Chapter: EpilogueChapter 80: EPILOGUEGiovanni’s POVWhen I went to find her, the house had already settled into the kind of quiet that only came after everything that could go wrong already had. It wasn’t peace, not really, just the absence of noise, the kind that made every small movement feel deliberate, every decision heavier because there was nothing left to distract from it.She was exactly where I expected her to be.Not in bed, not resting the way the doctor had insisted she should be, but standing near the far end of the room, her back partially turned, her hand resting lightly against the edge of the table. The light from the window caught against her skin in a way that made the healing visible if you looked closely enough, the careful way she carried herself, the tension she still held in her side, but none of it read as weakness.It hadn’t for days.I leaned against the doorframe for a second before stepping. Her head turned slightly before her body followed, her eyes finding mine with a
Last Updated: 2026-04-28
Chapter: Chapter 79: Mirabella’s POVCHAPTER 79: Mirabella’s POVBy the time the door closed behind us, the quiet in the room no longer felt like recovery or rest. It felt heavier, saturated with everything that had just happened and everything that hadn’t been said, the air thick in a way that made it impossible to pretend we were the same as before we walked into that basement.I could still feel the echo of it in my hands, the steady calm that followed the pull of the trigger, but that wasn’t what held me in place now. It was him. The way his hand stayed firm at my side, not loosening, like the contact was the only thing keeping something far more volatile under control. The warmth of his palm seeped through the thin fabric between us, grounding and distracting all at once, pulling my attention away from the dull ache spreading through my ribs and toward something far more dangerous.He hadn’t said anything yet, but the way he looked at me said enough. There was no uncertainty in it, no question about what I had done
Last Updated: 2026-04-28
Chapter: Chapter 78: Giovanni’s POVCHAPTER 78: Giovanni’s POVA week was enough time for the house to quiet down, but not enough for anything that mattered to disappear. Nothing about this was normal anymore, and the moment I stood outside her door and saw her through the slight opening, I knew exactly why.She wasn’t in bed.She stood by the window, one hand resting against the frame, her posture careful, like she had already decided she wasn’t going to let her body dictate how she carried herself. The light fell across her skin in a way that made everything sharper, more defined, and for a second I didn’t move, not because I was unsure, but because I was taking her in fully, the fact that she was standing, breathing, alive, settling somewhere deep in my chest in a way I hadn’t allowed myself to process all week.I pushed the door open slowly and stepped inside, closing it behind me without breaking my focus on her. She turned before I said anything, like she felt me, like she had gotten used to sensing me even when I
Last Updated: 2026-04-22
Chapter: Chapter 77: Mirabella’s POVCHAPTER 77: Mirabella’s POVWaking this time felt different. There was no drifting, no slipping in and out of shadows that didn’t make sense. Pain followed immediately. It wasn’t sharp at first, just heavy, deep, like my body didn’t quite belong to me yet. Then it spread, blooming through my side, my chest tightening as I took a careful breath, the ache grounding me in a way nothing else could. I was alive.The room was dim, lit by soft, controlled lighting that didn’t hurt my eyes. A low, steady beeping filled the silence, rhythmic, anchoring everything around me. It took a second longer for the details to settle, for familiarity to click into place. This wasn’t a hospital. The ceiling was too high. The walls too carefully designed. Giovanni’s mansion. Of course it was.My gaze shifted slowly, taking in what I could without moving too much. The room had been transformed. Equipment lined one side, a chair pulled close to the bed. They’d made this into a place to keep me alive. The th
Last Updated: 2026-04-10
Chapter: Chapter 76: Giovanni’s POVCHAPTER 76: Giovanni’s POVThe night didn’t end when the shooting stopped.It followed me home, clinging to my skin, soaking into my clothes, settling deep in my chest like something unfinished, something still breathing. By the time the gates opened and the car tore through the estate, my hands were slick with her blood, drying in some places, still warm in others, a reminder I couldn’t shake even if I tried.I didn’t wait for the car to come to a full stop. The moment it slowed, I was already out, carrying her inside like letting go for even a second might be the thing that killed her.“Move,” I snapped, my voice cutting through the chaos as staff scrambled out of the way. “Now.”The medical team was already rushing toward us, alerted the second we hit the gates, but it still wasn’t fast enough. Nothing felt fast enough. Their hands hovered, waiting for permission I wasn’t ready to give.“Sir, we need to take her—”“No.”The word came out sharp. A doctor stepped forward anyway, ste
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Chapter: Chapter 75: Mirabella’s POVCHAPTER 75: Mirabella’s POVThere was no pain at first, no light either, just something thick and endless, like being suspended in a place that had no beginning and no edge. It wasn’t darkness in the way I understood it, because darkness had shape and depth, while this felt heavier, like it pressed in from all sides without ever quite touching, like something waiting for me to notice it.For a long time, there was nothing else.Then something shifted.A sound filtered through the stillness, faint and distant, as though it didn’t belong to me. It came and went, slipping through whatever this place was, a low, steady rhythm that didn’t make sense yet, not loud enough to understand and not close enough to feel real. I didn’t reach for it, didn’t even question it, because questioning required effort and effort felt too far away.And then a door slammed.The sound cracked through everything, sharp and sudden, and just like that, the emptiness changed into something I recognized before I co
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Bound by Fate: The Plus-Sized Fated Mate
Blurb
In a pack where weakness is a death sentence, Aneira has spent her entire life surviving in the shadows.
Born an omega, a hybrid, and cursed with a chubby, plus-sized body that the Ashfang Pack openly mocks, she is everything they despise. With no magic, no wolf worth claiming, and no one to protect her, Aneira learns early that invisibility is her only shield. Until the day she’s sent to serve in the Alpha’s house and fate makes its cruelest mistake.
Alpha Kale has waited years to find his mate. Powerful, feared, and destined to rule, he never expected her to be this: a fragile, scent-marked omega he would rather reject than claim. But before he can decide her fate, Aneira chooses for him.
She runs.
High in the mountains, far from the cruelty of the pack, Aneira builds a life of her own; quiet, hidden, and finally hers. But peace is fleeting. When she saves a wounded stranger, she doesn’t expect him to be the very man who once looked at her with disdain or the mate who now refuses to let her go.
Betrayed by his own pack and hunted by enemies, Kale needs her.
But Aneira is no longer the girl who begged for scraps of belonging.
And this time, she won’t be claimed so easily.
In a world of power, betrayal, and forbidden bonds, one question remains:
Will she choose the mate who broke her… or the freedom she bled for?
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Chapter: Chapter 86Chapter 86: Aneira's POV"Hold still."Hex did not hold still. Hex had, in fact, made it his personal mission for the last quarter hour to be anywhere except where the damp cloth in my hand was currently aimed, and he chose that exact moment to launch himself sideways off the windowsill and skid under the bed like the little rascal he was. "You smell terrible, really terrible, Hex. Come and get cleaned!"A loud, indignant meow answered me from the shadows."I will not take no for an answer, Hex. Come out of there immediately!"I got down on my knees, cloth still dripping, and reached under the frame like a woman who had, at some point in the last several months, apparently signed on to be this cat's personal attendant without ever formally agreeing to the position. He evaded my hand twice, hissed once for effect, and finally allowed himself to be dragged out by the scruff, glaring at me the entire time like I'd personally offended his ancestors."You are the single most ungrateful cr
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Chapter: Chapter 85Chapter 85: Lyra’s povThe bonfires went up before dusk, stacked higher than I'd seen them in years, and by the time the sky had bled fully into dark, half of Ashfang had gathered in the ceremonial grounds to watch a man take a title that had never rightfully belonged to him.I kept my eyes down and my hands full, the way I'd learned to survive most evenings in this pack, weaving through the crowd with a tray of spiced wine that emptied faster than I could refill it. Nobody looked twice at a servant. That had always been my one reliable advantage, and tonight I intended to use every ounce of it.Cassian held court near the central fire, dressed in ceremonial black that made him look considerably more like an Alpha than he had any right to, accepting congratulations with the easy, practiced warmth of a man who'd clearly rehearsed this exact posture in front of a mirror more than once. I refilled his cup without being asked, the way I always did, and let my gaze slide past him the way a
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Chapter: Chapter 84Chapter 84: Kale's POVI cleaned her first, before either of us slept, with some water I got from the basin in the room and a cloth I worked slowly over her skin while she drifted somewhere between waking and not."That's cold," she mumbled once, barely awake, when the cloth caught her ribs."It won't be in a moment.""Mm." Her eyes stayed closed. "You're being very thorough about this.""You deserve thorough."She didn't answer that one, already halfway back to sleep, and I found I didn't want to wake her further to hear whatever she might have said in return. There was something in being allowed to simply take care of her, quietly, without either of us needing to say anything about it, that made my wolf purr in content and the man even happier. I pulled her against me once I'd banked the fire low enough to last the night, skin to skin beneath the furs, her back fitted against my chest the way it had every night since the hot spring weeks ago, except tonight there was no fabric betw
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Chapter: Chapter 83Chapter 83: Aneira’s POV "I want you, Kale." I held his gaze, letting him see there was no hesitation left in it. He lifted me from the water without further warning, and I wrapped myself around him on instinct, water sliding down both our bodies as he carried me back toward the cabin. He laid me down among the furs before the hearth, firelight catching every drop of water still clinging to my skin, and the look on his face when he finally settled over me was one I hadn't seen from him before, not possessive exactly, though that lived in it too, but something closer to a man finally allowed to stop pretending he wasn't starving.He kissed me slow at first, like he intended to memorize the exact shape of my mouth before anything else was allowed to happen, and I met him there without hesitation, my hands finding his hair, his shoulders, every scar I'd stitched closed myself months ago now warm and familiar beneath my palms. When his mouth found my throat, I arched into him without d
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Chapter: Chapter 82Chapter 82: Aneira’s POVA servant found me in my room just past midday, hunched over one of the witches' old manuals with three others stacked open around me, trying to piece together anything that might tell me how to help a pup I wasn't even allowed near anymore. I'd been at it since dawn, ever since Altair's ruling had left me with nothing else to do with my hands and far too much time to sit with what I'd seen. The servant apologized for the interruption, saying only that Lady Aurelia wished to see me at my earliest convenience. I closed the nearest book and spent the whole walk to the sitting room turning over every possible reason she might want me, none of which settled the pit growing in my stomach.She was seated near the window when I arrived, a piece of needlework forgotten in her lap, and she looked up with an expression I couldn't immediately place. "Aneira, sit with me for a moment."I did, perched at the edge of the chair across from her, waiting."Kale spoke with hi
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Chapter: Chapter 81Chapter 81: Kale's POVSelene found me in the training yard before I'd finished cooling down from the morning's drills, sweat still cold against my skin in the wind."The Alpha will see you within the hour," she said, without preamble. "About your proposal."I realized that going through Selene was going to save me more time than hoping he would ever agree to meeting me. "Good.""Don't sound so certain." She studied me with the particular flatness she reserved for everyone. "He's already decided he doesn't like it. You'll have to be better prepared than confident."I took the warning for what it was worth, which was considerable, and spent the walk back to the pack house turning the argument over one more time, testing every weak point before he found it first.My grandfather received me in the same library he'd used the first morning I arrived, maps still spread across the table, though a different set now, the eastern border with BloodMoon's territory marked in fresh ink. He didn't
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