Claimed by My Rival
Dark RomanceSteamyDramaMafiaRuthlessPossessiveBetrayalHate to LoveMisunderstanding
“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 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
最終更新日: 2026-08-01
Chapter: Chapter 19 The VaultAMARA“My sister.” Dante whispered.The mask of absolute control cracked, revealing a raw panic underneath. Something that felt too exposed for comfort.“Keys.” Dante commanded, holding his hand out to his underboss and friend.Cassian tossed the heavy keyring. Dante caught it, dropped to his knees in front of my chair, and seized my left wrist. His touch was burning hot against my cold skin.“You're hurting me.” I murmured.“You're alive.” Dante muttered, jamming the key into the lock. Click. The iron cuff sprang open. “Keep it that way.”He unlocked the other cuff in a fluid, desperate motion. I stood up, my legs shaking before I forced them to lock.“I told you I was innocent.” I said, rubbing the raw skin.“If you were guilty, you’d already be dead.” Dante countered, rising to his full, imposing height.He checked the Glock at his spine. “But you're not. There's a rat in my house, and they used my sister’s sanctuary to frame you.”“The secure wing is biometric.” Cassian said as we
最終更新日: 2026-07-29
Chapter: Chapter 18 The Devil's LogicAMARAThe chair was freezing.The heavy iron cuffs bit into my wrists with a brutal clack, locking my arms to the steel armrests. Cassian didn’t look at me as he secured the restraints. His jaw was set, his eyes fixed on the concrete wall of the holding cell."You know this is a mistake, Cassian." I said, my voice steady despite the frantic beating of my heart.Cassian checked the lock one last time. "Marcel Varco nearly put a bullet in the Boss’s skull at the downtown armory today. Your name is on the digital paper trail. My opinions don't matter."He turned on his heel, walked out, and slammed the heavy iron door. The lock engaged with a deafening thud.I was left in the buzzing silence of the dungeon, my mind spinning. Marcel Varco. An old acquaintance of Dante's father. A ghost. Varco had ambushed them downtown, and somehow, my phone was used to coordinate it.But how? I had been in the penthouse all morning. I hadn't spoken to anyone except Celeste.The heavy tumblers of the door
最終更新日: 2026-07-28
Chapter: Chapter 17 Ghosts of the PastAMARAThe stench of blood was the first thing that hit my nose.Then the sheer reality of his eyes. I’d grown up haunted by that nauseating scent, a ghost that always haunted the halls of the Vitale estate. But never had it been so heavy.This suffocating.Dante stood in the entryway, like a reaper who just climbed his way out of the deepest depths of hell. The blood painting his face and drenching his tailored shirt doesn’t seem to be his own. And that terrifies me more than anything.But his eyes still had me anchored to the floor. They’re devoid of whatever thin veneer of nonchalance and humanity he usually bothered to wear. And they were fixed on me.On the coat draped over my arm. On the fact that I was standing near the door, looking for all the world like a prisoner about to make her grand escape.I realized, terribly late, exactly what my mistake was.“Dante,” Celeste let out a breath. The vibrant, rebellious energy she had radiated before was nowhere to be found. “What happene
最終更新日: 2026-07-26
Chapter: Chapter 16 Fresh AirAMARAEvery breathe you’ll take is to your own demise.My eyes remained trained on my phone for longer than I’d have liked. The text glared back at me as if in mockery.I held back the urge to laugh.Almost a week since everything hit the fan and since the shot-gun engagement. And they were finally making their move.The blunt message from an anonymous sender stared back at me tauntingly. I didn’t need to go in depth or search furtively to know who it is.It could be narrowed down to three sources: My father, who had more reason to send an assassin for my head, my brothers, who quite frankly would never hold off the opportunity to meddle in my life in one way or the other. The last wasn’t something I wanted to admit to myself.Because accepting it was true would only pull me deeper than I was willing to go. Two sharp knocks on the door drew me out of my soliloquizing.I drop the phone without hesitation, and watched it hit the ground with a long clatter. Still riding the high, I stompe
最終更新日: 2026-07-18
Chapter: Chapter 15 BulletproofDANTEHaving things go off rails was one thing I would never stop hating.Celeste’s presence in the house wasn’t quite what I anticipated. I had put off them knowing my whereabouts and actions for a reason.But of course, news of the engagement had somehow managed to trickle to every corner of Chicago. Including, their ears.And so I waited, up until the right moment, until I could get a moment of time alone with her.It came with two rapt knocks on the door of my study at around ten in the night.“Come in.”The door slid open, slow and deliberate, just like everything Celeste did. Stormy eyes stared at me with a certain expectation that scratched at my nerves. Irritation filled me on instinct.“Did you hope to fulfill something by coming here?”Celeste didn’t stay anything, crossing the room in swift strides until she got to my desk. Then she unceremoniously plopped down on the seat before me.“I didn’t peg you as the damn asshole I should have,” she said, bitterness bleeding into her
最終更新日: 2026-07-15
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
最終更新日: 2026-05-12
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
最終更新日: 2026-05-12
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
最終更新日: 2026-05-11
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
最終更新日: 2026-05-10
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
最終更新日: 2026-05-10
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
最終更新日: 2026-05-08
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