LOGINAlina Harper is determined to survive her first year of college without falling into the typical clichés—until she collides with Rhett Blackwood, the infuriatingly handsome captain of the university hockey team. But Rhett isn’t just a star athlete; he’s an alpha werewolf carrying a dark past, a cursed reputation, and a temper that could shred anyone who gets too close. When a dangerous shadow pack targets the campus’s supernatural community, Alina and Rhett are forced into a fake relationship for protection. The rules are simple: keep it pretend, avoid real feelings, and survive the semester unscathed. Except rules are meant to be broken. As Alina navigates college life, parties, and exams, she discovers a web of secrets, betrayals, and dangerous enemies hiding in plain sight. Rhett’s brooding charm and protectiveness make her heart beat faster than any hockey match ever could, while hidden rivalries and past mistakes threaten to destroy everything. Enemies become lovers, allies turn into traitors, and the line between deception and desire blurs. With supernatural threats lurking in the shadows and their feelings growing impossible to ignore, Alina and Rhett must confront their fears, confront their pasts, and fight for a future neither of them thought they deserved. In a world where trust is a luxury and love can be deadly, will their hearts survive the game? Or will secrets, vengeance, and betrayal win?
View MoreHere is CHAPTER 43 — “THE PRICE OF POWER”(continuing directly from Chapter 42, raising stakes and setting up the next catastrophic twist)CHAPTER 43 — THE PRICE OF POWERThe void did not forgive.It remembered.As Rhett held Alina against his chest, white fire flickering around them, the realm trembled like a wounded animal deciding whether to die… or retaliate.Alina’s fingers clutched his shoulders.“Rhett… we need to go. It’s not over.”He knew.He felt it.The monster they’d torn apart hadn’t vanished.It had scattered.And something far worse was watching.The collapsing platform beneath them split open with a violent crack. A spiral of black wind erupted upward, circling them like a tightening noose.Livia’s voice faintly echoed through the distant rupture:“GET OUT NOW! THE REALM IS RESETTING!”Rhett tried to open a tear back to their world——but nothing responded.The void sealed itself.A low vibration rolled through the air.Not sound.Not movement.A presence.Alina stiffe
The void roared.Rhett soared through the fractured air, white fire trailing behind him like a comet born of rage and desperation. Every step tore the ground apart, every heartbeat shaking the realm to its very core. The monstrous entity loomed above Alina, wings of bone spread wide, shadow dripping from every limb, mouth opening impossibly long, lined with fangs that could devour galaxies.Alina struggled against her restraints, veins glowing with silver as her bond flared, a thin but defiant thread linking her to Rhett. Her voice barely reached him over the chaos:“Rhett… it’s—”A claw of shadow slammed into the platform, sending shards of moonstone flying.Rhett roared, shifting midair. His wolf form stretched impossibly tall, muscles glowing with white fire, fangs sharp enough to split reality. He collided with the creature, and the impact sent shockwaves that split the void further, revealing black rivers beneath, full of screaming, lost souls.The entity twisted, slamming him ba
The void swallowed Rhett whole.Not like a doorway.Not like falling.More like being devoured.His body stretched, bent, folded through dimensions he didn’t understand and wasn’t meant to survive. His bones split into light. His blood turned into sound. His heartbeat became a pulse felt across dead universes.And still—He pushed forward.Every step was agony, tearing him further apart.But he didn’t stop.Because somewhere ahead—Through endless screaming shadows—Alina was here.“Alina!”His voice echoed wrong, splitting into ten versions of itself.Some cried. Some growled. Some whispered.All of them were him.A twisted path formed beneath his feet—if it could be called a path. It writhed like a living serpent, shifting with each step, made of broken time, floating bones, and fragments of worlds that had died long before his existence.The air was cold.Not natural cold—A cold that ate memory.Each breath threatened to take something from him.His name.His past.Her face.Rhett
The shadow-being fully unfurled behind Alina, its form stretching across the broken void like a living eclipse. Faces twisted in and out of its mass—crying, laughing, screaming—never staying long enough to be called human.Rhett held Alina protectively, his arms tightening around her trembling body.“You can’t have her,” he growled, silver fire crackling along his skin.The entity chuckled, a sound like bones grinding together.“Boy… I already do.”Before Rhett could react, shadows shot forward.Not toward him—Toward Alina.A massive, pulsing tendril slammed into her chest.She convulsed violently, gasping as the ancient presence surged into her like a tidal wave.Her eyes rolled back.Her mouth opened—And she whispered, in a voice too soft and too broken:“Rhett…run.”The whisper wasn’t hers.It was forced out of her lungs like a puppet being yanked by invisible strings.Rhett’s head snapped toward her, panic cutting through him like a blade.“No, no, no—Alina—stay with me—”But h
Alina froze, her pulse pounding in her ears. The figure standing at the edge of the garden wasn’t just someone familiar. It was Nolan Chase, her ex.Her stomach twisted. Memories she had tried to bury—broken promises, whispered lies, heartbreak—rushed back like a tidal wave.“Nolan,” she breathed,
Alina Harper stared at her reflection in the dorm mirror, tugging nervously at her hair. College parties weren’t her thing—not really—but tonight was different. Rhett had insisted. “It’s better if you come to the party. Pretend to be mine. Keep up appearances.” Her reflection stared back at her w
Alina Harper had never imagined that a simple walk across campus could feel like stepping into a battlefield. And yet, here she was, books clutched tightly to her chest, heart still hammering from the morning’s chaos. She had tried to focus in class, she really had. But every glance toward the win
Alina Harper didn’t sleep that night. She told herself it was because of nerves, because college life was overwhelming, or maybe because of the looming pile of unread textbooks on her desk. But deep down, she knew it had more to do with Rhett Blackwood.Not the guy everyone gawked at across campus,






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