bride of vengeance
Valeria Ravenwood has spent years preparing for one thing: killing the Lycan King, Alejandro.
Haunted by the brutal murder of her parents, Valeria grows up believing the feared king was responsible for destroying her family. Driven by revenge, she infiltrates the Lycan Palace under a false identity, determined to get close enough to strike.
But the closer she gets to King Alejandro, the more the ruthless monster of her nightmares begins to look like something else entirely—a king burdened by duty, secrets, and enemies hiding within his own court.
When mysterious attacks shake the kingdom and long-buried truths begin to surface, Valeria discovers that the man she came to kill may be innocent. The real enemy has been hiding in the shadows all along, manipulating kingdoms and lives for years.
Now, Valeria must choose between the revenge that has defined her life and the truth that could change everything.
In a world of betrayal, hidden identities, and dangerous secrets, can love survive where vengeance was meant to reign?
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Chapter: chapter 15: the lie**Valeria's POV**My heart pounded so violently against my ribs I feared Esteban could hear it from across the table. One wrong answer, one flicker of hesitation, and everything I'd built since arriving at this palace would collapse in an instant the mate bond, the fragile trust growing between Alejandro and me, whatever chance I still had at learning the full truth about my parents."No," I said again, more firmly this time, meeting his eyes directly rather than looking away. Looking away would read as guilt. I'd learned that lesson years ago, the hard way, during my very first mission when a moment of averted eyes had nearly gotten me caught.Esteban studied me carefully. Too carefully, his gaze lingering on details most people wouldn't think to examine the set of my jaw, the stillness of my hands, the exact rhythm of my breathing. This was a man who had spent years learning to read lies the way I'd spent years learning to tell them convincingly. I wondered, distantly, how many pe
Last Updated: 2026-07-14
Chapter: chapter 14: the hunt begins**Valeria's POV**Within the hour, the entire palace had been locked down. Every gate sealed, every guard doubled, every exit watched by soldiers with orders to let no one pass without thorough inspection. Alejandro's voice had carried through the halls with an authority I hadn't heard from him before, cold and absolute, a king determined to find whoever had murdered a servant in his own home and left behind a message clearly meant as a threat.*Nobody enters. Nobody leaves. Every guest searched, every room checked, every possession accounted for.*My pulse hadn't slowed since I'd heard those orders given. If the guards searched my belongings the hidden compartment sewn into the lining of my travel case, the extra blades I'd smuggled in beneath false linings, the small vial of numbing poison I still carried out of old habit there would be no explanation elegant enough to save me. Twelve years of careful training had taught me exactly what those items would reveal to anyone who knew
Last Updated: 2026-07-14
Chapter: chapter 13: blood on the stairsValeria's POVThe palace had erupted into full chaos by the time Alejandro and I reached the top of the grand staircase, guards shouting orders that overlapped into meaningless noise, torches sweeping wild arcs of light across walls that had felt so peaceful only hours before.At the bottom of the stairs, a servant lay sprawled across the marble, unmoving.His throat had been torn open not cut, not stabbed, but torn, the wound ragged in a way that made my stomach clench even after everything I'd seen in twelve years of training. Blood pooled dark and wide across the pale marble floor, spreading in a slow, spidering pattern that caught the torchlight like something obscene.Somewhere behind me, one of the young women from the bride selection screamed, the sound sharp and raw, quickly joined by others as more guests spilled into the hallway to see what had happened. Guards pushed past us, fanning out through the corridors, searching every shadowed alcove and locked door for whoever had
Last Updated: 2026-07-14
Chapter: chapter 12: the king's shadow*Valeria's POV*I spun around, my heart still hammering from Catalina's impossible disappearance, every instinct in my body coiling tight in preparation for another threat, my hands already rising in a defensive stance despite the dagger lying useless on the floor behind me.Alejandro stood in the doorway.He hadn't been there a moment ago I would have heard him, would have sensed his presence the way I sensed nearly everything in this palace, the way my training had taught me to catalogue every sound within a room before I ever let my guard down. But there he was now, filling the frame of my bedroom door, dressed as though he too had been pulled from sleep by the ringing bells, his golden eyes sharp and alert in a way that made my pulse spike for reasons that had nothing to do with attraction and everything to do with danger.For one disorienting moment, relief and suspicion warred inside me in equal measure. *It's him. Not another intruder. Not whoever else has been moving through
Last Updated: 2026-07-14
Chapter: chapter 11: the woman who should be deadCatalina stared at me for a long moment, something raw and unguarded crossing her ancient face, an expression I hadn't expected from a woman who'd survived twenty years of secrets, who'd vanished into smoke without so much as a flicker of hesitation."You have your mother's eyes," she said quietly, almost to herself, as though the resemblance had caught her off guard despite everything she already knew about who I was, everything she'd clearly been watching for since the moment I first arrived at this palace.I tightened my grip on the dagger, refusing to let the comment soften me, refusing to let twelve years of careful discipline crack now, when I was finally close enough to the truth to touch it. "Answer my question," I said. "Who is hunting the hybrid bloodline? Who ordered my parents' deaths if it wasn't Alejandro's kingdom?"Catalina took a slow step back, putting distance between us, her silver eyes flicking briefly toward the window behind her — a glance I might have missed if
Last Updated: 2026-07-14
Chapter: chapter 10:the man in the roomValeria's POVI went perfectly still, every instinct I'd spent twelve years honing snapping instantly into place. My eyes stayed closed, my breathing slow and even, every muscle relaxed in the practiced illusion of deep sleep — even as every nerve in my body screamed with awareness of the presence now moving carefully across my room.Whoever this is, they're skilled. I didn't hear the door. I didn't hear the window. That alone tells me this isn't some clumsy hired blade.Soft footsteps crossed the floor, deliberate and unhurried, someone who clearly believed themselves undetected, confident enough in their own skill not to rush. I counted the seconds, tracking the sound as it drew closer to my bed, my hand inching with agonizing slowness toward the dagger I kept hidden beneath my pillow. My pulse thundered in my ears, and I forced my breathing to stay even despite it, the same discipline that had kept me alive through a hundred smaller dangers than this one.The footsteps stopped besi
Last Updated: 2026-07-09
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