เข้าสู่ระบบLiena POV The door opened behind me before I could say anything more. I heard his footsteps first, heavy and familiar, and then Kael's voice cut through the tension in the room. "What's going on in here?" I turned. He stood in the doorway, his eyes moving between us, confusion and something sharper settling on his face. That was when Helena moved. It happened so fast I almost didn't catch it. She stumbled backward, one hand flying to her chest, and let herself drop toward the floor near the edge of the bed. Her knee hit the carpet with a soft thud, and she gasped like the wind had been knocked out of her. "Kael," she cried, her voice trembling, thin as glass. "Kael, help me." He rushed past me without a second thought, kneeling beside her, his hands hovering over her shoulders like he was afraid to touch her wrong. "Helena, what happened? Are you hurt?" "She pushed me," Helena said, pointing a shaking finger at me, tears already spilling down her cheeks like she had been cryin
Liena POV Ethan let go of my leg. He turned and started walking down the hallway, his small feet moving fast, like he had somewhere important to be. I watched him go, his fists still balled at his sides. Helena scrambled up from the floor. "Ethan, wait…" She went after him, her voice cracking. "Baby, listen to me. You heard it wrong. Mommy didn't mean what she said. Come back here, please." He didn't stop. He didn't even slow down. He kept walking, small and stubborn, heading straight for the sitting room where the voices of the family carried through the open doorway. Helena caught up to him and reached for his shoulder, but he shrugged her off without looking at her. "Ethan, please," she begged, her voice thin now, stripped of the calm she always wore like a second skin. "Don't do this. Whatever you think you heard…" "I heard you," he said again, flat and sure, the same words he'd said to her minutes ago. I followed behind them, quiet, my face still. I didn't try to stop him.
Liena POV The threat sat there heavy in the air between us. I didn't step back. I let Helena's words settle into me, cold, and I felt nothing move in my chest. No fear. No anger. Just a stillness. Helena's chest rose and fell fast, her fists still clenched at her sides in fury she’s trying so hard to control but it’s too late. Her eyes were wet now, rimmed red, but her jaw stayed tight like she refused to let herself cry in front of me. She looked like a woman standing on the edge of something she couldn't take back. Then I heard it. A small voice, soft and steady, coming from behind me. "Mommy Liena." I turned. Ethan stood a few feet away, near the corner of the hallway, half hidden by the shadow of the wall. His small hands were balled into fists at his sides, and his little face, usually so calm and unreadable, was tight with something I had never seen on him before. Not confusion. Not fear. Something closer to anger. I didn't know how long he had been standing there. Long en
Liena POV The words hit Helena unexpectedly. Ethan’s small voice had been soft, almost careless, but the way he spoke about me, calling me the one who smelled like home, the one whose arms felt safer than anything else, broke something deep inside her. Her face went pale and her hands tightened. She wasn’t just upset. She was breaking and hurt. Right there in front of us, the perfect mask she always wore started to slip, and I could almost scent the fear and rage mixing in the air. But Helena forced a shaky laugh that sounded more like a choke and spun toward Ethan, her smile too wide, too soft towards her boy. “Baby, don’t say things like that. Never say that again, okay? You’re just a little boy. You don’t know what you’re talking about.” Her voice stayed light, the way adults talk when they’re trying to cover something ugly. She knelt down and brushed his hair back, but her fingers trembled. “I’m your mom. I’ve always been here. That other talk is just silly kid stuff. Forget
Liena POV I could see how those words broke something in Helena. It was small, barely there, just a tightening around her eyes and a stiffness in the way she held her shoulders, but I caught it. Elena's scolding hit her harder than any slap could have. Helena was not the kind of woman who liked being corrected, and definitely not the kind who liked being corrected in front of me. She didn't like it at all. I could tell. "I'm sorry, Luna Elena," Helena said after a moment, her voice quiet, her eyes dropping to the floor. "I didn't mean it that way." "See that you don't," Elena said, still cool, before turning back to me with a warmth that felt like sunlight after standing in the cold. "Liena, sweetheart, come sit down. You must be tired from the drive." I gave her a small smile and let her lead me further into the room, but I made sure to glance back at Helena one more time before I did. "It's alright," I said to her, my voice light and pleasant, the kind of tone you'd use with so
Liena POV Her words replayed in my head the whole ride back to the car. We just pray the moon goddess blesses her with a good man soon. Someone who can take care of her, so she doesn't have to work herself into the ground like this. I didn't know how to explain it to her. I didn't know how to tell a sweet old woman who had just fed me dinner that her daughter was not a hardworking secretary sending money home. Her daughter was the reason I had been dragged into a van with a bag over my head and driven three hours outside the city to kidnap me. Her daughter had paid good money to have me disappeared, just long enough so she can slide back into Kael's life and play house with him and Ethan, the perfect little family she must have imagined in her head. The wife. The husband. The son. No me standing in the middle of it. Thinking about it while sitting in that warm dining room, eating food that woman had made with her own hands, made something twist low in my stomach. These people had
Leina’s POVThe car stopped smoothly in front of Blackthorn Pack Enterprises building, Kael’s company.I look up at the massive glass building shining under the afternoon sun. My heart, beating so fast in anticipation. I took a deep breath and forced myself to stay calm before stepping out of the c
Leina’s POV“Happy tenth mating anniversary, my Luna!”Maya, my personal assistant, walks into my room with a bright smile on her face. Her cheerful voice fills the quiet room immediately, and I turn toward her with a soft smile of my own.“Thank you, Maya,” I reply quietly.Ten years. The words ec
Kael POV The door to Helena’s bedroom clicked shut behind us as I tightened my hold on her while she still wrapped her legs around my waist. Her arms slipped around my neck, and before I could say a word, her lips found mine again. The kiss was warm, familiar, and full of the longing that always
Liena’s POV When I opened my eyes again, the first thing I saw was a white ceiling and walls above me. For several seconds, I simply stared at it without moving. Everything felt strange. My body felt heavy, and my head hurt like someone had hit me with a stone. A faint smell of medicine filled th







