Se connecter"What do you want, Aveline?" The Alpha King's silver eyes burn into mine as he drops to his knees, his hands gripping my thighs like he owns them. His voice is a command, not a request, and I'm trembling, unable to form words. "Say it properly, or I walk away and leave you like this." The night before our wedding, I discover that the man sworn to hate me is also the only one who can bring me to my knees. All Aveline ever wanted was a mate who would protect and cherish her, someone to take her away from a pack that rejected her the moment they discovered she was wolfless. Instead, she gets public humiliation when her fated mate rejects her, then gets sold as a bride to the cursed Alpha King—a man whose hatred runs deeper than she could ever imagine. Alpha King Thorne doesn't just despise weakness. He despises her. The moment he sees her face, he's reminded of the mate who betrayed him, the one who chose death over being his. Her only purpose? To bear his heir. Nothing more. Stripped of her title and thrown into a world of dark politics and ancient prophecies, Aveline must survive not just his cruelty, but the dangerous obsession growing between them. Because the man determined to break her is the same one who makes her body sing with a single touch. "You're mine, Aveline. Tomorrow you become my wife. My Luna. My breeder." What happens when duty becomes desire, hatred transforms into possession, and the girl meant to be broken becomes the only one capable of bringing the most powerful alpha to his knees?
Voir plusEpilogue: Six Months LaterAVELINE'S POVSix months after Aria was born, life was still chaos.But good chaos. The kind I could handle."She's doing it again," Thorne said, appearing in the nursery doorway.I looked at our daughter. She was floating three feet off the ground, giggling like it was the funniest thing in the world."Aria Silverthorne Valek," I said sternly. "We talked about this. No floating until you're at least one."She giggled louder and floated higher."She doesn't listen," Thorne said, but he was smiling."She's six months old," I pointed out. "A YOUNG SHEWOLF, AND AN INCREDIBKY POWERFUL MAGICIAN. She’s already more powerful than most adult wolves. Of course she doesn't listen. She's got Silverthorne magic and Blood Moon stubbornness. We're doomed."I reached up and grabbed her, pulling her back down. She immediately started crying."I know, baby," I said, bouncing her. "Floating is fun. But you're giving mommy a heart attack."She stopped crying and grabbed my hai
Chapter 187: New BeginningsAVELINE'S POVTwo weeks after the infection was removed, my water broke.Of course it happened in the middle of Christy's wedding.Because why would my life ever be simple?"Aveline?" Christy asked, seeing my face. "What's wrong?""I think…" I looked down at the puddle forming under my dress. "Yeah. My water just broke."The entire wedding froze."NOW?" Christy shrieked. "You're giving birth NOW?""I don't exactly have control over this!" I shouted back, yet feeling guilty.Then the first contraction hit and I doubled over, gasping."THORNE!" multiple people shouted.He appeared instantly, already shifting to Lycan form like he was going to fight whoever was hurting me."It's the baby," I gasped. "She's coming. Right now.""Fuck," he said, shifting back to human. "Okay. Okay. We planned for this. Maya's on standby. The medical wing is ready. We just need to get you there—"Another contraction cut off his words. This one was worse. Way worse."I can't walk,"
Chapter 186: HealingTHORNE'S POVThe post-war recovery took three weeks.Three weeks of endless meetings about territory boundaries and resource allocation and who owed what to whom. Three weeks of counting our dead and trying to rebuild what Morgana had destroyed.We'd lost over two hundred warriors in the final battle. Two hundred families destroyed. Two hundred funerals to attend.I went to every single one.It was exhausting. Soul-crushing. But necessary.These people had died fighting for us. For our daughter. For the future. The least I could do was show up and honor their sacrifice.Aveline came with me to most of them, her pregnant belly getting bigger every day, her face somber as we listened to grieving families share stories about their dead."This never gets easier, does it?" she asked after the hundredth funeral."No," I admitted. "It doesn't. You just learn to carry the weight better."She nodded, understanding.The Council meetings were somehow worse than the funerals.
Chapter 185: Broken TruthsTHORNE'S POVThe second the Council chamber emptied, Aveline broke.She wasn’t crying or screaming, but her voice came out muffled, while I stood there, I capacitated, because I wasn’t shocked by the revelation, I had always thought of this, the thoughts had many times crossed my mind, but never had I made any efforts to research because I was scared… scared of what I would find."Aveline," I said quietly, reaching for her.She pulled away. "Don't.""Baby—""I said don't!" She turned to look at me and her eyes were wild. Hurt. "You knew. Didn't you? You knew about this, didn’t you?”"I didn't know about Reuben," I said honestly. "I swear I didn't know you were sisters. I just thought—""You thought what?" she demanded. "That the Moon Goddess sent you some kind of replacement? Some omega to torture because she looked like your dead mate?"I flinched because that's exactly what I'd thought at first."Yes," I admitted. "At first, yes. But then I got to know yo






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