Claimed by My Rival
“You hate me, don’t you?” Dante murmured, lips ghosting over mine in slow torture.
“More than anything.”
“Good.” The smirk on his face was sickening. “It’ll make it that much sweeter when you beg me to ruin you.”
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To escape a marriage to a tyrant, Amara Vitale makes a reckless bargain with a devil she’s hated all her life.
Dante DeLaurentis. Her rival since childhood, sworn enemy to her family, and the man who would burn down whatever stood in his path to ash if it meant getting what he wants.
The plan is simple: A fake engagement to save her from her father’s brutal alliance. But every lie they tell themselves, every kiss they fake, and every dangerous night in his world blurs the line between pretense and obsession. Soon, her greatest enemy becomes her fiercest protector, but also the man who could break her heart or ruin her family forever.
In a world where blood and betrayal rule, love isn’t something she can afford. When enemies threaten to ruin everything she holds dear, Amara must decide if surrendering to Dante will save her…or destroy her completely.
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Chapter: Chapter 25 Breaking PointAMARA“You look like absolute shit.”Hearing those words shouldn’t have instantly brought me to tears. But they did.“I mean that as sweetly as possible.” Bianca said, pulling down her designer sunglasses to look at me.I looked across our small outdoor table at the bistro, swirling my glass of water. It was Saturday afternoon. The streets of downtown Chicago were buzzing with shoppers, completely oblivious to the shootout that had almost claimed my life three weeks ago.“Good to see you too, B.” I muttered, leaning back in my chair.With my own phone smashed to pieces on my bedroom floor, I’d had to get creative to set this up. Two days ago, I’d borrowed Celeste’s laptop under the guise of looking at clothes online. Since Celeste was a trusted DeLaurentis, her personal device didn't have the same heavy firewalls as the rest of the house.And it sure as hell didn’t take much for me to slip onto an encrypted browser and send a quick message to Bianca’s private email.I studied my cousi
Last Updated: 2026-08-17
Chapter: Chapter 24 CrossroadsDANTE“I don’t care if you have to burn the entire block down.”It had been three weeks already since the shootout at that restaurant. The Thursday afternoon son felt sweltering under the sullen atmosphere of the estate. While the whole place felt like a fortress, I remained in my absolute position of jailer.“Really?” The deadpan look on Cassian’s face made my jaw tick.“I don’t care,” I leaned further back into my seat. “Nobody watches her.”Cassian stood in the doorway of my study. He didn’t so much as flinch. “We’ve swept the perimeter three times today. Leon’s been shadowing every move and making sure tabs on her are kept.”I nodded, something fluttering my chest. As it should be.But something in Cassian’s made it clear he wasn’t done. “You’re suffocating her, Dante.”“I’m doing what’s necessary.” I retorted sharply.“Well, she’s going to break soon.” Cassian moved a little from the doorway, daring to take a single step further into the room.“Then let her break!” I snapped, tos
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Chapter: Chapter 23 PrimalAMARAThe blood was everywhere. Mostly smeared over every part of my hand. Dante DeLaurentis’ blood. And yet for some stupid reason, my mind found its way to a memory I’d buried as deep as I could.Five years ago, when I had shared one heated moment with Dante in the abandoned closet of Iridium High’s bleachers. It was a stupid, dangerous memory to bring up. Especially now. Yet, the longer I look at the dark red that coated my fingers, the harder the past and present seemed to collide in a sickeningly, dark rush. I had every right to hate him. He’d spent his entire life trying to ruin my grades, trying to outrun me in everything academic, and most importantly, trying to destroy my family in the mafioso war.I should hate him.But I couldn’t. Not when he had jumped without hesitation. As soon as another shot exploded after his last words, he had brought me down to the floor and even protected from the bullets that rained on us.“Dante.” I called out as he trudged into the study.No re
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Chapter: Chapter 22 Venom And So Much MoreDANTEIt was too early that morning for my knuckles to already be split. The gym wall downstairs had taken the brunt of my anger, but it wasn't enough.I stood by the study window, turning Celeste’s recovered earring over in my palm. The sharp metal bit into my skin.It was a message from Kaz Vitale. A reminder that he had breached my estate, caused chaos, and walked out alive.My father always said a DeLaurentis never bled without making the world pay tenfold. Yet here I was, pacing my office, while the Vitale girl was recovering in my guest wing.“Be a good pawn too. Won’t want you getting killed before I’ve gotten enough use out of you.”Amara’s words from last night replayed in my mind. Even cornered, with her back against the wall and my body pinning her down, she hadn't flinched. She had stared right into my eyes, stripping away my leverage. I had been the one left staring at her lips.I tossed the earring onto the desk. It clattered against a stack of decrypted financial files.
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Chapter: Chapter 21 Everybody's Watching HerAMARABelieving I’d get some semblance of peace after escaping my father had been a very stupid thought I let fester. One I was starting to rue.“Ouch.” The word slipped out of my lips when the doctor’s hand grazed the wound for the second time.He looked up at me and sent an apologetic smile. I waited till he was done wrapping it before letting out a breath I didn’t know I’d been holding.Subconsciously, my gaze wandered to Celeste. Her unconscious, slumbering face did little to the nerves that chipped away at me by the second.This shouldn’t have happened.Or rather, it was my fault that it had in the first place. I should have known better. I was the loose end in all this, and it had ended up costing all of us.“How long will she be asleep for?”The doctor chanced a glance at Celeste, then turned to his watch. “The effects of the medication should wear off by evening. You should be able to talk to her by then.”I nodded, turning my gaze back to Celeste. When she finally roused, the
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Chapter: Chapter 20 Shame on YouDANTE“Kaz, no!”Amara’s scream was the catharsis to what happened next. Before anyone could move towards Kaz, the glass imploded, sending shards of shrapnel flying in any and every direction.For someone who had been wearing such a smug grin a moment ago, he was also caught in the crossfire, the impact of the explosion sending him flying across the room.“Fuck.” He let out a groan that sounded frighteningly close to death.I could barely see anything. Could barely remain aware of anything that wasn’t my own breathing. I coughed, my chest spasming painfully.“What’s going on?” Amara’s cry was the first thing that reached my ear.It sounded a bit to the left. Swatting as much of the dust as I could, I reached out to nothing, still gritting my teeth as I held on to a dwindling hope.A few seconds of touching nothing, but broken glass, and I somehow found her. She wrapped her hand around mine instinctively, nearly collapsing into my hold. Despite the vision in the room being near nil, I
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Revenge on The Alpha Who Rejected Me
"What gives you the right to think you can control me?" I fumed, feeling the anger rising in me.
Before I could react, he had me pinned against the wall, his eyes staring into mine.
“Go ahead and deny it all you want but this body of yours belongs to me completely. Like hell I'd let anyone touch you this way.”
Violet Murray had always longed for the day she would find her mate. She doesn’t expect the painful rejection and humiliation that comes from the Alpha. Tired of everything she’d been forced to endure; she does the most reasonable thing anyone would do in her shoes. Strike a deal with his long-time rival, Lucian Sinclair. They form an alliance under the guise of a fake relationship. She swears she has no feelings for him. When their fake relationship bleeds into something else, she finds herself questioning everything, including her growing feelings.
Lucian Sinclair had one simple aim; completely destroying the one thorn in his flesh, Tristan Black, along with his bleeding pack. He finds an opportunity in the person of Violet who bears a grudge against Tristan and her former pack for all she’d been put through. They agree to form an alliance for the sole purpose of taking their mutual enemy down. It was meant to be no feelings attached. When the lines start to blur, her finds herself unable to deny the feelings he has for her.
When different enemies threaten to tear them apart, they must decide if their love is worth fighting for.
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Chapter: Chapter 147 A Life Well-Lived“I love you.”I wasn’t sure I could ever sit and count the amount of times I’d been told that. Not just by Lucian, who had been far clingier than I expected in a while. And certainly not just by the little gremlin who ought to be rousing from his slumber.A coy smile found its way to my lips. “I know.”Lucian blinked, eyes glazed with sleep and a certain softness that left my heart thudding faster by the second.“It wouldn’t kill you to be humble.” He grumbled, burying his face into the crook of my neck. “Just tell me you love me back.”I scoffed. “And if I don’t?”A mischievous glint passed behind his eyes and I instantly knew I was screwed. He closed in for the kill, and in less than a second, I was fighting for air while he tortuously trailed kisses down my neck.“I love you, too.” I giggled, half in ecstasy and as a plea. “I love you, Lucian. More than words can do justice to.”He paused, cerulean eyes meeting mine briefly. For a moment, I expected him to go back to his onslaught
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Chapter: Chapter 146 BittersweetLUCIAN3 weeks later“Next.”It was funny actually. The things grief could do to you. It left you numb and aching raw and unimaginably. There’d always be that staunch hole left in your chest, one that wouldn’t be closed by anything.Nothing could heal it. Nothing could lessen that pain. Not when it was a pain caused by your very own hands.The next two men trudged forward, their ankles bound by chains, eyes heavy and holding a certain fatigue that couldn’t be put into words.After the war, we’d gathered up the rest of our forces and conducted a very much needed recuperation. A lot had been lost during this war, and now that I was sober enough, I could feel the weight of the death count like an immovable weight resting on my chest.We seized a sizable portion of West Creak’s Territory, the rest split between other packs of the alliances. Lesser packs tried to change allegiances and scramble for whatever little power or leverage they could.Tristan’s mate and beta had been nowhere to be
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Chapter: Chapter 145 What FollowsLUCIANThere were only two times I could remember feeling a sensation of pure, unbridled fear. One, was when I’d seen my mother lay on her sickbed. Unmoving, and not so much as breathing.This, would be the second time.“Violet?” I tried again, my heart thundering against my chest so loudly that it would leap out of my chest.I shook her lightly, trying to get her to move, flinch, do something that would allude to the tiniest bit of hope I had nestled in my chest. The hope that she was still okay.“Violet?”My eyes widened, another stab of fear hitting me square in the chest. There was something about the cold that hung in the air. No.This couldn’t be. I’d come all this way to find her, finally even got her and now…no. I couldn’t just let this happen. This couldn’t be it. No way in hell.”“Violet!” I shook her again.It was no use to doing so. She was out cold, more so than I was sure I was willing to even accept. The many bruises and injuries that littered her body should have been
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Chapter: Chapter 144 The Final BlowLUCIANThey say when you’re in a life or death situation, every other thing around you dulls to a complete still. Everything narrowed into a single point. The scent of him, the pulse of the bond pounding brightly and without restraint, and the fury coiling through me like a living thing.The world collapsed inward until there was nothing but this moment, this target, this threat that needed to be eliminated.Tristan's face was the last thing I saw before everything else faded into pure instinct, his expression shifting from smug confidence to dawning realization that he'd miscalculated badly.I lunged, teeth bared, claws extended while every ounce of my Alpha force compressed into the strike. Years of training, decades of experience, centuries of wolf instinct, all of it channelled into this single moment.He reacted. Of course he did. His reflexes weren't completely inadequate, but not fast enough. Not fast enough for me.Not fast enough to counter the desperation of a mate protecti
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Chapter: Chapter 143 Tristan's Last MoveLUCIAN“Violet!” I yelled.But my uncle was faster, grabbing her and then pushing her over to fucking Tristan. She squirmed, fear flickering in her eyes, staunch and clear as day. The bond flared like wildfire.It erupted through my chest without warning, searing hot and impossibly bright, almost blinding in its intensity.“We had a deal, yes?” Rodriguez smiled. “I’ll leave him to you then. Make sure you finish the job.”Tristan grinned manically. ‘Oh, I plan to.”Violet was so close to me now, but she wasn't free. Not yet. The connection between us pulsed with her terror, her pain, her desperate hope, and beneath it all, that fragile thread of trust that somehow hadn't broken despite everything I'd done to fracture it.Tristan held her in the center of the room, his stance relaxed and almost casual. But the tension in the air said otherwise. It was thick enough to choke on, pressing down on everyone present like a physical weight.Every one of his people present froze, waiting for hi
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Chapter: Chapter 142 A Reunion under FireLUCIAN“Violet!”I screamed, clinging onto the hope that she’d respond if she was close by. I yelled out her name, sprinting through doors and halls like a mad man.Nothing.And then, something shifted. I felt her before I saw her. The bond snapped taut all at once—no longer distant, no longer fading. Just there, blazing through my chest with such force it stole the breath from my lungs.It was like being struck by lightning, every nerve ending suddenly alive and screaming bloody murder. Pain followed immediately, sharp and radiating from somewhere deep in my core. But I welcomed it. Pain meant she was alive. Pain meant I still had a chance.She was close."She's here!" I snarled, breaking into a sprint.The corridor narrowed as I tore through it. The walls pressed in on either side, torches flickering wildly from the draft of my passage. Shouts echoed behind me. I could have sworn I could hear Zayn calling out my name but it was all mostly a blur. My world narrowed to the pull in my
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