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Ghosts.

Author: Censia
last update publish date: 2026-08-08 01:38:20

This house remembered a version of us that no longer existed.

Every turn of the wide oak corridors in Grimholt Manor pulled a ghost out of the floorboards, whispering of a past

I had spent five desperate years trying to bury.

I stood in the doorway of Braxton’s sprawling archive room, staring at the high leather-bound ledgers resting on the dark shelves.

Seven years ago, my mother married his father, pulling me into the ruthless world of the Grimholt bloodline.

Braxton was seventeen then—arr
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  • FATED TO MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA.   You can hear the Alpha's thoughts.

    Scarlett's POV. Braxton stirred lightly beneath the pillow, a low groan escaping his chest before his hand reached up to pull it off his face. His amber eyes fluttered open, drowsy with sleep. “Scarlett...” he mumbled, his voice thick and hoarse. Before I could even register his movement, his long fingers shot out and wrapped tightly around my wrist. With a sudden, lazy tug, he dragged me straight down on top of him. “What the hell are you doing?” I yelped in a sharp whisper, trying frantically not to wake the sleeping children. Braxton immediately wrapped both of his broad arms around my waist, pulling me flush against his bare chest. He buried his face straight into the crook of my neck, taking a deep, contented breath of my hair. “Hmmm...” he murmured huskily against my skin. “Stay here. Just five minutes.” “Like hell I will!” I hissed, digging my hands into his collarbones and pushing with all my strength to get up, but his grip was like an iron vice. “Stop moving around

  • FATED TO MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA.   Some Dreams Make Reality.

    Scarlett's POV.“Save me…” the voice echoed in my head, hollow and trembling.Where was I?It was dark—a thick, absolute pitch-blackness where I couldn't see a single thing. But I could hear the painful moans, the weak, rattling gasps for breath bouncing off invisible walls.“Who's there?” I called out, turning in a circle.Nothing. Just a heavy, deafening silence that made my ears ring.“Scarlett, save me...” the voice cried out again, weaker this time.I couldn't even tell if it belonged to a woman or a man. How had I even gotten here? What was this place?“Who are you?” I asked loudly, my heart hammering against my ribs. “Why can't I see you?”My voice echoed wildly into the empty space, every word reverberating as if it were being swallowed whole by an endless, bottomless void.It was completely black. I couldn't see anything, nor could I hear any other sounds except for that singular, agonized voice.That voice sounded like it had endured years and years of relentless torture—

  • FATED TO MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA.   Better Than The Gods.

    —Narrated—Behind the carnage, standing calmly near the back pillar, Raven didn't flinch.The young inksmith leaned casually against the stone column, his dark, beautiful eyes watching the slaughter without a single trace of fear or panic. He didn't run, he didn't scream.He simply waited.Once the remaining survivors had managed to stumble out into the corridors, the grand hall fell dead quiet once again, painted in blood and bodies.Reginald’s massive, towering form turned toward Raven. The beast took long, heavy strides across the room, the marble floors scraping under the immense weight of his toe claws.Yet before he even reached the young man, the dark magic surrounding his body flared. Bones snapped back into place, black fur receded into skin, and within seconds, Reginald stood fully human once again, completely naked and breathing heavily.Raven reached to his side, picking up a heavy velvet robe he had prepared, and held it open, waiting patiently.Reginald stepped direct

  • FATED TO MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA.   A monster's true form.

    —Narrated—The piercing, desperate cry of a newborn child echoed through the grand stone hall, deafening and raw.“Discard the useless trash,” the Alpha ordered calmly.Alpha Reginald of the Ravenmark pack sat on a carved obsidian altar with his broad back turned toward the assembly of his pack elders. His skin was glistening, bare from the waist up as an inksmith meticulously dragged a steel needle dipped in dark, glowing ink across his spine.Reginald didn't flinch. He didn't move an inch as the younger man worked the sacred, dark magic of his craft into the Alpha’s flesh.“B-but... your majesty...” the young servant holding the bundle trembled visibly, her knees shaking beneath her dress. “You haven't even looked at the child yet! It is a healthy baby boy…”The entire hall held its breath in absolute terror. The elders sitting around the massive oak council table swallowed hard, their faces turning deathly pale.This foolish, arrogant servant.Nobody dared question the Alpha Kin

  • FATED TO MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA.   I Refuse To Be Anybody's Toy.

    Scarlett's POV.“A man more heartless, more terrifying than you think Rourke is.” She added.I stared at her, waiting for her to continue.“After your father went missing and mysteriously never returned from his journey, Reginald came to me,” she explained, her tone turning cold and bitter. “He demanded that I marry him. But I refused him instantly. When I turned him down, he threatened to destroy everything I had left.”She took a small breath before continuing. “That was when Rourke stepped in. At the time, I foolishly believed Rourke was simply defending me out of loyalty, because my husband—your father, Maverick—had been his respected Beta.”My confusion only deepened. “Wait... Mama, what do you mean? You're talking as if my father wasn't originally from Grimholt.”“He wasn't,” my mother confirmed quietly, looking me dead in the eyes. “Your father was never originally from this pack, Scarlett. He was born into royalty. He was supposed to be the next Alpha of the Ravenmark pack...

  • FATED TO MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA.   He's your Uncle.

    Scarlett's POV.I walked out of Mirrielle's room with Micah securely on my hip, the soft patter of my footsteps against the hallway floor doing nothing to drown out the loud, furious pounding of my heart.“We've slept together twice, Alpha. As husband and wife under pack law, it isn't a crime to fulfill our marital duties... is it?”For some infuriating, absurd reason, Mirrielle’s sharp words kept echoing in my head over and over again, repeating like a broken record that refused to stop.“I want to carry your heirs, Alpha.”My free hand clenched into a tight fist at my side as I strode down the wide, polished corridor.I didn't even understand why I was getting so damn mad about it. Mirrielle was Braxton's lawfully wedded wife and his official Luna. It didn't matter in the eyes of this pack that I was his true mate. Under their laws, she was his wife.She had every right to bear his children. She was already sitting by his side as his Luna, positioned as Grimholt's second most po

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