Chapter: GuiltyCHAPTER SEVENTYGuiltyAria's POVTuesday I went to the studio.Not because I could work. I knew I couldn't work. But the alternative was sitting in the house watching the clock and that was worse.Jerome said nothing when I arrived. Just nodded. Pointed at my desk. That was enough.I sat at my desk and opened the notebook and drew nothing in particular and watched my phone and tried not to watch my phone and watched it anyway.Alex was at the courthouse with Clara and David. Waiting for the jury to come back. He had texted at eight thirty.In court. Will call the moment we know.I know, I had written back. I'll be at the studio. Jerome is pretending to give me work to do.Jerome is a good man, he wrote.Don't tell him that, I wrote. He'll become impossible.That had been three hours ago.By eleven the studio had quietly reorganised itself around the waiting without anyone saying so. Adaeze was at the desk closest to me. Bisi had moved her cutting table slightly so she could see me fr
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Chapter: ClosingCHAPTER SIXTY NINEClosingAlex's POVMonday was closing arguments.The defense went first.They had built their case carefully over ten days and they delivered the closing the same way. Methodical. Measured. They spoke about a mother's love and the complexity of family and the distance between intention and consequence. They asked the jury to consider what Margaret had believed she was doing rather than what she had done.Alex sat through it.It was competent. He could see that. The defense had done what a defense was supposed to do with the material it had.The material was not strong.Ms. Afolabi stood for the prosecution closing at eleven fifteen.She did not raise her voice once.She went through the evidence the way you go through something that does not need emphasis to be devastating. The falsified clinic results. The payment trail. The financial crimes. The editorial interference. The private arrangement placed in a marriage contract without the knowledge of either party bein
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Chapter: The WeekendCHAPTER SIXTY EIGHTThe WeekendAria's POVSaturday arrived like an exhale.No courthouse. No trial. No watching Alex come home carrying the weight of a day that had no good version of itself. Just the house and the morning and the particular quality of a weekend that had earned itself.I slept until eight.Alex was already up when I came downstairs. Standing at the kitchen window with his coffee. Looking at the garden the way he looked at things when he was thinking but not urgently. Just turning something over quietly."Morning," I said."Morning," he said. "How did you sleep?""Well," I said. And I meant it. "You?""Better than the rest of the week," he said.I poured coffee and stood beside him at the window. The garden in the Saturday morning. The tree. A bird on the fence that had opinions about something and was expressing them at length."Two more days," I said."Monday closing arguments," he said. "Tuesday the jury goes out.""And then?""And then we wait," he said. "David th
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Chapter: The StandCHAPTER SIXTY SEVENThe StandAlex's POVMargaret took the stand on Friday.The defense had not been required to call her. She had insisted. David had told Alex this the night before, quietly, over the phone, in the tone he used when information was significant and he wanted to make sure it landed properly."She wants to speak," David had said. "Her counsel advised against it. She overruled them."Alex had not been surprised.His mother had never in her life allowed a room to reach a conclusion about her without her participation.She walked to the stand the way she walked into every room. Upright. Deliberate. The particular pace of a woman who had decided long ago that how you entered a space was half of what the space thought of you.She took the oath.She sat.And for the first time since the trial began she looked directly at Alex.He held her gaze.He did not look away and he did not give her anything to read in his expression. Just held it. The way his father had taught him to h
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Chapter: ClaraCHAPTER SIXTY SIXClaraAlex's POVClara testified on Thursday.She had asked to. The prosecution had not needed to compel her. She had called David three months ago and said she wanted to testify and David had said he would make sure that happened and it had.Alex sat in the gallery and watched his sister walk to the witness stand.She wore something dark and simple. She had thought about it. He knew because she had texted him the night before asking whether the grey or the navy and he had said the navy and she had said she was already wearing the grey and he had said then why did you ask and she had said she wanted a second opinion on the grey.She looked composed.She looked like their father.The prosecution took her through the evidence carefully. The payment records she had found. The clinic documentation. The afternoon she had sat in the car outside the clinic for forty minutes before going in to ask for the records herself. The phone call she had made to Alex after.She answer
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Chapter: The WitnessCHAPTER SIXTY FIVEThe WitnessAlex's POVThe clinic witness took the stand on Tuesday morning.Her name was Dr. Adaora Mensah Cole. Not the same Dr. Mensah who saw Aria. A different one entirely. She had worked at the fertility clinic for eleven years before resigning. She had been the one who processed the falsified results.She had not known they were falsified at the time.That was what she said first, quietly and clearly, before the prosecution had asked her anything. The judge let it stand.Alex sat in the gallery beside Clara and watched her take the oath and settle in the witness chair and fold her hands in her lap with the particular composure of someone who had been carrying something heavy for a long time and had finally put it down.The prosecution took her through it methodically.The results that had come through the internal system already amended. The payment trail that had appeared weeks later when she was reviewing billing discrepancies. The name attached to the acco
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My Plus-Sized Hockey Luna
Stella has spent years loving one man with everything she has.
She cheers for his victories, sacrifices her own dreams to support his, and quietly opens doors for his career without ever asking for credit. She believes that one day, Chase will finally see her the way she sees him.
Instead, he humiliates her in front of an entire stadium.
As if that isn't enough, she discovers their relationship was nothing more than a cruel bet.
Broken and with nowhere else to go, Stella finds unexpected kindness from the last person she ever imagined—Jaxon, the league's most feared hockey star. Quiet, patient, and impossible to read, he sees the pain everyone else ignores and offers her something she has never known before: respect.
While Stella struggles to put her shattered heart back together, she accidentally steps into a world filled with dangerous secrets, powerful Alphas, and a destiny she knows nothing about. As feelings begin to grow between them, old betrayals return, hidden truths refuse to stay buried, and the man who threw her away suddenly wants her back.
But some hearts are only broken once.
And this time, Stella must decide whether to keep chasing the past... or trust the man who never let her fall.
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Chapter: What She SawCHAPTER ONE HUNDRED — What She Thinks She SawAmber’s POVI sat alone in the dining room, slowly turning the glass in my hand as I watched the sunlight move across the table.The pack had been talking about one thing since Jaxon defeated the Ancient Rogue.His heir.Everyone knew what the elders wanted from him, and everyone knew what would happen if he failed to give them one.Yet Stella still walked around this place as though nothing could take Jaxon away from her.She must think she still has a chance with him.I almost smiled at the thought.She doesn’t understand what it means for an Alpha to have a wolf heir, and she certainly doesn’t understand how quickly things can change when the elders begin putting pressure on him.I looked toward the hallway.Stella must think Jaxon will always choose her simply because he loves her but love is not always enough.I tightened my fingers around the glass.I will prove her wrong.A few moments later, footsteps approached the dining room, an
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Chapter: You always say thatCHAPTER NINETy Nine — You Always Say ThatStella’s POVI had been sitting in the living room for almost an hour, but I could barely remember anything I had done during that time.My thoughts were still stuck on the conversation I had overheard earlier.An heir.The word kept returning to my mind no matter how hard I tried to push it away.I didn’t want to think about it anymore, especially because I knew I was only making myself worried over something Jaxon had not even discussed with me.Still, I couldn’t forget what the elders had said.I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn’t notice Darius enter the room until he took the seat across from me.I looked up and found him watching me with a calm expression.“How are you doing?” he asked.I gave him a small smile. “I’m fine.”He studied my face for a moment before nodding.“You don’t look fine.”I let out a quiet breath and leaned back against the sofa. “I’m just tired. Yesterday was a lot, and I think everything that happened is fina
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Chapter: An HeirCHAPTER NINETY-Eight — An HeirStella’s POVI woke up expecting to find Jaxon beside me.For a few seconds, I remained still with my eyes closed, thinking that perhaps he had returned during the night and I simply hadn’t noticed him coming into the room.I slowly opened my eyes and looked toward the empty space beside me.There was nobody there.The room was quiet, and the morning light had already begun coming through the curtains.I sat up slowly and looked toward the door.Nothing. Jaxon had told me that he would come to me as soon as Amber was better.I had believed him. Maybe that was why I felt so disappointed when I realized that he had never come.I reached for my phone and checked the time before putting it down again.I knew he had stayed with Amber because she had fainted, and I had understood his reason for doing it, but that didn’t stop the irritation building inside me.He could have at least come to check on me.Even if it was only for a few minutes.I got out of bed an
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Chapter: The Night I wantedCHAPTER NINETY Nine — The Night I WantedStella’s POVThe moment Jaxon and I returned to the house, I could still hear the celebration outside.The voices of the pack members were fading into the distance as people slowly returned to their homes, but the excitement from what had happened at the fighting ground was still everywhere around us. Jaxon had defeated the Ancient Rogue, and even though the elders had not officially completed the process of making him Alpha, everyone already treated him like one.I looked at him as we walked into the house, and I couldn’t stop smiling.He looked tired.There were still small marks on his body from the fight, and his clothes were not as neat as they had been earlier, but there was something different about him now. He looked lighter, as though a weight he had been carrying for months had finally been lifted from his shoulders.“You really did it,” I said, looking at him with a smile.He turned toward me. “I told you I would come back.”“I know,
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Chapter: The Ancient RoguebCHAPTER NINETY Sizex — The Ancient RogueStella’s POVBy the time I reached the fighting ground, almost everyone in the pack was already there.The entire place was crowded, with wolves standing around the large open area where the challenge would take place. Some of the older members stood closer to the elders, while the younger wolves gathered behind them, whispering among themselves as they waited for the trial to begin.I could feel the tension in the air even before anyone explained what was happening.Jaxon and Darius were already standing at the top of the fighting ground, facing the elders.I looked at Jaxon.He appeared calm, but I knew him well enough to notice the seriousness in his eyes.This was different from everything we had faced before.There was no hockey rink.No crowd cheering for a game.No referee who could stop everything when someone was hurt.This was a challenge that involved his position as Alpha and I had no idea what they were about to make him do.I mov
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Chapter: Standing Beside YouCHAPTER NINETY FIve — STANDING BESIDE YOUStella’s POVI stayed in my room for several minutes after leaving the dining but I could not stop I could not stop thinking about what I had heard, especially the part about Darius becoming Alpha if Jaxon failed the first challenge.I knew Jaxon had been under pressure since we arrived, but I had not realized how much was at stake.I finally left my room and walked through the quiet hallway until I found him standing near the balcony, looking out at the pack.He seemed lost in thought.I stood there for a moment before speaking. “Jaxon.”He turned immediately.The moment he saw me, his expression softened. “You should be resting.”“I was trying to, but then I heard something I think you should explain to me.”He looked at me for a moment, then sighed. “Aboutt the one from the hall'I nodded.He looked away. “I didn’t want you worrying about it tonight.”“That doesn’t make it better.”He looked back at me. “I know.”He walked toward me slowly
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