The Butcher's Bride
Some monsters wear crowns. Others earn the title.
Celeste Blackwood has spent her entire life preparing to become the perfect Luna. Raised inside the gilded walls of Blackwood Estate, she knows obedience is survival. Her future has already been decided—a political marriage to Julius Blackwood, a brilliant yet merciless heir who sees her not as a bride, but as the final piece in his terrifying experiments.
On the day she is delivered to her destiny, fate intervenes.
A brutal ambush leaves her convoy in ruins, and from the blood-soaked wreckage emerges the man whispered about in every nightmare.
Kaelen. The Butcher.
Feared as the ruthless Alpha of the Rogues, Kaelen is a warrior whose name sends powerful packs into hiding. He should have left Celeste to die. Instead, he carries her into the Dead Zone—a lawless land where survival is earned in blood and loyalty is worth more than life itself.
As Celeste is drawn deeper into the Rogue rebellion, she uncovers a truth that changes everything. She isn't an ordinary Alpha's daughter. Her bloodline belongs to an ancient race believed to have vanished centuries ago—the legendary Silver Wolf.
Now, the man she was promised to wants her as the key to creating an unstoppable empire.
The man she was taught to fear will burn the world to keep her alive.
With kingdoms on the brink of war, ancient secrets awakening, and destiny demanding its price, Celeste must embrace the beast sleeping inside her before darkness consumes every pack.
Because the greatest threat isn't the Butcher...
It's the Bride.
อ่าน
Chapter: THE BONE YARDI squeezed my eyes shut as the truck rumbled through the gates, bracing myself for the horrors of the Rogue lands.I expected the screams of tortured prisoners. I expected the stench of rotting meat and old blood. I expected to see heads on spikes and wolves fighting over scraps in the mud.The truck slowed to a crawl, the tires squelching in deep mud. The engine cut, dying with a shuddering cough.Silence fell.Well, not silence. It was a hum. The low, rhythmic murmur of life.I frowned. That didn't sound like a dungeon.Slowly, terrified of what I might see, I peeled one eye open. Then the other.My breath hitched in my throat.We hadn't driven into a slaughterhouse. We had driven into a village.The "Bone Yard" was a sprawling, chaotic settlement built into the base of a massive limestone cliff. It looked like a junkyard that had been reclaimed by nature and desperation. There were no stone castles or glass mansions here. Instead, there were shelters mad
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Chapter: WAKING UP IN HELLConsciousness returned in jagged shards.First came the smell, stale tobacco, wet dog, and gasoline. Then came the sound, the roar of an engine struggling against a steep incline, and the rattle of metal against metal. Finally, the pain. A dull, rhythmic throbbing at the base of my skull where the Butcher had pressed his thumb.I opened my eyes, expecting the soft velvet of my canopy bed or the leather of the Rolls Royce.Instead, I was staring at the rusted ceiling of a truck cab.I tried to sit up, but my body wouldn't cooperate. My wrists were bound tight in front of me with rough hemp rope that bit into my skin. I was wedged awkwardly in the cramped backseat of a pickup truck, surrounded by crates that smelled of oil and gunpowder."She’s awake."The voice came from the front seat. It wasn't the deep, vibrating rumble of the Butcher. It was higher, sharper, like a serrated knife.I shifted, wincing as the vibration of the road jarred my ribs. I looked toward t
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Chapter: THE SPARKCELESTEMy scream died in my throat as the massive, blood-stained hand wrapped around my upper arm.I expected pain. I expected the crushing force that had snapped Vance’s neck like a twig. I braced myself for death, closing my eyes tight.But when his skin touched mine, the world didn't end. It exploded.A jolt of white-hot electricity surged from his fingertips straight into my marrow. It wasn't the static shock of a doorknob; it was a lightning strike. It sizzled through my veins, hot and immediate, snapping every nerve ending to attention.My eyes flew open.The air in the car suddenly grew heavy, suffocatingly thick. The metallic stench of blood and the damp smell of the forest vanished, replaced by a scent so potent it made my head spin.It smelled like a storm breaking after a long drought. It was intoxicating. Terrifying.I gasped, my breath hitching. My body, usually cold and sluggish, flushed with a sudden, confusing heat. My heart wasn't just racing
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Chapter: THE BUTCHER ARRIVESThe silence of the forest didn't just break; it was butchered.One moment, we were idling between two fallen oak trees, trapped in a cage of wood and fog. The next, the world outside the Rolls Royce erupted into absolute bedlam."Defensive positions!" Vance screamed, fumbling with his radio. "We are under attack! I repeat, Code Red!"But the radio only spat back static and the wet, gurgling sounds of dying men.I pressed my face against the tinted glass, trembling as I watched the nightmare unfold. Magnus’s convoy consisted of ten elite enforcers—highly trained shifters in armored SUVs. They were supposed to be unstoppable.But they were fighting shadows.The fog seemed to come alive. Rogues dropped from the tree branches like oversized arachnids, landing on the hoods of the cars with bone-jarring thuds. They moved with a speed that defied nature, fluid and feral.A guard from the lead SUV—a massive Beta I recognized named Korg—burst out of his vehicle, shifting m
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Chapter: INTO THE WOODSThe transition from civilization to the wild wasn't subtle. It was violent.One moment, the tires of the Rolls Royce were humming smoothly over the paved asphalt of my father’s territory, passing manicured lawns and electric streetlights. The next, the pavement ended abruptly, replaced by a rough, gravel-strewn track that wound like a scar into the heart of the forest.The Neutral Territory.No pack claimed this land. It was a no-man's-land—a buffer zone of ancient, gnarled wilderness that separated the civilized packs from the chaos of the Rogue lands. It was a place where laws didn't exist, where cell service died, and where monsters were said to roam freely.The car dipped into a pothole, jarring my spine."Sorry, Miss," the driver grunted. I had learned his name was Vance—a Beta from Magnus’s personal guard. He was built like a tank, with a neck as thick as my thigh and a scar running through his left eyebrow. He drove with one hand on the wheel and the other restin
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Chapter: THE GOODBYELeaving home didn't feel like a graduation. It felt like an evacuation.My room, usually a sanctuary of soft lavenders and books, now looked like a skeleton. The wardrobe doors stood open, gaping and empty. My trunk, packed with the silks and velvets Magnus demanded I wear, sat by the door like a coffin waiting to be buried.I ran my hand over the empty bookshelf. I had left most of my things behind. The wooden wolf figurines I carved as a child. The dried flowers from the meadow where my mother used to sing to me. I couldn't take them. Magnus had been clear: The future Luna of Bloodmoon does not cling to childish trinkets."You missed a spot."I turned. Standing in the doorway wasn't Beth or my father. It was Nanny Elara.She was a small woman, shrunken by age and a lifetime of service to the pack, but her eyes—sharp and intelligent—were the same ones that had watched over me since the night my mother died. She held a small bundle wrapped in oilcloth."Nana," I brea
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