Chapter: Chapter 9IRIS“Iris,” Mr Rowan said, his voice roughened by lack of use.We all mourned Katrina in our own way. I hadn’t seen Camille for days. She was likely holed up in a cave somewhere, trapped in her wolf form so she wouldn’t have to feel the crushing weight of loss. For their dad, it was alcohol.And maybe for me it was being fixated about her death. If I kept digging, kept searching for answers, maybe I wouldn’t have to face the ache she left behind.Like I said, different strokes for different folks.I stepped fully into the living room, perching on the sofa opposite him.“How are you?” I asked. Then I instantly regretted it. Of course he was terrible. His daughter died.“Good,” he gruffed, lifting the glass to his lips with an unsteady hand.The space fell silent for a while.“And you?” He asked mechanically. “Kade?”I forced a tight smile. “We’re… doing the best we can.”A frown tugged at his lip like I’d just said something out of the ordinary. “Take care of him, Iris,” he slurred,
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Chapter: Chapter 8IRISThree days had passed since Kade and the others left on ‘official pack business’. Three days since Ryker caught me leaving Ash’s room. Three days of silence.Something unnamed crawled up my throat. I pushed it down as I stared at Ash’s door down the left wing of the guest quarters.Three days of resisting the temptation of going through Ash’s things and finding out what the hell was actually going on.The curfew had only gotten worse. Half the pack’s deltas were stationed at the borders now, patrolling like we were under attack. I knew because I’d tried slipping out again.Didn’t work.Got dragged right back home like a misbehaving pup.Something was wrong.My body buzzed low, probably from the lack of sleep. Every time I closed my eyes, that damned creature popped into my dreams. A werewolf but not quite. The stance was all wrong, the proportions out of place. Its eyes are as red as a blood moon.The images flashed in my mind like a warning but the moment I opened my eyes, it’s
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Chapter: Chapter 7RYKER“We’ll leave by nightfall. The territories that-“Kade’s voice faded into the background, along with every other preparation him and Ash could muster. Attractive alpha?My chest tightened, something annoyingly close to jealousy pressing against my lungs, making it almost impossible to breathe.There was no way Iris actually had anything to do with Ash.But the evidence stared right in my face.That smug look on her face, those clothes she wore as she literally ran out of Ash’s room like it was on fire. Like she just did something she regretted.“Ryker.” Ash’s aggravating voice dragged me out of my spiraling thoughts. Rage found its way to my throat.I swallowed. “What?”His eyes narrowed on me. Confused. Of course he was going to stand her and pretend like nothing happened.I tore my gaze away from him before I did something stupid. Like ripping out his throat and feeding it to the vampire werewolves.“You’re painfully honest.” I said to Kade. His gaze sharpened, already susp
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-04-07
Chapter: Chapter 6IRISEverything felt weird the second I woke up.The air felt too hot, the sun too bright, my body still buzzed but my mind couldn’t care enough to remember why.My eyes fluttered open, vision blurrying and the second I pushed myself off my bed, my head throbbed. A throaty groan escaped my lips before I could stop it, the sound grating on my already sensitive ears.My fingers dug into an unfamiliar mattress. I stilled. This wasn’t my bed. It was colder and not nearly as worn in.I blinked away the haze and slowly, my surroundings came into focus.Small. Clean… like sterile clean. A single bed wedged against the wall. The guest rooms. I was still on pack grounds.The knot in my chest loosened, but not enough for relief.How did I get here?I forced my eyes shut, shutting out the sound of sheets rustling and breeze bellowing. The images flashed violently beneath my eyelids. The woods. The run. Then a sound and then…Nothing.No matter how hard I pushed, my mind wouldn’t go past that sce
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-04-06
Chapter: Chapter 5ASH The noise in the forest, the wind through the trees, insects, the distant call of wolves… they were all drowned out by the sound of blood rushing in my ears. Move. Every instinct I had screamed at me to step back, to put distance between us before this turned into something I couldn’t undo. But my body refused. Iris stood a few feet away, as still as a statue. Her scent was thick in the air… it was overwhelming. Wrapping around my lungs like smoke and dragging me under. This wasn’t normal. Her eyes locked on mine. Confusion and something darker flickering in them. But just as quickly it came, that expression was extinguished, replaced by a calmer, deadlier look. The kind of look that would make men jump to their deaths. I balled my hands into a fist, claw digging into my palm. Iris was Ryker’s ex. And someone very special to Kade. Although we were going through a rough patch now, we were brothers. But my wolf thought otherwise. He didn’t care, not when her
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-04-05
Chapter: CHAPTER 4IRISEven after decades of growing up around him, I didn't know a single thing about Ash. Except that people found him terrifying.I never understood why.“Are you alright?” His warm hands still lingering on my arm.Say something.“Yeah, I just-wasn’t looking,” I said, forcing out a small, awkward laugh.Ash just stood there, staring into my soul like he was trying to find something missing.Okayyyy.I stepped back. His grip tightened. My brows pulled together. “Ash-““You're lying.” I blinked, scoffing before I could stop myself. “Excuse me?”“Something's wrong.” He doubled down. “Tell me. What is it?”There was something about the way he said it. Not demanding or forceful. Just… sure. Like he already knew I was on the verge of falling apart and didn’t judge me for it or look at me like I was a broken doll that needed to be fixed. And somehow, that was enough.The words came before I could stop them.Everything I’d held back since they found Katrina’s body spilled out of me in
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Your dad is mine
His fingers slid into my hair, tugging just enough to tilt my head back and expose my throat to him.
“We shouldn’t be doing this, Mr. Turner,” I breathed, my voice breaking on a gasp as he found a sensitive spot just beneath my ear and sucked lightly.
His growl was low and primal, vibrating through my skin as he pressed his body against mine. I felt every hard line of him, his heat bleeding through my clothes.
“Why not?” he murmured, his voice rough with restrained need.
I swallowed hard. “You’re… you’re my ex-fiancé’s father.”
He paused. For a moment, everything stilled… his breath against my throat, the air between us, even the rain outside seemed to hesitate. Then he lifted his head, and our eyes locked. His were a stormy blue, intense and unwavering.
“No one has to know, Catherine,” he said quietly, his voice was like a dark promise wrapped in silk. Then he leaned in with his lips brushing the shell of my ear. “I can be your dirty secret.”
A shiver ripped down my spine. His words settled deep in my gut, awakening something dangerous.
I bit my lip. Every cell in my body screamed for me to walk away but I didn’t.
Instead, I gripped the front of his shirt, pulled him down, and kissed him hard. Desperately. He rumbled low in his chest, kissing me back with equal hunger, his hands roaming my body like he already knew every curve.
When he finally broke the kiss, I was breathless. Then he dropped to his knees between my legs, with his eyes darker now.
“I’m going to show you the world,” he said. “If you’d let me.”
Baca
Chapter: CHAPTER 113CATHERINE I must have forgotten how to breathe, or the air was too thick. Either way, my lungs stopped working, my ears rang, drowning out everything.A muffled sound echoed from above me.My head felt heavy, but I looked up anyway. His lips were moving, talking? No. His brows were knotted, his eyes wide , fear seeping out. The veins in his neck were bulging. Shouting.My gaze flickered to the ground. I was closer to it than it should have been. When did my knees give out?My grandmother’s words refused to stop replaying in my head.Your father isn’t dead.The cold that settled in my bones wasn’t from the harsh crashing of waves or the fact that we were close to the sea. It was from the realization that the worst of them all was still here… lurking in the shadows.A hand clamped down hard on my shoulder.I turned to meet Marcus’s wild eyes dragging over me like he was searching for injuries. His voice broke through the ringing this time, barely. “Catherine,” he barked, shaking me g
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-04-15
Chapter: CHAPTER 112CATHERINE “I take it your martyr stunt didn’t work out as well as you thought it would.”I shuffled on my feet, pushing down that feeling that tried so hard to crawl back up. The look in Marcus’s eyes was plain and simple… disappointment. He had every right to.I swallowed heavily, taking a step forward.His gaze faltered, just for half a second before hardening.“Why are you here, Cath?” He said evenly, even as his fingers dug into his arms.“I’m sorry,” I whispered, my voice muffled by the steady sound of waves crashing into each other. Cold seeped into my bones but the weight in my chest thawed it out. The docks were practically empty, save for the security guard staring us down from the end of the boat. I pretended not to notice.His scoff was lost in the wind as he tilted his head heavenward. “I’ve got crates to offload, Cath.”“Marcus-“He snapped his head back to me, eyes narrowing. “No. You don’t get to run into a fucking death trap even when I begged you not to and now whe
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-04-13
Chapter: CHAPTER 111RONALD“Found your little friend.” The man said, his dark gaze flicking to Frankie.For a moment I was certain I was hallucinating. Frankie had been halfway across the country, setting off his own plans against the threat we both faced.Now he was here. Bruised and barely conscious. His once pristine suit was jagged, soaked in crimson, his silver rings stained with blood. The sight of him reduced to something so fragile felt… wrong. Frankie was always untouchable. Until now.“Frankie?” Mason breathed. The disbelief in his voice only sharpened. “Well… that’s unexpected.”Frankie’s unfocused eyes blinked slowly as he struggled to lift his head. “Ronald…” he rasped. “You-.”A slow clap echoed through the chamber, cutting off whatever he was about to say.“Touching,” the man before us drawled, his tone laced with mock amusement. “Truly. Loyalty is such a rare commodity these days.”My gaze hardened on him. “You dragged him into this to make a point?” I asked coldly.His lips curved into
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-04-12
Chapter: CHAPTER 110RONALDMason glanced over at me from the hood of the car, his brows furrowed.Me, on the other hand, was slightly confused. Talk.We just stormed into their base, with a hostage who was now dead and they wanted to talk? Why not just kill us?I didn’t let the thought linger.The fact was that we were probably surrounded on all sides. If they wanted to kill us, they would have before we even knew what was coming. And we didn’t have the luxury of declining.I pushed an exhale through my nose and stood slowly. Mason hesitated for half a second before following closely.My eyes scanned the empty road, the shadowed trees. They had gone silent again. Mason and I exchanged a glance.“So,” Mason said tightly. “We just going to wait to get slaughtered? I kind of like my head on my shoulders.”I scowled, leaning on the hood of the car. “Got a better idea?”He opened his mouth. Then shut it. Exactly.The next minute, the low hum of an engine steadily approached us, the headlights cutting through
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-04-10
Chapter: CHAPTER 109RONALDThe low hum of the engine was the only sound that buzzed through the silence, vibrating through the car like a warning.My eyes stayed fixed on the metal door to the safe house, jaw ticking with restraint. Catherine was going to hate me. She already did. But it didn’t matter because she was safe… away from the madness that was about to unfold.That was enough.At least that was what I told myself. It didn’t stop my chest from tightening, a weight that I didn’t want to acknowledge pressing against my chest, making it almost impossible to breathe. I ignored it too.My phone buzzed in my pocket.I ignored.I already knew who it was. Frankie. He’d been calling nonstop for over a week… demanding updates, sending his men to lurk in the shadows, trying to find answers they weren’t ready for. He was restless. Restless Frankie was dangerous, but useful. His impatience worked in my favor.Another vibration rolled through me. Another ignored call.A low groan cut through the haze.My gaz
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-04-09
Chapter: CHAPTER 108CATHERINEThe air went silent, no one spoke, no one moved.Or maybe they did. I couldn’t tell over the ringing in my ears, over the ice that spreading through my veins like poison.T’s words were on repeat, playing over and over like a broken record in my mind.Ellie was never in danger?She never was in danger.No. That was impossible. It had to be. “You’re lying.” I muttered under my breath.Even my voice had betrayed me, cracking at the end. I stepped forward anyway, ignoring the way Ronald stiffened or how Mason’s attention sharpened. Like both were unsure of what I was about to do.“What do you gain from this?” I demanded. “And don’t insult me by saying you were forced into it. You look like you enjoyed every second.”My voice dropped.“Picking into peoples lives. Turning them in one another… planting deceit, playing people like they’re-““But I was just the spark,” T cut in smoothly. “You lit the fire yourself.”My pulse stuttered. My vision swam with rage.His eyes flicked to
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Masuk
