Chapter: 11: Compensation When Sabrina’s eyes fluttered open, the first thing she felt was a stab of pain in her temples and a soreness between her thighs.“Fuck,” she muttered, sitting up and rubbing a hand over her eyes, trying to soothe the ache spreading through her skull.When she dropped her palm, she frowned, scanning the unfamiliar room with growing confusion. The confusion quickly turned into panic when she looked down and realized she was—without a doubt—naked. Her pale skin was littered with red marks, suspiciously resembling hickeys.What exactly happened last night?Yanking the blanket higher over her chest, she frantically searched the room for clues, racking her brain for any memories. But she was drawing a significant blank.She remembered returning to Archwood Mansion—her father’s accusations, the slap across her face, the humiliation of being thrown out. Checking into the hotel, the bar…Her memories of the bar were hazy, fragmented at best, and at some point, they just faded to black.Her mo
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Chapter: 10: In a Dark Room“Who are—?” Before the words could slip out, a warm hand wrapped around her wrist and yanked her inside. The door slammed shut behind her. Even in her inebriated state, something sharp and cold sliced through the haze of alcohol. Panic. She didn’t know anyone else on this floor. The rooms were soundproofed. If something happened, no one would hear her screams and even if they did… would they care? “Hey!” Sabrina wrenched her hand free, stumbling back, her gait unsteady. The man didn’t move. He just watched her, his eyes and most of his face hidden in the shadows of the darkened room, but she didn’t need to see them to feel the weight of his stare. Her pulse pounded in her ears as she forced her spine straight. “What are you doing in my room?” She looked around surreptitiously for something to defend herself with, but the room was barely illuminated by the moonlight and nothing more. In her short scan of the room, something about the space around her felt off. Maybe if she were
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Chapter: 9: Room 206?Sabrina wasn’t sure how long she sat there crying, but eventually, her tears dried up, and the rain stopped, leaving behind only a pounding headache and the scent of damp earth. She knew she had to leave before her father actually followed through on his threat to call the police.She opened the envelope Reliana had given her and managed to salvage $900—enough to book a cab and find a cheap hotel room for a few nights. What would happen once the money ran out? Sabrina didn’t know, but that was a problem for future Sabrina.She rifled through her suitcase, relieved to find that Reliana hadn’t shredded the clothes before tossing them inside. She pulled out a simple T-shirt, a pair of jeans, and some comfortable shoes.Slipping into a corner, she changed out of her ruined clothes and into the fresh ones, then gathered her tangled hair into a ponytail.Without sparing Archwood Mansion a final glance, she walked away. A dull ache throbbed in her chest, and the echoes of her father and step
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Chapter: 8: Accusations Upon Accusations Harrison Archwood’s hand struck his daughter’s face, sending her stumbling backward. She fell onto the ground, too tired to hold herself up and too dazed to even attempt standing. Sabrina’s hand instinctively touched her stinging cheek, her mind reeling. Through the rain blurring her vision, she could still see the anger on her father’s face as clearly as the lightning flashing across the sky. “I… I don’t understa—” she began, but Harrison’s booming voice cut her off. “You had the audacity—the fucking audacity—to come back here after all the shame you’ve brought to this family?!” he bellowed, his face twisted with more malice than Sabrina had ever seen before. Confusion and pain swirled in her mind. She staggered to her feet, ignoring the protest of her aching muscles. “I didn’t… What are you talking about?” “Shameless girl!” Mira Archwood’s voice rang out. She marched forward, her heels clicking sharply against the floor as she scrutinized Sabrina with disgust. “How dare you sho
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Chapter: 7: The Fall and the Return ~ Days before. Sabrina was falling—endlessly falling. Air whipped at her clothes and past her ears, her lips parted in a noiseless scream as she twisted mid-air, tears streaming down her cheeks. She plummeted fast, but for her, time felt unbearably slow. There was nothing to grab onto, nothing to break her fall. She was going to die. At that thought, Sabrina gave up. She accepted this reality, her inevitable end. What other choice did she have? Her will to live had already been stripped away. Everything she’d ever cared about—her mother, her trust, her family’s legacy—was gone. Now her life would be taken, too. Sabrina thought of her mother and smiled weakly at the thought of seeing her again. Tears slid down her face, and just as she was about to let her body go limp and accept the jagged rocks below, she saw it—a branch jutting out from the side of the mountain. With one last burst of determination, she reached for it. Her scream tore through the air as her body slammed agains
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Chapter: 6 In Retrospect The search party had combed most of Greenvyle, and so far, nothing had been found—not even Sabrina’s body. Kyler continued to stand for interviews alongside Charlotte, both of them wearing sad expressions, with Charlotte even breaking down a few times. The Archwoods chose to remain silent on the matter, Harrison only showing up for a short interview to express his grief and disappointment, but nothing more. The next phase of their plan was to bribe the police into declaring her dead so they could all move on. Kyler and Charlotte would assume ownership of the company, and Reliana would be left all alone… again. The two had stopped responding to her messages since that day and, in public, kept her at arm’s length. They were trying to disassociate from her now that they didn’t need her anymore, but Reliana wasn’t going to let that happen—not by a long shot. “Lia?” Mira Archwood’s voice called from downstairs. “It’s time for dinner!” Reliana folded the papers in her hand—papers that
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ALPHA PRINCE’S FORBIDDEN DESIRE
Lenora Monroe left behind a dark past, but no matter how far she runs, the shadows follow her.
Starting anew as a college professor, she believes she’s finally found a safe haven—until a night of drinks leads to her meeting Elijah North. Golden-eyed, arrogant and charming, Elijah ignites something in her that leads to her making a spur of the moment decision. Her life is tossed into chaos when she realises that the man she just spent the night with was not only her student, but the son of the Alpha, a man she was now indebted to.
Bound by a bond neither can explain or deny, their relationship is forbidden, dangerous, and intoxicating. The two are forced to the realities their forbidden relationship, the drama that comes with it as well as the demons that plague them.
With her past colliding with his power-hungry family, Lenora and Elijah find themselves trapped in a web of tension, dominance, and desire. Every stolen moment ignites passion—and every confrontation pushes them closer to the edge of destruction.
In a world where control is everything, can they fight for a love meant to be forbidden? Or will their desires tear them apart?
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Chapter: 101| LENORA Four days after I asked him to help with Marcus, an envelope arrived in the mail, thick and weighty, sealed in gold foil with Victor’s personal crest. Inside was an invitation with specific instructions—alarmingly specific. It listed the exact time I was to head downstairs to prepare, the exact boutique I’d be driven to, and the exact expectations for my behavior once I arrived at the event.There were no explanations. Just commands dressed up in cursive calligraphy.Much like the night he invited me to dinner, Victor sent a sleek black car to collect me. This time, it took me to a high-end boutique nestled into the heart of the city. The moment I stepped in, I was no longer a person. I was an image to be crafted.The dress they chose for me was pale pink, delicate as crushed rose petals, threaded with soft pearls and thin silk that clung to my skin. My hair was pulled into an elegant updo, a few strands curled and left to frame my face. They dabbed only a little makeup on me, mostly
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Chapter: 100| LENORAFor a long moment, Victor didn’t say anything. He just stared at me in that unnerving way—like he was peeling back my skin to see what was twitching beneath. I expected him to say no. To laugh in my face. To punish me for making demands.But instead, he reached under his desk and pressed a button. A faint beep answered, followed by Izaak’s flat, ever-present voice crackling through the speaker.“Alpha?”“Prepare the girl,” Victor said simply, then released the button.That was it.I parted my lips, then slammed them shut. I shouldn’t have to say thank you. This wasn’t a favor. This was an exchange—him giving me something I should’ve gotten a long time ago.I just stood there, heart hammering, the edges of my fingers prickling with static. Either way, it was done. He was giving me this—for whatever reason, on whatever twisted impulse—but I would take it. I would take it and hold it tight, because this might be all I’d ever get.Victor rose from behind his desk and smoothed out his suit
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Chapter: 99| LENORA I got up eventually, my muscles ached and my bones screamed in protest as I uncurled from the position I’d been bent in for what could have been hours, but it was my heart that began to scream and ache as I stared at the note place tentatively on my coffee table. It looked so normal and felt normal as I picked it up, but for whatever reason, the note seemed to a weigh a million pounds as I picked it up and stared at it. Just ten digits. Curved in soft, hopeful handwriting.I stared at it for a long time, the lines swimming as my vision swam in and out of focus. Then I folded it carefully. Once. Twice. Slid it into the drawer with my old chargers and snapped pen caps—the graveyard of things I didn’t use but couldn’t throw away.It didn’t mean anything. It didn’t.But still, I didn’t tear it.It was more grace than I likely should ever give my mother, but I couldn’t get the image of the heartbreak that flashed across her face at my words. The sincerity in her voice as she left her num
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Chapter: 98| LENORA “Tea or coffee?” I asked the woman seated on my couch.She looked up at me, her blue eyes full and sharp at once, and replied, “Coffee.”That was a surprise—my mother never drank coffee—but I made it without a word. Two cubes of sugar, like she used to prefer, a little milk, then I set it on a coaster and brought it to her.She nodded with a muttered, “Thank you,” and took a long sip. I just stood across from her and stared.She looked much older than the last time I saw her. Her hair was longer and more unkempt, though pinned back into one of her typically severe buns. There were more wrinkles on her once-ageless face. Her lips were pulled down in a permanent frown, her posture more slumped. Her hair was grayer. She looked tired—more fragile than I’d ever seen her.Maybe another child would feel their heart ache a little, seeing their parent like this. But I was just trying to figure out how she had found me—and, more importantly, who she might have led here.I kept waiting, tense, c
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Chapter: 97| LENORAWhen I was sixteen, I made the mistake of trying to carve out a path for myself.One of the routes I took involved working toward my PhD and falling for a man—or rather, a boy. He was only two years older than me, with sandy blonde hair, freckles, and the kindest smile I’d ever seen. He treated me better than anyone ever had.All my life, I’d been told I was destined for someone else—the son of the Alpha. But why? Why was I supposed to bind myself to someone I didn’t even love? Someone who didn’t love me either? Someone who wasn’t even my mate?So, for a little while, I decided to defy that destiny. That was how I ended up with my first boyfriend.He was the son of the pack doctor. We met at school shortly after my sixteenth birthday. Unlike everyone else, he didn’t shrink away from me, cowed by my title or the weight of what I was. He saw me eating alone one day and approached with the brightest smile. He introduced himself and waited for me to do the same—something I’d rarely done,
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Chapter: 96| ELIJAHThe garden smelled like lavender and fresh earth.I was small again—maybe seven or eight—kneeling in the flower beds beside Mum. The sun hung low and golden, spilling warmth across the hedges and blooming petals. Bees buzzed lazily in the distance, and windchimes clinked from the porch like tiny bells. I could hear the steady snip of her garden shears, rhythmic and familiar, like a lullaby wrapped in sound.She wore her straw hat, the one with the frayed brim and blue ribbon I used to tug when I wanted her attention. Dirt streaked her forearms, her fingernails packed with soil, but she looked radiant—like the sunlight itself loved her.“There we go,” she said softly, reaching down to pat my back. “Your hands are gentle. That’s why the flowers like you.”I grinned, my heart blooming with pride. “I wanna help every day.”She glanced sideways, her eyes warm. “I’d love that. Maybe you can teach your sister how to do this.”I giggled, still elated at the thought of having a little sibling.
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