ログインRejected and dark-bonded by her mate after her wolf refuses to submit, Ophelia Hawkins is banished from the pack. Forced to flee alongside her abusive mother and younger sister, they return to their hometown of Lunar Isle. It's there, at the birthplace of magic, where Ophelia discovers the truth about her heritage and the purpose of the dark bond now branded onto her flesh. Trapped on an island of wild beasts and magic, she believes her life can get no worse. That is, until she meets her second chance mates: Jude Romero, enforcer to the Alpha, and a Lycan with magic as brutal and wild as the man himself, and Alpha Ryker Romero, cold-hearted, sharp-tongued, and the boyfriend of Ophelia's older sister. Plagued with the agony of a broken mate-bond and two second chance mates she cannot have; Ophelia falls into a darkness unlike any other. Little does she know, there are forces at work in Lunar Isle. Something is hunting her, something big. Something she isn't sure she can survive. Will her second-chance mates step up to the plate when she needs them most? Or will they fail her like everyone else in her life?
もっと見るThe champagne burned sweeter than it should’ve.
I tipped the glass back anyway, letting it wash over the taste of the lie on my lips and the ache in my chest. I wasn’t supposed to be here. Not in this club. Not in this dress. And definitely not in his world.
But the thing about wanting to forget, you’ll do anything to lose yourself.
Tonight , I needed to forget.
Forget who I was. Forget who I belonged to. Forget the name of the man I’d been promised to marry.The club pulsed around me, dark and dripping with desire. Bodies pressed, moaned, moved. I needed air. Space. Anything but this suffocating cage of glitter and heat.
I wandered down a hallway that was quieter, less crowded. Red velvet walls. Gilded doors. A hallway that whispered secrets with every step I took. My heels echoed until I found a door that was half-open, light spilling out like temptation.
I didn’t knock. I just stepped inside.
He was there.
Alone.
Leaning back in a black leather armchair like he owned the air around him. A glass of something dark in his hand. His shirt half-open, revealing a chest inked in black lines and sharp sin. His tie undone, hair tousled, jaw shadowed with stubble.
I stopped breathing. He was a fine man, my eyes are blurry but I know he is a fine man.
My heart stuttered. I shouldn’t be here. I’m engaged, somebody wife to be.
He looked up at me through half-lidded eyes, slow and lazy like a lion toying with its prey. His gaze dragged across my body in a way that made my thighs clench.
“You’re not supposed to be here.”
His voice was smoke and gravel. Laced with something dangerous.
“I…I got lost,” I whispered. My voice was breathless, thin. “Thought this was the bathroom.”
His lips quirked. Not a smile. Just amusement. Dark and unreadable.
“You always walk into strange men’s rooms wearing dresses like that?”
I glanced down.
The dress clung to me like it was painted on. Barely-there silk. No bra. No shame.
Blame the champagne.
Blame the fucking engagement I had no say about.
Blame him for looking at me like I was something he’d already imagined on his tongue.
“Didn’t mean to interrupt.” I took a step back, but the door clicked shut behind me.
“You didn’t.” He took a long sip from his glass. “Unless you’re planning on running. In that case…”
His eyes darkened.
“…don’t.”
I didn’t move.
Something electric snapped between us. Sharp. Wild. Forbidden.
“You’re drunk,” I said, my voice shaking.
“So are you.”
And it was true. I could feel it in my blood. Warm. Heavy. Reckless.
He set his glass down with a thud and stood.
My breath caught.
He was taller than I remembered.
Wider. Meaner.
“Come here,” he said.
I didn’t think. I just obeyed.
Step by step until there was no air between us. Just heat. Just breath. Just danger.
His hand lifted to my jaw. Fingers rough. Thumb brushing my lower lip.
“You looked delicious,” he murmured. “You know that, right?”
“Yes,” I whispered. I should have left at that moment. But I told myself there is nothing wrong with one last night of fling. A good sex where you can be bad as you want.
His thumb slid into my mouth.
I sucked on it.
Something snapped in his eyes.
He grabbed the back of my neck and kissed me.
Not soft.
Not sweet.
Claiming.
His tongue slid into my mouth like he already owned it. His other hand gripped my waist, pulled me against the hard length of him, made me feel everything.
I moaned.
He groaned.
I was pressed against the wall in seconds, his thigh between mine, rubbing against my heat through the soaked fabric of my panties.
His mouth tore from mine. “Say you want this.”
“I do.”
“I am going to fuck you here without mercy.”
“I know.” My voice broke. “I don’t care.”
His hand slipped under my dress, fingers finding the lace that was barely hiding how wet I was for him.
“F**k,” he hissed. “You’re soaked.”
I bit my lip. “Do something about it.”
That’s all it took.
He dropped to his knees like a man starved. Hooked his fingers into my panties and yanked them down. My leg lifted to his shoulder without a word, and then his mouth…
Oh God.
His tongue licked up my slit like it was something sacred. And then he sucked,sucked, on my clit until I saw stars.
I cried out, moaning so bad, so loud with a care in the world. My hands tangled in his hair. My hips bucked into his face shamelessly.
“That’s it,” he murmured into me. “Ride it, baby. Use me.”
I came. Hard. Shaking against the wall, his hands digging into my thighs like he couldn’t get enough.
But he wasn’t done.
He stood, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, then unbuckled his belt.
“I’m going to f**k you now,” he said.
And he did.
Bent me over the couch like I was something to ruin. Slid into me with one long, hard thrust that knocked the breath from my lungs. He was so big that I could feel every inches of him filling me.
“You feel like fucking heaven,” he growled into my ear. “So tight. So wet. So…Goddamn…perfect.”
My nails dug into the leather. I was lost in him. In the sound of skin slapping skin. In the dirty words he fed into my ear. In the way his fingers curled into my hips like he never wanted to let go.
And just when I thought I couldn’t take another second, he pulled out, turned me around, and pushed back in deeper.
I kissed him like I hated him.
He kissed me like he wanted to destroy me.
We came together. Loud. Messy. Real. Screaming like a slut.
His body collapsed against mine, breathless. His fingers still gripped my thighs like he couldn’t let go. I felt raw. Split wide open.
But then, A knock. No, a voice.
“Mr. Wolfe, your car’s waiting. Your mother said the Lancaster family is expecting you at the engagement dinner.”
My blood turned to ice. I turned my head, heart pounding.
Killian eyes opened slowly. Watched the horror creep across my face.
“What did they say?” I whispered.
“Why are you looking that way?”
I shoved at his chest. “What the hell did they say?”
He pulled out of me slowly. Too slowly.
I pushed at his chest, breath catching. “Did they just say… the Lancaster family?”
He blinked. Confused. “Yeah. Why?”
I sat up, my legs trembling. “I’m Ivy Lancaster.”
His eyes widened. All the heat vanished from his face.
“You’re…” His voice trailed off.
He stood up too fast, reaching for his pants like it would somehow undo what just happened. “Victor’s fiancée?”
I nodded, choking on the word. “And you’re…”
He swallowed hard. “Killian Wolfe. His older brother.”
Silence.
The air turned cold.
My stomach twisted.
Edward’s face, twisted from whatever dark magic fuckery his father and Ophelia’s father had infected him with, was the last image burned into my mind—that and my best friends shell-shocked face as my fingers slipped through hers.Droplets of my blood and sweat still hovered in the air as I was thrown back, suspended like little crystalized beads of hope and pain. Beginnings and endings.‘This is it,’ That voice—that horrible voice in my head, the one that sounded like me and spoke like me, crooned. ‘This is what happens to stupid girls who ruin everything. They die. They die painfully.’This was what I deserved, wasn’t it? The ultimate sacrifice for a meager little crumb of a life.I failed everyone, but I wouldn’t fail Ophelia. The shield I erected around myself fractured and imploded the moment I passed through the portal. Sparks of leftover electricity raced along my skin, but I could hardly feel the sting past the utter rush of freefall.For one bleeding moment I thought I smelle
OpheliaOne Year Later…I stepped out of class with my bag slung over one shoulder. The halls still smelled of ink, fresh coffee, and a touch of magic. Coop shouted at me from down the hall, his hair flopping messily over his forehead. Exchanging greetings, we made our way outside.The summer air was arm, but not heavy. Breezy enough to lift the edges of my top as I walked down the steps. I inhaled the scent of sunblock; thankful I remembered my own. Anti-burn charms helped, but they were a drain.“All ready for your classes next semester?” I asked him.He bounced on his feet, shouting a quick greeting to some girl who couldn’t stop looking his way. She was cute, with curly red hair that reminded me of amber in the sunlight. Therapy had been doing wonders for Coop, who had turned his life around just the way Nova wanted.“All set up! Dad helped a little, but he wanted me to get a feel for the paperwork side of things.” Coop rolled his eyes and grumbled, “But he wants to follow me arou
Ophelia“When my mother died, I felt nothing.” Jude said with that unsettling emotionless tone he sometimes used.Judging by the way Ryker looked at him, his brows slightly lifted, Jude didn’t talk about this. Not with him. And if he didn’t talk about it with Ryker, that meant he didn’t talk about it with anyone.The wind picked up, teasing strands of hair across my face. I brushed them back but kept my eyes on him.“I felt nothing even after the abuse. The weeks that followed were the hardest, but not in the way you’re thinking. Everyone tells you how you should feel. You should cry, because it’s good for you. You should scream, because that’s what they think grief is. You should be angry, because of the shit they did.” He paused,, then added, “If that’s what you feel, then that’s fine. Feel it, and don’t apologize if it’s messy. And if you need to gouge an eye out, you have my full support.” Biting his lip, he shrugged. “Too soon?”I couldn’t help it. I laughed through the ache in m
OpheliaThe moment the ground sealed, I lunged for the knife.I couldn’t quite feel my body. My limbs felt foreign, part of someone else’s being. All I knew was that I needed to get to Nova, even if that meant ripping a hole in our realm.My fingers scrambled in the sand, wrapping around the blood encrusted hilt.The portal was gone, but the black salt still remained and so did my magic. I could draw more from the island. I’d open the rift again, just for a moment, and drag her back with my bare hands if I had to—Jude intercepted me, plucking the knife from my fingers with ease. He passed it back to Ryker and began inspecting the wound on my hand. Magic stung at the edges of the torn flesh, forcing my enhanced healing to slow. It was the only way to get the blood around the entire circle.It would scar, but I didn’t care.“I know,” Jude murmured, catching me when my knees buckled. “Deep breaths, dove. There are people watching and not all are friendly.”Shit, he was right. Some of th
OpheliaKaelith’s lips pulled back into a grin as he realized what I’d only been buying time.I gave in just this once to that whisper of temptation and thought of the safety I felt in Ryker’s arms, and warmth that poured from Jude’s laughter. I thought about what they would do, would think, if I v
NovaIf the Goddess hadn’t punished me enough by taking away my family, she had apparently decided to double down by giving me a suicidal demon for a mate.I stared at the incubus sprawled shamelessly across the foot of my bed, an inky stain against the lace and floral perfection. A smirk was etche
NovaKaelith stepped back. I hadn’t noticed, but during our conversation the shadows had stretched behind him, forming a backdrop of darkness that reached out almost lovingly towards him. They coiled around his wrists, his ankles, his throat, like hungry serpents.His last look lingered on me like
OpheliaSucking his lower lip into his mouth, Jude set me on my feet and tangled his hand in my hair, drawing my lips to his while his other hand worked on my pants. I tried to swat his hands away, but his magic came out, yanking them both behind my back. I could have broken his hold, but my pussy
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