THE BILLIONAIRES CONTRACT WIFE
Elena Bennett has spent three years loving Nathan Kingsley with everything she has.
While her mother lies dying in a hospital bed and a $350,000 bill hangs over her head like a death sentence, Nathan finally invites her to meet his family. For the first time, Elena allows herself to hope. She puts on the blue dress she has been saving for a special occasion and walks into the Kingsley estate believing tonight will change her life.
She is right.
Just not in the way she imagined.
Instead of a warm welcome, Elena is met by Alexander Kingsley — Nathan’s powerful, calculating uncle who already knows every secret she has tried to hide. The hospital records. The sold watch. The unpaid rent. The exact amount of money standing between her mother and death.
Then he shows her the truth Nathan never planned to tell her:
Nathan is already engaged.
The announcement is tomorrow.
Every promise, every “soon,” every quiet night she spent believing they had a future…was a lie.
Broken and humiliated, Elena turns to leave until Alexander makes an offer that stops her cold.
He will pay every dollar of her mother’s medical bills.
The surgery. The treatment. All of it.
But nothing from a man like Alexander Kingsley comes free.
He wants something in return.
And once Elena hears what it is, she will have to choose between the only family she has left… and the last pieces of herself. Some debts can be paid with money.
Others demand far more.
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Chapter: Accepting the New RealityChapter 26NATHAN POVI arrived late on purpose with Chloe.Chloe’s hand rested lightly in the crook of my arm as the dining room doors opened. Her wine red dress moved with her, elegant and deliberate. I already knew who would be sitting at my uncle’s right. Knowing did not prepare me.Elena sat beside Alexander.The plain gold band on her finger caught the light first. Above it, the sapphire rested against her throat like it had always belonged there. Alexander’s hand covered hers on the table, casual and proprietary. Neither of them looked startled to see me.Chloe’s voice was low beside me. “You’re quiet again. Still bothered?”“I’ve moved on,” I said. The words came out too fast.We reached the table.Elena looked up and her greeting was polite, measured, completely free of the softness I once took for granted.“Nathan. Chloe.”Just my name. Nothing else.I answered a beat too late. “Elena.”The sound of it felt wrong in my mouth.One of the older relatives chuckled from farther
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Chapter: The Family DinnerChapter 25Alexander POVThe dining room had been set for fourteen.Crystal caught the light from the chandelier. The long table gleamed under white linen. Staff moved with quiet precision, pouring wine, adjusting place settings, vanishing when not needed. I stood near the head of the table and watched the room fill.Richard arrived first, as expected. My father moved through the space with the same measured authority he had always carried, greeting relatives with brief nods and the occasional clipped word. His gaze found Elena the moment she entered at my side.She wore a simple black dress. No heavy jewelry except the sapphire at her throat. She did not cling to my arm. She did not smile too widely. She simply stood there, calm, and let the room look at her.Conversations paused.“So this is the new Mrs. Kingsley,” Aunt Margaret said, voice carrying farther than necessary. She was my mother’s younger sister, sharp-eyed and never shy about stating the obvious. “Alexander, you always
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Chapter: The Rules of MarriageChapter 24ALEXANDER POVThe mansion felt different the moment the car stopped beneath the portico.I stepped out first. The evening air carried the faint scent of rain that had not yet fallen. Behind me, Elena followed without waiting for my hand. She still wore the sapphire. The stone caught the light from the open doorway and threw a cold blue flash across the steps.Inside, the staff had lined the entrance hall. Every one of them stood straighter than usual.“Mrs. Kingsley,” the housekeeper said, voice steady. “Welcome home.”Elena paused. For a single breath, the title seemed to sit awkwardly on her. Then she inclined her head once, calm and precise.“Thank you. I’ll try not to make too much work for any of you.”A few of the younger staff exchanged glances. Something in the room loosened. I watched it happen and felt an unexpected flicker of satisfaction. She had not needed my help.I led her toward the study without speaking. The door closed behind us with a soft, expensive cli
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Chapter: The Billionaire's BrideChapter 23Elena's POVThe aisle was forty-one steps long. I counted them, because counting was easier than thinking.Evans had promised the world a Kingsley wedding. Alexander had given him eighty guests, six photographers chosen by Marcus's office, and a venue Evans could not enter without an invitation: the Wren Room, a glass-roofed conservatory on the Upper East Side that Alexander had owned for ten years. White orchids climbed the pillars. Morning light fell through the glass in long, clean bars.It was beautiful. It was elegant. It was also, I understood, a wall.He had not canceled the public wedding. He had simply taken the public out of it.I had spent five days in that same careful silence with him. He had not asked about the car outside the café, and I had not asked about the trust amendment on my phone, the one I had read until the words stopped looking like words. We were two people walking around the same hole in the floor, politely, so neither of us would fall in.Now I
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Chapter: The Family's JudgmentChapter 22Alexander's POVCareful.That was how Elena had looked at me yesterday outside the fitting room door: careful and polite, with her phone held face-down against her chest and her voice perfectly steady. I had asked if she had eaten. She had said yes. She had not eaten.I knew a person hiding something when I saw one. I had spent thirty years across boardroom tables from people who did the same.What unsettled me was that I did not want to ask. The moment I demanded her truth, she would demand mine, and her clause was still fresh on the page. No more surprises. I had signed it. I was already failing it."You look tired, Alexander."My brother's study had not changed in twenty years. Dark wood, heavy curtains, the smell of old leather and cold cigars. Our father's portrait still hung behind the desk, and Evans sat beneath it as if the chair had been made for him.I had come at nine o'clock in the morning because he had called at seven. A private word before the rehearsal, he h
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Chapter: SIX DAYS TO MY WEDDINGChapter 21Elena's POVFor six days, it rang so loudly in my ears.That was how long I had until I would stand in front of a thousand strangers and promise to love a man who had not once said he loved me."Hold still," the seamstress muttered through a mouthful of pins. "You breathe like a bride who wants to run.""I'm not running.""Your shoulders are."I forced them down. In the long mirror, a woman in ivory silk looked back at me, pale and straight-backed. Behind her, Emily sat cross-legged on a velvet sofa with a box of macarons in her lap, pretending not to cry."You look," Emily said, "like a woman who has already won.""I look like a woman who is being pinned.""Same thing, in this city."I laughed, and the seamstress sighed, because laughing moved my ribs. But it was the first real laugh I'd had since the garden room.The days after the Kingsley gathering had been a storm of planners and lists. And the wedding coordinator, had arrived at the mansion with three assistants and a
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Alpha King’s One Night Mate
The night Aria Johnson catches her boyfriend cheating on her is the night her life changes forever.
Heartbroken and desperate to escape the humiliation, the rising actress spends one passionate night with a mysterious stranger… never expecting to see him again.
She was wrong.
The stranger is Damien Blackwood, the ruthless Alpha King, billionaire CEO, and the most feared werewolf in existence.
When Damien discovers Aria is his fated mate, he vows to claim her. But Aria refuses to become another possession in his powerful world.
Then the impossible happens.
She’s pregnant.
As jealous rivals, bloodthirsty enemies, and a deadly conspiracy threaten both her career and the unborn heir to the Alpha throne, Aria is forced into Damien’s dangerous world. But every secret he keeps pushes her closer to walking away forever.
Can a love born from one unforgettable night survive betrayal, war, and the destiny neither of them chose? Or will the Alpha King lose his mate before he can claim her?
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Chapter: EPILOGUE Five Years LaterMorning came easy to the Blackwood manor.Cassian tore across the south lawn with a wooden practice blade held too high and a battle cry that belonged more to joy than war. At seven, he had his father’s dark hair, Aria’s stubborn mouth, and a laugh that still surprised the guards who remembered when the house had measured every sound for danger.Elara watched from the garden path, older and slower, content to correct his footwork with a raised eyebrow instead of a formal report. No Council observers. No sealed notes. Only a boy learning balance because he asked to, not because anyone feared what he might become.Aria stood on the terrace with coffee cooling in her hands, a script open on the table beside her. She still worked selectively now, on her terms, in seasons that fit their life. The industry had tried, more than once, to turn her into a legend of scandal or survival. She had outlasted both versions by remaining specific: actress, mother, Luna, none of them o
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Chapter: The Crown We ChooseCHAPTER 127Six weeks after the hearing, the manor finally sounded like a home.Aria woke to it before the sun was fully up. There were no hurried footsteps in the corridor, no sealed envelopes on the breakfast tray, and no guards murmuring outside the nursery door. There was only a clatter from the kitchen and a small voice demanding, very seriously, to be told why porridge had to be hot.She lay still and listened, afraid to trust it.The council had ruled at dawn, just as Mireille had promised. Aria remembered every minute of it. Lucas's evidence had done what accusations could not. Once the papers were read into the record, three packs withdrew their petitions before the vote, and Rhett Veylan found his challenge standing on nothing. The Alphas who had cheered him on were suddenly busy elsewhere. In the end he asked to withdraw it himself, with a thin smile and a stiff bow, and the Council let him.Edricson fared no better. The Ward Law needed risk, and the Council could not prove
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Chapter: Before the JudgmentCHAPTER 126 Aria could not stay in bed.The manor was quiet in that false way houses became before something official and ugly. She stood at the nursery doorway longer than she meant to, watching Cassian sleep with one fist curled near his mouth, then forced herself down the corridor before fear could turn into pacing loud enough to wake him.She ended up in the west sitting room with the lamps low and the curtains open to black glass.Tomorrow the Council would decide whether her authority held and whether her son’s training could be claimed under the Ward Law like a dangerous object placed in safer hands.The door opened behind her.Damien did not ask if she wanted company. He crossed the room, stopped close enough for her to feel his heat, and he rested his hands on her waist from behind.“You’re counting again,” he said against her hair.“I’m preparing.”“You’re terrified.” His mouth brushed the edge of her ear. “Say it.”Aria’s fingers tightened on the window frame. “I’m afraid
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Chapter: The Wolf That BowedCHAPTER 125The training yard behind the east wing had been cleared of everything but sand and a low wooden fence.Damien had agreed to this session two days earlier, after a long, bitter night with Aria. Rule six forbade strengthening Cassian's gift, but rule two allowed him to learn to stop it. So they had settled on a compromise: one wolf, one child, ten minutes, and nothing more.Aria stood at the fence with her arms wrapped around herself. Lucas had posted guards at every gate. Elara sat on a bench beside the sand with her herb bag on her knees. Along the far side, in a neat row of chairs, the Elders watched. Cotter sat with his hands folded. Mireille wore her usual calm. Harran leaned on his cane, his eyes on Cassian and not on anyone else.Cassian stood in the middle of the yard in a small gray tunic, holding Damien's hand."It's just a game," Damien told him quietly. "A wolf is going to come and say hello. You stay where you are. If you feel funny, you tell me.""Funny how?"A
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Chapter: Elara's RulesCHAPTER 124Elara brought the rules in writing, on three sheets of cream paper, and read them aloud at the nursery table as though she were reading a will."One," she said. "No sudden frights. No loud arguments in his hearing, no hunting stories at bedtime, and no strangers handling him without warning."Aria nodded. That one was easy."Two. He may not use his gift more than once a day, and never for longer than a count of ten.""Once a day," Damien repeated. He stood at the window with his arms folded. "He doesn't use it. It happens to him.""Then we teach him to stop it from happening." Elara turned the page. "Three. He must never try to reach more than one wolf at a time.""Why one?" Aria asked."Because one is a conversation. Many is a command." Elara's voice stayed even. "The garden was four. That is already too many."Aria read the list over her shoulder, then took the pages and read them herself. Some made sense. Keep him calm. Keep him rested. Keep him away from crowds. But ha
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Chapter: Cassian's NightmareCHAPTER 123The scream came at 2:13 in the morning.Aria was out of bed before she was fully awake. She crossed the hall barefoot, with Damien right behind her, and pushed open the nursery door.Cassian was sitting up in his bed with both fists in the blanket. He wasn't crying. That frightened her more than crying would have. His face was white, his eyes were wide and fixed on the corner of the room, and his chest was heaving."Cassian. Baby, it's Mama." She lifted him, and he clung to her at once, small arms locked around her neck. His heart hammered against her ribs. "You're safe. I've got you.""Don't go," he whispered."I'm not going anywhere."Damien stood at her shoulder, one hand resting on the boy's back. His eyes had gone red, and he was scanning every shadow in the room. "Nothing's here," he said quietly. "I'd smell it.""I know." Aria rocked, swaying on her feet. "Nobody's here but us."Cassian wouldn't go back to sleep. She tried making him go back to sleep on the bed, the
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Entangled To The Whoremaster CEO
Lola Li the daughter of Carl Li , the president of the Li group company. She was stubborn and full of pride. She got engaged to Mike Qi,whom she caught cheating with her best friend,a night before their wedding.
Lola Li was so angry that she left the house in a hurry for a gay bar to ease her pain,but she got drunk and decided to sleep in a hotel,she checked unfortunately not in her room,but Liam Si's room, it resulted to a night.
The Li Group company was taken from the Carl Li's family by Jacob Qi and his son. Hearing the news Carl Li's mother died. The court placed their properties on auction and sealed their villa.
Lola Li was saved by a Liam Si after her dad ran away from the hospital. He decided to help her revenge on the Qi's family with a prenuptial agreement to marry him.
Do you really think Lola Li will agree? Read and find out
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Chapter: Chapter 84Liam Si junior got hardened and he was warned not to touch Lola Li ,until her uterus became strong. He ran into the bathroom so he could take a cold shower that would calm him down from the torture , he was experiencing. After he was done taking his bath and came out from the bathroom with bathrobe and saw Lola Li on the bed with the short gown revealing her white legs that always turned him on. He looked at her flat tummy that started to increase a little, he decreased his size to Lola Li's tummy and touched it as Lola Li smiled."I want my child to be a baby girl ,so I could have two lovers." Lola Li removed his hands from her tummy and told him that she does not want him to share his love for her. Liam Si laughed so loud and laid down on the bed and asked Lola Li ,if it was a boy that she would love to give birth to?Lola Li nodded her head and told him her reasons because they both of them would always care for her. Liam Si's face turned sour as he heard her because he wa
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Chapter: Chapter 83Liam Si was inside his office preparing his meeting with the shareholders of the company, when Joe Yun came inside and informed him that their men had made an arrangement with Jacob Qi and they would be meeting by 9pm at the children's park.Liam Si nodded his head and looked at her wrist watch, it was already time for his meeting with the shareholders, he took his laptop and told Joe Yun to forward those evidence that could arrest Jacob Qi after the meeting.Inside the conference hall, some of the shareholders were already murmuring because of the way Liam Si removed Jacob Qi as one of the shareholders.As soon as they saw him enter the conference hall ,all mouths were closed and they were no longer murmuring between themselves.Liam Si took his chair and sat down and brought the reason for the meeting which was, why Jacob Qi was no longer a shareholder in the company?Liam Si looked at each one of them to read this faces expression , but did not see any."I have to remove Jacob Qi
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Chapter: Chapter 82Jacob Qi was sitting down on his chair in the office ,when he saw an incoming call on his phone ,he answered the phone call."Hello ,am l speaking with Jacob Qi? " The man on the phone asked.Jacob Qi told him that ,It was him."Okay, your daughter in-law Anna Fu is with us and you know she is carrying your grandchild , if you want her to be released ,you have to do something for us."Jacob Qi pleaded for him not to harm Anna Fu that he would do anything for them .The man on the phone laughed ,"okay. You're sure ,you will do anything? "Jacob Qi told him anything , only if he promised to release Anna Fu."Okay, I want you to bring president Carl Li at the children's park today's night ,if you refused consider your daughter in-law and grandchild gone." The man on the phone said.Jacob Qi could not believe that he would release Carl Li ,just to save two lives."Who are you! Did president Si send you to me?" Jacob Qi shouted."I have told you all , bring president Carl Li and take your
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Chapter: Chapter 81Lola Li woke up but her eyes were closed as she touched the teddy bear that she was on top,it was so soft unlike Liam Si's bodyShe opened her eyes and saw that she was on top of a big teddy bear ,and she stood up from the teddy bear .She knew that Liam Si had left the house and did not wake her up.Lola Li entered the bathroom and had a cold shower and came out from the bathroom with a towel on her chest,she looked at the time it was already 7pm."Oh my Gosh, how come I slept for too long ." Lola Li muttered.She put on her clothes and went downstairs and met Mrs May inside the sitting room alone and walked down towards her and saw her in tears."Mrs May ,why are you crying?" Lola Li asked Mrs May.Mrs May could not answer her because ,she was crying uncontrollably as one who lost someone very dear to her.Lola Li saw how she was crying and joined her because she refused to say why she was crying. They both of them were done crying consoling each other . Then Mrs May told Lola Li
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Chapter: Chapter 80Liam Si thanked Joe Yun for being a saviour ,when he needed one as they were both inside the car together.Soon they arrived at the underground where Anna Fu was kept.Liam Si and Joe Yun came down from the car together and went inside the building,it was dark and Liam Si turned on his phone torch as Joe Yun did the same.There was a staircase leading down ,and they both went through there and saw their men there .There was light inside the underground and Liam Si and Joe Yun turned off their phone torch.Norman came towards Liam Si and greeted him and took him where they kept Anna Fu.Anna Fu was kept Inside a room, a light was inside, fan ,mirror and a door leading to the restroom and a bathroom, and a bed were she could sleep on comfortably, but the room was locked from outside.Liam Si's men knew that she was pregnant and they were treating her fine. They gave her food to eat whenever she was hungry but the problem was that Anna Fu kept on screaming and shouting, "Set me free ,
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Chapter: Chapter 79Liam Si drove into the Villa, and came out from the car to open the car door for Lola Li to come out.Mrs May came out from the house and hugged Lola Li and helped her to enter inside, while Liam Si took the bag from the car seat and joined them.Liam Si went upstairs the room to have his bath while Lola Li was downstairs with Mrs May chatting.Mrs May asked Lola Li what happened to her for the past two days that she was not at home.Lola Li told Mrs May everything that happened to her with Liam Si and she told her that she had finally fallen in love with Liam Si.Mrs May heard how Lola Li expressed her feelings for Liam Si ,she hugged her tightly and their was a string of connection between the both of them that she felt .She told Lola Li that she must had missed her cooking and went into the kitchen to prepare food for her.Lola Li stood up from the sitting room after Mrs May went to prepare food for her ,so she decided to go upstairs to the room.She entered the room and saw that
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DIE ALPHA -KONINGS ENINE NACHT
In der Nacht, in der Aria Johnson ihren Freund beim Betrug erwischt, verändert sich ihr Leben für immer.
Gebrochen und verzweifelt, um der Demütigung zu entkommen, verbringt die aufstrebende Schauspielerin eine leidenschaftliche Nacht mit einem geheimnisvollen Fremden … ohne zu ahnen, dass sie ihn jemals wiedersehen wird.
Sie lag falsch.
Der Fremde ist Damien Blackwood – der rücksichtslose Alpha-König, Milliardär-CEO und der gefürchtetste Werwolf der Welt.
Als Damien erkennt, dass Aria seine vorherbestimmte Gefährtin ist, schwört er, sie für sich zu beanspruchen. Doch Aria weigert sich, nur ein weiterer Besitz in seiner mächtigen Welt zu werden.
Dann geschieht das Unmögliche.
Sie ist schwanger.
Während eifersüchtige Rivalen, blutrünstige Feinde und eine tödliche Verschwörung sowohl ihre Karriere als auch den ungeborenen Erben des Alpha-Throns bedrohen, wird Aria in Damiens gefährliche Welt gezwungen. Doch jedes Geheimnis, das er bewahrt, treibt sie immer näher dazu, für immer zu gehen.
Kann eine Liebe, die aus einer unvergesslichen Nacht geboren wurde, Verrat, Krieg und ein Schicksal überleben, das keiner von beiden gewählt hat? Oder wird der Alpha-König seine Gefährtin verlieren, bevor er sie beanspruchen kann?
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Chapter: KAPITEL 31KAPITEL 31Am Morgen nach Sophias Nachricht legte sich eine unruhige Stille über das Blackwood Sanctuary.Anders als die friedliche Ruhe, die das Berganwesen sonst umhüllte, trug diese Stille das Gewicht der Erwartung – als spürten die alten Mauern selbst, dass etwas Unumkehrbares begonnen hatte. Krieger bewegten sich mit schärferer Wachsamkeit über das Gelände; ihre Gespräche waren auf Murmeln reduziert, die Augen ständig den umliegenden Wald absuchend. Die Nachricht von Isabellas Handlungen hatte sich über Nacht im inneren Kreis von Blackwood verbreitet, und niemand unterschätzte, was sie bedeutete.Sobald der Alpha-Rat aufhörte, aus den Schatten zu operieren, war die Diplomatie bereits gescheitert.Aria stand am Bibliotheksfenster und blätterte abwesend in einem Buch, das sie seit fast einer Stunde nicht gelesen hatte. Die Worte verschwammen und weigerten sich, sich in ihrem Kopf festzusetzen. Alle paar Minuten blickte sie zur langen Auffahrt, die ins Sanctuary führte, und fragte s
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Chapter: KAPITEL 30KAPITEL 30Das Blackwood Sanctuary erwachte langsam aus einer Decke silbrigem Nebels. Hoch in den Bergen gelegen, wo die Welt unendlich weit entfernt schien, stand das alte Anwesen unberührt vom Chaos, das die Außenwelt verzehrte. Hohe Kiefern wiegten sich sanft im Morgenwind, während die ersten Sonnenstrahlen über die Steinmauern strömten, die Generationen der Blackwood-Blutlinie beschützt hatten. Von Weitem hätte es friedlich gewirkt – ein Ort, an dem nichts Schlimmes je geschehen konnte.Aria wusste es besser. Frieden war etwas, dem sie nicht mehr vertraute.Sie stand allein auf dem Balkon vor ihrem Schlafzimmer, die Finger lose um eine Tasse Tee gelegt, die längst kalt geworden war. Die Wärme war dem Porzellan gewichen – genau wie die Gewissheit, die einst ihr Leben erfüllt hatte. Hinter den Bergen leuchtete der Himmel in weichen Gold- und Hellblautönen, doch sie konnte den Anblick nicht bewundern. Schönheit war schwer zu schätzen, wenn jeder Sonnenaufgang geborgt wirkte.Ihre fre
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Chapter: KAPITEL 29KAPITEL 29Das Morgenlicht filterte durch die schweren Vorhänge des Blackwood Mountain Estate und warf ein weiches goldenes Leuchten über das Hauptschlafzimmer. Die festungsartige Zuflucht tief in den Bergen war zu ihrem vorübergehenden Zuhause geworden – ein Ort, an dem die Außenwelt mit ihren Räten, Feinden und Skandalen fern wirkte. Doch für Aria Johnson war der Frieden zerbrechlich, wie ein dünner Schleier, der jederzeit reißen konnte.Sie lag im großen Bett, die Hand ruhte auf dem deutlichen Rund ihres Bauches. Mit fast sechs Monaten Schwangerschaft war das Baby aktiv und stark; es trat in einem Rhythmus, der sie sowohl tröstete als auch ängstigte. Das Kind war eine lebendige Erinnerung an die Liebe, die sie mit Damien geteilt hatte – und an die Gefahr, die diese Liebe in ihr Leben gebracht hatte.Damien lag neben ihr, den Arm schützend über ihre Taille gelegt. Sein Atem ging gleichmäßig, doch Aria wusste, dass er nicht ganz schlief. Seit ihrer Ankunft auf dem Anwesen hatte er ih
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Chapter: KAPITEL 28KAPITEL 28 Der Privatjet setzte auf einer verborgenen Landebahn tief in den schroffen Blackwood Mountains auf. Das Anwesen war eine von Damiens privatesten Besitzungen – eine alte Festung, die vor Jahrhunderten in den Berghang gebaut und mit moderner Sicherheit ausgestattet worden war. Nur einem vertrauenswürdigen inneren Kreis bekannt. Der Alpha-Rat hatte keine Aufzeichnungen darüber. Isabellas Spione hatten sie nie gefunden. Es war der perfekte Ort, um sich zu verstecken und neu zu formieren. Damien half Aria die Treppe hinunter, den Arm schützend um ihre Taille gelegt. Die Bergluft war klar und kühl und trug den Duft von Kiefern und frischem Schnee. Aria zitterte leicht, doch das Baby trat sanft, als würde es die neue Umgebung billigen. „Das ist das Blackwood Sanctuary“, sagte Damien leise und führte sie zum massiven steinernen Eingang. „Es gehört seit Generationen zu meiner Familie. Niemand außerhalb des inneren Kreises weiß davon. Hier sind wir sicher.“ Aria blickte zu der Fes
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Chapter: KAPITEL 27KAPITEL 27Der SUV raste durch die engen Straßen von Willow Bay, die Reifen quietschten auf dem nassen Asphalt, während Lucas einer weiteren Straßensperre auswich. Hinter ihnen hallten die Kampfgeräusche durch die Nacht – Knurren, Schüsse und die wütenden Heulrufe der Blackwood-Krieger im Gefecht mit der Crimson Guard des Alpha-Rates. Die einst friedliche Küstenstadt war zu einer Kriegszone geworden, und die Einsätze waren nie höher gewesen.Damien Blackwood saß auf dem Rücksitz, den Arm schützend um Aria gelegt, die Hand ruhte behutsam auf ihrem runden Bauch. Das Gefährtenband zwischen ihnen summte wie eine lebendige Flamme – heiß und beharrlich – und zog sie mit jeder Sekunde enger zusammen. Aria lehnte sich an ihn, den Kopf an seiner Brust, die Finger mit den seinen verschränkt. Das Baby trat kräftig, als spüre es gleichzeitig die Gefahr und die Sicherheit der Gegenwart seines Vaters.„Geht es dir gut?“ fragte Damien, die Stimme tief und rau vor Sorge. Mit der freien Hand strich er
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Chapter: KAPITEL 26KAPITEL 26Die Nachtluft in Willow Bay war dick von Anspannung; die stille Küstenstadt fühlte sich plötzlich an wie ein Schlachtfeld, das darauf wartete, zu entflammen. Damien Blackwood stand auf der Veranda von Arias Hütte; seine goldenen Augen durchsuchten die Dunkelheit. Das Gefährtenband summte zwischen ihnen – stark und lebendig –, doch etwas stimmte nicht. Eine scharfe Warnung pulsierte durch das Band: Gefahr.Genau in dem Moment, in dem der Krieger der Crimson Guard den Wolfsbanen-Pfeil aus den Schatten gegenüber abschoss, spürte Damien die Bedrohung. Ohne zu zögern stürzte er durch die Haustür und schirmte Aria mit seinem eigenen Körper ab. Der Pfeil verfehlte sie nur knapp und bohrte sich mit einem widerlichen dumpfen Laut in die Wand der Hütte.„Aria!“ brüllte Damien und riss sie zu Boden, während draußen das Chaos ausbrach.Lucas wechselte sofort in den Kampfmodus; sein Körper verwandelte sich in einen massiven grauen Wolf. Er heulte und kontaktierte die Blackwood-Krieger,
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