Novel-novel oleh Amelia Reid

A WEEK LATERIt was the day of the duel. The day when I would finally get to claim the title of Alpha and I couldn't wait. I knew Christopher wanted to be Alpha so bad and it only made me want it more. I wanted to look him in the eye and see how the pain i caused made him feel. I stepped into the arena and saw Christopher warming up. My eyes searched for Ixora and I found her, I wanted my plan to work and I wanted to be Alpha but somehow all those feelings were suppressed by the fact that I wanted to make Ixora proud by kicking the hell out of Christopher's ass. I fought hard to shake the feelings off but they came onto me strong, I decided to channel the energy into the fight and I did. The fight was nothing like I imagined, I could have sworn Christopher was stronger. With one mighty punch and a few kicks, I brought him down and immediately my father, the Alpha Maximus camr down from his chair and walked to me. He lifted my hand as a show of my being the winner . " Hail your n

IXORAI followed him, no not because I trusted him but or because of safety. I followed him because at this point Kade’s threat had teeth and I’d experienced those claws too many times to wait for more marks. “You are dead to me” I felt my heart feel nothing, it should have stung, but all I felt was chills, like my heart had long been exiled on the matter. Outside, the air hit my face like a slap, I expected him to look back, soften a bit like I had seen on that instant but he didn’t instead the words came out flatly from his throat “I didn’t do it for you, all this was done for my sake” A feeling I couldn’t explained ran through me as his words cut, there was something underneath them, something lingering, lurking behind those sharp steeler blue eyes. It made the wolf in me stir. Reality set in even if no one said anything I felt it I was his, and that terrified both of us. The pull was something I could not imagine, from the second I saw him, my instincts screamed. Not in f

Ronan's POVI told her to follow me, and she did. I could feel Kade's glare burning my back as we left. He didn't speak, but hissed a threat like a coward."You leave that door with him, Ixora, and you're dead to me."She still followed behind.I didn't look at her until we were outside. Her eyes were wide and cautious. She whispered, "Thank you."I kept my face stone. "I didn't do it for you. I did it for myself."That was the truth. Blunt and harsh. The moment I saw her, something inside me changed. My wolf stirred like it'd been asleep for ten years. My heart rate doubled, beat like a war drum. Her scent struck me—soft, sweet, and somehow familiar, like something I knew before. That was the moment I knew.She was mine.And that scared the hell out of me.If she hadn't been my mate, I would have let Kade have what was coming to him. He was cruel—that was who he was. And she would have been just another name on the long list of people that he broke. But she wasn't just another name.

Ixora’s POVThe door slammed open so hard it bounced off the stone wall with a deafening crash. The sound rang through the room—sharp, jarring, metal on rock—and it was so loud, so sudden, it felt like the air got punched out of the space. The room stopped. Everyone froze. It was like the world held its breath all at once.I didn’t move. My hand was still midair, fingers wrapped tight around Flora’s wrist while hers were tangled in my hair. Time hung suspended. Every pair of eyes in the room turned toward the door. No one said a word. No one even breathed. The tension buzzed under our skin like electricity just before the storm breaks.He stood there.In the doorway.Still.His chest rose and fell in a slow, steady rhythm, like he’d walked miles through something heavier than air. Rain, maybe. Or something worse. His black hoodie clung to him, soaked through and dripping onto the stone floor. Water pooled at his boots. His dark hair was a wild mess, damp strands stuck to his forehead,

Ixora's POVToday was my birthday.The house resonated with the sound of laughter and music. The aroma of newly opened roses wafted through the air, and faint lights danced upon the grand chandeliers high above. Glasses clinking in the background, and faint buzzing of sounds in the distance as people congregated in the garden.They had all gathered here for my birthday.My fiancé had promised me something special. Not the party, no. Tonight, he said, he would finally announce to everyone that I was his chosen one. That we were getting married. That I was to be the future Luna by the side of the Alpha's son. I had dreamed about this night for months.Everything was ready.Except me.I looked into the mirror at my reflection. My red hair was unraveling, and eyeliner I'd put on half an hour before was already running under my eyes. I didn't look alert, like the person who would be the center of attention of everyone in this room."Flora?" I shouted, leaving my bedroom and entering the ha

Ixora's POVI pushed open the front door and entered the house, shutting the door behind me quietly. Keys jingled in my palm, and the weight of two shopping bags holding onto my fingers was oppressive. I let out a sigh. It had been a long day. All I wanted to do was curl up with Christopher and watch something dumb with him.But something wasn't right. I can feel it in my bones.The house felt too quiet, too still. I started walking down the hall, light footsteps on the floor. Then I heard it—sounds from far away coming from our bedroom.I first thought it was a video. Maybe he was watching another one that was really loud. I rolled my eyes and kept walking. But the closer I came to the bedroom door, the louder the sounds got. A muffled giggle. A soft moan. The squeak of something on the bed.I stopped.My hand also stopped mid-air, right above the bedroom door handle.No. I shook my head. He would not.I'm sure he was watching porn or something.But my stomach turned. A knot of fear