تسجيل الدخولKaireen's Pov "Do you understand the pain I'm going through?" he asked, and there was something raw and desperate in his voice now. "Not being able to have you, hold you, claim you as mine? And the only way I try to make you stay close to me, you push me away over and over again. How am I supposed to protect you when you keep insisting you want to be independent, that you don't need me?""I don't need you," I said, but it was a lie and we both knew it."Yes you do," he said, leaning closer until his forehead was almost touching mine. "You need my protection. You need to be around me. Fuck what the pack says, fuck the rules that claim you're my sister, because to me you're my fucking life. Do you get it? Everything I've been doing, kissing her, letting her act like Luna, going through with this marriage, it's all been a reaction to you pushing me away. I hate it. I hate not being able to be with you. I hate not being able to touch you without someone watching. I hate not being able to
Kaireen's Pov What the hell did she just say? My brain was trying to process the words that had come out of Selene's mouth but they were so disgusting, so absolutely vile that I could not make sense of them. She wanted me to stay here and watch while she had sex with Ronan? That was what this was about? That was why she dragged me to his private chambers and stood there smiling like she had just suggested we all have tea together?"You want me to watch the both of you have sex?" I asked, and my voice came out strangled. "Is that what the hell you're calling me here for? Are you actually insane?"Selene shrugged like this was a perfectly normal conversation to be having, like she had not just suggested the most inappropriate thing I had ever heard in my entire life."You don't have to be so agitated about it," she said calmly. "After all, that's what I heard. I did my research on your brother and apparently he has certain tastes, certain preferences that need to be accommodated. I'm j
Ronan's Pov I felt like absolute shit right now, standing under the scalding hot shower in my private bathroom trying to wash away the guilt and self-loathing that had been building all day, but no amount of water could clean what I had done to her, to Kaireen, to the one person in this world who actually mattered to me. The water beat down on my shoulders and back and I pressed my palms against the tile wall and let my head hang forward, exhausted in a way that had nothing to do with physical tiredness and everything to do with the way my wolf was tearing me apart from the inside.Everything I was doing, every cruel word, every time I kissed Selene in front of her, every moment I let that blonde nightmare treat Kaireen like a servant, it was all part of some twisted plan to make her take back her words, to make her admit that she wanted me as much as I wanted her, to force her to stop pushing me away and acknowledge the bond between us that was slowly killing us both. But watching
Kaireen’s PovI hated my life right now, absolutely despised every single second of sitting in the backseat of Ronan's sleek black Range Rover while Selene sat in the front passenger seat like she owned the entire world and everything in it. My wolf was gnawing at my chest, clawing and snarling and demanding I do something, say something, fight back against this humiliation, but what could I do when Ronan had been the one to suggest I accompany them on this shopping trip into the city?He said it would look good for pack unity if I came along, said it would show the pack that there was no bad blood between me and his new wife, said it with those golden eyes that I knew so well and I had agreed because I was an idiot who could not say no to him even when it was killing me inside.Selene was holding up her phone showing Ronan pictures of dresses from some expensive boutique website, her perfectly manicured nails tapping against the screen as she scrolled through option after option, an
Kaireen's POVMy knees were still aching from the cold stone path when I rose.I kept my face blank. Completely, deliberately blank — the same expression I used in the clinic when I had to deliver news that was going to break someone and I needed them to see a doctor and not a person falling apart. I had perfected that face over years and right now it was the only armor I had left.Selene cleared her throat delicately and her voice came out wrapped in that particular softness she used whenever she wanted to appear reasonable in front of witnesses."Luna, really, there is no need for all of this." She laid one hand lightly on the older woman's arm, her rose-pink dress catching the morning light, her blonde hair loose and gleaming and absolutely intentional. "You know I don't fancy these formalities."Ronan's mother was unmoved. She looked at me the way she always looked at me — like something that had been left on her doorstep that she had never quite decided what to do with — and stra
Kaireen's POVI had not slept.I had lain on my side in the dark staring at the wall with my wolf pressed flat and silent against the inside of my chest, replaying the sound of his footsteps fading down that corridor over and over until the sky outside my window went from black to grey to the pale, washed-out blue of early morning, and only then did I finally get up because lying there any longer felt like a form of self-destruction I was not willing to keep indulging.I showered, dressed in black trousers and a soft cream blouse, pulled my hair back, and told myself I was fine.My reflection in the bathroom mirror did not look convinced.By the time I made it to the small sitting room connected to Rhia's guest quarters, Kade was already packed. His single duffel bag sat near the door, dark green canvas worn soft at the handles from years of use, and he was standing beside it in jeans and a grey hoodie scrolling through something on his phone with the easy, unbothered energy of someon







