登入“Because for the first time in your miserable little life…”“…you’re finally angry enough. It’s my chance I won’t miss it”Another crack hit me and this time it was my shoulder.I gasped and at the same time the air in the dining hall shifted.The candles flickered.The glasses on the table trembled ever so slightly.Everyone had been watching me.Watching to see whether I would break.Whether I would lose control.Then thankfully the next instant the temperature in the room changed.Not from what Aiden had said about the mate bond.From what he said next.Everyone at the table that had been watching me now turned to Aiden."Ryan — you asked me why I marked her and made her my mate." Aiden looked at Ryan then his eyes went to Felicity. “Felicity…”“I imagined Joshua would have already explained that part to you.”His voice remained strangely calm and unusually slow.“Or did your boyfriend leave out that particular detail?”Felicity froze all of a sudden.It happened so quickly I almo
"April." His voice was level like something harder than cold. Something that had decided to be completely honest regardless of what that honesty was going to cost. "I never expected you to be my mate and I did not want that complication. You were Howard Quinn's daughter. My enemy's blood. And according to my plan a tool with a specific function." He held my gaze without flinching. "The exchange has always been the plan. Your life for the moonstone. If Mirabel acquired the stone through other means your purpose shifted to direct leverage — a threat credible enough to bring Quinn out of cover." He paused. "After that you were going to die alongside your father.""You being my mate," he said, "was a mistake in what was otherwise a functional plan.""And even with the mate bond," he said, "there was still a path to everything I needed with your death at the end of it."Even with the mate bond??Even after we marked each other?I remembered the night we had sex together and connected s
“…and all this time you were already waiting at the bottom.”The words tasted bitter and I realized just how Nathan and Aiden must have thought I was a big fool all these while.“You weren’t rescuing me.”My voice broke despite every effort to keep it steady.“You were cleaning up your own fucking plan!!!.”At this point all my efforts were in vain. I was crying as I shouted.Meanwhile silence swallowed the room and it was only my voice that was left.I could feel every single pair of eyes on me.Yet I didn’t care anymore.“Was the trade always part of it?” I asked.“Were you ever planning to let me live…” I fired.“…or was I nothing more than a tool from the very beginning?” I blasted him nonstop.Aiden didn’t look away. His expression remained infuriatingly unreadable.“April,” he said quietly and calm. “I was never pretending to be your hero. I spared your life because keeping you alive was necessary, but—”“Fuck No!!!”The word exploded out of me before he could finish.“No!”I sl
APRIL'S POVA savage growl ripped through the space in my mind coming from Raya.“YES!!! FINALLY A FIGHT!!”The sound alone from Raya’s growl was enough to shake the entire space inside my mind.Inside my head was like a whole empty world entirely containing five wolves and they weren't the quiet type. They were the Chaotic type.One could say I was going mad in a kind of way. Because there was no fucking way this was normal.Even till now I was still confused about what the hell is happening.Right now while my body was bleeding on the dining room floor, a completely different war was being fought in my mind,Raya's lips peeled back as razor-sharp fangs burst from her mouth. Thick dark red fur spread rapidly across her body while muscles swelled beneath her skin, stretching every inch of her frame until she looked nothing like the woman she had been only a second ago.She wasn't simply transforming into a werewolf.She was becoming a monster born purely from rage.I watched from wher
It sounded like the biggest joke I had ever heard but the way he said the word I knew…I could tell Aiden was damn serious.I just couldn’t believe it…the moment we’d shared. Every conversation. Every time he’d looked me in the eye and told me to keep fighting. Every promise that I would be safe inside his territory.I remember his words.‘No matter what always trust me’Now I had trusted him to my downfall.None of it had ever been real.He had never planned for me to leave this place alive.I was never a guest or an ally worst part was that I wasn’t even a person.I was a bargaining chip, a tool he needed to justify an end.And the moment I had served my purpose…He was going to kill me.That had been his plan all alongI had been a variable with a predetermined outcome and the outcome had always been my death.I pressed my hands flat on the table and felt the wood under my palms. My anger and rage was rising fast and so was my transformation.My claws extending along the table and
I heard Melissa make a sharp exhale.The sound of someone absorbing something that hit them somewhere they had not been bracing for. Her sister had watched me for months or possible years. Had been the instrument of the worst night of my life and at the end of it she had asked this man to make sure I didn't die so they could use me as a fucking tool in their trade.This was bullshit.I looked at Melissa frowning deeply and coincidentally she was already looking at me.Her expression said she didn't know what to do with it either.We looked at each other for exactly two seconds.Then I looked away.I wasn't going to trust anyone ever again.It was my mistake to think that she was someone I wanted to get close with."I watched you refuse to back down," Aiden said. "You wanted to live too badly. You wouldn't let them break you. But when you hit your limit and landed on my territory I gave you to Nathan to get you treated and then our hunt began."‘You refused to back down.’What the fuck







