LOGINShare
Not Just A Slave
publish date:
2026-01-06 15:46:03Ethan stood gallantly, not minding what would come next.
Darius chuckled, moving only one side of his cheek.
"Where are your manners, Ethan?" another head of a family snapped, rising to his feet in anger.
His face tightened, he looked like someone who had been waiting for the right opportunity to unleash his anger at Ethan.
"Perhaps his mother, Racheal, didn’t give him proper training," the head of the Lester family said, stepping closer.
"So his mother is Racheal... the head of the Fearless family?"
I muttered in my mind, raising an eyebrow. Now I understood.
That explained why he was attending this meeting and why his presence didn’t feel strange anymore.
Ethan chuckled, but his smile slowly faded into anger.
"Why don’t you ask her... in her grave?" he replied coldly, stepping closer to the man.
His eyes glowed.
They were golden.
A werewolf.
"What?" I gasped aloud in shock, realizing he was just like me.
"Ethan!" Darius called urgently, but Ethan’s wolfish form didn’t seem like a surprise, not to him and not to the other families.
Ethan took a quick glance at his father, then looked away.
He hissed through clenched teeth,
"Darius, I’ve always told you. Ethan needs to be tamed, or he’ll one day go out of control."
The head of the Lester family snapped at Darius, gnashing his teeth.
I understood what he meant by being “tamed.”
Just like what they did to me.
Silver poison.
"I’m willing to pay 100 percent of my mother’s treasure to have her," Ethan declared boldly, breaking the record and looking straight into Darius’ eyes.
The hall went silent immediately, the families staring at one another in shock.
Then a low murmur of disbelief spread across the room.
I, on the other hand, remained seated, watching each piece of their drama unfold.
"I’ve always known you know the code to the safe house," Darius chuckled.
"Racheal never told any soul about the code to her treasure house, not even her brother," one of them said loudly.
"Why should we trust you?" Darius asked, raising his eyebrows eagerly.
Ethan chuckled.
"We all know everyone’s treasures are not up to 30 percent of my mother’s treasure, not to talk of properties."
He smiled, turning to face me.
My heart skipped.
"So, I’m giving you 100 percent of her treasures to have Selene forever."
He dipped his hand into his pocket, keeping his composure tight.
Silence broke out. Everyone fixed their eyes on Ethan, including me.
To everyone, he was a fool.
Darius broke the silence, clapping his hands.
"Since my son has decided to follow the rules, then he’ll have her," he scoffed.
"She will be his if the payment is done," Darius added, smiling.
Gradually, his smile faded, his gaze narrowing as it landed on Ethan.
His eyes turned cold.
But Ethan didn’t flinch. He didn’t turn his sharp gaze away from his father.
"So be it," he smiled, playing along.
He walked down to his father-in-law in slow motion, his steps carrying every intense feeling.
"Father, you never figured out that Mother has always loved you.
Come to my abode tomorrow, then I’ll tell you the passcode."
He chuckled, then turned to me, still smiling.
"Let’s go, Selene."
He stretched his hands for me to reach.
Without hesitation, I stood up gently, my heart still racing.
Who would have thought that if one day Darius would lose me, it would be to his son?
I walked up to Ethan, then grabbed his hand.
"I'm sorry, you all have to excuse us," Ethan said abruptly, his grip on my hand firm as we turned to leave.
I followed, my mind still racing.
Escape from Darius's piercing gaze was my only thought.
As we walked out, one of the families screamed loudly.
"Ethan! How dare you walk away!"
He screamed at the top of his voice, but Ethan didn’t listen to any of his words.
I could feel all of their eyes on us as we finally stepped out.
Not long after, a sleek car guided itself to a stop before us, its door swinging open like a whispered invitation.
Everything seemed planned, arranged.
Ethan guided me in, his hand on the small of my back, and slid in beside me.
The door closed with a soft thud, sealing us in.
I stared straight ahead, my mind a maze of questions.
Was this planned? Was it all orchestrated?
I didn’t want to voice them.
The driver’s eyes met mine in the rearview mirror, but I looked away.
I wondered where we were going.
“We’re going to my place,” he broke the silence, as if he read my mind.
I avoided his gaze, and I heard him chuckle slightly.
“I know you have a lot of questions right now…”
He shifted my chin, forcing me to meet his eyes.
“All you have to know for now is that you're mine,” he concluded.
As I turned my face away from his hand, trying to look toward the other side of the car, he pulled me gently by the waist.
I leaned into him, his strong grip drawing me flush against his chest.
My mouth almost crashed into his, his lips brushing in a tease that sent heat surging through me.
Our breaths mingled into each other.
His cool fingers dug into my side, sliding under my gown to trace the curve of my other side.
His hip ignited a throb between my thighs.
I pressed closer, craving the forbidden press of his hardness against me.
Then the driver cleared his throat.
“Ethan, can we go now?” he asked casually, not bothering to hide his amusement.
“Yes, please,”Ethan said, still staring into my eyes.
He finally released me gently.
The car zoomed off at top speed.
***
We pulled up to a huge estate, the gates opening wide.
I stared out the window at the massive houses like castles far bigger than the Light family’s place.
I wondered in awe how anyone could own all of this.
It felt unreal.
It turns out Ethan’s mom was the richest treasure hunter before she died.
I wondered how.
We drove into the mansion compound, exotic cars parked everywhere.
As we stepped out, I knew this was his spot.
“Welcome to my abode,” Ethan said coolly.
The driver got out with a grin, then let out a loud howl.
Suddenly, howls echoed back from everywhere.
Ethan looked straight at me, his eyes intense.
That’s when it hit me.
He didn’t bring me here to be his slave.
Latest chapter
His Doll What the Moon Demands
The name hit me like a slap."No," I said. "You are lying. Andy ran out into that gunfire to stop them. He took a bullet meant for Ethan.""Did he?" Ysolde tilted her head. "Or did he simply step into the wrong place at the wrong moment, as grief so often makes a person do? I never said he knew whom he served.""Then say what you mean.""I mean that when your poor, broken friend lifted his phone and called the number a man gave him, he believed he was speaking to the Hartwells." She smiled faintly. "The man who answered was one of my children. A gentle, patient fellow named Corvin. He listened to Andy weep. He told him exactly what he wished to hear. And Andy gave him the route, the hour, everything."My legs nearly gave out. Behind me, I heard my father draw a harsh breath."You used his grief," Mira said, her voice shaking with fury."I offered him a door and he walked through it. That is all anyone ever does." Ysolde spread her hands. "He is mine in every way that mattered. He did
His Doll The Mother of the New Dawn
I do not remember deciding to walk toward her. One moment I stood in the trees with my father's hand clamped around my arm, and the next I was crossing the clearing alone, the phone still pressed to my ear, my boots crushing wet leaves into mud."Selene, stop!" Mira hissed behind me."Stay back," I said, without turning. "All of you.""This is exactly what she wants.""I know." My voice shook. "I do not care."The silver haired woman waited on the chapel steps, patient as a priest, the white of her robe glowing faintly against the dark stone. When I was ten paces away she lowered the phone from her ear, and the voice that had been murmuring in my head became simply a voice in the air."There," she said gently. "That is much better. Technology flattens things so. I prefer to look a person in the eye.""Let him go.""In time." She tilted her head, studying me with open, almost tender curiosity. "You are smaller than I imagined. I suppose the stories always make us taller.""What stories
His Doll The Highway
I do not remember getting into the vehicle.I remember my father shoving a rifle into my hands and Mira sliding into the driver's seat before anyone else could argue, and the gravel spitting from beneath our tires as we tore out of the gate, two black SUVs, six of us in total, Daniel hunched in the back clutching a first aid kit like a talisman. The road ahead stretched long and empty in the pale morning, and every second that slid by felt like a hand tightening around my throat."Call him," I said. "The Brooklyn head. Call him again.""I have called eleven times," Mira said through gritted teeth, one hand on the wheel and the other jabbing at her phone. "He is not answering. Neither is Lester. Neither is anyone in that convoy.""That does not mean anything. They could be in a dead zone.""Selene.""They could be," I said again, and heard my own voice crack.My father leaned forward from the back seat and laid a heavy hand on my shoulder. "We will reach him," he said quietly. "Whateve
His Doll Silver Chains
The engines grew louder with every heartbeat.Nobody moved. The compound stood frozen in the gray light, guards clutching weapons they no longer knew whether to raise, my father and Mira staring down the long road with the same stunned dread I felt twisting in my own stomach. Ethan remained on his knees in the gravel, bleeding from a dozen bullet wounds that were already, horribly, beginning to close."We can run," I said suddenly, grabbing his arm. "Right now. There are vehicles. We could be miles away before they arrive.""Run where?" Ethan asked softly."Anywhere. North. Away from all of this.""And live how, Selene?" He finally looked at me, and the exhaustion in his face was bottomless. "Hiding in the dark, waiting for the next time it takes me? I just killed eight men in front of this entire territory. If I run, I prove every fear they have ever had about me. About us.""I do not care what they think.""I do." He caught my face gently between his bloodied hands, and this time he
His Doll What the Dawn Saw
I have replayed the next few seconds in my mind more times than I can count, searching for the instant I might have stopped it, and I have never found one.Ethan's arms left me. I did not feel him let go. One moment his heartbeat hammered against my back, and the next there was only cold air where he had been, and a sound tearing out of the doorway ahead of me that no human throat should have been able to make."Ethan!" I lunged after him, but my father caught me around the waist and hauled me backward."Selene, no! Look at him! Look at his eyes!"I looked. Through the open door, in the gray, bleeding light of early morning, I saw Ethan crossing the gravel drive in long, unhurried strides, and with every step his body came apart and rebuilt itself. His shirt split down the back. His shoulders broadened. Black veins crawled up his neck like ink poured into water, and his hands curled, and the claws that tore free of his fingertips were longer than any I had seen, dark and wet and wrong
His Doll The Road at Dawn
My heart hammered so hard I felt it in my teeth."Andy," I whispered.He turned around slowly, and the kitchen light caught his face, the red rimmed eyes, the stubble of three sleepless days, the phone still dangling from his fingers like something he had forgotten how to hold. He did not look like a man caught doing wrong. He looked like a man who had already stopped caring what happened next."You heard everything," he said."Who did you call?""Does it matter?""It matters more than anything." I stepped into the kitchen, my voice shaking despite my effort to keep it level. "Who is going to be on that road, Andy?"He set the phone on the counter with deliberate care. "The Hartwells. Or what remains of them, the ones who never accepted the vote. They have been waiting for an opening since the abolition passed. Someone to blame. Something to use." A bitter smile touched his mouth. "I gave them Ethan Light, alone, with his hands open, on an empty road at dawn.""They will kill him.""Y
You May Also Like
Warning: My Mommy is A Savage!
Seeking A Peaceful Life2.2M viewsYour Uncle’s My Husband Now—Back Off, Ex!
June2.5M viewsDivorced My Cheating Husband, Married A Billionaire
LiLhyz875.6K viewsSatisfying Her Darkest Fantasies
Shile1.0M viewsRebirth: The Devil’s Lunatic
Mae Jae89 viewsTHE SURROGATE BRIDE'S REVENGE
Bella star81 viewsLonging for my Ex-wife's Return (ENGLISH VERSION)
Docky29 viewsRomancing Mr. CEO
Arnie Nicole94 views
