ログインI shoot to my feet immediately. “Her neck?”“Must be an insect bite or something. It was small.”Was that why she had a scarf covering her neck? So I didn’t see wrong.There is definitely something she is hiding.I grab my jacket immediately and head out.Her room is empty when I get there. It is near midnight. Where could she have gone?I pause when I near the room Tristan found me in that night.Then I catch her scent.The floral kind of scent that I oddly want to fill my lungs with every time.Riana stands in the middle of the room, her back facing me.Hearing the door creak shut, she spins and settles her eyes on mine.“Mr. Bran?” She shifts slightly, immediately avoiding my gaze. “What are you doing here?”“I was just passing by. What are you doing here?”“Making calls,” she almost whispers.“You could have done that in your room. Why did you choose to come here?”She sighs, meeting my gaze with a rather sharp expression. “I think I am done here. I’ll… take my leave now.”“Riana.
BRANI try to focus on the pile of work on my desk, but my mind keeps slipping back to those eyes behind the lenses staring coldly at me.For the past few hours, I've been trying to recall what happened that night I drank, but nothing rings a bell. I've always been a terrible drinker.My step father made me hate liquor.Back then, every night he'd come home drunk and hit me and my mother until the floor was stained with red. I saw alcohol as the driving mechanism for his brutality and swore it off ever since.Mother remarried after my biological father, Alpha of the pack died.She wanted me to grow up having a father figure, which turned out to be her greatest mistake.Nicky drain all savings to gamble then hit us for losing.Unable to take his cruelty, I save enough money to secretly leave home and travelled across the country immediately.. However, after graduating as the youngest and best medic in my college, I got home and saw my father sat on one of the couches, drinking.“Brat
“What the fuck did you just say?” Miranda raises a brow.“What I’m saying is… your daughter already signed what she wanted. Why aren’t you even considering calling the lawyer she’s cheating with? I can give you the hotel name and room number so you can see how sweetly your daughter spreads her legs for another man.”Miranda’s palm collides with his face immediately, sending Nathan’s head whipping to the side. A sharp sting sears across his cheek.“Speak ill about my daughter again and I won’t go easy on you.”Nathan chuckles, slowly raising his head to look at her. A dark smirk dances on his lips.Miranda has no idea where her daughter is. If she did, she would be on her knees right now. But… Nathan doesn’t wish to spoil the fun yet.“You should wipe that smug look off your face. Drogo is probably looking for you.”Nathan’s smirk vanishes instantly. Miranda presses on.“Your pack is receiving a huge blow because of it. I wonder what your father and the council will do if Drogo happens
RIANA The moment I step into my room, my breath hitches. Bran is standing by my window. Those brown eyes that were staring outside turn to meet mine. I’ve been avoiding him since that night he trapped and kissed me. Seeing him now, my heart races frantically. “Mr. Bran. What are you doing here?” I ask, struggling to keep my voice calm. “I came to check on you yesterday night. You weren’t in here or in the unit.” “I… I was in the library.” “I checked there as well,” he says. Pushing my glasses up the bridge of my nose, I focus my gaze somewhere around the corner. “Perhaps you missed me.” Silence follows for several beats before his footsteps echo, louder at each thud. “How are you doing?” He ask. “I’m… quite tired, Mr. Bran. I would like to rest now,” I try to walk past him, but a strong hand holds mine, yanking my gaze up to his. Cold sweat breaks on my forehead. He squints at my heaving chest. “Did you meet your brother?” “What?” “I feel like you are hiding something
DROGO Beth goes paler than a blank sheet. My words settle between us like the silence before thunder. “What?… What did you just say?” “Nathan borrowed a large amount of money from Godzilla’s empire and used you as collateral. You are paying an incredible amount of debt by selling your body.” Tears sting her eyes. She looks like she has stopped breathing. “No,” a broken whisper tears from her. “No… that… is not true. Nathan… won’t do this.” She shakes her head. “You’re lying. You’re trying to pin this on him.” I reveal the file without arguing. A gasp tears from her as she reads. “Men humiliated me. They… did all kinds of things and paid for it. And all that… was because of him?” She looks ready to faint. Then a scream tears from her throat, tears falling like a river. “I’m going to kill that bastard!! I’m going to pulverize his organs and burn him with my own hands!” “Beth!” I snap at her. “Stay calm.” “What do you mean stay calm?!” She snaps. “I can still feel th
DROGORhiannon drops the pictures with a wince and twisted frustration.“I don’t recognize any of them,” she bites her lower lip. “Who could have done this?”She reaches for them and begins searching through again. My hand reaches out to stop her.“It’s okay. You’ve gone through them many times.”“No,” she shakes her head. “I can’t keep being like this. I can’t keep letting her get hurt because of me. Every suffering, every pain, every insult was because I couldn’t protect her.”“It’s not your fault.”“It is!” Her red eyes snap up to mine, her chest shaking with anger. “Everything links back to me. I’ve been too soft and weak to fight back, and that led me to marry the wrong man. The day I had Isolde was the most beautiful moment of my life, and yet I couldn’t protect the one thing that made me happy. Instead, she was the one protecting me.”My fist clenches.“Despite being young and vulnerable, she would stand between heaven and earth to keep me safe. She would even steal food and so
DROGOFor a moment, the room freezes at her unexpected words. I stay quiet. But Rean isn’t. I can feel the dangerous effect bubbling at the surface.At this point, I don’t want to act on emotions. It’s quite surprising that I’m able to control myself.“And how will you know that?” I ask her. “Bec
“Oh, she’s such a cute runaway!”I force myself faster, breath seizing in my throat. Their footsteps pound behind me, their laughter growing louder. I whimper as I feel them closing in.It happens in a split second. I crash into one of them, and before I hit the ground, a hand clamps around my neck
DROGO It has been hours since the search began, and as time passes, so does my patience and sanity. There is still no sign of her. Rain pours from above as if the heavens are trying to wash her away from me. The storm makes everything difficult, but we don’t stop. I don’t plan to. Until I find h
ISOLDEI wake up panting. My body is burning up like I’m being placed inside a burning furnace, sweat soaking every inch of me. My eyes crack open to a dark, silent space broken by my heavy breathing. I try to move, only to feel my hands and feets restrained.Panic ripples through me as memories f







