LOGINChapter 183Skye’s POV The thought made my skin crawl but I was out of options and out of people I could trust and if Drake had answers then I needed to hear them even if they came from someone I didn't want to be anywhere near.I was almost to the front doors when a figure stepped into my path.Kael.He was leaning against one of the marble pillars near the entrance as if he had been waiting there for exactly this moment‚ and the expression on his face made every nerve in my body go cold.His usual playful smirk was gone. The teasing‚ the casual flirtation‚ the way he always looked at me like everything was a game he was winning‚ all of it had been stripped away and replaced by something I had never seen on him before.He took a step forward‚ and I instinctively took a step back."Kael‚ I don't have time for—""He still denied it‚ right?"I blinked. "What?""Thorne." Kael tilted his head slightly‚ studying me the way someone studies something they've already figured out. "He denied
Chapter 182Skye's POV"You're not breaking up with me. You don't have the right to‚ Skye. You are mine. Only mine.”I wiped my face with the back of my hand and let out a laugh that sounded nothing like a laugh. "Watch me."I turned toward the door but his hand closed around my arm before I could take two steps‚ his grip firm enough to stop me but not enough to bruise‚ and I spun around and shoved both my palms flat against his chest as hard as I could.He didn't move.Didn't even sway.I shoved him again and he just stood there absorbing it like it was nothing‚ like I was nothing‚ while his hand stayed locked around my wrist and his eyes burned into mine with something between fury and desperation."Let go of me.""No.""Let go of me‚ Thorne!""No.""Now what?" I stepped closer to him instead of pulling away because if he wanted to hold me here then fine‚ I would stand right here and make him look at what he was doing. "You wanna forcefully have me? Huh? Take me? Pin me down so I'll
Chapter 181Skye’s POV"My biological parents‚ Thorne. Who are they?""Skye‚ we've talked about this—""No. No‚ we haven't talked about this. I've asked you and you've denied knowing every single time and I'm done letting you deny it so I'm asking you right now‚ right here‚ and I need you to look me in my face and give me an honest answer."He came around the desk slowly‚ his hands raised slightly as if he was approaching something fragile. "Where is this coming from? What happened?""Just answer me.""I don't know anything about your biological family‚ Skye. I've told you this. I don't know who they are.""There you go. Lying again.""What— I'm not lying to you.""Then why does everyone keep telling me you are?" My voice cracked and I hated it‚ hated the way it broke right in the middle of the sentence as if my body was betraying me. "Why does everyone keep saying that you know exactly who my real parents are and you're hiding it from me?""Who is everyone?" His voice dropped low. "W
Chapter 180Skye's POVI was sitting on the edge of Thorne's bed contemplating if I would go to work today or stay back in when my phone buzzed.Unknown number.Again??I almost ignored it. Almost set the phone facedown on the nightstand but something made me look.*I know everything about who you are and your biological parents. Didn't want to believe it but it is so. Thorne is not what you think he is. He is lying and keeping a whole lot of information from you. If you think I'm lying let's meet up and I'll tell you the real truth. You think Thorne is the good one but he's the real villain.*My hands went cold.I read it again.And again.What exactly was going on? And who exactly was this?The same number popped up with another text.*This is Drake.*Drake?I stared at my phone as if it had just spoken out loud. How does Drake know about my biological parents when clearly Thorne doesn't? Or when Thorne claims he doesn't?I had asked Thorne about this before. More than once. And eve
Chapter 179Thorne's POVShe was shaking in her sleep. Her fingers kept twitching against the pillow and every few minutes a small sound would escape her throat as if she was trying to scream but something inside her wouldn't let it out.I pulled the covers up over her shoulders and stood there watching her for a long moment‚ my jaw tight‚ my hands curled at my sides.She hadn't been okay in that car. She'd said she was tired but that was a lie and we both knew it. The way she pressed her forehead against that window‚ the way her hands wouldn't stop trembling no matter how hard she pushed them into her thighs.I brushed the hair off her face and left the room.Reed was waiting downstairs in the study with two of my enforcers standing behind him‚ all three of them straightening the second I walked through the door."Tell me about the prisoners in the dungeon back at the island."Reed stepped forward. "Still alive‚ Alpha. Although barely.""Good. Make sure they don't die from the tortur
Chapter 178Skye's POV"I'm not leaving without telling my mom something.""Then write a note. You have two minutes to do that." He was already off me‚ already pulling out‚ and I gasped at the emptiness as he tucked himself back in and stood from the bed like he'd flipped a switch.“Take a chill pill.”“I can't. Pack what you need for tonight. Everything else gets picked up tomorrow.""Thorne‚ I can't just disappear on her—""You're not disappearing. You're writing a note and you're leaving with me." He pulled my closet open and started grabbing things‚ my work blouse‚ jeans‚ hoodie‚ tossing them onto the bed while I was still lying there naked and wrecked. "Two minutes‚ Skye. I mean it."My duffel came off the top shelf. Clothes shoved in. Phone charger. Laptop. Toiletries from the bathroom when I insisted because he tried to tell me he had everything at the mansion and I told him I wanted my own stuff and he stared at me for one second before walking to the bathroom without a word.
Chapter 94Skye's POVI walked into the kitchen with my phone still clutched in my hand. Thorne was at the stove‚ stirring something in a pan."Did you mark Julia?"He stilled.That was my answer.The tears came fast and I didn't bother wiping them. "I can't believe this. All any of you do is LIE t
Chapter 83SKYE'S POVBy the time I woke up‚ sunlight was already pouring through the floor-to-ceiling windows."Shit‚" I gasped‚ sitting up too fast.My body immediately punished me for it. Pain shot through my lower half and I fell back against the pillows with a groan. Everything between my thig
CHAPTER 54 Skye's POV Someone was saying my name. "Skye. Hey‚ Skye. Wake up." The voice was close and familiar and shaking in a way that pulled me out of whatever dark‚ dreamless place I had been hiding in. I opened my eyes and the bathroom light hit me like a punch. Everything hurt. My n
Chapter 52 Skye's POV We arrived at his penthouse and he led me inside to the same couch where we had watched Netflix together while I ate his pasta and pretended I wasn't falling for him. The same couch where Julia had found us that night and everything had fallen apart. I sat down on it







