planning just failed in fron
Last Updated: 2026-09-29
Chapter: CHAPTER 110Arielle's POV The door burst open in the exact same second I finally found the strength for one last push. I didn't see who broke through, not clearly, my whole world narrowed down to Victor's hands and the sound tearing out of my own throat. I heard him move, felt him place himself between me and whatever had just come through that door, and I heard, distantly, the crack of something meeting his fist hard enough to end the threat before it reached me. Whoever it was didn't get a second chance to try again. "Arielle, she's almost here." Clara's voice, hoarse but steady, somewhere near my knees. When had Clara gotten up? I didn't have room to wonder. "One more. I need one more from you." "I don't have one more." "You do. I've watched you survive worse than this all year. Give me one more." I gave her one more. Our daughter came into the world screaming, furious and alive, and the second her cry filled that cabin, gold light erupted from her tiny body with a force
Last Updated: 2026-09-29
LOGIN
