Chapter: Chapter 42 – Burn What’s LeftThe moment I touched the door, the ground groaned like it knew something was waking.Not a trap. Not magic in the way the seers would explain. This was older. Primal. Like the stone itself remembered me.I pulled the handle, and the air shifted.Warmth hit me first. Then sound.A voice I didn’t know but had always heard, buried deep in my chest. Whispering truths I didn’t want. Calling me by a name I couldn’t say out loud.Daughter. Flameborn. Weapon.Inside the chamber, there were no relics. No bones. Just walls scorched black and symbols etched in ash. In the center: a circle. Old blood marked the edge, dried so dark it was nearly black. I stepped into it.And the ground moved.
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Chapter: Chapter 41 – Signed in BloodI knew it was from him before I even opened it.The seal wasn’t wax—it was dried blood. Cracked and dark, shaped into the crescent mark I’d seen only once before, carved into a dying wolf’s back. The memory of it came sharp and fast, like a slap to the face.It was left at the base of my door. No scent trail. No magic residue. No signs of entry. Just the letter and the sick pull in my gut that told me this time, it wasn’t a threat.It was a message. A personal one.Kieran saw it first. He was halfway down the hallway when he stopped, his whole body going tense. I crouched down and picked it up."Don’t touch that," he said sharply.I looked up. "Too late."He crossed the distance in a few strides, gaze locked on the seal. “That’s blood.”"I noticed."He glanced at me, then back at the letter like it might bite. "We need the seer. And Caspian. Maybe even a priest.""We need answers," I said. I snapped the seal.The parchment was rough, brittle at the edges. Aged in a way that made me th
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Chapter: Chapter 40 – Beneath the SilenceI needed to breathe, but everything inside me felt locked up.The moment the Council doors shut behind me, it was like all the air had been sucked from the halls. Every step I took back toward the west wing felt heavier than the last.The vote hadn’t happened yet, but I didn’t need to hear the outcome to know which way it would swing. Half of them feared me. The other half wanted to replace me. Neither side wanted me to win.I should’ve gone to my room. Rested. Pretended I still had control.Instead, I found myself at Ronan’s estate.The estate was a long, brooding structure built into the north edge of the cliffs—stone walls, iron gates, ivy that clung to everything like it had a vendetta. Ronan had once told me it was older than half the Council itself. That his bloodline had built it long before wolves called each other ‘Alpha.’I didn’t come here for history.I came for answers.The guards let me pass without question. Maybe they’d been told to. Maybe they just knew better.Ronan
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Chapter: Chapter 39 – The Ones Who Sit in JudgmentThey didn’t ask if I was ready.They just summoned me.By sunrise, a runner had delivered the sealed notice to my door—no greeting, no warmth, just formality dressed as respect. The Council was calling me in. Again. But this time, there would be no allies standing beside me. No Kael. No Kieran. No one to buffer the tension or translate the veiled threats into something softer.Just me.And them.I dressed in silence, pulling on my cleanest gear. Not ceremonial—nothing that would give them the satisfaction of seeing me dressed up like a puppet. But not battle-worn either. I refused to give them anything to pick apart.My boots were stiff. My hands were steady. My gut wasn’t.I paused at the door. Took a breath. Not deep. Just enough to feel like I still had control over something.Then I walked.The hall leading to the chamber was too quiet. My footsteps echoed off the stone, each one a countdown I didn’t want to finish. A guard opened the door before I could touch it. Not a word spoke
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Chapter: Chapter 38 – The Weight That Doesn't Lift"Stay out of my way."The words still hung in the air when I stepped into the hallway. My voice had carried farther than I'd meant it to. And louder.I didn’t look back. If I did, I might see something in Ronan’s face that would make me hesitate—pity, maybe, or worse, regret. And I didn’t need either.I didn’t need anything from him anymore.The fortress was quieter than usual. People saw me coming and made themselves busy elsewhere. Some offered quick nods, some ducked into the nearest doorway. No one wanted to meet my eyes.They were waiting for my next mistake.Or my next command. I wasn’t sure which.I ended up in the training yard, though I hadn’t meant to. My body walked there like it had nowhere else left to go. I stood in the middle of the packed earth, hands hanging uselessly at my sides. The sky above was that washed-out gray that always made me feel like time had stopped moving, or maybe I had.I wanted to scream. Or hit something. Or curl into the dirt until it swallowed m
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Chapter: Chapter 37 – The Fault LineI didn't sleep that night. Not a wink. Not even a blink.Sleep required silence, and my head was full of noise—memories, questions, regrets. Echoes of Ronan's voice and that damning message: She was never meant to be controlled. Only broken.And now Cian. Alive. But not the Cian I remembered.He hadn’t spoken. Hadn’t reached for Ronan. Hadn’t even tried to escape. Just stood there like a shadow wearing his skin.I sat on the edge of my bed until sunrise, staring at the pendant in my hand. It no longer pulsed. As if his presence, even fractured, had stilled the bond entirely. Or worse—snapped it.What did it mean that I couldn’t feel him anymore? Did it mean the bond had ended—or that something worse had claimed him, severing the connection I once believed unbreakable? I didn’t want to say it out loud, but the truth was a whisper in my ear now: Maybe you’ve already lost him.I wrapped my fingers around the pendant so tightly that it bit into my palm. I wanted it to hurt. I wanted somet
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The Billionaire's Reluctant Bride
Leila Adams has always felt small, living in the shadow of her family’s expectations. Shy and unsure, she never thought much of herself—until her father arranges a marriage to a man she barely knows: Alexander Hawke. He’s a powerful billionaire with a cold, unfeeling exterior, hiding the pain of a past full of betrayal.
At first, Leila’s marriage to Alexander feels like a business deal. He’s distant, controlled, and doesn’t care for her at all. But as time goes on, something starts to change. Leila begins to find her own voice, growing stronger with every passing day. And Alexander, who thought he could keep everything under control, starts to see the woman beneath the surface—the woman who could break down the walls around his heart.
As Leila and Alexander begin to learn what it means to trust, love, and heal, both of them must face their pasts and decide if they can build a future together. Will Leila finally embrace her true strength? Can Alexander let go of his fear and open up to love?
In The Billionaire’s Reluctant Bride, passion, trust, and transformation collide in a story of love that neither of them ever saw coming.
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Chapter: Chapter 257There are places in life that make you feel like you've truly arrived.And then there are the moments when you realize you’ve already been there all along.I never thought I’d feel this way—like I was truly home. Not just in the house we’d built together, or in the shared goals we had for the future, but in the space between us. A space that felt as real and permanent as the walls we’d constructed, brick by brick.Yet here we were, surrounded by quiet peace, and I couldn’t help but smile as I watched Alexander carefully placing the last picture on the mantle.The house was more than just a place to live now. It was ours—from the gleaming countertops in the kitchen to the comfortable, worn armchairs in the living room where we had spent countless evenings talking about our past, our fears, and the future that we were finally stepping into together.“It’s perfect,” I said quietly, leaning against the doorframe of the living room. “I never thought it would feel this... peaceful.”He turn
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Chapter: Chapter 256Sometimes, it’s not about where we are. It’s about where we’re going—and the promise we make to ourselves to build it together.I stared at the horizon, the golden light of the setting sun reflecting off the glass walls of our penthouse. The city below had long since fallen into the rhythmic pulse of twilight, but up here, everything felt suspended in time. The world moved at its own pace, but we were standing still, together.The buzz of the day had faded, replaced by the quiet hum of anticipation. We’d made it through the latest hurdle—the threats, the legal battles, the constant scrutiny—and now, in the space between all of that, we had a moment to breathe. A moment where I could finally let myself think of the future without the weight of fear and doubt pressing down on me.And then Alexander appeared beside me, his familiar warmth wrapping around me as his hand slid into mine. His touch was steady, as always, but tonight, it felt even more grounding. There was something different
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Chapter: Chapter 255The truest form of love isn’t in grand gestures or eloquent promises.It’s in the quiet moments, the shared silences, and the way you stand next to each other when the world feels like it’s falling apart.—I wasn’t sure what I expected when I woke up this morning. But I didn’t expect the overwhelming wave of emotion that hit me when I saw Alexander beside me, his chest rising and falling with steady breaths, the faintest hint of a smile on his lips even as he slept.The world had been trying to tear us apart, pushing us to the edge of exhaustion with every new attack, every twist in the business, every silent war we fought behind closed doors. But there, in that moment, in the quiet of our bedroom, it felt like everything was exactly as it should be.I reached out and brushed my fingers along the side of his face, the roughness of his stubble against my skin a comfort I didn’t know I needed.He stirred slightly, his eyes fluttering open. For a moment, there was just him—him-no pressu
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Chapter: Chapter 254Some days feel like we’re chasing the future,Others like we’re finally learning to live in it.The quiet of the morning was a gentle reminder of how much had changed. How much had shifted between us.I sat at the kitchen table, a cup of coffee in hand, watching as Alexander moved around the kitchen. He was a creature of habit, but in the last few months, I’d noticed a subtle change. The tension that used to follow him like a shadow, the constant weight he carried on his shoulders—those were now replaced with something softer, more assured. I had always known the man beneath the polished exterior, but now, I was witnessing the man he was becoming.We had been through so much—external pressures, personal struggles, and everything in between—but here we were, standing together, no longer running from the storm but walking through it hand-in-hand. We had been torn apart and built up again, stronger than ever, but now, it wasn’t about surviving anymore. It was about thriving. Together.Al
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Chapter: Chapter 253The moments that define us often come when we least expect them.—The city below sparkled, alive with a thousand possibilities, yet none of them seemed as bright as the quiet moment we shared in the warmth of our apartment. The soft hum of the traffic outside had faded into a distant buzz, the kind of noise you learn to ignore when you’re in the presence of something far more important.Alexander was sitting beside me on the couch, his hand lightly resting on my knee. I could feel the weight of everything that had happened over the last few months—the battles, the setbacks, the moments of fear and doubt. But now, all of that seemed to fade into the background. We had made it through.Not just as business partners.Not just as survivors.But as something more.Something that felt like it could last forever.“I can’t believe it’s been a year,” I said softly, my voice a little raw with emotion. I turned my head to look at him, the man who had been by my side through all of it. “So much
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Chapter: Chapter 252Some moments don’t need words to be understood.They’re felt in the spaces between the sentences.The silence was thick, comfortable, but heavy with unspoken truths.Alexander and I sat on the balcony, the city lights stretching before us, and for the first time in what felt like forever, I didn’t feel the rush of the world pulling us in a thousand directions.It wasn’t just the quiet of the city around us that held me—it was the quiet between us, the space where everything we had been through, and everything we were, lived.Alexander had always been the one to hide behind his silence. It was his way of keeping control, of protecting himself from feeling too much. But now, in the stillness of the night, I realized how much had changed.He no longer needed to protect himself from me.I let the silence stretch between us, not uncomfortable but allowing us to just be. But eventually, I could feel it—the heaviness that lingered in his eyes, that tightness around his jaw. He was carrying s
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