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Author: Miss_zara
last update publish date: 2026-06-25 23:20:58

Xander's POV

These words felt like a fist in my chest, taking all the breath out of me. I just thought I heard him wrong for one minute. I pressed the phone so hard my knuckles went tight and white!

"What did you just say?" I sprang to my feet, thumping the back of the chair as it clattered behind me.

Across the room, Bella immediately looked up from the hospital bed. Concern flashed across her tired face, her brows knitting together as she studied me, but I barely noticed. All I could concentr
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    Asma's POVI couldn't feel my legs anymore, I had spent days inside that dungeon. Days of darkness and pain.And now I was left there, at the border, like garbage that was finally thrown away.The cold wind blew against my face, carrying the scent of the forest around me.Behind me was Nightmare Pack and ahead of me was nothing. Only bare roads and trees.I looked at the boundary markers for awhile. The pack I saw myself becoming Luna in, the place where I dreamed I walked next to Xander one day. The same community I pictured creating a life for myself.Now I wasn't even allowed to step inside again, my chest tightened painfully and a bitter laugh escaped my lips."Look at you, Asma," I whispered hoarsely. "Look what you've become living in dungeon"My voice sounded strange and broken. I don't even recognize it myself!I looked down at my trembling hands, bruises still covered my wrists from the chains.My body ached from the beatings, the torture had weakened me. Not on me though.B

  • Claimed By Alpha Xander Marco   38

    Xander's POVThe drive back to Nightmare Pack should have felt familiar but It didn't.As I drove past the giant iron gates at the gate of the land which I had ruled over for a number of years, I felt a strange loneliness.The forests. The mountains. The soldiers guarding the frontiers. The pack members bowing respectfully as my convoy passed.The setting and the circumstances were the same, but the atmosphere had changed. Part of me was elsewhere for the first time in my life.Back with my mate and my children.I leaned my head against the seat and closed my eyes briefly. Immediately I saw them.Bella is sitting near the window and sunlight is playing on her made up face.The twins sleeping in her arms. The little smile on her face that she always attempted to conceal when she looked at me.A strange warmth settled inside my chest then it vanished as soon as the reality returned.I was here to my people. And I already knew today was going to give me a headache.Upon arriving at the p

  • Claimed By Alpha Xander Marco   37

    Xander's POVThe moment Bella mentioned Lucian's name, I noticed the change in her immediately.So small most people would have missed it. But I didn't for me not anymore. Not after spending all those days watching her. Not after seeing how her eyes turned to a fluttery pool of compassion when she looked at our children.After she knew the difference between a real smile and the fake one she used when she was hurting.The light went out of her face. Tons of tension settled on her shoulders. And her fingers slowly twisted together in her lap.The way the movement was done looked harmless. But it wasn't, It was just nervousness in pain.Something she has done without realising a lot of years ago.I sat beside her on the long cream-colored couch in the living room while the twins slept peacefully nearby. The nursery door remained slightly open, and every now and then I could hear one of the nannies moving quietly inside.The afternoon sunlight poured through the enormous glass windows. T

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    Bella's POVThe past two weeks had turned everything upside down.Sometimes I still woke up expecting to see the small apartment I used to share with Asma.In spite of this, at times I still imagined the neighbors fighting through thin walls. At times I still thought about rent and living.Then I would open my eyes and remember where I was. The hidden mansion of alpha xander Marco my beloved mate.A location where no one was aware of its existence. The place surrounded by guards twenty-four hours a day. The place where my babies were safe. The place where I was safe.I sat near the large window in my room with my daughter sleeping peacefully against my chest. My son was asleep in the crib beside me.The sunshine poured down on the room in the afternoon making it warm. Everything was quiet and peaceful. A feeling I wasn't used to.I gently stroked my daughter's tiny cheek and watched her yawn in her sleep.A smile touched my lips. No matter what happened between me and Xander, these ba

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    Xander's POVThe past two weeks had seemed like a dream.First time in years waking up every morning without immediately having to think about pack problems, business meetings, border attacks, enemies waiting to stab me in the back.Instead, I woke up thinking about Bella and our children. But that alone still didn't feel right.I sat in my personal study, behind my desk, at the private study in the Atlanta mansion and was looking at papers that had not been touched in nearly two decades.My attention wasn't on the reports. It wasn't on the financial projections. It wasn't on the security updates from Nightmare Pack.It was up there with them. A small smile threatened to appear on my face.I immediately pushed it away, then my phone rang.Quickly looked at the screen. And immediately frowned.Mother.The smile disappeared, my jaw tightened.I hadn't spoken to her in months. The last conversation we had ended badly which I decided I had walked away.She had told me never to come near h

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