dear Alpha, my twins are no longer yours
Five years ago, Lyra Sterling walked away from the man she loved.
she spent three years trying to earn the love of Alpha Kaelen Ashthorn, only to watch him choose his first love over her.
So Lyra left without begging, fighting, or looking back.
Five years later, Lyra returns to Black Ridge City as President of Silver Crescent Holdings, a powerful businesswoman who built an empire from nothing while raising her children alone.
She returns to win the biggest investment deal of her career and finally end the marriage that should have ended five years ago.
But the moment she steps back into Kaelen's world, the life she fought so hard to leave behind begins pulling her back in.
Kaelen suddenly wants her attention.
Her children are inexplicably drawn to him.
And for the first time, Lyra finds herself caught between two men.
Kaelen is the husband who broke her heart and now seems determined to prove that he has changed.
Cassian Nightvale is the powerful Alpha who sees her strength, respects her independence, cherishes her children, and gives her the kind of love she once begged Kaelen for.
Lyra promised herself she would never become that heartbroken woman again.
But when a dangerous attack puts one of her children in the hospital, buried secrets begin to surface.
And someone has been hunting Lyra and her children for a reason far more dangerous than revenge.
Now Lyra must protect the family she built, uncover the secrets surrounding her children's bloodline, and decide whether the man who once broke her heart deserves another chance at it.
Because this time, Lyra isn't the woman waiting to be chosen.
She is the woman two Alphas are willing to fight for—and the only one who gets to decide who stays.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 24Selene's Pov I stared at the message for a long time, my heart pounding somewhere near my throat but I went anyway.The café was small, tucked between a laundromat and a shuttered bookstore, the kind of place no one from Kaelen's circle would ever think to look for me. I sat in the back booth exactly as instructed, my hands wrapped around a cup of tea I had no intention of drinking.He was late enough that I'd nearly convinced myself he wasn't coming at all, then a man slid into the seat across from me without a word of greeting.He was unremarkable, had average height and putting on a gray jacket. It was the kind of face you'd forget five minutes after passing him on the street. Nothing about him matched the low, careful voice I recognized instantly once he spoke."You shouldn't have come," he said."You shouldn't have known my name," I countered, the words coming out steadier than I felt. "Or which household account I was calling from. Who are you working for?""That's not informat
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Chapter: CHAPTER 23Selene's POVI bought a new phone the next morning, paid cash, and registered it under a name that wasn't mine, in a shop across town where nobody would recognize an Ashthorn face.I got in the car and told myself it was a smart thing to do, not a guilty one.Three days passed before he texted the new number, no explanation for how he'd found it.(Got something. Not everything. You want it in pieces or all at once?)(All at once,) I typed back.A file arrived a minute later. I opened it in the parking garage beneath my usual salon, engine running, doors locked, feeling ridiculous and terrified in equal measure.Most of it was ordinary. Silver Crescent Holdings' public filings. News clippings about Lyra's rise from nothing. A photo of her at some business dinner, looking poised and untouchable in a way that made my stomach twist with envy.Then a section near the bottom, labeled only 'Sterling — restricted.'Half the page was blacked out. What remained read like fragments torn out of c
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Chapter: CHAPTER 22Selene's POVKaelen didn't bring up the schedule again after that night in the study, which somehow felt worse than if he had. He simply watched me now, in a careful and quiet way, like the way you watch something you no longer trust not to bite.I told myself I hadn't done anything wrong yet.'Yet' was doing a lot of work in that sentence, and I knew it.---The gossip found me two days later, the way it always seemed to lately."Did you hear about Alpha Nightvale?" one of the kitchen maids murmured to another, not realizing how close I stood behind the pantry door. "At the hotel pool nearly every afternoon. With the Sterling woman's children.""The investment judge? Isn't that strange, mixing business like that?" The other asked, gossip evident in her voice."Strange or not, my cousin works the front desk there. Says he brings his own nephew along so it looks casual. Says the mother sits right there with him. Laughing. Comfortable, like old friends." The first one continued.I stepp
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Chapter: CHAPTER 21Lyra's POVFarrah called just after noon, and this time I put her on speaker without hesitation, needing Marcus to hear every word alongside me, needing a witness to whatever she was about to say."I traced the edit on your incorporation filing," she said, her voice crisp and businesslike, carrying the particular steadiness of someone who had delivered bad news often enough to have smoothed all the hesitation out of it. "Shell account. Offshore. Closed two days after the edit went through, with no personal name attached to it anywhere in the registry.""A dead end," I said, already bracing myself for the disappointment, my fingers tightening around my coffee cup."I thought so too, at first," Farrah said. "Until your security contact sent me the delivery account tied to those six food orders about an hour ago. I almost didn't bother cross-referencing them. I'm glad I did."Marcus straightened in his chair beside me, setting down the tablet he'd been scrolling through all morning. "And
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Chapter: CHAPTER 20Lyra's POVMarcus arrived within the hour, his jacket still damp from the rain outside, his expression already grim before I'd said a single word to him."Nina called me on the way over," he said, setting his bag down on the table with more force than necessary. "Walk me through everything. From the beginning. Don't leave anything out, even if it seems small."So I did. I told him about the first plate of chicken, the coffee that arrived exactly ten minutes before a meeting I hadn't told anyone I was nervous about, the warm bread from a bakery I'd mentioned once in passing. I told him about Cassian's confusion, how genuine it had seemed, how it had somehow made everything worse instead of better. I told him about the six orders stretching back to a day before I'd even agreed to return to Black Ridge City, and about the message that had arrived while Nina and I sat frozen at the table."I want everything cross-checked," I said, pacing in front of the window while he listened, his jaw g
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Chapter: CHAPTER 19Lyra's POVI saw him two days later, at the Alliance office.Cassian looked up from behind his desk the moment I stepped through the door, already halfway to a smile before he'd fully registered it was me."Lyra." He set his pen down. "I wasn't expecting you until Thursday.""I wasn't planning to come until Thursday," I admitted, closing the door behind me. "Something's been on my mind.""That sounds ominous." He said."Maybe a little." I crossed the room and sat in the chair across from his desk, smoothing my skirt nervously. "Thank you," I said, before I lost whatever nerve had carried me there. "For the meals."He looked up, genuinely puzzled, his brow furrowing in a way that told me immediately his confusion wasn't performed. "I sent one coffee. Yesterday morning, before your meeting with the auditors. You looked like you needed it.""Just one?" I asked in surprise."Just one," he said slowly, something shifting in his expression as he read whatever was happening on my face. He le
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Reborn: The Hockey Queen's Revenge
Isabella Sinclair died believing she was finally loved.
Pregnant, betrayed, and pushed down the stairs by the woman who wanted her husband, she opened her eyes one year in the past—with every memory of her murder intact.
This time, Isabella refuses to be the victim.
She will expose the man who betrayed her, destroy the woman who ruined her, and uncover the dark secret poisoning the hockey world before it claims her again.
But revenge becomes complicated when three men enter her second life.
Isaac Moretti, the ruthless captain who suddenly can't seem to stay away from her.
Alan Scott, the damaged prodigy who becomes the one person who truly understands her.
And Leonardo Bowen, her arrogant rival who should be her enemy but can't stop wanting her.
As Isabella rises from a disinherited hockey player to the most feared woman on the ice, she discovers that her enemies are far more powerful than she imagined.
Because the people behind her first death are still watching.
And this time, Isabella is ready to fight back.
She was given a second life.
Now she's going to make everyone who destroyed her pay.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 19~ ISABELLA~I pressed myself back against the wall beside him, heart hammering, and watched Veronica pull something small and metallic from her pocket. It was a tool of some kind, glinting under the lights and bend low over the frame of my racket like she had all the time in the world to get it right.I was halfway to crossing the hall before Leonardo's hand closed around my arm."Don't," he said, low. "If you go over there now, they'll just claim you're accusing them of nothing. Better they think they got away with it.""They're sabotaging my equipment, Leonardo. I'm not just going to let that slide.""I didn't say let it slide. I said don't hand them the moral high ground by making a scene before you've even proven anything." His grip eased, but he didn't let go entirely. "Trust me. I know exactly how fast Veronica can turn a situation around on paper."He was right, infuriatingly, the way he so often was about things that had nothing to do with hockey and everything to do with re
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Chapter: Chapter 18~ ISABELLA~I got good at avoiding Isaac over the next two weeks. Not obviously, just nothing that would get either of us talked about more than we already were. I scheduled my drills on the far end of the rink. I answered his texts about lineups with single words. I stopped lingering after practice the way I used to, back when lingering hadn't felt like standing too close to something I couldn't explain again.He let me do it, which somehow bothered me more than if he'd pushed back. Once, in the locker room, I caught him watching me across the room with an expression I couldn't read, and the second our eyes met, he looked away so fast I almost convinced myself I'd imagined it. Almost.Alan noticed too, though he was kind enough not to say much about it beyond the occasional raised eyebrow whenever Isaac and I ended up on opposite ends of a drill that used to pair us together without anyone thinking twice.The open games had their own calendar, separate from the regular league. Compr
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Chapter: Chapter 17~ ISABELLA~I sat up too fast, which my skull punished immediately, and squinted toward the door in time to see Isaac standing in my living room like he had every right to be there."How did you get in here?" I demanded."Your door was unlocked." His eyes weren't on me. They'd gone straight past me, to the kitchen, where Alan stood frozen with two mugs of coffee in his hands and an expression like he'd been caught doing something far worse than making breakfast."It wasn't unlocked," Alan said slowly. "You have a key?""I have the spare from when you had the flu last winter and I had to bring the playbook by. I never gave it back." Isaac's voice stayed level, but something underneath it wasn't. "I didn't expect to need an excuse to use it.""You don't," I said, rubbing my temples. "You just need to knock next time. Preferably not at—" I squinted at the clock on my wall. "Eight in the morning, Isaac. What are you even doing here?""Checking on you." His gaze finally landed back on me,
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Chapter: Chapter 16~ ISABELLA~The note stayed folded in my jacket pocket for three days before I finally threw it away, somewhere between telling myself it meant nothing and telling myself it meant everything. Neither version changed what I actually had to do, which was get up every morning and act like my life hadn't quietly turned into something I needed to watch my back for.The season opener was close enough now that I could feel it in my shoulders every time I laced up — a different calendar entirely from the regular leagues, shorter and meaner, the kind of schedule that didn't leave much room to recover from a bad week before the next one started. Which made it the perfect excuse, really, for what I wanted to do.I found Alan after practice, toweling off his neck, still moving like a man who hadn't quite decided whether full-time minutes agreed with him yet."Dinner," I said. "My treat. You've more than earned it.""You don't have to do that.""I know I don't have to. I want to." I nudged his sho
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Chapter: Chapter 15~ ISABELLA~He looked like he wanted to say something, but then thought against it and left while I heaved a sigh of relief as I walked away.Phillip's forty-eight hours ran out on a Saturday.I know because I counted them, the way you count down to a storm you can see on the horizon but can't do anything about yet. I half expected him to drag it out, to make a scene on his way off the property, something theatrical enough to match the version of himself he liked to perform for an audience.Instead, he just disappeared."Housing's already cleared," Coach Reyes told the team Monday morning, arms crossed, voice carefully flat in the way adults use when they're deciding how much of the truth a room actually needs. "Moved out sometime Saturday night. Didn't leave a forwarding address.""That's it?" Danny asked. "He's just gone?""His phone's disconnected. His parents say they haven't heard from him either." Reyes's jaw tightened. "If anyone hears anything, you come to me. Not each other.
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Chapter: Chapter 14~ ISABELLA~Alan set the laptop on the long table, his hands steadier than his voice had been, and turned the screen toward the council."This is from the loading dock camera outside the equipment room," he said. "Three nights before the locker incident."The footage was grainy, timestamped, black and white. For a second, nobody moved. Then the picture clarified enough to make out two figures under a flickering security light, one was unmistakably Phillip, broad-shouldered, head tipped back in that easy laugh I used to think was charming. The second figure was smaller, hood pulled up, but when she reached to take the bag from his hands, the hood slipped.Clara.The room went so quiet I could hear the laptop's fan whirring."Pause it," Ilić said, her voice tight.Alan paused it on a frame that left no room for doubt. Phillip's face, clear. Clara's face, clearer. The bag between them, open just enough to show foil packaging I recognized down to the color."That's not—" Phillip started.
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Masuk
