Se connecterElla's POV"Mom, what did you mean by breaking the bond between me and Kael?"We were having breakfast that morning. The kitchen was quiet. The only sounds were my spoon against the bowl and my mom turning the pages of her newspaper. But I couldn't eat. Her words from that midnights kept playing in my head. Breaking the bond between you two would solve this issue.She raised her head. Looked at me over the top of her newspaper."You will understand soon." Her voice was calm. Too calm. "I don't understand what part you don't get when I said you should stay away from those boys."I put my spoon down. My appetite was gone."I wasn't expecting any of them to show up. Angel just appeared out of nowhere. And now she's giving me and Kael three days to end things between us."The threat felt heavy. It had been sitting on my chest since that night. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Angel's face. Her smile. Her cold eyes. The way she said don't say I didn't warn you."What would she do if you
Sara's POVAngel reached out to me. Asked to meet. Talked about Ella. About the future. About how we both want the same thing.But I'm not sure I can work with her from my true heart. There's something about Angel that doesn't sit right with me. Something fake. Something selfish.The reason I can't fully trust her is that we don't actually want the same thing. Not really. She wants Ella out of Kael's life. That's her goal. Her obsession. She believes Ella would be a future problem for me, and she's right about that. But that's not why she's doing this. She's doing this for herself.Angel wants Kael. Plain and simple. She wants him back in Lykos. Back in her bed. Back under her control.But I want him too.After the kiss at the party on Friday night, I felt something I hadn't felt in a long time. Loved. Wanted. Chosen. My wolf loved that kiss. She's been restless ever since, wanting more. Wanting him.And now Angel tells me the kiss was intentional? That Kael did it for a purpose? That
Angel's POVImmediately I left Ella's bedroom that midnight, I started regretting giving Ella and Kael three days to end things between them. Three days for Kael to leave Moonridge and come back to Lykos. That was too long. Too generous. I should have given them hours. Maybe minutes.I can't wait for the action I have in mind. Every second that passes, they're together. Every minute that goes by, he's still here. Still close to her. Still choosing her over me.I should have done something at that moment. Right there in Ella's room. A hex. A curse. Something to make her suffer. Something to make her understand that Kael belongs to me.But I didn't. Because I came to realize something as I stood there. Ella's mom is a witch. Not just any witch. I could feel her power the moment she walked into that room. It was heavy. Old. Strong.Hurting Ella at that moment might cause problems I don't know how to handle. Problems bigger than me. Bigger than my mother. I don't know how powerful Ella's
Kael's POVOne of the biggest mistakes I've ever made was not activating my wolf's scenting ability before climbing through that window. I should have known who was in Ella's room. I should have sensed it. But no one would ever think that Angel would be at Ella's house past 2am. No one would expect that.The shock on my face when I saw Angel standing there, staring straight at me as I climbed in, was obvious. I couldn't hide it. All my plans. All my careful distance. Everything I did to keep Ella safe. It all fell apart in that one moment.I had been trying so hard to keep my distance from Ella. I stopped sitting with her in class. Stopped walking with her in the hallways. Stopped showing up at her house. I did it all so Angel wouldn't notice that Ella was the mate she was looking for. I thought if Angel didn't see us together, she would look somewhere else. She would target someone else. Ella would be safe.But now everything was ruined. Just by my silly mistake. And it was going to
Ella's POV"I don't know, Angel. I think you should figure that out yourself."I was still trying to figure out how she got in. My door was locked. My window was closed. And I don't sleep that deep. I would have heard something. A creak. A footsteps. Anything. But there was nothing. She was just there. Like she appeared out of thin air.Angel moved closer to me on the bed. Every time she shifted, I moved back. My back was already against the headboard. I had nowhere else to go. She was invading my space. My room. My safe place.I was very scared. The look in her eyes was different now. Not the soft, friendly Angel from school. This was someone else. Someone unstable. Someone who truly had a mental problem. Damon was right about her."You know, Sara made me almost believe that Kael's mate was you." Angel tilted her head. Studied my face. "Until I saw her kissing Kael at the party.""Wow," I said. My voice came out small.My heartbeat had been levitating. Racing. Pounding. But now it sl
Ella's POVAngel's eyes were still on me, waiting for an answer. Her face was calm, but there was something underneath. Something cold. Something hungry.I wasn't thinking about a reply anymore. I was thinking about how to defend myself. Whatever Angel was planning, whatever punishment she had in mind for Kael's mate, I needed to be ready. She was sitting right next to me, asking me to sentence myself, and she didn't even know it. Maybe.Before I could speak, a voice came from behind us."It seems you don't know how mate stuff works, right?"Damon stepped out of the shadows. He was leaning against the wall, arms crossed, watching us."Mate bonding isn't something two people decide," he continued. "It's what the Moon Goddess decides. So don't be mad at the lady for stealing your man. She didn't steal anything. The Goddess gave her something."Angel looked at him. Her smile didn't change, but her eyes got colder."Coming from a guy who toys with ladies' hearts," she said. "I don't need
Ella's POVI sat on the staircase, trying to process what my mom just told me. At that moment, a lot of questions started building up in my head. But there was one I couldn't wait to ask."Mom, you can't be so sure that this would happen to me just because it's playing out just like yours played,"
Ella's POV"Can I follow you?"I knew that voice. I didn't even need to turn around. It was the kind of voice that lingered, the kind that didn’t just fade into the background no matter how much you tried to ignore it.I stopped walking and turned. Damon was standing behind me, his hands in his poc
Ella's POVNot quite long after school ended, I decided to go pick up some new books from the library. I needed to keep myself busy. Things with my mom weren't going to be the same for who knows how long. The silence between us this morning was heavy. I wasn't ready to go home and sit in that silen
Damon's POV I knew I had lost Ella the moment she ran after Kael. I saw the way she pushed me. That strength. That wasn't her. Not the Ella I knew. But she found it somewhere. And she used it to get away from me. I knew why she went upstairs earlier. She caught me staring at her chest. I could







