LOGIN“You say you hate me,” he growled, his voice brushing her ear like a thorn. “But your scent tells another story. Your arousal is so thick that it chokes the air between us. Tell me, open your mouth. Say you need me, and I will fuck you in every way possible.” “I… I would rather… die,” Elena trembled, the wave of heat crashing over her as his breath burnt against her cheek. ~ ~ ~ Four years ago, Elena Vale ran. She fled from the mate she once loved, the Alpha King, Darius Veylor Thorne after betrayal and heartbreak shattered her world. She left everything behind, her title, her pack, and the secret she carried beneath her heart. Now, fate drags her back. A broken bond hums to life the moment he finds her, standing at another man’s funeral in a city far from their world. And Darius is no longer the man she left behind. He’s darker. Colder. A predator wearing the face of her once-lover. He wants her back, not for love, but for vengeance. But when the mating ritual forces their souls to bind once more, the truth begins to unravel. The lies that tore them apart were never hers to begin with. And when a blood-soaked betrayal returns from the shadows. One that will challenge everything they thought they knew about loyalty, love, and power, Elena realizes something horrifying, To survive Darius, she must either accept the bond… or destroy herself first.
View More~~~ELENA.My breath caught in my throat.“Poison?” I repeated, my voice coming out thin and broken.Another spurt of blood left Darius’s mouth, splashing against the table. He clenched his jaw immediately, wiping it off with the back of his hand like it was nothing but this was not nothing. I could smell it now. It was sharp, bitter, and wrong.I was on my feet instantly.“What did you just drink?” I demanded, my hands trembling as I reached for him.He laughed but it came out strained. “Your tea,” he said hoarsely. “Or rather… what was meant to be your tea.”My heart slammed violently against my ribs.“No,” I whispered, shaking my head. “No, no, no.”His eyes flickered again, molten gold flashing through the brown, and this time he groaned, gripping the edge of the table. I had never seen him like this. Not wounded and definitely not weakened.Fear wrapped around my chest like iron chains.“Darius,” I said sharply, gripping his arm. “Sit. Don’t you dare fall.”He obeyed, barely.I tu
~~~ELENA.“Petitions? I don’t understand,” my brows snapped together as I turned to Lyra who had just broken the news to me.It had been two full weeks since Darius told me the truth, since he admitted that a sorceress had been behind everything that tore us apart.And in those two weeks, something had shifted.Not loudly or forcefully.But softly and carefully.Darius started looking out for me again.He stayed back in the mornings instead of leaving before dawn. He waited until I woke up, until I sat up in bed, before he left the manor. Sometimes, he would even stay long enough for us to have breakfast together.At night, he returned earlier than usual. Always in time for dinner.This had gone on for days, and slowly… I was getting used to it.So used to it that whenever it was time to eat and he wasn’t back yet, I would suddenly find something to do. I would keep myself busy on purpose, so he wouldn’t notice that I was waiting.He wasn’t pressuring me and I could feel it.We exchan
~~~ELENA.It had been days since Darius mentioned he was investigating what happened years ago, and days since he had gone completely silent about it.And that silence bothered me more than any argument ever could.Darius was not the kind of man who let things go. He never had been. If something troubled him, he tore at it until he reached the bone. So this sudden quiet, this careful avoidance, felt wrong.He hadn’t been cruel nor distant in an obvious way either.But he came home late at night, long after I was asleep, and left the manor before dawn, before I could even open my eyes.It felt deliberate, like he was shielding me from something… or shielding himself.By the third night, I couldn’t take it anymore.So I sent word to him that I wanted to see him and that I’d be waiting in the garden.The night air was cool when I got there. The flowers were in full bloom, their scent heavy and sweet, but it did nothing to calm the tight feeling in my chest. I walked slowly along the ston
~~~DARIUS.There was silence in the room for a long while.Not the calm kind or the empty kind.The kind that made every sound louder, every breath, every shift of weight, and every heartbeat.I watched the woman closely, listening beyond sight. Her heart was steady, too steady in fact. It was slow, even, and unafraid. There was no panic in her rhythm, no spike of dread, and no frantic flutter beneath her ribs.Only the blood smeared across her lips told me she had already been handled.I finally moved and settled into the chair across from her, crossing my legs with deliberate ease.“You know what is worse than fear?” I asked.She lifted her gaze to me, eyes sharp, defiant, and unblinking. She did not answer.“Pain,” I said.Her head tilted slightly, curiosity flickering through her expression as she tried to follow my thoughts.“Fear makes the mind run,” I continued calmly. “It imagines, guesses and prepares.” I leaned back. “But pain… pain does not ask for permission.”I rose to my






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