Novels by Steph Lori

Elena I watch life drain out of Beatrice’s eyes, but before I can say a word, Mikhail grabs my wrist and begins to pull me down the stairs. Not that pitied Beatrice, she clearly still has a thing for Dmitri, she betrayed Mikhail, and abandoned her daughter, what’s more ridiculous is the fact since she came, she doesn’t seem curious about her daughter’s wellbeing. She still hasn’t asked about Esther, my heart broke for her, but it also fuels my determination to be a better mother that she never was to Esther. “Wait! You can’t do this to me, we are mates, a-and I have your child,” She rushes behind us, and this time I am the one to pull back, fed up with her acting.“You have his child?” I pull my wrist from Mikhail’s and walk back to Beatrice, she tries looking past me, trying to ignore my confrontation but I got to her face to spit out the words. “Don’t you ever say that again. I am Mikhail’s mate, I will be the Luna and Esther is my daughter,” I say with so much confidence. It’s r

Elena Mikhail seems disoriented after I told him all I did. I expected him to scold me for being reckless, slitting my wrist, and leaving him in the dark, but he’s just sitting still on the bed and staring into space. “Whar’s wrong?” I draw nearer to him, and he shakes his head. “I know why I wasn’t involved.” Involved? It didn’t seem he was talking about me going ahead of our plans. “They all knew about it, they had the evidence, and Ezekiel just knew the right button to push to get them to release the evidence. Now that it’s out, they are releasing all his crimes and leaving him to face it all by himself. Ridiculous.” He lets out a bitter laugh, which leaves me with the understanding that he is not happy about what is going on right now.“So they decided to use the ‘no family victim in court when a family member is a perpetrator’ card in this case to cover up another ill doings they are about to commit. My absence will hide further truth from disposing, and you getting summoned

Elena Mikhail seems disoriented after I told him all I did. I expected him to scold me for being reckless, slitting my wrist, and leaving him in the dark, but he’s just sitting still on the bed and staring to deep space. “Whar’s wrong?” I draw nearer to him, and he shakes his head. “I know why I wasn’t involved.” Involved? It didn’t seem he was talking about me going ahead of our plans. “They all knew about it, they had the evidence, and Ezekiel just knew the right button to push to get them to release the evidence. Now that it’s out, they are releasing all his crimes and leaving him to face it all by himself. Ridiculous.” He lets out a bitter laugh, which leaves me with the understanding that he is not happy about what is going on right now.“So they decided to use the ‘no family victime in court when a family member is a perpetrator’ card in this case to cover up another ill doings they are about to commit. My absence will hide further truth from disposing, and you getting summo

MikhailSomething is about to happen. I can’t say it’s all good because Dmitri has been summoned to court. It’s even more strange because this is my Pack, I am the leader, but I am excluded from the decisions of not just any pack member, but my…my brother. As much as it feels wrong to call him that, it’s a fact I can’t forever deny, aside from that, there’s Elena with a bandaged wrist. But after Darius had disseminated the information, I was sure about my stance. It was neither good nor bad. Everyone is standing still, waiting for me to end the call, but I was done even before I hung up After Darius explained that the evidence about Dmitri killing our father is already at the court and also is already spreading widely in the pack, it still didn’t justify the reason that they didn’t tell me. “W-what, why are you staring at me like that?” Dmitri questioned nervously, chuckling while I recall how I found the patch of poison in his room, the same poison that had caused my father’s deat

Elena “I’m not sure you would like me to speak about it here,” Ezekiel stretched it and the hiss comes as expected. His persistent pissed Dmitri off. Dmitri says no word after letting out a hiss and Ezekiel had gotten the info that he’s not willing to speak with him in private, so he announces. “The officials are beginning to fall out of your side. And the heritage given to you seems to be holding illegal activities and they are all placing you as the front man.” I hold back a smile when Dmitri turns back to Ezekiel sharply. His eyes are wide, with a little hint of terror as he finally appraoches us. “Don’t you fucking play with me, Ezekiel.” He curses yet he’s still standing right by my side. Victory rolls like a tennis ball within me, he’s speedingly reaching his end, with Ezekiel fulfiling his deal on leaking on how he had killed the late Alpha, also his crimes while he had being away from the pack. Ezekiel bowed his head. You see, I knew he’s that good of an actor, he looks

Elena Ezekiel doesn’t bulge. Not when the door clicked open, not when it clacked shut. He remained still like a rock, snoring and looking annoyingly lazy. I slowly walked to him; he only shifts when the bed dips, but before his eyes can fall open, I aim for his throat. “One move and this knife will send you to meet with your family.” That’s a wrong choice of words; however, he didn’t pity me when I was being harassed and raped by his boss. He had set me up and used me. While that is his level of humanity and his revenge, to which I don’t totally blame him, I also have to fight for my people. It’s sad how we turned out this way, though. “W-what,” The moonlight that filters through the light curtain aids me in witnessing Ezekiel’s fright. The room isn’t relative hot, but I can see sweat bumps sliding down his forehead. “You and I have scores to settle, and it ends today. One of us…is going to die tonight, either you, which would save you from the future torture in your boss’s hands

Ethan The annoyance that was initially sparking when I came down the stairs and found Alexa being escorted out like some prisoner. I could only picture so many ways she had gotten here. It was a distance, which meant she exited the house not too long before I left. And she must have walked a distance before she could get a cab. I badly wanted to scold her, but I couldn’t do that before other eyes, and then there was Chloe. I can’t believe she can’t fucking take my words. There were no longer any signs that I wanted nothing to do with her, but she just can’t take no for an answer. I relished the moment when Alexa came back at her. Slapping her down, so she is the one standing up high. That replaced my annoyance with pride, the kind of pride that made my shoulder high and made me want to pin her down and watch her try to exert dominance on me. Fuck, even as she took my hand, my skin burned, needing her so bad. “I’m sorry.” Those words flew past as I shut the door behind her and cage

Alexa “Show yourself before I call security.” Chloe’s voice echoed through the office. But she didn’t make a move. I was grateful she had yet to turn on the light, but there was no way I could hide. She knew someone was there, and if I tried to run, I would look more suspicious. Which is why I slowly stood up, lifting my hands up. Just then the lights came on. And even with my cap covering a bit of my eyes, I could still see the disdain in her eyes. “You.” She pointed. “I-” “I fucking knew you were here on a mission. Ethan is going to have you chased out finally.” She was excited; her disdain had turned into excitement as she turned and smashed the security button with her hands. I stood still because it was impossible to stop her, and it was impossible to run in my state. I couldn’t tell what the worst could happen; yes, I may seem suspicious right here, but I didn’t sneak in either. But this attention will certainly expose my presence to Ethan.The securities bursted through

Alexa “I’ve set the table; do you need help with something else? Do you need me to come in?” “No, Mom, I’m fine, we-I’ll be with you shortly,” I announced before she could walk into her daughter’s leg, spread out with a man who sponsored my education between them. Ethan was up in that minute, adjusting his trousers. And I did feel guilty for leaving him with blue balls, but now that my eyes are clear, I wonder how the fuck we are going to act around each other now. Because it is glaring that there is more than boss and personal assistant between us. “Do you need me-” “No, I’ll be out soon.” I cut in without looking at him. At least he didn’t try to push this time; he walked out of the room. “Alexa, what the hell did you just do?” I struggled up, wincing every time I tried to get myself cleaned. Eventually, I wrapped up and joined them for dinner. Mum stood, perhaps to assist me in walking or pushing the chair out for me, but she didn’t get to finish that because Ethan beat her t

Alexa In the blink of an eye, Ethan was right on top of me. His eyes stared hungrily at me, ready to eat me whole. My heart was beating drums; if there was any time to stop this, it was the best time. But my body ached for him, as he slid his finger across my collarbone, dragging my tiny sleeves down my arms. I shivered and bit down on my lower lip, waiting for more, my eyes never leaving his. I watched how his eyes dropped to my lips and back up to my eyes. It felt like he was hesitating nd it was slowly turning the moment into some cold scene. So I tried to get out of his hold, but in that moment, he pulled me by my neck and ravaged my lips, not even giving me time to think. I tried to catch up with his pace, but he wasn’t even giving me time to adjust; his tongue slid, making my mouth full that I could barely moan out. I felt choked up, but it made my toes curl. The way he was giving me no time to think, no time to breathe. He was seizing me as a whole, hands roaming around my b

AlexaFinally, it was time for me to leave this damn hospital, and of course Ethan was taking me out; he had been dodging my questions, like what’s the status of the plan, what’s going on in the company? Jeffery’s dinner party. He dodged them all, and now we were heading out of town. Which meant we were not heading to the mansion. I was tired of asking questions and not getting any answers, so I just let him do what he wanted, and then we were before a common Canadian housing in an undeveloped street. No guards behind us; it was just us, and Ethan now picked my hospital bag up and then opened the door up for me. I was still seated because it was so damn confusing. What are we doing here? “Do you need me to lift you?” I stepped out of the car immediately. Wincing a little when I tried straightening up. “Take it slow,” Ethan said to me slowly. The door was unlocked, and he simply pushed the door handle, setting himself aside for me to walk in at the same time the familiar figure rus

AlexaI insisted on walking today; the pain had reduced, and I had been in a space for too long. The minute I was out of my room, I met the person I least expected. “We need to talk.” Mr. Bouchard gestured at me to walk into my room with me. But I would be the most foolish to be alone with a man who tried to harass me when I was a child and has a lot of crimes hidden under his desk. “Ethan is not here.” He cocked a brow. “I only have business with your son. If you wish to speak to me about him, I’m currently not fit to take notes of your discussion and forward it to him.” He scoffed with obvious disbelief. “You’ve got some nerve, huh? I guess you have truly bewitched my son to turn his back on me, on his own father. You think you would get onto a ladder of wealth; that is the reason you convinced him to kick me out of my own company. Are you not fit, huh? The next time I will make you be in a casket.” He hissed and turned to walk away, with his guards walking out. His words we