Chapter: Chapter 128Stacey’s POV;The next morning, I woke up to the melodious chipping of the birds outside as the morning sunlight reflected through the window class. I don’t know if it was the brightness of the day or the excitement from yesterday but I just had a sense of something significant happening today. “I wonder what it will be,” I sang to myself happily as I got dressed for work.1 slipped into my usual white top and pencil skirt with a slit that hugged my curves in all the right places, accentuating my waist and highlighting my toned legs. I called my driver, and we set off for the office. As we drove through the bustling streets, the sounds of car horns and chatter filling the air but I still couldn’t shake off that sense of excitement and my anticipation of seeing Richard wasn’t helping matters. I decided to focus my attention on people watching, just looking at people as they rushed to and fro, each with their own destination and purpose.When we arrived at the office, I bid my dri
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-13
Chapter: Chapter 127Stacey's POV:The party drew further as the night grew darker, but the hall was still brimming with the same energy it started on. Mr. Donovan had taken me down to his cellar where he kept all of his wine. It was the largest amount of wine collection I'd ever seen in my life. He had instructed the servers to take some back up to the party, and for the next few hours we had been tasting different wines. “What about this?” Mr. Donovan poured me my thirteenth glass of wine that night. He wanted my opinion after every sip; we had opened a ton of bottles only just to take a sip from each of them. I grabbed the wine glass and gave it a gentle shake before bringing it to my nose to guess the ingredients just from the smell. “Black currant…dark cherry and,” I took a sip from the glass. “Tastes a little like wet earth.” Mr. Donovan took a sip from his glass, and his eyes shot up in astonishment. “Goodness, your taste buds are incredible,” he gushed excitedly. “You guessed all that from jus
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-11
Chapter: Chapter 126Stacey's POV;“I did it because I love him!” Clara yelled maniacally as the police tried to put her into the back seat of the car. I stood frozen at the front door of the building, still reeling from the events of the last two days. Who would have thought that a simple trip for a movie shoot would lead to my kidnapping by an obsessed fan? If Richard hadn’t found me when he did… The very thought made me shudder.Richard’s hand curled behind me, pressing into my shoulders, anchoring me. “Don’t worry, you’re safe now,” his voice was calm and reassuring. I leaned back into his chest, feeling the warmth radiate from him. Somehow, his presence was the only thing keeping me from crumbling into a million pieces.“This is all your fault!” Clara screamed, glaring viciously at me with her cuffed hands straining against the metal restraints. “You and your stupid boyfriend ruined everything for me!” Her eyes were wild, and I could feel the anger emanating from her. It was crazy how someone could
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-10
Chapter: chapter 125Richard’s POV:“I swear, I’m going to bring down that blog and the owner if those pictures ever get posted.” I roared in anger, as I directed my frustration towards an unsuspecting chair, sending it crashing into the wall.“You need to calm down,” Ollie cautioned me. “Getting railed up wouldn’t do us any good.”Ollie was right. I needed to be calm; I mean, nothing had actually happened yet. I could still stop the pictures from getting posted.Luckily, Ollie had connections to someone who worked in ‘Shush-talkz’; the informant gave him a heads up before the pictures were to be posted. Ollie couldn’t convince them not to post the pictures, so I sourced to meet the actual owner of the blog personally.“You’re right,” I exhaled my frustration. “I’ve already arranged to meet with the owner of the blog; I can still convince them not to post those pictures.”“What?” Ollie asked, surprised. “How did you get their contact? I mean, nobody knows who owns ‘Shush-talkz’ because they have been ano
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-09
Chapter: Chapter 124Stacey’s POV;I stormed into the room, the door slamming behind me with a finality that echoed in the plush, sterile space of Richard's parents' house. Something bubbled inside me, I don’t know if it was anger, pain, betrayal but I yanked off the jewelry Richard had gotten me that morning, barely noticing as they flew across the floor, landing haphazardly in a corner. My inside twisted as Richard's words cut through my mind, replaying like a broken record. ‘Low-life leech.’ That was what he called me. And as if that weren’t enough, he also just had to sleep with his pregnant ex or whatever they were who he had constantly claimed he felt nothing for. I felt sick to my stomach just thinking about it.The space began to feel suffocating and I needed to escape. I snatched my phone from the bedside table, my fingers trembling slightly, I didn’t expect to get so affected by the events that just unfolded. Aliya's question popped back into my mind, ‘Do you actually feel nothing for him?’I
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-08
Chapter: Chapter 123Hannah’s POV:The drive down to my family's house was a long one. As I arrived, the tall black gates opened up, and I drove across a distance of open field before arriving at the main house's front door—there were several buildings on the estate.I stepped out of the car, and a helper rushed out to help me with my baggage. Before I entered the house and took a deep breath. “I'm going with Hayes; I love him, and we're going to build a life together.” This was the last thing I said before leaving.Now I am back, divorced. I knew for sure they were going to try to rub it in my face, and without Adam here as my date, it was only going to give them more reason to talk. But, when you've lived with snakes for long enough, you grow a thick skin, and their venoms no longer do you any damage.I clutched my hands at my sides and took purposeful steps inside. As soon as I got in, I heard a voice from upstairs. “Hannah, you're here. I'm so happy to see you again.” It was Maria, and she was putting
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-06
Chapter: Chapter 70Stacey’s POV:I stared at my reflection in the rearview mirror for what felt like too long. My lip gloss was still intact. My earrings matched. No mascara smudges. From the outside, I looked... composed.Inside? I felt like a house of cards standing in a wind tunnel.The parking lot was mostly empty, except for a few scattered cars and a man in a hoodie pacing while talking on the phone. The air carried the promise of rain, thick and weighty, like it too was holding something back. I took a breath and stepped out of the car, heels crunching softly against the gravel.Liam’s apartment complex hadn’t changed, same chipped staircase railing, same ivy climbing the corners like time was trying to reclaim it. I knew the route by muscle memory, even though it had been months. Two lefts, up the stairs, third door on the right.I knocked before I could talk myself out of it.The door opened sooner than I expected. Liam stood there in sweatpants and a faded T-shirt, holding a towel like he’d ju
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-10
Chapter: Chapter 69Stacey’s POV“You’re sure about this?”Michael's voice was low, deliberate, and yet somehow still laced with disbelief as he leaned forward in his chair. The coffee between us had gone cold, neither of us had touched it. The air outside the window of his condo was clear, the distant hum of the city felt far away in that quiet room.I didn’t answer right away. My hands rested flat on the polished wood of his kitchen table, as if bracing myself. His question was fair. I hadn’t exactly been consistent lately. One day I was disappearing. The next, I was reappearing. My feelings toward him had been guarded, tangled in the remnants of another love I hadn’t quite untangled myself from.But this time, my answer was ready.“I’m sure.”His brows lifted just slightly. Not in triumph. Not in smugness. But something softer. Careful. Measured.“You’re really saying yes,” he said, his tone cautious like he didn’t want to spook the moment.I nodded, my fingers curling slightly into my palms.“Yes,” I
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-10
Chapter: Chapter 68Stacey’s POV:The silence after the bomb I dropped on him was the loudest thing in the café.Noah was still sitting there, his hands clenched tightly on either side of the table, like he was anchoring himself in place. His eyes bore into mine, confused, hurt, desperate. Waiting for a punchline. Waiting for me to say I was kidding. That this was all some cruel joke.But I didn’t smile. I didn’t blink. I didn’t move.Because I couldn’t.“I don’t understand,” he said finally, his voice barely a whisper. “You’re breaking up with me… why?”I looked down at the table, tracing the rim of my tea cup, feeling my throat close up.“You deserve the truth,” I said, my voice calm. Too calm. It scared even me. “I never loved you.”It took a moment for my words to sink in.Noah flinched like I’d slapped him. He leaned back slowly, blinking like he was trying to process the sentence. His jaw clenched, and for a second, he laughed. A dry, disbelieving kind of laugh.“What are you talking about?” he sai
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-10
Chapter: Chapter 67Stacey’s POV:I had been thinking.Thinking more than sleeping.More than breathing, even.It was the kind of thinking that curled up in your chest and stayed there like smoke, coiling around your ribs, making everything feel tight. Suffocating. Every time I closed my eyes, the world didn’t stop. It just got louder. The silence echoed all the louder with the words Noah’s mom had said, and with all the things I hadn’t said back.By the time I left the cabin that day, the wind had shifted, and something inside me had shifted too.I wasn’t sure of everything. Not even close.But I was sure of one thing.And I wasn’t turning back.I kept that certainty tucked deep inside me like a hidden flame. I didn’t touch it too often, afraid it might flicker out if I examined it too closely. Some things are better when you don’t look them in the eye.I called Noah that evening.I hadn’t seen him in over a week, hadn’t answered any of his texts, ignored his missed calls. I couldn’t face him. Not when
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-10
Chapter: Chapter 66Stacey’s POV:The wooden slats of the front porch creaked under our weight, but neither of us paid them any mind. A late afternoon hush had settled around the cabin, the kind of silence that hung heavy and expectant, like the air before a storm. The forest was calm. A soft breeze rustled through the pine trees and carried the scent of earth, pine needles, and faint smoke from the morning's fire. I held a mug of chamomile tea in my hands, not for the taste, but for the warmth, it gave me something to hold onto, something to keep my hands from trembling.Noah’s mom sat beside me, her posture regal even in rest. She had that poised calmness some mothers possessed, especially the ones who’d been through life’s hard lessons and come out the other side with a spine made of steel and a heart stitched up but still beating. Her eyes scanned the horizon as if trying to catch sight of something just out of reach.I didn’t know how we got here. One moment we were sipping in silence, and the next…
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-10
Chapter: Chapter 65Stacey’s POV:The thought of leaving my little girl even for a few days felt like leaving my heart behind. But Chloe was right. The walls of her house were starting to close in. My thoughts, the judgment from the world, the unanswered texts, the three men orbiting my already fragile life, it all needed distance.So I packed a bag, kissed Tessa goodbye, and now I had nothing but trees and questions to keep me company.The cabin was surrounded by a blanket of silence so pure and heavy it almost had a sound of its own. Just wind, grass, and birdsong, and nothing else. Chloe hadn’t been exaggerating. This place was tucked far from the rest of the world, nestled on a patch of grassland by the edge of a small, still lake. It was a modest structure made of pale wood and covered in ivy, but it was beautiful in a wild, forgotten way. Like a place where time forgot to tick forward.It was just what I needed.I arrived with nothing but a duffel bag, my journal, and a heart so full of ache that I
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-10
Chapter: Chapter NINETY Tessa's POV: Some mornings, I still wake before the sun.Old habits, I guess.There was a time when waking up early meant preparing for battle, whether emotional or physical. A time when I carried the weight of other people’s expectations like armor. When I didn’t know who I was. But now?I wake for peace.For the little giggles echoing down the hallway. For the scent of cinnamon and fresh air drifting through the estate windows. For the love that fills every crack I once believed would never heal.I rolled onto my side, smiling as soft fingertips brushed along my cheek.Lucian.Even in sleep, his hand instinctively reached for me. His brow softened when he found me there beside him, like the storm of his past still needed reassurance that I hadn’t left.“I’m here,” I whispered, kissing his knuckles. “I’m not going anywhere.”He stirred slightly, his lashes fluttering. “Mmm. You say that now… But wait till she throws oatmeal in your hair again.”I laughed softly. “She’s your daughte
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-11
Chapter: Chapter Eighty NineTessa's POV: The pain came in waves, fierce and wild, like a storm crashing against cliffs. My cries echoed through the estate halls, but I wasn’t afraid.I was ready.Lucian knelt beside me, gripping my hand with a strength that made me know that he couldn't lose me. He didn’t flinch when I screamed. He didn’t waver when I sobbed his name. He was just there, whispering encouragement, pressing kisses to my sweat-soaked hair, his eyes never leaving me. “You’re almost there,” he murmured, his voice raw with emotion. “You’ve got this, moonlight. Just a little more.”I gasped, breath hitching, as another contraction tore through me. My mother stood near the foot of the bed, calm and focused, guiding the process with ancient magic that soothed the sharpest edges of the pain. Beside her was one of the estate’s most trusted she-wolves, Marra, the head healer, and Kate, one of my former maids who had stayed despite the havoc caused by Olivia. They moved around me with practiced hands and so
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Chapter: Chapter Eighty EightTessa's POV: The mating ceremony wasn’t the kind of wedding I ever imagined growing up. There were no white dresses. No flower girls tossing petals. No fancy chairs lined up in rows.Instead, there was a circle.A wide, open clearing under the full moon. The air was heavy with the scent of pine and the hum of ancient magic. Wolves surrounded us, shifters from every corner of Lucian’s territory, some in human form, others padded and noble in their fur, all standing in reverent silence.And at the center of it all, him.Lucian.The Lycan King. The Alpha.He stood shirtless, barefoot, draped in a ceremonial sash made of braided threads, black, silver, and deep crimson, the colors of the Alpha line. The mark of the moon was etched in ash across his chest.He looked feral and beautiful. Mine.His dark eyes found mine as I stepped into the circle.I wore nothing elaborate. Just a deep blue silk gown and a crown of wild white flowers threaded with moonvine across my hair. My feet were bare.
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-11
Chapter: Chapter Eighty SevenTessa's POV: The wind that drifted through Lucian’s estate smelled different now. Not of blood, not of fear, but of wildflowers and ash, burnt sorrow giving way to something green again.We had returned a week ago.Not to pick up where we left off. That was impossible. Too much had been lost, too many truths had cracked open. But we came back to rebuild. Not the walls, but ourselves.Lucian’s estate was quieter than I remembered. Most of the staff had either fled during the chaos of Olivia or were reassigned by the Council until the dust settled.So it was just us.And strangely… I liked it that way.Our wounds, physical and otherwise, were still fresh. My ribs still ached when I twisted too far. Lucian winced when he moved his shoulder, where Olivia’s claws had nearly ended him. But the deepest healing wasn’t of the body.It was of the soul.He sat at the edge of the garden now, sunlight streaming through the overgrown vines above his head. His eyes were closed, his face tilted upwa
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-11
Chapter: Chapter Eighty SixTessa's POV: Dawn had barely begun to touch the horizon when the silence broke, low growls rumbling in the distance. Not from enemies. This time, they were different.I turned slowly, blood still drying on my skin, my breath catching as dark shapes approached through the woods. They came without sound, seven in total, cloaked in deep gray robes, faces partially masked in silver. Their eyes glowed faintly with ancient magic, and the moment they stepped into the courtyard, the very air bent around them.The werewolf council enforcers.Behind them came another group, less cloaked, more armored, already moving swiftly to begin evacuation. They carried stretchers, sacred warded tools, and whispered spells that lifted bodies with reverent silence.Olivia's still-bound form was hauled to her knees. She didn’t fight. Her eyes were blank now, devoid of the fire that once consumed her.One of the enforcers passed close to me, his silver eyes sweeping across the carnage. “We intercepted the dis
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-11
Chapter: Chapter Eighty FiveTessa's POV: Olivia groaned under the crushing weight of my magic, slumped against the courtyard wall like shattered porcelain. Her limbs twitched weakly, still bound by the living vines I’d summoned from the earth itself. Her hair was tangled and streaked with blood, and her once-fierce eyes now brimmed with a trembling disbelief.Olivia.The Alpha who tore everything apart.The sister who murdered her own blood.Now she lay broken.And still, I wasn’t done. My palms pulsed white with power, raw and ancient. I could feel it in the wind, in the soil, in the ache of my grief; it surged through me, responding to every thought, every breath.But then…Something shifted in the air.A ripple.A soft hum, like magic brushing against memory.I turned quickly.And there he stood.“Noah.”He stepped out from the smoke and shadows like a vision from another lifetime.Still tall. Still steady. Still carrying the sadness in his eyes that had never really left since we were kids.His brown curls
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