LOGIN“I trusted him with my people, my title, and my life. He destroyed all three.” **** Lucia Everton fought harder than anyone to protect what was left of humanity. When Alpha Reese Maddox offered peace between humans and wolves, she believed becoming his Luna was the only way to save her people from extinction. She was wrong. Reese never wanted peace. He wanted control. Lucia was nothing more than a symbol to make humanity kneel willingly before him. When she uncovers the truth, Reese destroys the southern city, murders everyone she loves, and kills her using the very anti-lycanthropy compound she created to fight the wolves. But Lucia wakes up. She is back at the beginning, the day before everything went wrong, and this time she knows exactly who Reese Maddox is and exactly what he is capable of. This time when he comes to the table with his alliance offer, she will be ready for him. She has a plan, a compound that can bring the most powerful werewolves to their knees, and a revenge that has been burning in her since the moment she died. What she does not plan for is Ryan. Cold, guarded, and carrying wounds of his own, Ryan is the one person who might actually be able to help her win this war. But the closer they get, the more secrets surface, and some of them are dangerous enough to unravel everything she has worked for. She was killed once for trusting the wrong man. She cannot afford to make the same mistake twice.
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The cup fell from my hand and shattered on the ground. At the sound, Reese and Kathy jumped apart, still breathless from their kiss. “What the hell, Reese?!” I screamed, storming into the room. “Lucia, hold on,” he said, buckling his trousers. “I can explain–” “Explain what?! I just saw your dick in another woman’s hands.” I turned to Kathy. “And, you slut–” A slap stinging my cheek cut me off before I could finish my sentence. I stumbled backwards, my hand lifting to my face. “Did you…did you just slap me?” Reese’s amber eyes burned with anger. “How dare you call Katherine a slut?” “I am your wife, your Luna,” I said, disbelief and raw pain thick in my voice. “And you will slap me because of another woman?” Reese pinched the bridge of his nose. Suddenly, he let out a loud laugh that sent cold shivers up my spine. “Wife? Luna?” he said with a mocking tone. “You don’t seriously believe that, Lucia.” “Excuse me?” He started to pace the room like a showmaster. “You used to be a leader yourself. Strategic unions are all the rage. What faster way is there to infiltrate the ranks of the humans than to marry the leader of the rebellion herself?” Infiltrate the ranks? My hands trembled as I tried to piece together what he was saying. “Reese, there is no war. Our marriage made sure of that.” He darted to me in a blink of an eye, his eyes shining maniacally. “Did it ever occur to you that I lied?” In the distance, I heard a bomb go off, followed by shrill screams filling the air. It was coming from the south. The south where the humans lived. “No!” I screamed. “You said…we agreed. I gave myself to you. You said you would not kill them.” Another slap of his knocked me to the ground, his claws scratching my cheek in the process. Blood dripped down the side of my face to the floor. “Agreed? With humans?” he spat in disgust. “Just who do you think we wolves are? I will rather die than co-exist with low-life creatures.” “Babe,” Katherine said, getting out of bed. “Why don’t we let her say goodbye to her people?” Reese held her in front of me, looking at her with more love than he had given me in five years. “That is more than she deserves.” “No, she needs to see the way her people were living while she was here.” My breath caught in my throat as I looked between the two of them. “What are you two talking about?” My voice was hoarse, my jaw hurting as I spoke. Reese sighed and grabbed me by my hair, leading me down a hallway I had never been allowed to go into. He took me to a room which was behind large metal doors that a human like me would not have been able to open. “There,” he spat and tossed me in the center of the room. I looked around. Screens. Cameras covering everywhere in the south. In the very center was where I used to live. My brother, Daniel, the new leader of the humans, sat in the bunker with my former bodyguards around him. Another explosion went off on one of the screens. I screamed, clawing my way to the front. “No! Please, Reese. Stop this.” I knelt in front of him. “They are innocent people. Kill me. Please, spare them.” A cruel smirk slipped onto his lips. “Aim for sector 1,” he said to his men, not breaking his gaze for me. Sector 1. Daniel. I threw myself at the man who was controlling the bombs, sinking my teeth into his arm. Another one grabbed me and I kicked him, fighting and thrashing with everything I had. But they were wolves. Biologically superior in every way. It took seconds for them to overpower me and force me to kneel in front of Reese and Kathy. “Lucia, if you keep moving like that, you will break your arm. Wolves don’t know their own strength.” As Kathy said that, he looked at the wolves holding me down. My two arms cracked out of their place. The pain was near blinding. My vision spun with the sheer effort to stay awake. Reese’s hand wrapped around my neck and turned my head to face the screen. I watched as a missile soared through the air and bombed sector 1. The bunker shattered with everyone in it. My body slacked, all the fight gone out of me. Everyone was gone, killed by the weapon blueprints I gave to Reese three years ago to show my loyalty to our treaty. All these years, the South had lived in poverty. It had hurt me but I believed Reese whenever he told me that he was trying to establish the werewolf dynasty before helping the humans. “And I believed you,” I said, mad laughter falling from my lips. I had thought that we were married after all. We had the rest of our long lives to fulfill both ends of the contract. “And I believed you!” My scream echoed in the room. The bombings had stopped, the entire South now reduced to ashes. “How do you feel? All of this would not have been possible without you, Luce,” Reese said, his voice low, soft even. I killed my people. It was my foolishness that killed them. “Are you going to kill me?” I asked quietly, knowing that it was a stupid question. Even if he did not do it, I had nothing to live for. No friends. No family. Daniel. A single tear slipped down my cheek. Mum entrusted you to me and I failed you. “For the sake of your contributions, I will allow you to go in a painless way,” Reese said, pulling a bottle out of his pocket. “Your formula was truly excellent. My men had a wonderful time modifying it to kill other species as well.” I looked at the bottle. Every pill was twelve years of research on how to kill the wolves and I had handed it over to him. I was such an idiot. “Might as well test it on you. Open wide,” Reese said and pried my jaw open as he forced two of those pills down my throat. The pills took action fast. Blood dripped out of my mouth, nose, eyes and ears, mixing with my tears. To think my own research would be corrupted like this. I fell forward, cursing Reese and all his wolves until the world went black.Lucia’s POVKillian shot three flares in succession into the sky, signalling our men outside that the plan had worked and they could come in.The soldiers inside about two dozen, immediately started sniping the wolves at random to spread panic.The more the wolves tried to struggle to their feet, the faster the poison spread through their bodies. I would have wanted us to use gas or bombs here but I did not want to risk harming Ryan.“Lucia Everton!” Reese snarled.“Careful,” I said with a smug smirk. “Any sudden movements and the poison could get to your heart.”Then I snorted. “Oh, what am I saying? You stabbed yourself in the chest willingly.”Reese turned to Ryan, redirecting his anger. “You deceived me!”He struggled to his feet, tapping into the reserves of his power but it was no use. Reese had barely taken two steps when he was back on his knees, his entire body trembling.His mouth opened and he hacked blood onto the floor.The sight of their Alpha breaking was enough to dest
Lucia’s POVI was seated in Reese’s office when the trucks started to drive in.I moved to the window and looked out. The people Peter has sent made me smile.Killian and Lisa. The others that accompanied them were the soldiers that reported directly to the commanders. They could all hold themselves in a battle.Killian’s eyes scanned the pack house and he instantly spotted me. I smiled and waved at him.“They’re here,” I said to Reese.He stood up and came to stand behind me, a little too close. “Your people work very fast.”“They are trained well,” I responded, turning to face him. “Are we going to get down there or are you still thinking of kissing me?”Before he could process my words, I pushed past him, heading down the stairs. Reese finally caught up in front of the packhouse.As he was about to touch me, Ryan stepped in, glaring at him like he was utter filth. “What are you doing?”I glanced at Reese from the corner of my eyes and turned away like I was teasing him.He gnawed o
Lucia’s POVI was not so foolish not to realize that the Archduke had given me an opportunity.He had planted the idea of using my tech fresh again in Reese’s heart and bruising Reese’s ego to make sure that he found a way to get the serum.Then, he took Caspian away, the one person in Northernfang I was not certain that my serums could kill.His Highness had served me the pack on a silver platter.His reasons were unclear though. I could not figure out why he would work against his own people.Nevertheless, I was never the kind to turn down a favour.Before morning, I had the mobilization letters delivered back to South City with an accurate, now updated defense map of Northernfang and the numbers of their forces.Peter was to have the entire army and the wyverns on standby, ready to move out at any notice.As it turned out, Ryan had a lot of access as the heir of the pack so none of the officials had batted an eyelid when he decided to go into their offices.Now, all was left was fo
Lucia’s POVFor a moment, I thought of letting Jorgsten think the worst and actually go on a rampage.Then, I figured that Caspian would be likely to step in and it would simply become a messy fight between the dukes.“Lead the way,” I said, getting out of my seat.Chandler sighed in relief as we went downstairs. At the door, he paused and looked back at Ryan and I.“Actually, if we go at your speed, we will definitely not get there in time,” Chandler said, wearing a small frown. “Would it be possible for the heir to carry you there himself?”I shrugged and climbed onto Ryan’s back. Then, the two men started to run.For the first time, I got to experience that unbelievable werewolf speed. Everything around us dissolved into a blur as Ryan picked up speed, leaving Chandler in the dust after some time.How could he even see where he was going?In minutes, we arrived in front of the pack house. The atmosphere was tense enough to tell us that we had walked right into a battlefield.Ryan s
Lucia's POVMy back slammed hard against the ground, knocking the air out of me.I hissed, forcing my body into a sitting position.Kathy clutched her arm, forcing her feet in my direction. A long scar ran down her face, refusing to heal from the impact of the bomb.“Kill her,” Kathy hissed, her ey
Lucia’s POVI woke up spluttering as water was poured on my face.Sitting up, I stared into a pair of unfamiliar forest green eyes. “Who the fuck are you?” I snapped.His face twisted in disgust. “The proper thing to say would be thank you.”I tugged at the ropes around my torso. “Kidnappers these
Lucia’s POV“I thought I was going to die,” Daniel wailed into my shoulder.I rolled my eyes, patting his shoulder. “There. There. It’s alright.”Peter looked at me through the rearview mirror again. “Is there a problem?” I asked him.“You seem different, Lucia.”If Peter had not noticed, I might h
Lucia's POV“Lucy,” someone called my name in a sing-song voice.A door slammed against the wall. I jumped to my feet, holding up my gun.Daniel stood, watching me with wide eyes.Wait a minute. Daniel?My memories rushed back in so quickly that my head spun.Reese. Kathy. The explosions and…my dea






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