Mag-log in╭──────────.★..─╮ Selena's POV ╰─..★.──────────╯ ⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ Instead of answering, Derek pushed me harder forward and wrenched open the truck door, shoving me inside with such brutal force that my hip slammed against the center console. Pain rocketed up my side, bright and hot. "Did you forget what I fucking told you?" he barked, climbing in beside me and grabbing the steering wheel with one hand. "You have no right to ask questions, you hear me?!" He was breathing hard, his face twisted into something ugly and fanatical. "Yes," he snarled, his eyes meeting mine with a glare. "She put me up to this. She said if I don't kill you, she is leaving me. Do you understand? She gave me a damn ultimatum. And I can't...I can't live without her. She is everything. So I'm stuck, I'm trapped. I will do whatever she asks, even if it means...even if it means killing you. I don't want this, but I don't see another way." I clutched my chest, the pain from Jeremiah's bond flaring hotter now, a se
╭──────────.★..─╮ Selena's POV ╰─..★.──────────╯ ⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ He let out a sharp, pained grunt, and his grip loosened just enough. I made a desperate run for it. I darted around the front of the truck, legs pumping, heart hammering, trying to get past them and head back toward the shelter, toward help, toward Jeremiah. I couldn't believe Derek's words. Jeremiah was there. He wouldn't let anything happen to me, even if he was in pain himself. But Derek was faster than me. Stronger. Meaner. He grabbed a fistful of my hair and yanked me back violently. I screamed as pain exploded across my scalp, my head snapping back, my run cut short instantly. He pulled me by the hair and yanked me against his chest, my back slamming into his hard torso with a brutal thud that knocked the wind from my lungs. The sharp yank on my scalp burned like fire, and I regretted not cutting my hair shorter weeks ago. I let out a loud gasp as I felt a cold metal press against my throat. I didn't have to loo
╭──────────.★..─╮ Selena's POV ╰─..★.──────────╯ ⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ "Are we there yet?" Jacob asked for the hundredth fucking time from the back seat, his mouth full of Skittles, his hand already diving back into the bag for another colorful handful. I tried not to roll my eyes, keeping my focus locked on the long evening road stretching through the Spineclaw pack territory. The sun was already dipping low, painting everything in violent orange and molten gold. I was pretty sure we were almost there because I could see the shelter buildings in the distance now, squat and familiar against the darkening tree line. "We are almost there," I replied, my voice tight. Jacob grumbled behind me, shifting in his seat. "That's what you keep saying." I blew out a sharp breath. "I assure you, I want to get there as much as you do. Trust m—" The pain in my chest suddenly spiked, worse than before. It hit me like a sledgehammer to the sternum, cutting my words off completely. My hands jerked on the
╭──────༺♡༻──────╮ Alpha Flynn's POV ╰──────༺♡༻──────╯ ⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ I rolled my eyes so hard it actually hurt, my vision swimming for a second, unable to stand the ego of this old hag who was supposed to be my mother. Sometimes I still wondered what the hell I had ever done to her to deserve this level of hatred and cruelty, I tried to pick through the memories of my childhood like scabs, searching for that one moment where I had earned her contempt, but my brain hurt from just trying to figure it out. And at this point, I didn't give a fuck anymore. "I want you to go back in there," I said, gesturing to her room with a jerk of my chin, my arm heavy with exhaustion and blood loss. "Pack your things and leave this shelter." My voice was cold, completely empty of emotion, stripped bare of anything that might resemble feeling for this woman. "Because you are no longer needed here." She looked up at me, narrowing her eyes into poisonous slits, her mouth twisting into that familiar sneer
╭──────༺♡༻──────╮ Alpha Flynn's POV ╰──────༺♡༻──────╯ ⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ I continued down the hall, my boots heavy against the floorboards, heading straight for Peter's room. I hadn't seen him since I got back, and although I didn't really want to look at his betraying face again, I knew if Dominic woke up, he would kill Peter on sight and rip his throat out before he could blink, and I was doing this for the sake of Peter's family, not him. They didn't deserve to watch their father get torn apart in front of them. I knocked on his door hard, three sharp raps that echoed down the corridor, and after a few rustling sounds from the inside, whispers, and the creak of bedsprings, his wife opened the door. She tossed me a polite smile, her eyes wary. "Alpha Flynn, to what do we owe the pleasure?" she beamed. For a second I almost turned around and left them in peace. But I couldn't, I wouldn't have that blood on my hands, not when there were children involved, so I squared my shoulders and said
╭──────༺♡༻──────╮ Alpha Flynn's POV ╰──────༺♡༻──────╯ ⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ Madison's eyes widened in shock, her painted mouth falling open. "Don't be like that, Flynn, stop playing hard to get. I know you want—" "It's Alpha Flynn to you," I corrected, my voice dropping to a dangerous growl that vibrated through my chest, and then I saw red, the literal kind, the second I remembered what the rogues had told me about her trying to drown Sophia. My claws shot out of my fingertips with a visceral snick of bone and sinew, the razor-sharp tips gleaming under the hallway lights with the overwhelming urge to snap her neck right there, to paint these walls with her blood and be done with the poison she represented forever. But I forced myself to hold back, my muscles trembling with the effort, because I had given Maxwell my word that he could have her, so I had to restrain myself even though my wolf was howling murder inside my skull now, thirsty for Madison's blood, desperate to tear her apart limb
╭──────────.★..─╮ Selena's POV ╰─..★.──────────╯ ⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ I stumbled out of my room, throwing my hair into a messy bun. Pajama pants and top still on. Exhausted. Barely got any sleep. Not after overhearing Alpha Jeremiah and Flynn talking about a flood last night after I had been kicked out o
╭──────────.★..─╮ Selena's POV╰─..★.──────────╯⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ "What do you mean, what do I want, Mrs. Cuddles?" He questioned, that saccharine voice of his making my skin crawl. "We need to talk."I tilted my chin and met his gaze head-on. "About what? I have nothing to say to you."I ducked,
╭──────────.★..─╮ Selena's POV ╰─..★.──────────╯ ⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ Rose didn't even look up from the book. "It's called 'In a Monster’s Bed.'" The name rang a bell, something vaguely scandalous from a distant past, but I pressed on. "What's it about? You must be very smart to be reading such a thic
╭──────────.★..─╮ Selena's POV╰─..★.──────────╯⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ It was Anna.I turned around and saw Kevin, Anna's so-called fiancé, shamelessly tongue-wrestling some girl that looked like a low-budget stripper right in the middle of the ballroom. His fingers were digging into her ass cheeks, a







