ANMELDENRaven’s POVI was scared. Not just for them… but for myself too.Everything had changed overnight.One minute I was the girl being beaten up in school, thrown to the ground like trash, and the next I was... locked in a golden cage padded with golden silk. My phones…yes, now plural were replaced. A brand new iPhone and the latest MacBook with a silver casing and my initials engraved in delicate cursive on the back sat on my desk. My room didn’t feel like a room anymore. It was a luxury suite. They even painted the walls with my favorite colorz purple and added blackout curtains that could be drawn with a remote. A small fridge sat in the corner with my favorite snacks and bottled water. Someone had been listening way too closely.I didn’t know whether to scream or cry.Their behavior was nothing short of bizarre. The same brothers who once looked at me like I was dirt beneath their shoes now left little apology notes on my door everyday. “Drink this tea, it’ll help with the fatigue,
Raven's POVI woke up with a pounding headache, the kind that drills behind your eyes and makes you want to scream. Except I did scream. Not because of the headache, but because the first thing I saw when I peeled my eyes open was him.Cassian.God, I thought I made myself clear!His eyes were on mine, heavy, dark, and full of something I couldn’t name—regret? Pain? Hunger? I didn’t care. All I could see was his face hovering over me a few nights ago, his fangs in my skin, the choking panic as my body turned ice cold while he drank me like I was nothing but a goddamn wine glass.I screamed again with a Loud and Pleading voice.“Someone get him away from me! Please! Take them all away! I don’t want to see any of them!”My chest heaved and my heart slammed like a war drum. I clawed at the sheets, the cords, anything, as if they were restraints holding me down. I needed to escape, I needed air.But Cassian didn’t say a word, not one damn thing. He just looked at me for a second longer,
Cassian’s POVNothing made her smile anymore.Not even a damn twitch of her lips and I understood. I fucking understood, and it killed me.We’ve been jerks, Monsters and bastards. Pick just one. Hell no, we would pick all of them because we deserved it. I fucking deserved it.My brothers weren’t talking much, and when they did, it was always in harsh, bitter tones. The palace felt like a frozen warzone, like every step echoed with our shame. And Raven? She didn’t even look in our direction anymore. Not once…. Not even when our father tried to bring her around, explaining things, trying to get her to listen to the truth.We screwed up.Gods, she was the one person in the entire realm that could cure our damnation. The Blood Vane Curse…This same curse that’s haunted us for years, since the night our mother died and what did we do?We almost slit her throat.The image of her in my arms, limp and pale, her blood dripping down my chin like I was some ravenous animal who couldn’t stop—I w
Dante's POVWe fucked up!And not just a little fuck-up. I mean, royally, epically, what-the-hell-were-we-thinking kind of fucked up.Standing in that sterile hospital room, with Raven pale and motionless, was like staring at the consequences of every damn choice we made since she stepped foot in Velmora. Our father looked halfway relieved—like a weight had finally been lifted from his cursed shoulders—but none of us were celebrating. How could we?She was our fucking step sister.The one we bullied, ignored, pushed around like she was some human toy we could throw into our games and walk away unscathed. But she wasn’t just a girl. No, she was the goddamn key to the only thing we’ve ever feared more than death….our curse.And we treated her like trash.I leaned against the white wall, trying to swallow the guilt that had been clawing down my throat like razor blades since this morning. My jaw clenched, and my hands were fisted so tight I wouldn’t be surprised if I snapped something.C
Cassian's POV"I told you," I growled, slamming my palm against the marble pillar just outside the infirmary door. "She came into my room at the wrong damn time. I didn't invite her. I didn’t want this to happen."My father's eyes burned into me like twin blades of judgment. "And you couldn't hold your cursed urges for five minutes? She’s your sister!""She’s not my sister!" I snapped, voice low but lethal.The word echoed in the tense hallway.The scent of Raven’s blood still clung to my fingers, sticky, warm, and haunting. I could feel it drying under my nails like a scar I couldn't wash away.“She’s my daughter!” the King bellowed, stepping closer. “And your actions with your recklessness could’ve killed her!”I looked away, jaw tightening. My shirt was still ripped from last night. “You don’t understand.” My voice broke. “When I bit her… something happened. The pain, the fire, the Blood Vane and everything stopped like it vanished. Aren't you supposed to be asking me why I'm no l
Raven’s POVI stormed down the hallway, every step echoing louder than the voice in my head telling me to turn around.But I was done. Done being the fragile girl and done being the target and being ignored.Let them kill me if they wanted, Let them fuck me if that’s all they needed to get it over with. I wasn’t going to keep walking around like some lost, broken pet while everyone decided my fate. Screw that!I shoved Cassian’s door open without knocking.“Do you get off watching me get torn apart like a goddamn chew toy at school?!” I shouted, chest heaving, fists clenched. “Or do you all enjoy the humiliation? What is it—some twisted vampire bonding ritual?!”But I paused because Something was off.The lights were dim, but not in the normal mysterious, Cassian-kind-of-way until I saw him, telling me to leave, almost begging me to go but he looked like he was going to die anytime soon.Cassian was hunched over, shirtless, his back to me with tensed muscles as his shoulders rising a
Raven’s POVI could still feel his fingers between my thighs, the sensation of what Cassian had done lingering on my skin was like a fever I couldn’t sweat out. His mouth had found places no one else had dared to touch in a place like this and how I hated him—hated every damn part of him. But the
Dante's POVCassian and I had tracked Raven and Jerome to this very spot, as planned. I couldn’t believe how long it had taken for us to find them, but here we were, standing just outside the edge of the trees, waiting for the chaos to unfold. We watched them and I could see Raven, her figure just
Raven's POVMy heart hammered in my chest, and every breath I took felt too shallow. I wanted to scream and claw at him, tear away from his iron grip, but his hand on my mouth stifled the sound before it even left my throat. He was too strong, too fucking strong. His body pressed against mine, ever
Raven’s POVI didn’t know much about vampires, but I knew enough. My mother had warned me about them when I was younger, though I never really believed it because my friends would always say they don't exist. I’d heard the stories—about the creatures that came out at night, about the garlic, the si







