LOGINShe died fat, broken, and unloved, but she came back ready to burn it all down. Catherine Vale has one memory seared into her soul from her past life: the feeling of her mother-in-law's hands draining the life from her body while her new husband pretended not to hear her screams. Reborn on her wedding day, Catherine knows that marrying Anderson Vale means death. So she does the unthinkable, she runs from the altar in her wedding dress and boards the honeymoon jet alone. Her destination is Las Vegas and her plan is to get drunk and forget everything. What she gets instead is waking up married to Davis McFanger, the most powerful hybrid alive and her runaway groom's father. Davis doesn't believe in coincidences, and he's convinced Catherine is another trap sent by his manipulative ex-wife to destroy him. But the mating bond doesn't lie, and neither does the heat that forces them together night after night, even when he can barely look at her come morning. Catherine is hiding secrets even she doesn't understand. The pills she's been taking for seven years to keep her stable might be poison designed to suppress her powers. Her so-called mental illness might be a lie fed to her by the same people who killed her and the power trying to claw its way out of her skin, burning her from the inside out might be exactly what they murdered her to steal. As her phoenix abilities violently awaken, Catherine faces an impossible choice: trust the cold, ruthless man who claims her desperately in the dark but refuses to acknowledge her in the light, or face her killers alone and risk dying a third time.
View MoreCHAPTER FIVE : Catherine's POV "I don't know your relationship with Luna Thorne, but based on my past experiences with her, I think it's better we annul this marriage."The words hit me like a physical blow. I watched him close off completely, I saw the exact moment he decided I was a threat."Annul—”"I'm sorry, but you heard me right." He wasn't looking at me anymore. He was looking past me, through me. "I don't trust anyone with affiliations with Luna. Even my own child. I avoid him because of his relationship with his mother."His words echoed painfully in my head."She's not—she's—" I couldn't form the words. He thought I was working with Luna. He thought I was part of whatever she'd done to him. "She's not my family either. She—""She took you in and raised you. You were going to marry her son." Each word was like a nail in a coffin. "That's enough affiliation for me.""You can't just decide that!" My voice broke, and I hated that tears were streaming down my face. "Last night
CHAPTER FOUR - CATHERINE POVI woke up to sunlight streaming through floor-to-ceiling windows and the Eiffel Tower glittering in the distance.Paris.I was in Paris.My head pounded like someone had taken a sledgehammer to my skull. My mouth tasted like alcohol and bad decisions. My body ached in ways that were both pleasant and alarming—muscles sore, skin sensitive, between my thighs a delicious soreness that made heat flood my face.What the hell happened last night?I tried to sit up and immediately froze. There was a heavy arm draped across my waist. A very male, very naked arm attached to a very male, very naked body pressed against my back.Oh god.Memories crashed through the hangover fog:The bar…. The gorgeous older man… Dave… His hands on my body in the elevator. His mouth on mine…. The hotel room—no, his suite then champagne and so much champagne. His fingers inside me while I begged, His cock—oh god, his cock—I was going to be sick.No. Worse than sick, I was going to die
CHAPTER THREE - CATHERINE'S POV "Another shot?""No, I need the whole damn bottle.""We don't do that here."I'd never tasted alcohol before tonight, but then again, I'd never run from my own wedding before either. The Las Vegas hotel bar glittered around me, all chrome and glass and beautiful people who didn't look like me. I was still in my wedding dress, the massive white thing taking up two bar stools. The corset dug into my ribs where I'd shoved the honeymoon tickets earlier, my only act of defiance before fleeing even after Luna had stopped me and attempted to bully me into staying. She had repeated the usual insults: Fat. Unstable. Broken Anderson now a runaway bride.I downed another shot with shaking hands, welcoming the burn."Give the lady whatever she wants."The voice behind me made my barely-there wolf stir for the first time in weeks—a weak, confused whimper that shocked me after years of silence.The bartender practically threw the bottle at me, hands shaking as he
CHAPTER TWO ; Catherine's POVI woke up gasping.Sunlight streamed through gauzy curtains,birds sang outside the window and my alarm clock showed 6:47 AM, the numbers glowing red in the early morning light, at the bottom was today's date.My wedding day!.Again!?I lay frozen in my childhood bed at the Anderson estate, my body drenched in sweat, my heart slamming against my ribs so hard I thought it might burst through my chest. My throat felt raw like I'd been screaming. My chest ached where Selene's hands had burned.But there were no marks, no chains and no blood, it's like I just woke up from a bad dream and all this never happened. Except it did and this is the third time in a row. I'd died twice and somehow woken up here, on this same morning, in this same bed, staring at this same ceiling.I pressed shaking hands to my face. The memories were clearer this time, sharper, no longer hidden behind fog. I could see it all now, both deaths playing out in my mind like a nightmare I c
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