Chapter: Chapter 271: The First CommandThe dining room of the Blackwood mansion had been its pride always. Below the chandeliers of imported crystal was a long mahogany table. It had been the home of deals, the home of impressions, the home of Samuel Blackwood, king of his loyal retinue, as decades had passed. However, the air was not like this night. Leya was at the table-end. Not as a guest. Not as an intruder. As the host. The mahogany under her hand was hers, the chandeliers shone back on her. All the servants in the room were walking about with contracted shoulders, and in low whispering glances, since they were all aware whose name was on the deeds and papers in the vault. Samuel was sitting three chairs down, not head any longer. His jaws were so tight that his vein in his temple ached. He had been kept silent three days, three days of her re-orienting his house about herself. Now the silence broke. “Eleanor. Vivian.” There was a clink of dishwares broken by the voice of Leya. Her hand was not raised in gratit
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Chapter: Chapter 270: The Weight of AshesThe atmosphere of the Blackwood mansion had been filled with millions of polish and perfume, fresh-cut roses in crystal vases and so forth. It smelled now of smoke, not of actual fire, but of the smoke which remains after a shipwreck. The air was thick with defeat.Samuel sat despondently in the study looking upon an empire that now no longer took care of him. Several hours had passed before he touched his bourbon. All his eyes were red and his hands trembling on the desk. The manuscripts in his presence were not his, and had been gilted with seals, of which he had not given the issue. Ownership transfers. Legal notices. One was called by a name which turned his stomach:Leya Anderson.The woman whom he had buried in hatred. The reverted woman had entered to be his executioner.As the door creaked Samuel did not raise his head. He knew the footsteps. He knew the silence.“Samuel.”Her tones were very low, and yet like a knife.Leya entered the room, with no more haste, letting her red
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Chapter: Chapter 269: The New RulesThe silence that followed the fall of Samuel was deafening. The physique of a man whose voice could make statutes in the halls seemed almost obscene. Eleanor dropped on her knees by him, and her hands shook as she attempted to raise him.“Samuel!” Her cry cracked like glass. She shook him, desperately, but he groaned, and said, holding his chest.Doctor! she screamed to the servants. “Call the doctor, now!”No one moved. All the maids and all the butlers and all the guards all turned their eyes upon Leya.And Leya did not nod.She just walked out, clicking with her heels on the marble. The echo was more authoritative than the cane of Samuel.New rules, she said, in a low but immovable voice, have been made in this house.Eleanor threw up her head, and her eyes were wild. “You witch! You caused this! You—”The hand of Leya flicked and two bodyguards went on. The cold metal flashed as they brought up their weapons. The words Eleanor was saying choked in her throat.Vivian, who was stand
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Chapter: Chapter 268: The Disconnection of the Patriarch.Samuel’s roar filled the hall. “Out! Out of my house!” With his cane he struck the marble so forcefully that it rang along the rafters. His voice, which was iron, is now frayed like old rope. Leya didn’t flinch. She stood motionlessly with a wall of her bodyguards behind her. The defendant, the judge, the courtroom, all of this was transformed into a courtroom by them, with Samuel at the stand and her at the bench. My house now, she thought, now. “Lies!” He took another step staggering, red creeping up his neck. Fraud, imposture, witchcraft-” his hands trembled as he picked up one of the papers on the table and he was about to rip it to pieces. Leya smiled coldly. “Rip them. Please. Each scrap you scrap only goes to show how desperate you are. And I have thirty more, Samuel. Thirty nails for your coffin.” The cavernous words were sharper than a blade. His hand froze midair. Slowly, it dropped. Vivian moved up, eyes shining, whispering like venom. Father... perhaps it is tru
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Chapter: Chapter 267: The Papers of RuinThe stillness in the great hall was long enough to discolour. There were dust-mites in the chandelier light, wait-girls embraced one another in the window-dressing-bays, and the Blackwoods were standing still on the great staircase like marble below their feet.Leya let it linger. She had waited years to see this, now why hurry?Finally, she looked up. Her gaze found Samuel first.“Samuel Blackwood.” Her voice was deep, monotonous, every word slicing the air as a blade. You ought to have interred me stiffer.Samuel blushed, and it seemed to him as though the name had been an indictment rather than a name. I spit, you killed me, and the words were tremulous. “I buried you myself—”No, she interfered, going still deeper into the hall. “You buried a lie. And rotted like all lies it has rotted.The hand of Vivian fluttered to her mouth. Eleanor held the banister because it could not support her. Harrison stood there, paralysed, unable to look away out of her.Leya put her hand into her le
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Chapter: Chapter 266: The Queen ReturnsIt was several decades since the Blackwood mansion had been silent. Its chandeliers were twinkling, its marble floor gleamed but the brilliance was vacant, as the stage in opera before the curtain is raised on tragedy.Samuel Blackwood had not taken a drop of bourbon, nor had he looked at the phone, using the gaze of a person who could read it to indicate a phone call. All audits, all the calls of lawyers, all the letters had told what his gut had recognized, that his empire was sinking. His name was weakening. His house was cracking.And then came the sound.The heavy throb of engines on the other side. Tires crunching gravel. Doors slamming shut.The guards on the entrance turned stiff. The Blackwood children were at the windows. Sergeants were standing still traying. No one had been expected. The one who appeared unannounced last had appeared many years before.Not by command, but by violence the gates were opened. The black SUVs would like ghosts enter the courtyard with the black
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Chapter: CHAPTER 78The Last Battle – Axel's Final Stand The triplets burst into Audrey's apartment, closing the door. Audrey sat in the middle of the room, holding herself, face white. Jasmine gave her a quick glance. "You okay?" Audrey nodded but winced her hands. Jayla sighed deeply. "You should have mentioned it when he called." Audrey gazed down. "I thought I could handle it." Jade snorted. "Not with Axel. He doesn't listen to no." Jasmine stood by the window, narrowed eyes intently focused as she gazed out. Then she froze. Outside, in front of the window, on the street, a black car. A dark figure in the car. Watching. Waiting. Her heart was pounding. He was here. She spun to her sisters, low voice, resolute. "He's outside." Audrey's eyes widened. "What?" Jayla leaped to the window to look out. Jade cursed under her breath. "That psycho." Jasmine breathed slowly, deeply, attempting to soothe herself. She wasn't scared. She was angry. Axel had done enough already. Sarah was d
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Chapter: CHAPTER 77The Final Stand – Axel's Last Gamble Audrey was on her couch in her apartment, frowning at her phone, the screen lighting up with an unknown number. Her gut clenched. She knew who it was. The second it started ringing she knew. A shiver ran down her spine, her heart racing. Axel. He was calling her. She swallowed hard, her fists tight. She had blocked him. Had changed her routine. Had tried to close him out of her life. And yet. He'd somehow come back anyway. The ringing stopped. A voicemail message showed up. She was breathing irregularly as she hit play. And then his voice was smooth and even, weighted with something sinfully wicked bouncing off of the walls. "Audrey he said, did you really think I'd let you go that easily?" Her blood went cold. "We both know you still think of me. Of us." Her fists clenched on the phone. No. No, she didn't. She wouldn't. She couldn't. "I gave you your space. I let you pretend. But it's time to come home, sweetheart." Audre
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Chapter: CHAPTER 76The Fall of a Legacy – Their Father Is Brought to Account Their father slumped in the interrogation room, the stark metal table between him and the detectives. For the first time in his life, he was not in charge. His expensive attorneys weren't going to get him out of this today. His influence, his name, his power—it meant nothing now. The seasoned detective dropped a file onto the desk, reopening it. Pictures. Documents. DNA tests. It all lay before him. "You drew up official papers," the detective said, his own voice tightly controlled. "You drew up fake papers and left your firstborn daughter to live and live comfortably. His father's jaw clenched. The detective continued, "And because of that, Sarah spent her entire life believing she wasn't wanted." A bitter silence. "And now she's dead." For a moment—a fleeting moment—something passed through his father's eyes. Regret? Guilt? Maybe. But too little, too late. The detective leaned in.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 75The Last Truth – A Mother's Justice The triplets were in their mother's living room, the weight of what they had to say very much on their minds. Their mother sat opposite them, her fists clenched on the armrests of the chair while her face was set in stiff lines. Jasmine took a deep breath. "Mom… we've got something to say." Jayla leaned forward. "Something about Dad." Jade sighed. "And Sarah." Her mother's eyebrows jerked with horror when she said the name Sarah. "What about her?" Jasmine's voice was constricted, but she fought to say something. "She was our sister." Their mother's breath stalled. Her hand gripped the chair as her knuckles turned white. No one uttered a word for a second. Then, in a whisper just above a murmur— "What did you just say?" Jayla swallowed hard. "Sarah… she was Dad's daughter." Jade paused before saying again, "His first daughter." Their mother turned white. "That's not… that's not possible." Jasmine pulled out the pro
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Chapter: CHAPTER 74The Aftermath – Shadows of the Past The triplets sat in silence, the weight of the news pressing down on them. Sarah was dead. And even after everything she had done. Even after the lies, the betrayals, the destruction It didn’t feel like a victory. Jade let out a slow breath, staring at the floor. “I thought I’d feel… relieved.” Jayla shook her head, her voice quieter than usual. “Me too.” Jasmine's clutch on her cup of coffee spasmed. "She was our sister." Jayla grumbled unwillingly. "Half-sister." Jasmine shut her eyes. "It doesn't matter." For in the end, Sarah had been as lost as they had once been. The difference? She never had her way back. Fraser and Tressa – A New Beginning, or a New Threat? Tressa turned a lock of hair around her finger, watching out the apartment window. "She's really gone," she murmured. Fraser, who stood behind her, let out a deep sigh. "Yeah." Tressa’s chest tightened. Sarah had been many things—an enemy, a rival, a storm in human form.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 73The Aftermath – A New Future, A Lingering Past Sarah retreated from the front door of Fraser's, her heart pounding in her ears. She'd dreamed to herself for months that she might possibly be able to fix what she'd broken. That she could win him back. But now? Now, she knew more. She'd been too late. Fraser's moved on. And not with someone. With Tressa. A woman as clever, as cunning, as smart as Sarah used to be. Sarah's fists clenched. She'd lost before. But this? This was not the same. This had been done. And she was not so sure that she could do that. And meanwhile – Fraser and Tressa's New Beginning Tressa shut the door, breathing softly as she smiled at Fraser. "A knight?" she said, regarding him. Fraser rubbed at his hair, jaw locked. "That was. unexpected." Tressa smiled, leaning on the wall. "Seriously? You didn't think she'd come crawling back sooner or later, or something?" Fraser breathed slowly. "Part of me did, yes. But that moment I just saw her?"
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The Wrong Vow, My Perfect Match
Charlie, Serena’s fiancé, had burst into my bedroom, drunk and furious with blazing eyes.
"She’s gone because of you," he had roared, his voice cracking with a pain that I had never seen before. He had grabbed my arm, his grip bruising my skin as he dragged me roughly toward the mirror. "Look at yourself, Evelyn. You have her face, her hair, her eyes. But you’re the one who ruined her. You’re the reason she can't walk, and now you’re the reason she’s vanished." "You are only in this house because you look like her," he hissed, his eyes boring coldly into mine. "You are a placeholder and that’s what you will always be. You stay here to suffer because that is the only value you have left. Your parents were right about you. You were always the mistake they couldn't fix."
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Evelyn was the family’s black sheep, while Serena, her sister, was the family’s salvation. She was forced to marry the man who hated her to pay for a crime she didn't commit.
For years, Charlie made her life a living hell to avenge her sister's legs. But when the paralyzed sister returns walking and Charlie demands a divorce, Evelyn signs the papers and vanishes with a secret. Five years later, she’s back not as a victim, but as the CEO who owns his rival company. Charlie, realizing Serena is the true villain, wants a second chance but it’s too late.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter Eighty NineEvelynThe paramedics had arrived. The police kept me several feet away from the edge, but I wanted to be closer. I needed to know that he was alive."Ma'am," the officer beside me urged, one hand resting on my arm, "you need to stay back. Let them work.""He is down there," I cried, pulling against his grip. "He is in that car, and I need to see him. Please, just let me see him.""They are getting to him," he assured me. "The best thing you can do right now is stay here and let them do their job."I stopped struggling and stood at the edge of the police tape, staring down.The car had not gone over cleanly.It had tumbled.What lay at the bottom of the cliff barely resembled the vehicle I had been driving twenty minutes earlier. The roof had caved in. The doors had burst open from the impact. One wheel was still spinning slowly, as though it had not yet realized everything else had come to a stop.I pressed both hands over my mouth.There was blood on my palms from where I had struck
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Chapter: Chapter Eighty EightSerena I had thought it would not work, but watching Julian battle for his life while Evelyn wept beside him had been the most satisfying thing I had seen in months. Running from that house with the sound of Evelyn's screams still ringing in my ears felt like winning. I ran until the house was far enough behind me that I could breathe without looking over my shoulder. Then I slowed to a brisk walk, keeping to the edges of the road where the trees offered enough cover, my mind already moved ahead to what came next. I found a phone stand at a small petrol station and made my call to Charlie. When I was done, I stood there for a moment and let the feeling settle over me, clean and complete, the particular satisfaction of a plan that had finally delivered what it promised. Then I started walking back. The hideout looked exactly as I had left it, which was the first thing I checked. I slipped inside and went straight to the bathroom to clean up and change. Later, I stood in the small
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Chapter: Chapter Eighty SevenCharlieSomething about today did not sit right with me. I could not tell if it was superstition, but my gut was doing something I had learned over the years never to ignore.I had been in the office since seven, earlier than usual, filing documents that had been sitting on my desk for weeks, trying to occupy my hands with something productive because occupying my hands was the only way to stop my mind from running the same loop it had been running for months.Evelyn's face, Leo's voice through Julian's phone. The photograph of Frank at Serena's visitation table. All of it cycling without resolution.I had just picked up my pen to sign the third document in a stack of twelve when a knock sounded.It was one of the junior analysts, a young man whose name I always forgot and always felt guilty about forgetting. He stood in my doorway with an expression I could not immediately read."Sir.""What is it?" I asked without looking up."You need to turn on the news."Something in his voice ma
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Chapter: Chapter Eighty SixEvelynHorror filled my eyes when Serena fired the shot and Julian took it. I watched as he collapsed to the floor unconscious, and for one full second I could not move, could not breathe, could not do anything except stare at him lying there with blood spreading dark and fast across his shirt.Then everything inside me unlocked at once."Help me!" I screamed at the staff still pressed against the wall. "Somebody help me. Now!"They moved immediately, two of them rushing to Julian. I dropped beside him and pressed both hands against the wound the way I had seen done before, feeling its warmth against my palms and telling myself very firmly not to think about what that meant."Julian," I pleaded. "Julian, look at me."His eyes fluttered open slightly, unfocused, and I took that as enough."We are going to the hospital," I assured him. "You are going to be fine. Just stay awake.""Ma'am, the car," the housekeeper called from the doorway."Bring it to the front," I instructed. "Right now
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Chapter: Chapter Eighty FiveJulianMy phone buzzed repeatedly in my pocket, I had not answered before because I did not want to get bothered, but I finally pulled over and picked it up and the voice in the background could not be mistaken for anyone else.I had been in the documentation office for forty minutes, signing the final papers that would transfer everything to Oakhaven, the new beginning I had been planning for weeks, and my phone had been buzzing since I walked in and I had ignored it the way I ignored everything that interrupted momentum.I almost ignored this one too.I pulled into a side street and answered and held the phone to my ear and heard Serena's voice before I heard anything else, low and deliberate and carrying the particular quality of a woman who had nothing left to lose.I sat completely still for three seconds.Then I started the car.I drove back the way I had come, faster than was sensible, my mind ran through every qu
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Chapter: Chapter Eighty FourEvelynI was finally together with the man I loved and there was nothing that could stop me from being happy with him.Three months had passed since Julian and I had found our way back to each other and they had been the quietest, warmest months I could remember in a very long time. The kind that settle into your bones and make you forget what the cold felt like.Leo had stopped asking when we were going home.He had started calling this place home, which told me everything I needed to know about how settled things had become, and every morning watching him run down the hallway toward Julian's room to wake him up for breakfast felt like something I wanted to protect with everything I had.Julian had started talking about going back.Not to the house where everything had happened, somewhere new, somewhere that belonged to the life we were building rather than the one we were leaving behind, and when he talked about it his voice had the particular warmth of a man who had decided what he
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In love with my StepSon
On her eighteenth birthday, Melissa expected a fated mate bond and a future as Luna. Instead, she received a public humiliation that shattered her soul. Her childhood sweetheart, Kelan, rejected her for her best friend, and her own family sold her to the highest bidder like livestock, to Alpha Draven the Demon of Dark Moon Valley. He is a man twice her age, a tyrant who bought Melissa to break a dark bloodline curse. He expects an obedient pawn and a submissive wife.
He didn't expect a strategist. From the shadows of Draven’s stone fortress, Melissa begins a cold-blooded campaign of revenge. She isn't just surviving; she’s siphoning wealth, buying up her ex-mate's debts, and plotting a coup. But her plan hits a deadly snag when she touches Briston, the Alpha’s son and heir. The spark is undeniable. The Moon Goddess has played a cruel joke and Melissa is fated to the son of the man who owns her.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter Forty-FiveMelissaI woke to the sound of muffled voices and the sharp smell of herbs that made my nose wrinkle. My eyes fluttered open and I found myself staring up at an unfamiliar ceiling. White plaster with wooden beams running across it. Not my chambers."She's waking up," someone said softly.I turned my head slowly and saw the pack healer standing beside a narrow bed with her hands clasped in front of her apron. Draven stood near the window with his back to me and his shoulders tense. Briston was positioned by the door with Delilah beside him and both of them were watching me with varying expressions of concern."What happened?" I croaked while trying to sit up.The healer rushed forward and placed a gentle hand on my shoulder."Easy Luna," she instructed. "You fainted during breakfast. You've been unconscious for nearly an hour."An hour? I had been out for an entire hour.Draven turned from the window and crossed the room toward me with quick strides. He sat on the edge of the bed and t
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Chapter: Chapter Forty-FourMelissaThe past few weeks had settled into a strange rhythm that felt both dangerous and intoxicating. During the day I sat beside Draven at council meetings while he discussed pack business with his advisors. He treated me like fragile glass now, careful not to be too rough, asking if I needed anything, making sure the servants attended to my every need."Luna Melissa, would you like more water?" one of the maids would whisper."The Luna needs a cushion for her back," Draven would order without even asking me first.I played the part perfectly. Nodding when expected. Smiling at appropriate moments. Sitting next to him when required and making suggestions when permitted.But at night when Draven finally fell into his deep sleep, I would slip out of our chambers and make my way through the dark corridors to find Briston waiting for me in whatever hidden corner of the fortress we had agreed upon.The library became our sanctuary. We would meet there after midnight and talk in hushed vo
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Chapter: Chapter Forty-ThreeBristonI woke up with Melissa's scent still clinging to my sheets and the memory of last night burning through my mind like fire. Every touch, every kiss, every moment she had been mine played on repeat until I had to force myself out of bed just to clear my head.I walked to the window and stared out at the training grounds while my wolf Gorne paced restlessly inside me. We had claimed our mate properly last night. Marked her in every way except the one that would make it permanent and visible to the entire pack.My phone buzzed on the nightstand and I grabbed it quickly. A message from Athen lit up the screen."Need to talk, usual spot in one hour."I dressed quickly and made my way out of the pack house through the side entrance I had been using to avoid my father. The drive to the cafe took less than twenty minutes and when I arrived Athen was already waiting at our corner booth with two cups of coffee sitting on the table.I slid into the seat across from him and he studied my f
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Chapter: Chapter Forty-TwoKelanI stood at the head of the council chamber table and straightened my ceremonial robes while surveying the room. Every council member had arrived and taken their seats. Cindy sat to my right looking radiant in a deep burgundy gown with her hair arranged in an elaborate style. Valor stood near the back wall with his arms crossed and his expression unreadable."Thank you all for coming," I began as I placed my hands on the table. "I've called this emergency meeting to announce an important decision that will help restore our pack's prosperity."Cindy reached over and squeezed my hand encouragingly. I smiled at her before turning back to the council."After careful consideration and consultation with my great minds," I continued while gesturing toward Cindy, "I have decided that all women in our pack will no longer hold positions in the corporate sector. Instead they will be reassigned to agricultural work in the farms and fields where their labor can directly contribute to our foo
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Chapter: Chapter Forty-OneMelissaI stopped fighting, I surged up on my toes, still pinned by his hand, and claimed his mouth again.The kiss was fire and honey. I poured every unspoken ache into it, every lonely night, every stolen glance, every time I felt hollow in Draven’s bed. Briston groaned against my lips, and his grip on my wrists loosened just enough for me to twist free. My hands found his face, holding him to me as I deepened the kiss He shuddered. Then, in one fluid motion, he scooped me up, his arms were around my thighs and I wrapped my legs around his waist instinctively. He carried me to the bed in three strides and dropped me onto the furs. I yanked my robe open while he tore his shirt off. My hands attacked his belt, shoving his pants down. His thick cock sprang free, heavy and leaking. I wrapped my fingers around it and stroked, loving the way he hissed and thrust into my fist.“Fuck, Melissa,” he groaned.I pulled him down on top of me. His mouth found my tits immediately, sucking har
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Chapter: Chapter FortyMelissaIt had been a few days since Briston walked out of the council chamber without acknowledging me and the distance between us had only grown wider. Every time I passed him in the hallways he was deep in conversation with Athen or standing too close to Delilah while they discussed pack matters I wasn't privy to.I tried not to notice. I tried not to care.But Mia whined constantly in the back of my mind and pulled at the mate bond until my chest ached with a pain I couldn't explain away as bruised ribs or exhaustion.Today I walked past the library and heard voices drifting through the partially open door. I slowed my steps and glanced inside. Briston stood by the window with his arms crossed while Delilah sat in one of the leather chairs with maps spread across her lap. She pointed to something on the parchment and he leaned down to look closer. His hand rested on the back of her chair and she smiled up at him like he had just said something clever.The sight made my stomach twi
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