Chapter: Chapter 91: This Is My ClinicMara“Come find me, asshole.” My voice sounded steadier than I felt.The hunter laughed somewhere near reception, and that pissed me off more than anything. He thought this was funny. He thought I was trapped.Maybe I was, but this was still my clinic. I knew every door, every hallway, every stupid cabinet Tessa complained about sticking. He didn’t.I backed into treatment and switched off my flashlight, and the darkness swallowed me. The footsteps stopped. Good.“You really want to do this the hard way?” he called.I moved quietly toward Exam Two. “Yes.”“That was not a question.”“Then stop asking stupid ones.”Silence, and then footsteps, closer. I slipped into the exam room and pulled the door mostly shut behind me, my heart hammering so loudly I was convinced he could hear it. Maybe he could. No. Human. Just human.Dangerous human, which was somehow worse. The footsteps passed the doorway, and I waited. Three seconds. Four. Then I shoved the door open hard, and it hit him squarel
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Chapter: Chapter 90: Lights OutMaraAt eight seventeen, Tessa texted me again.Still alive. Your gargoyle is being weird.I smiled despite myself.Define weird.Three dots appeared, then:He keeps checking the mirrors and told me not to come straight back.My smile disappeared. I looked toward the front windows, where two of Kieran’s guards stood beneath the parking lot lights. Another pair had been posted farther down the road after Kieran called. Four wolves, locked doors, my phone in my hand. I should have felt safe.I didn’t.Listen to him. Keep me updated.Tessa answered with a thumbs-up. I set my phone beside the computer and tried to finish updating patient notes, with tried being the important word.Every noise outside made me look up, and every passing car made my shoulders tighten. I hated it. I hated that they had done this to me.This was my clinic, my safe place. It was where I had stitched wounds, delivered puppies, euthanized beloved pets, laughed with Tessa, cried in the supply room, and accidentall
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Chapter: Chapter 89: The MapKieranThe cabin smelled like silver, bleach, and Cassian, and my wolf nearly tore through me.“He was here.”Colter crouched near the doorway. “Recently.”“How recently?”“Hours.”Not good enough. I stepped inside.The place was barely a cabin: one room, boarded windows, rotting floorboards, a single metal table shoved against the wall.There was blood on the floor, not much, but enough. Cassian’s scent was woven through it, and so was pain. I could smell that too, sharp and sour beneath the bleach.Rhett came in behind me and stopped. “Fuck.”Silver wire lay on the floor, cut, with blood dried along one end. It was exactly like the piece we had found near the creek. My fists clenched.“He was restrained here.”“Yes,” said Cyrus, entering behind us.That single word made me want to hit something.Garrick had moved toward the table. “Vale.” Something in his voice had changed, and I crossed the room to see why.Maps. Photographs. Notes. My territory, the town, the roads, the clinic. My
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Chapter: Chapter 88: Those Are Dog TreatsTessaTwenty five feet sounded reasonable in theory. In practice, twenty five feet was apparently close enough for me to know exactly where Alden was at all times.I hated that. Mostly because I liked it.I pushed the cart down the cleaning aisle and reached for another package of paper towels. Alden stopped behind me. Not twenty five feet. Maybe eighteen. I looked over my shoulder. He froze.“Twenty five.”He stepped back. I turned around before he could see me smile.This was ridiculous. He was ridiculous. Tall. Broad. Dark hair that looked like he had run his hands through it too many times. Eyes that followed me like I was the only thing in the room worth watching. And his voice.Jesus Christ. Low and smooth, like velvet poured over gravel. Every time he said my name, my stomach did something deeply inconvenient.That was the problem. I didn’t hate him looking at me. I liked it far too much. And that was exactly why I wanted him nowhere near me.I grabbed tissues. Hand soap. Antib
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-10-23
Chapter: Chapter 87: You're Still HereMaraBy seven thirty that evening, I had checked the front lock four times. I knew because Tessa counted.“That’s four.”“I know.”“Do you?”“Yes.”She looked at me over the top of the reception desk. “You sure?”I flipped her off. Tessa smiled.The clinic had been quiet since Kieran called earlier. Too quiet. He was still somewhere southeast of the territory with Cyrus, Garrick, Rhett, Colter, and enough wolves to invade a small country.They had found Cassian’s blood. Silver wire. Another vehicle. And absolutely no Cassian. So naturally, my brain had spent the last several hours imagining increasingly horrific possibilities.Healthy. Very healthy.I walked toward the front window. Alden was still outside. He sat on the hood of one of Ravenholt’s SUVs, arms folded, staring toward the street instead of the clinic. Tessa followed my gaze.“Oh my God.”“What?”“He’s still here!”“You knew he was.”“I hoped he would eventually develop a hobby.”“He might have hobbies.”“Standing outside
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-10-23
Chapter: Chapter 86: The Price of BetrayalCassianThe first time I pulled against the chains, I nearly blacked out. The second time, I knew better. I did it anyway.Silver burned around both wrists. Not heat. Something worse. Like the metal was sinking through skin and muscle, draining strength directly from the bone. My wolf had been nearly silent for hours. Every time I reached for him, I found pain.I stopped pulling. Eventually.“Finally learned?”Mercer sat across the room cleaning blood from his knuckles. My blood.I smiled at him. “Come closer.”He laughed. “I’d rather not.”Coward.The second hunter stood near the window. Curtains closed. Door locked. No idea where the fuck we were.I remembered the holding site. Opening the cells. That part had been my choice.God. Kieran had been right. I had been lying to him. I had been lying for years. But last night had been different.Vivienne had called. Not from her normal number. Never anymore. She told me Colter was too close. The hunters couldn’t remain alive inside Kieran
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-10-21
Bitten After Midnight
Nineteen-year-old Delaney Mercer thought surviving her abusive childhood would be the hardest thing she'd ever have to do.
She was wrong.
College was supposed to be her fresh start. New city, new friends, and finally, a chance to live without fear. But after one drunken night at a freshman party, Delaney makes the mistake of walking home alone.
Something attacks her in the darkness.
A massive black wolf with blood-red eyes.
Two days later, she wakes up in her dorm room with torn clothes, missing memories, and no explanation for what happened.
Then the changes begin.
Her senses sharpen. Her strength grows. Strange things happen whenever she loses control of her emotions.
And seven mysterious seniors suddenly seem very interested in keeping her close.
Among them are Kellan Hayes, the dangerously protective bad boy who makes her heart race, and Callan Reid, the charming sweetheart who makes her feel safe.
But neither can prepare her for the truth lurking beneath the next full moon.
Werewolves are real.
And the terrifying Alpha responsible for changing her is coming back.
He wants her.
He believes she belongs to him.
And he's willing to destroy anyone who stands in his way.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 18: They Took Your Blood?DelaneyKellan made it to my dorm in under ten minutes. I knew because I checked, twice, and not because I was waiting for him. Obviously.I was standing in the hallway with my arms crossed when he came around the corner, moving fast enough that two girls stepped out of his way without being asked.His eyes found me immediately, then the open dorm room behind me, and his expression changed. It wasn’t dramatic, because Kellan didn’t do dramatic, but his jaw tightened and his shoulders went rigid, and whatever softness usually appeared when he looked at me disappeared.“Are you hurt?”“No.”“Did you see anyone?”“No.”“Did you touch anything?”I blinked. “Hello to you too.”“Delaney.”“I’m fine.”“That wasn’t what I asked.”I sighed. “I touched my own stuff because I didn’t realize someone had broken in until I noticed things were moved.”His mouth flattened. “Okay.”That was all he said. Then he walked past me into the room, and I followed.“You know, normally people ask permission bef
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Chapter: Chapter 17: BloodworkDelaneyI almost canceled the appointment.Not because I suddenly thought nothing was wrong with me. Quite the opposite. There was clearly something very fucking wrong with me.But after everything that happened yesterday, sitting in a brightly lit campus health center and explaining that I could hear conversations through walls, see in the dark, heal in under an hour, and apparently blow out windows with my emotions felt like a direct path to a psychiatric evaluation.Still, I went, because seven cryptic assholes refusing to tell me the truth did not qualify as medical care.The nurse called my name at nine fourteen. “Delaney Mercer?”I stood, and she smiled and led me down a hallway that smelled of rubbing alcohol and burnt coffee. “Go ahead and step on the scale.”Easy enough. Then came blood pressure, pulse, and temperature, and she stared at the screen. Then she checked it again, and I noticed.“What?”“Nothing.”I almost laughed. Apparently that word had infected the entire camp
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-10-25
Chapter: Chapter 16: Not HereDelaneyNobody spoke until we were three blocks away from campus. Not me. Not Kellan. Not Callan. Not Harper. The silence inside Darian’s SUV was so thick I could practically feel it pressing against my skin.I sat in the back between Harper and Naomi with my arms crossed tightly over my chest. Kellan was in the passenger seat. Callan sat beside Darian. Jett and Rhys had taken another car. Apparently, getting me away from campus had required an entire fucking evacuation plan.I hated that. I hated how organized they were. I hated how quickly they had moved when everything went wrong. And I hated most of all that none of them had looked surprised. Scared, yes. Concerned, definitely. But surprised? No.I looked down at my forearm. The cut from the shattered glass was nearly gone. All that remained was a thin pink line. My stomach turned.Harper noticed me staring at it. Her hand shifted toward mine, and I moved away. She stopped. That hurt expression crossed her face again, and I looked
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-10-23
Chapter: Chapter 15: Everything BreaksDelaneyThe first thing to go was the lights.One second, the student center was bright and loud and full of people pretending not to stare. The next, darkness. Complete. Absolute. Someone screamed. A chair scraped violently across the floor. Then the emergency lights flashed red along the walls.My breathing stopped. Not because I couldn’t see. That was the problem. I could. Perfectly. Every table. Every face. Every wide pair of eyes turning toward the ceiling, toward the café, toward me.“Delaney.”Harper’s voice cut through the noise. I heard her like she was standing inside my head. I didn’t move. I couldn’t. Something inside me had gone horribly, horribly still.Camille backed away. “What the hell?”The glass beside her trembled. Then another. Then every drinking glass on the nearest three tables started rattling against the tabletops.“What is happening?”“Earthquake?”“No, I don’t feel anything.”A bottle toppled over. Then another. Silverware vibrated against plastic trays. My
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-10-21
Chapter: Chapter 14: Everybody KnewDelaneyBy Monday afternoon, I was beginning to understand why people committed murder.Not that I was planning one. Obviously. But hypothetically? I got it.The day had started badly. Sloane finally came stumbling into our room around three in the morning, drunk enough to trip over her own laundry basket and then blame me for leaving it there. It was her laundry basket. On her side of the room. Somehow, still my fault.I slept through my alarm, Professor Whitmore sprang a surprise quiz on us, and I spilled coffee down the front of my shirt before I’d even found my seat.And now everyone in my sociology class kept looking at me.Not normal looking. Whispering looking. The kind where someone glanced my way, turned to their friend, and murmured behind a hand like we were twelve.I ignored it for ten minutes. Then twenty. By the time class ended, I’d counted eleven people.Eleven.I shoved my notebook into my backpack. Whatever. Maybe I had something on my face. Maybe someone had posted
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-10-20
Chapter: Chapter 13: You Stayed?DelaneyI woke up at six seventeen in the morning because someone slammed a car door outside.That wasn’t unusual. What was unusual was that I heard it from the third floor. Clearly. Like the damn thing had happened beside my bed.My eyes opened immediately. For several seconds, I lay perfectly still beneath the blankets. Then I groaned.“Not this shit again.”Sloane wasn’t in bed. Apparently, she’d never come home. Not that I was surprised.I rolled onto my back and stared at the ceiling. Last night replayed almost instantly. Callan. Dinner. The almost kiss. The growl. Black fur between the trees.Then Kellan showing up at my dorm demanding answers like some kind of leather jacket wearing FBI agent.And the part that bothered me most? He’d believed me. No hesitation. No maybe you imagined it. No you’ve been under a lot of stress. He’d asked what color its eyes were. Because apparently, that was a perfectly reasonable question to ask after someone claimed they’d seen a giant wolf foll
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-10-20
The Mate Hunt
Maeve Cross has but one reason to enter the Blood Hunt... to be brought down by the most feared Alpha alive.
For three years, she has been searching for her missing sister, Mara, whose secret letters describe starvation, torture, and imprisonment beneath the pack house of Alpha Ronan Caine. Maeve knows the rules of the Hunt: get to the sanctuary before sunrise and win protection, wealth or a favor from each Alpha who hunted her.
If they get caught the one who lays claim to her gets to mate her.
Maeve has no intention of fleeing.
She means to let Ronan take her, get into his area, save Mara and kill him before he can finish the bonding.
But Ronan is waiting for her.
Years ago, Mara betrayed his family, opened the gates to enemy wolves, and murdered the Luna chosen to save him from the deadly Sovereign Hunger. Ronan's wolf was starving, violent, and dangerously close to overriding the interrupted ritual.
Then Maeve comes into his woods.
Her smell soothes the beast inside him.
It is her hate that rouses it.
And once Ronan has her, he has no intention of letting her go.
Maeve is trapped in his estate, looking for her sister and battling a dangerous attraction to the ruthless Alpha she came to destroy. But the more she digs the clearer the truth becomes.
Maybe Ronan isn’t the monster who destroyed Mara’s life.
Ronan went into the Hunt for revenge. Now he wants Maeve.
And whether she hates him or not, his starving wolf has already chosen her.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 182: EpilogueMaeveFive years later"If Ronan adds one more verification requirement to this policy, Cyn is going to walk into the river."Soren did not look up from the stack of papers in her hands. "He threatened to do that yesterday.""Did anyone stop him?""No."I nodded thoughtfully. "Good."Soren finally glanced at me. Her blond hair had been twisted into a loose braid over one shoulder, and one hand rested beneath the slight curve of her stomach. She was barely beginning to show.I, on the other hand, looked like I had swallowed the moon.My stomach stretched heavily beneath my dress, round enough that I could no longer see my feet unless I leaned forward. Which Ronan had apparently decided I should never do again.Elowen estimated another two weeks. I estimated I was evicting this child myself if he stayed in there much longer.Five months and three weeks pregnant. Again. With another son.Eamon Caine.Ronan had gone completely silent when I suggested the name.His father had been gone for
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Chapter: Chapter 181: The WordsRonanCaine did not become quiet until long after midnight.The fires in the courtyard had burned low hours ago, but traces of the celebration still drifted through the open bedroom window. Someone laughed in the distance. A door closed somewhere below us. The faint smell of smoke, roasted meat, and pine clung to the night air, tangled together with the cool breeze moving through the curtains.It had been a good day.I could not remember the last time I had been able to think that without immediately waiting for something terrible to follow.A good day. Nothing more complicated than that.Soren had sworn herself to Maeve for life. Cyn had finally been given the rank he had already earned. The pack had eaten until Gemma complained that she had underestimated how much food several hundred wolves could consume when given an excuse. There had been music. Children running between tables. Older wolves telling stories. Maeve had laughed until her cheeks turned pink.And nobody had died. Nobo
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-09-30
Chapter: Chapter 180: What We RebuildMaeveCaine gathered beneath a clear morning sky.The training field had been transformed before sunrise. Long black banners hung from the wooden posts surrounding the clearing, each marked with the silver wolf of Caine. Tables had been moved away from the center, leaving an open circle of packed earth where generations of ranked wolves had taken their vows.I had stood in that same field before and felt like an outsider.Today, the pack waited for me.That still did strange things to my chest, a fluttering warmth I hadn't yet learned how to hold without feeling like a fraud.Hundreds of wolves filled the space beyond the circle. Families stood together. Warriors lined the outer edge. Elders occupied chairs near the front. Children squeezed between adults wherever they could find space, small heads bobbing to catch a better view.Nessa stood near the second row with Eli bouncing impatiently beside her.Torin stood with the commanders.Maris was already crying.Nothing had even happene
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Chapter: Chapter 179: Blood DebtMaeveThe corridor beneath the eastern wing smelled like stone, cedar smoke, and the faint bitterness of the herbs Elowen insisted on burning in every secure room.It did not smell like a dungeon.That mattered to me more than I wanted to admit.Mara was a prisoner. She was Caine blood debt. Nothing about that had changed.But I had refused to let punishment become cruelty simply because cruelty would have been easier.There were windows in her room now. A real bed. Books. A table. A small washroom behind another door. Guards remained outside at all hours, and silver had been worked discreetly into the frame so she could not shift her way through the walls.She was contained. She was not buried alive. My footsteps sounded too loud against the stone as I approached, echoing off walls that had listened to far worse conversations than the one I was about to have.Ronan walked beside me until we reached the last turn. Then he stopped.I looked at him. He looked at the closed door at the
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Chapter: Chapter 178: HomeRonanCaine smelled different when we crossed the border. Not because anything had changed, but because I had.Maeve rode beside me, one hand resting loosely against the reins while the other kept drifting toward her stomach without her realizing it. Every time she did it, something inside my chest tightened.Our child. I still hadn't adjusted to the thought. I wasn't sure I ever would.Cassian rode ahead with Soren, both of them pretending they weren't watching us every thirty seconds. They were terrible at pretending, and Maeve noticed too."If Cassian looks at my stomach one more time, I'm throwing something at him.""He's trying not to tell anyone.""He's failing suspiciously.""He hasn't said anything.""He has a face."Cassian turned around. "I heard that.""Good."He faced forward again, and Maeve looked at me. "You threatened him, didn't you?""No.""Ronan.""I explained the importance of discretion.""With violence?""Not specifically."She sighed. I smiled. By the time the
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-09-27
Chapter: Chapter 177: My FatherMaeveWe were supposed to leave Council territory before noon. Ronan had already informed three different people of that fact.Cassian had packed our things. Soren had somehow acquired enough food for a four day journey even though we would be home before dark. And Elowen had threatened to tie me to Ronan's horse if I attempted to use magic before we crossed back into Caine.Everything was ready. Except me.I stood near one of the tall windows in our assigned rooms, staring down at the Council courtyard while my hand rested absently against my stomach. Still flat. Still completely ordinary. It was strange knowing something could change everything while remaining completely invisible.A knock came at the door. Ronan looked up from where he was securing the leather case containing copies of the Council records."If that's Holt, we're leaving.""It isn't Holt."I knew before the door opened. Isolde. Ronan looked at me, not asking whether he should let her in. Asking whether I wanted him
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-09-25
Masuk
