LOGINToday was my last day in college. I graduated from one of the most prestigious Alpha colleges in the city. Even though I wasn’t an Alpha or even his daughter, my father was a respected retired Beta , still holding power amongst the pack members.
I should’ve felt proud. I should’ve felt like I’d finally made him proud. And I was happy… I really was. I wanted everything to be perfect. I ordered a set of sexy undergarments and a short red dress. Even though I was usually shy, quiet, the invisible girl in the crowd tonight, I wanted to look beautiful. For him. For Lucas Jordan my boyfriend, the Alpha’s heir, the man I thought loved me. I imagined the look in his eyes when he saw me. I imagined his smile, his strong arms wrapping around me, his deep voice whispering “I’m proud of you, Kiera.” I held onto that thought as I rushed out of the taxi, clutching the bottle of wine I’d bought for our celebration. My heart was racing, fluttering like I was about to live the moment I’d dreamed of for years. The night air was cool, brushing against my bare legs as I hurried to his private villa. I knew the passcode by heart I’d typed it in a hundred times before. But the moment the door clicked open… my entire world shattered. I froze. For a second, I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t think. Because right there, in the middle of the room tangled in white sheets and broken promises was Lucas. My Lucas. And beneath him was another she-wolf. Her moans filled the room, sharp, breathless, obscene. His hands gripped her hips the same way they’d once held me. Their bodies moved together, their rhythm violent and cruel. The bottle slipped from my trembling hands, crashing to the floor. The sound made them stop. Lucas turned his head lazily, a smirk curling on his lips, while the she-wolf beneath him blonde hair, tanned skin, the kind of woman I’d always envied only laughed. “Fuck,” she whispered against his ear, loud enough for me to hear. “You didn’t tell me your little pet might walk in.” Lucas chuckled low, dark, mocking. He didn’t even look guilty. “Guess she needed to learn a lesson,” he said, his voice like poison. “L-Lucas…” My voice cracked. “W-What is this?” He got off the bed, completely unbothered, his naked body still glistening with sweat. The she-wolf didn’t even try to cover herself; she only stretched, smiling at me like she’d already won. “What does it look like, Kiera?” Lucas said, smirking as he stepped closer. “I got bored. You were always so fucking boring quiet, shy, too afraid to even look me in the eyes when I touched you.” My chest tightened. “I..I loved you.” He laughed. “You thought you did. But what did you ever give me, huh? You don’t even know how to please a man. You’re just a Beta’s daughter good for nothing except wagging your tail and pretending to be special.” The she-wolf laughed, sliding off the bed and walking up behind him, her hands trailing over his chest. “Maybe she should watch, Lucas,” she purred. “Maybe she’ll finally learn what a real woman does.” Lucas looked at me, eyes glinting with something cruel. “Yeah,” he said slowly, voice dripping with venom. “Watch, Kiera. Watch and learn how a real woman behaves in bed.” My heart stopped. My vision blurred. I didn’t even realize I’d started crying until the taste of salt hit my lips. I wanted to scream, to hit him, to make it all stop but my body refused to move. They started kissing again right in front of me. Loud, rough, deliberate. Something inside me snapped. “Stop it!” I screamed, my voice breaking. “Lucas, please!” He turned his head just enough to look at me, smirking as he said, “You can leave now, Kiera. You’ve seen enough. Or stay and learn, maybe then you’ll finally be worth something.” The words cut deeper than any blade. My knees gave out. I clutched the edge of the doorframe, gasping, choking on the sobs that tore through me. I wanted to hate him. I wanted to die. I wanted everything to end right there. But through the tears, through the ache ripping through my chest, I saw something her smirk. His arrogance. Their laughter. And suddenly… my tears slowed. I wiped my face, trembling, my voice low and hoarse as I whispered, “You’ll regret this, Lucas Jordan.” He raised a brow, mocking. “Oh? The Beta’s daughter’s going to make me regret it? You can barely look me in the eye, Kiera.” I forced myself to meet his gaze. And for the first time, I didn’t look away. “I may be a Beta’s daughter,” I said quietly, my voice shaking but steady enough, “but you just broke the wrong heart.” His smile faltered just for a second. Then I turned around and ran. The rain outside greeted me like a storm waiting to swallow me whole. It poured hard, cold and merciless, soaking through my thin dress in seconds. I didn’t care. I ran barefoot down the street, my mascara mixing with the rain, my breath coming out in ragged gasps. I screamed until my throat burned, until the sound of my heartbreak was drowned by thunder. The pain was too much. The betrayal, unbearable. But somewhere between the sobs and the storm, a single thought burned in my chest hotter than the rain, sharper than the ache. He would pay. He would pay for every tear, every humiliation, every broken piece of me he left behind.LUCAS POVEVENING (6: PM)I was in the club room, leaning against the leather sofa, trying to ignore the chatter around me. The lights were dim, music thumping lazily in the background, and people were laughing, clinking glasses. But I wasn’t really here. My mind was somewhere else entirely, on Kiera, on her every move, every little thing she did back then we were still together.Then my phone pinged. The sound made me flinch. I fished it out of my pocket, my thumb hovering over the screen as I unlocked it. The message was from one of the workers I had asked to keep an eye on Kiera. Just one simple instruction: make sure she’s safe, make sure no one touches her.He had replied with a photo. I tapped it open, expecting something mundane, maybe a picture of her walking into the office, or just sitting in the cafeteria. But the moment the image loaded, my chest tightened so much that my grip on the phone faltered, and it slipped from my hand.I caught it just in time, but my eyes didn’t
That night, I received a call.The phone vibrated softly beside me, breaking the calm that had settled over the room. For a moment, I just stared at the screen, my heart already tightening before I even saw the name.Dad.I swallowed and picked it up. “Hello?”He did not waste time. He never did.“Are you with the Alpha?”The question hit me like a slap. My fingers tightened around the phone. “What?” I asked, genuinely shocked. “How did you know?”There was a brief pause on the line, the kind that carried weight. “The news is everywhere,” he said flatly. “The whole pack knows.”My chest constricted.Everyone knew.“How?” I whispered, more to myself than to him.I turned slowly and looked across the room. Alpha Damon was seated on the couch, his laptop resting on his thighs, his attention focused on the screen. The glow reflected faintly on his face. He looked calm. Unbothered. Powerful.A strange hunch settled in my chest.Was it him?But how could news spread this fast? I had barely
That afternoon, I was still at his villa.It felt strange in a good way. Like I had crossed into a space I was never meant to occupy, yet somehow belonged there. I sat on the edge of his bed, my legs drawn up, still wearing his T shirt. I had not even considered changing out of it. I did not want to.The fabric was soft and carried his scent, faint but comforting. Wearing it made me feel like his arms were still around me even when he stepped away. Like a shield. Like safety.I watched him from the bed as he worked briefly on his laptop, his attention drifting back to me every few seconds.“You are staring,” he said without looking up.I smiled faintly. “You are supposed to be working.”He shut the laptop and turned fully to me. “I cannot.”“Why?”He stood, walked over, and before I could react, he grabbed my waist and pulled me onto his lap. I yelped softly, instinctively wrapping my hands around his shoulders.“Because you are here,” he said simply.My heart skipped. “That is not a
I woke up to sunlight stabbing directly into my eyes.I groaned and rolled to the side, pulling the blanket over my head, only to hiss softly when my body protested. Everything hurt. Not sharp pain, not injury, just that deep soreness that made me feel like I had run a marathon, climbed a mountain, and fought a war all at once.I frowned.Why did my body feel like this.And why did my underwear feel uncomfortably warm.My eyes flew open.Okay. No. Something definitely happened last night.I slowly sat up, the blanket slipping down to my waist. My head throbbed lightly, not enough to scream, but enough to remind me that alcohol had been involved. A lot of it.I looked around.The room was unfamiliar at first glance. Large. Clean. Expensive. The curtains were a soft cream color, drawn halfway open. The bed beneath me was far too big to belong to my tiny apartment. The sheets smelled like something masculine, clean, and faintly woody.My heart began to race.I looked down at myself.I wa
I drove with one hand on the steering wheel and the other clenched so tightly my knuckles hurt.Kiera sat beside me, curled in on herself, her shoulders shaking as quiet sobs escaped her. She had not stopped crying since we left the bar. Not once. Every sound that came from her chest felt like a blade dragged slowly across my heart.The city lights passed us by, blurred and distant, but I barely noticed anything outside the windshield. All I could hear was her pain.“Kiera,” I said softly, my voice rough. “You are safe now.”She shook her head weakly, tears sliding down her cheeks. “I am not,” she whispered. “I don’t feel safe anywhere, nobody wants me, they just want to push me away, I feel lonely and useless.”Those words crushed something inside me.I pressed harder on the accelerator.The gates of my villa opened automatically, the guards stepping aside without a word. I parked and got out quickly, moving to her side before she could even try to open the door.When I lifted her in
I sat there, staring at the table in front of me.Empty bottles.Too many of them.Some were tipped over, some still had a little liquid left at the bottom, mocking me. I did not even remember ordering half of them. I just kept drinking. One glass after another. My throat burned, my head spun, but I did not stop.Her words from earlier kept replaying in my head.“He knew you wanted to use him as revenge.”“You are just a used, dumped slut.”I pressed my palms against my temples, but it did nothing. The words were loud. Louder than the music. Louder than the laughter around me.“He said that himself.”I laughed suddenly, a broken, ugly sound that did not belong to me.“Liar,” I whispered, not knowing who I was talking to. Her? Him? Myself?My chest felt tight. Too tight. Like something was expanding inside me, something hot and violent. I felt like I was about to combust.I stood up abruptly, the stool scraping loudly against the floor.The room spun.Lights blurred.The music thumped







