Trapped in a loveless, arranged marriage to Alpha Damian, Lana has spent years enduring his betrayal and cruelty. But when a mysterious vision reveals that Damian may have murdered her mother, she can no longer stay silent. At a lavish ball, she confronts him—only to find solace in the arms of Ethan, a rival alpha with an outrageous offer: marry him for nine months, bear his heir, and walk away with more money than she’s ever dreamed of. Torn between vengeance, freedom, and the dangerous attraction growing between them, Lana must navigate a web of secrets, power, and betrayal to reclaim her life. But in a world where trust is a luxury and love is a weapon, can she ever truly escape her past?
View MoreAURORA It has been a week and each passing day felt like another burden for me to bear. It was so hard for me. Ethan hadn’t stopped apologizing. Flowers, meals, little note and all. Unfortunately he was trying to fix what couldn’t be undone.He looked at me with guilt and hope in his eyes, but I couldn’t bring myself to give him the forgiveness he so clearly wanted. I needed to leave. He tried to bring up the contract to me, but all I said was fuck him and the contract. If I didn’t stay back and have the ‘healthy’ baby he wanted, then he should throw me in his prison. The thought of leaving had been circling in my head for days, growing stronger with every hour. But before I could plan my escape, there was something else I needed to handle.I needed to take care of the pregnancy, and I also needed to find a place to live that will be safe for me. Against the beasts I dreamt of, if it was even going to happen at all. I wondered if it was a bad idea to leave the safety of a palace to
AURORA Three figures, pale and sharp-eyed, stood over me. Before I could even move, they lunged at me. Their teeth sank into my skin, draining me until my body hit the ground. I couldn’t scream, couldn’t fight back. Everything went black.I shot up in bed, gasping. My hand flew to my neck where the bites had been in the dream, but there was nothing there. Just the necklace, warm against my skin.“What…?” I whispered, my heart pounding.The room felt wrong, like something had shifted in the air. I touched the necklace. It was pulsing, like it had its own heartbeat. It wasn’t the first time it had acted strange and given me visions, but this was worse. I had never seen myself actually dead. My body was shaking as I tried to shake it off, but the vision stuck with me. The fear, the weakness. The feeling that someone or something wanted me gone. What kind of creature was that? Was it true that they were eventually coming for me? If that was it, then I needed to find a way to protect my
AURORA The past two days had been a rollercoaster of emotions. I couldn’t shake the doctor’s words from my mind. I couldn’t believe this was happening to me. The words still echoed in my head every time I tried to breathe.But what haunted me even more was the thought of telling Ethan.Lately, he wasn’t the man I’d married—not that I’d ever truly known him. He’d been distant, secretive, and cold. It was also like he wasn’t the same alpha who had once rescued me from Damian. The bloodstains I kept seeing, the secret late night meetings he refused to explain, the sharpness in his voice when he spoke to others. It all felt like pieces of a puzzle I couldn’t put together.And now, this.I spent those two days pacing in my room, overthinking every word, every way this conversation could go. Would he be angry? Dismissive? Supportive? I had no idea. But I couldn’t avoid it forever.Finally, on the third day, I decided it was time.I chose my clothes carefully. I chose something that was sim
ETHAN I sat alone in my room, staring down at the dark stain of blood on my clothes. The events of the past few days had left me exhilarated. But I had too much fun apparently that I totally forgot to clean it up. I was glad that Aurora had been the one to see me with it. It would be easy to shut her down. If it was the rest of my family, I would have to go through the route I did not like going through. As I sat down on my bed, my thoughts drifted back to Aurora. I did not like how I had left things. I mean I believe a part of me cared about her, so I did not want to see her hurt like that. I hadn’t meant to push her away earlier, especially when she’d just wanted to check on me. I’d seen the worry in her eyes, the quiet concern that made her reach out when I clearly wasn’t welcoming it. Part of me wanted to allow her to stay back. But then, I’d forced myself to remember. This was just a contract. I was here to secure an heir, to fulfill my duties as Alpha, not to make promises
AURORA When I woke up, sunlight was streaming through the curtains, warming my face. I groaned, burying myself under the blanket, but there was no hiding from the day ahead. Everything that had happened—the fight with Ethan, Damian sneaking into my room—was still sitting in the pit of my stomach like a bad meal.I couldn’t keep going like this, feeling like I was just reacting to everything around me. No. Today, I was taking back control.Swinging my legs over the side of the bed, I stretched, pushing away the remnants of sleep. I didn’t care if Ethan was in one of his brooding moods again. I was going to talk to him. Really talk. If he had secrets, I’d find them out. If he wanted to keep brushing me off, fine—but I wasn’t going to let him shut me out without a fight.After a quick shower, I pulled on my favorite jeans and a soft sweater. It wasn’t fancy, but it felt like me. As I brushed my hair, I stared at myself in the mirror, giving myself a pep talk.“You’ve faced worse than a
ETHAN I sat alone in my room, staring down at the dark stain of blood on my clothes. The events of the past few days had left me exhilarated. But I had too much fun apparently that I totally forgot to clean it up. I was glad that Aurora had been the one to see me with it. It would be easy to shut her down. If it was the rest of my family, I would have to go through the route I did not like going through. As I sat down on my bed, my thoughts drifted back to Aurora.I did not like how I had left things. I mean I believe a part of me cared about her, so I did not want to see her hurt like that. I hadn’t meant to push her away earlier, especially when she’d just wanted to check on me. I’d seen the worry in her eyes, the quiet concern that made her reach out when I clearly wasn’t welcoming it. Part of me wanted to allow her to stay back. But then, I’d forced myself to remember. This was just a contract. I was here to secure an heir, to fulfill my duties as Alpha, not to make promises or
AURORA I was deep in sleep when something jolted me awake. My eyes fluttered open, and I felt an odd chill, the kind that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Blinking, I scanned the room, my vision adjusting to the dim light, and that’s when I noticed it. The window was open, allowing a soft breeze to drift in.I knew I hadn’t left it open, so who had opened it? I thought maybe it was the breeze, since I did not hear anyone come into the room. I swung my legs over the bed, feeling the cold floor beneath my feet as I walked over to close it. As I moved, my mind drifted back to the pain that I was sleeping to forget. I wished that I did not even wake up right now and had slept more. I needed this out of my system.The cool air and the loneliness in this room all felt like a reminder of the distance between us. The harsh words he had uttered to me still lingered, making my heart ache. As I reached for the window, the hairs on my neck prickled again. I turned, my breath catchi
AURORA The next day, Ethan called me. We had a brief conversation, which had me smiling and blushing behind my phone throughout. I did not know why just speaking with him had left me this way. God, it felt like I was genuinely cooked. It had literally left me buzzing with excitement. After days of waiting for him to come back, hearing his voice again had brought a smile to my face, and the promise that he’d be back tomorrow had lifted a weight I didn’t realize I’d been carrying.As soon as we hung up, I found myself planning. I showered, shaved my legs, and picked out an outfit that I hoped would make it look effortless but cute. I did not want to let him think that I was planning to dress up for him. That would feel too intimate. My heart pounded at the thought of seeing him again, wondering if he’d be as happy to see me as I was to see him.The next afternoon, I found myself downstairs, unable to stay in my room, waiting for any sound that would signal his arrival. When I finally h
DAMIAN The next morning, I found myself pacing in the gazebo, running my hands through my hair as I tried to calm the restless energy that had been building since yesterday. My thoughts were consumed by Aurora. I could not believe her defiance, the way she’d walked out without looking back, and the feeling of her slipping further from my grasp. She was out there, away from me, living in Ethan’s pack, and it was driving me mad.I had thought the feeling was going to reduce but for the last few days, it had only gotten worse. I wanted her so badly here with me. If she wanted me to, I would turn the whole world over if it meant she would be with me. I poured myself another glass of wine, hoping it might numb the frustration gnawing at me. But as I took a sip, the taste only served to sharpen my focus. I need her back. That was all that mattered now.I did not even know if it had to do with the pack anymore. The rejection had hurt more than anything had and all I wanted now was her back
AURORA I clutched my diamond emerald necklace on my neck as I felt pain in the lower part of my body. He was doing it again. Damian was cheating on me with his girlfriend Evelyn while I stood there trying to look pretty beside him for the ball. But that was even the least of my concerns, even though I had been married to him for four years and he never attempted to treat me right. I had just found out that my ungrateful and wicked husband had killed my mother. I was not sure of it. I looked at the necklace closely in the mirror. I have owned it for several years but it had never shown me something like this before. When I was getting ready and I was clasping it on my neck, I had a vision and saw Damian standing in front of my mother’s dead body. Could he have really been the one that killed her all those years ago? I could not sit here and continue thinking about it because I was not going to get any answers. I needed to go and ask him. I looked over at the divorce papers
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