Chapter: 064Harper's POV"He's asking for you again," the nurse said, stopping me in the corridor on my way back the next morning.I had come alone. Ashton had dropped me at the entrance and said he'd wait in the car, I understood him, and I had walked in.I pushed open Ethan's door. He was sitting up, wrist elevated, hospital breakfast untouched, and he looked better than last night, it was honestly more improvement than I had seen people look better after such an accident or shock."You came back," he said."I said I would, how's the wrist?” I sat in the chair beside the bed."Annoyingly painful, coach is going to be furious.""Coach can wait," I said. "How are you actually?""Strange, like something got shaken loose and I can't put it back where it was." He looked at the window. "I've been lying here since six am thinking about things I've been avoiding thinking about.""Like the fact that you were the first person they called,"The door opened, then I saw him. Mr. Reid was in the room and the
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Chapter: 063Harper's POV"Which hospital?" Ashton said.He was already up, already finding my clothes, I was still sitting on the bed with the phone in my hand processing the words emergency contact and accident and stable condition."I need to call back, th..hey didn't say." I was tumbling over my words."Call in the car, we need to leave now,”We were out the door in under two minutes.I got the hospital name on the second call, a Collins RD hospital, and told Ashton and he redirected without a word and I sat with my hands in my lap and stared at the road and tried to locate the feeling in my chest accurately.I was scared, fear of losing someone I had spent two years caring about and couldn't switch that off regardless of everything that had changed between this morning and now."Hey, the caller said he is stable. You don't have to worry all the way there.”"I know.""You're still scared."He didn't say anything else, he just tried to drive faster.Madison was in the waiting room when we got t
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Chapter: 062HARPER'S POVAfter the date, I walked back to campus alone letting go of what was supposed to be.I met up with Ashton the next day. I hadn't told him about any of the meetups so far, I was thinking of different ways on how to start the conversation.“You seem a bit distant, is there anything I should know?”We were on the bench outside and he was right. I had been present enough to respond when required but the rest of me had been thinking about something else entirely.”"I had coffee with Ethan last week," I said.He looked at his cup. "Oh yeah, I kinda figured it out.""You knew? Why didn't you say anything?"He turned to look at me directly. "Someone told me, and because I didn't know what you'd say back."I stared at him. "What did you think I'd say?""That you still had feelings for him." He held my gaze. "And I wasn't ready to hear that.""And if I told you I didn't still have feelings for him."Ashton looked at me for a long second."I'd say it's about time."I let the words s
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Chapter: 061Ashton's POV"Oh, saw your brother with Harper at the restaurant place near the east gate by the way. It looked like a whole thing, flowers on the table and everything.”Bryce told me on a Friday morning like it was nothing.We were taping up before practice, the locker room loud with pre-session energy, we had played well all week and knew it.And Bryce was talking about something else entirely, a party, a girl, a story that I had been half following and then he mentioned Harper in the middle of everything else like it was just another detail in a list of things that had happened in his life.I finished the tape on my wrist. "When?" I said."Yesterday afternoon around three." Bryce kept talking, moving on to the next thing, completely unaware that he had dropped a bomb. “Anyway, back to what I was saying—"Practice was the best session I had put together all month.Coach pulled me aside after the first drill and said whatever I was doing I should keep doing it and I nodded and went
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Chapter: 060Harper's POV"You're early," I said.Ethan was already at the corner table when I walked in, which was new. He was always never on time, never before, and finding him already seated with two menus and a small bunch another flowers on the table told me he had been here long enough to have arranged all of it and sit with his hands folded waiting."I didn't want you to be the one waiting this time," he gestured for me to sit.I sat down across from him and looked at the flowers and then at his face and he looked like someone who had made a decision and was quietly committed to seeing it through."How are you?" he smiled.I looked at him. "You actually want to know?""I actually want to know.""I am tired, I have an essay that's due on Friday, how about you?”"Better than last week." He turned his cup on the table. "Madison and I talked.""How did it go?”"Honestly? It was hard. She said things I needed to hear and I said things I should have explained before we started all these and by t
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Chapter: 059Harper's POVI went back to my dorm after and I couldn't stop beaming."You have a visitor."Jade said it from the doorway and broke my flashbacks.I looked up from my laptop. "Who?""Tall, football shoulders, holding flowers for the second time this month." She leaned against the frame. "Your brother's keeper is downstairs.""Ethan is not my—""I know what he is," she said. "I'm just telling you he's there."I closed my laptop.."Did he say what he wanted?""He said he wanted to talk." She paused. "He looked nervous, which I will admit I found mildly interesting because I have never seen him look nervous around you.”I sat there for a second. "Tell him I'll be down in five minutes," I said.Jade disappeared, I stayed on my bed for the full five minutes doing nothing except staring at the wall and having a very brief and very direct internal conversation with myself about what I was and was not going to do in this interaction.I was not going to be the version of me that dissolved the
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Chapter: 101DiegoThe betas I sent after Dianne, with precice and a meticulously planned instructions to make certain she wasn't breathing the next day had completely failed me, in the worst way possible.They stood before me in my study, their heads lowered, like they felt sorry for being such complete failures.“How…?” I started, keeping my voice low. I was this close to losing it. “How did a frial, weak beta she-wolf manage to elude you—two beta warriors, instructed to end her? How?”Both of them shifted nervously, not providing me the answers I required.“HOW?!”One of them raised his head, meeting my gaze. “Shexs smart, Alpha. She had prepared beforehand for the possibility of you sending someone after her.”I let out a laugh,mixed with tension and irritation. “She was prepared?” The managed to say, amidst my laughter. “How does a secretary prepare herself for an assault from to beta warriors?”“She had—” The beta tried to defend his incompetence but I gave him zero chance to speak.“Escuses
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Chapter: 100LanaDianne's request earned a few gasps from the maids and servants lurking in the hallways and corridors.Wolves who weren't members of the King’s Estate pack wouldn't be well-versed in its ways.Such a person might have thought the gasps were a pure, unfiltered reaction to Dianne's request for such a ridiculous amount of money—but no. That wasn't it.I was almost certain everyone was thinking the same thing—they were wondering how defiant a person had to be to attempt to extort money from Ashton Blackthorne.Ashton moved.He walked slowly toward Dianne, and it felt as if the air itself shifted to give way for him. Even the guards backed away from Dianne upon his approach.At this point, anything could happen. No one knew what to expect.His dark glare was capable of piercing the soul of any werewolf, and Dianne was no exception. “Repeat your words. I didn't quite catch that.”Dianne's face had fear written all over it, but even Ashton’s presence wasn't enough to quench her hunger f
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Chapter: 099LanaI found myself in a flowing stream of paranoia by the time night came and the moon once again, hung in the sky high and bright.Ashton was still out, speaking to his esteemed council, which no longer included Diego or even Elder Edward. No one had seen or heard anything from him ever since the truth about his plot with Diana because known to Ashton.I found myself pondering on the complexity of such idea that Diana had when she tried and successful made me look crazy in front of Ashton.If she managed to get me out of the way, that would change nothing in regards to Ashton's feelings. Ashton would still be forever bonded to me and that bond being stronger that anything in this world was bound to force Ashton back to me.How could she not understand something basic such as this?Me, on the other hand understood just how much which was why I never underestimated Diego, no matter how much I had the upper hand.Curently, the authorities were investigating my death. I had full confide
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Chapter: 098LanaThe letter from the council had stated an immediate and important meeting requiring the attendance of every Alpha, Luna, Elders and Councilmen in all the packs. Me and Ashton included.Barely an entire day was spent away from pack politics and now, I was being roped back into one—one where the entire kingdom shall be present once again.I wondered why the council decided to call another meeting. They rarely did, unless it was of great importance.Did it have something to do with Diego?So many questions, yet, only few answers to go around.The journey back to the estate was eerily quiet. I glanced beside me toward Ashton. His grip on the wheels was firm, his focus locked in on the open road before us. He hadn't spoken much. He was probably not happy with the rigid interruption from the council. I wasn't thrilled about it as well. A few more days at the Golden State Hotel would have been nice.My gaze shifted. I glanced at the rear mirror, catching a glimpse of Rhea sitting in the
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Chapter: 097DiegoDianne had completely lost her mind. She was totally and utterly insane to think she had the ability to blackmail me with demands of five million.“I never knew you to be a fool, Dianne,” I mocked harshly. “You've just proven to be the biggest fool I've ever come across in my entire existence to think I have five million to give to you.”My response took her by surprise, but she doubled down, thinking she had a hold on me. “I know you have the money, Diego. You have something I need, and I have something you need. If I don't walk out of here with five million, the entire kingdom will have all the evidence that will ensure your downfall.”A sound left me. At first, it came out as a chuckle, but then it grew into something hysterical. Unhinged. “I don't have any money!” I barked.“What?” She looked stunned. She should.“Yes. You heard me right,” I said with venomous mockery. “That whore—Sapphire—somehow managed to convince Ashton to freeze all of Lana's assets.”Dianne's face was
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Chapter: 096Chapter 96DiegoThe letter I received from one of my betas was from the Werewolf Council. I grabbed the piece of paper from within his grasp and read its contents before the Silvercrest council.“Another bloody meeting,” I murmured.This could only mean one thing.The investigation currently happening in Silvercrest had already circulated around the kingdom. That was the only explanation I had right now. That had to be the only reason why the Werewolf Council would call another meeting.My fingers curled as I clenched my fist, the paper shrinking beneath them.It looked like I was in for another round of scrutiny from the entire kingdom all over again.I lifted my eyes up to the long council table. The council members were all staring at me, their eyes filled with questions.“This meeting is over,” I announced, standing up immediately. The longer I entertained the elders, the closer I was to completely losing my mind.I walked out of the room. My steps echoed through the hallways, lo
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