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Author: Mercy Jane
last update publish date: 2026-03-23 04:01:32

"You were always too smart for your own good, Rose," Karl said, his voice echoing in the confined space. "I actually liked you. I thought we could be a team. But then you had to go back to him."

"You were stealing from us for years, Karl," I said, my back pressed against the opposite wall. I tried to reach for my phone in my pocket, but he stepped forward, his hand snapping out to catch my wrist.

"Don't," he warned. He reached into my pocket and tossed my phone onto the floor, crushing it under
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  • Dear Ex Husband Wants Me Back   20

    While the children settled into the stone-carved villas of the Sanctuary, a new threat was coalescing ten thousand miles away.In a high-rise in Zurich, a man sat in a room bathed in candlelight. He didn't use computers; he didn't trust them. He used shadows. His name was Silas Vane—the man Hecate had called "The Vulture." He was the Council’s Chief Inquisitor, a man whose lineage predated the Robinson experiments by centuries. He didn't need DNA to be a monster; he was born one."The girl has the King’s resonance," a voice whispered from the corner. It was one of the Archivists who had survived the Arctic vault, his face a map of thermal burns. "She’s gathered the failures on the hidden island."Vane stood up. He was thin, almost skeletal, his movements jerky and unnatural. He leaned over a physical map of the Pacific, his finger hovering over the empty space where the Sanctuary lay."Failure is a matter of perspective," Vane said. His voice was a wet rasp. "The King was a dreamer.

  • Dear Ex Husband Wants Me Back   19

    Astra didn't attack. She fell forward, her body stiff from years of cryo-stasis. I caught her, the cold from her skin seeping into mine like a physical weight."The song..." she rasped. Her voice sounded like breaking glass. "The song stopped.""The broadcast is over, Astra," I said, wrapping her in my own coat. "You’re safe.""No," she said, her blue eyes darting toward the shadows of the hallway. "Not over. The man in the black suit... he said when the song stops, the 'Cleaners' come."As if on cue, the facility’s red emergency lights began to pulse. A voice boomed over the intercom—not a human voice, but an AI.CONTAIMENT BREACH DETECTED. INITIATING THERMAL PURGE IN FIVE MINUTES."They’re going to burn the whole vault," Leo shouted, grabbing a nearby terminal. "Rose, there are over fifty pods here. We can't move them all in five minutes!""I can," Astra said. She stood up, her legs shaky but her gaze fixed. She held out her hands, and the air in the room began to crystallize. "I

  • Dear Ex Husband Wants Me Back   18

    The flight to the Robinson Tower was a blur of G-forces and red warnings on the HUD. The city below us looked peaceful, millions of people sleeping, unaware that their brains were about to be rewritten."Ten minutes to broadcast," Leo announced. "The tower’s automated defenses are active. I’m jamming what I can, but we’re going to take hits."The Vulture rocked as a surface-to-air missile exploded nearby."I’ll jump," I said."What? Rose, we're at five thousand feet!" Leo yelled."The King will catch me," I said, looking at my father. He nodded, his golden eyes glowing.He grabbed my waist, and before Leo could protest, he kicked the emergency hatch open. We plummeted into the cold night air.The wind roared, but I wasn't afraid. I felt my father’s energy wrapping around me like a cocoon. As we approached the roof of the tower, he shifted—not into a wolf, but into something more ethereal, a cloud of silvery mist and shadow. We slowed, landing softly on the helipad like a falling lea

  • Dear Ex Husband Wants Me Back   17

    I turned around, my heart hammering against my ribs. In the corner of the lab, hidden behind a heavy lead-lined curtain, sat a containment unit. It wasn't like the others. It was ornate, inscribed with symbols that looked like ancient runes.Inside, a man sat cross-legged. He looked like an older, male version of me. His hair was long and white, his skin etched with scars that glowed with a faint, silvery light."He’s been in a stasis-coma for twenty years," Silas whispered. "The true Alpha. The source of the royal line. I didn't create you from a test tube, Rose. I took you from him when you were an infant. I raised you as a weapon because I knew your blood was the only thing that could stabilize the Variant strain."I approached the glass. The man’s eyes suddenly snapped open. They were the same molten gold as mine.He didn't speak, but a voice echoed in my head—not the mechanical rasp of the Council, but a warm, resonant hum. My daughter. You have returned to the cage."Break it,

  • Dear Ex Husband Wants Me Back   16

    The sunlight streaming through the penthouse windows felt too peaceful, a golden lie that masked the bruises on my soul. Three days of darkness—three days where my mind had been a battlefield of static and fur—had left me feeling hollowed out, like a house that had been gutted by fire but left standing.Leo was being "Dad." He was making pancakes, checking Jaden’s backpack, and playing the role of the billionaire tech mogul who didn't have a secret war room in his basement. But I saw the way his hand trembled when he poured the orange juice. He was looking at the clock. We both were.The countdown on Marcus’s remote had been a bluff—or rather, a distraction. The estate hadn't blown up. Instead, the signal had simply... vanished. But a vanished signal is often louder than a scream. It means the enemy is repositioning."You're thinking about the bunkers," Leo said, leaning against the doorframe after Jaden had skipped out to the armored SUV waiting to take him to his private schoo

  • Dear Ex Husband Wants Me Back   15

    The penthouse smelled of ozone and ancient pine. The air seemed to crackle around the white wolf, whose presence had turned the ultra-modern suite into something primeval. Leo watched as Rose—or the being Rose had become—paced the length of the reinforced glass windows. Every time her claws clicked against the marble, the sound echoed like a gunshot."Rose," Leo whispered, stepping toward her. "Can you hear me? Is the woman I love still in there, or am I talking to the 'Variant' my father created?"The wolf stopped. She turned her massive, regal head, her golden eyes burning with an intensity that made Leo’s lungs tighten. Slowly, the shimmering white fur began to recede, pulling back into her skin like a retreating tide. The cracking of bones returned—a sickening, rhythmic sound—until Rose collapsed onto the floor, human once more, wrapped in the tattered remains of her silk robe.Leo rushed to her, wrapping her in a thick wool blanket. She was shivering, her skin deathly pal

  • Dear Ex Husband Wants Me Back   14

    The morning after the chaos at the pond did not bring the peace Rose had prayed for. Instead, it brought a heavy, unnatural stillness. They were back at the hotel, the "safe haven" that now felt like a gilded cage. Jaden was sleeping, his breath finally steady, while Leo sat at the mahogany desk, h

  • Dear Ex Husband Wants Me Back   13

    The North Pier was a skeletal finger of rusted iron and rotting wood reaching out into the churning, black Atlantic. The wind howled through the pilings, sounding like a choir of the damned. Rose stood at the edge of the asphalt, the salt spray stinging her eyes. In the backseat of Leo’s sleek, bul

  • Dear Ex Husband Wants Me Back   12

    The envelope Elena Vance had shoved through the window sat on the dashboard like a live grenade. Leo didn’t open it. He couldn’t. His hands were shaking too hard as he steered the car back toward the safety of the Azure Sands hotel. The silence in the car was deafening, broken only by the soft, rhy

  • Dear Ex Husband Wants Me Back   11

    The morning sun at the high-end hotel was different from the sun at the Robinson estate. At the estate, the light always felt cold, filtering through heavy velvet curtains like a spotlight in a prison. Here, in the penthouse of the Azure Sands, the light was warm and smelled of salt air and expensi

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