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A HEARTBROKEN HOLLY

Author: Jessy May
last update Last Updated: 2026-02-14 17:06:10

~HOLLY~

For a few seconds after the car disappears, I just stand there.

The snow is falling lightly. Quiet. Almost gentle.

It doesn’t match the violence inside my chest.

The red tail lights vanish at the end of the street, and with them, something inside me goes too. Something fragile. Something foolish.

Something that I believed.

I don’t realise I’m shaking until the cold bites through my coat. Or maybe I was already shaking before the cold. Maybe it started the momen
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  • Tempting My Best Friend's Father    WAITING FOR HER REPLY

    ~DAMIEN~Morning doesn’t feel like morning.It feels like exposure.Like the night peeled something open inside me and daylight is here to examine it.I’m already dressed when the sun fully rises. I haven’t slept. Haven’t even tried. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Holly’s face in the car. The way her lips trembled when she tried to hold herself together. The way she nodded like she understood—even when she clearly didn’t.I walk past Ella’s room first.She’s still asleep.Her small wolf body is curled into itself, breathing steady now. Peaceful.She's still exhausted, but very soon she'll shift back to human form and this time around, I'll be there for her.Relief spreads through me—but it doesn’t erase the guilt. It just makes it quieter.Gabriel is in the kitchen when I walk downstairs.He’s leaning against the counter, coffee untouched in front of him. His eyes lift when he hears me.We look at each other.Too many things sit between us.I know he wants

  • Tempting My Best Friend's Father    CONFLICTS WITHIN ME

    ~DAMIEN~The war doesn’t end when the night comes and the house goes quiet.It only gets louder inside my head.I don’t sleep.I lay Ella carefully in her bed after her first shift settles fully, cover her small wolf body with a blanket even though she doesn’t need it, and sit there longer than necessary. Gabriel stands at the doorway at some point, watching us both, his expression unreadable. I avoid his eyes.Because if I look too closely, I might see it.The thing I don’t want to acknowledge.Him liking Holly.When I finally leave Ella’s room, the hallway feels too long. Too empty. The house smells like antiseptic and wolf and blood.And underneath it….Her.Holly’s scent still clings faintly to my shirt.Vanilla. Snow. Something warm and dangerously soft.I strip the shirt off in my bedroom, wanting to throw it away so that I can stop perceiving her scent.But I don’t throw it away. Instead, I carefully fold the shirt and place it gently in one corner of

  • Tempting My Best Friend's Father    A HEARTBROKEN HOLLY

    ~HOLLY~For a few seconds after the car disappears, I just stand there.The snow is falling lightly. Quiet. Almost gentle.It doesn’t match the violence inside my chest.The red tail lights vanish at the end of the street, and with them, something inside me goes too. Something fragile. Something foolish.Something that I believed.I don’t realise I’m shaking until the cold bites through my coat. Or maybe I was already shaking before the cold. Maybe it started the moment he said it.I don’t want my children to see you with me.The words replay in my head, over and over, each time sounding worse than before.Not I need to protect them.Not this isn’t the right time.Not even please understand.Just that.Like I’m something shameful. Something to hide. Something dirty.My throat tightens painfully.I bend slowly to pick up my bag, but my fingers feel numb. It slips from my hand and lands back in the snow.I stare at it and think about everything that happened.F

  • Tempting My Best Friend's Father    A WAR SHE CAN'T WIN

    ~DAMIEN~I keep on driving at full speed till I get to my house.I don't remember driving in through the gates and I certainly do not remember parking the car.Lucian is restless inside me, pacing, snarling, claws scraping against my ribs like he wants out. Like he knows before I do.The bond.It feels unstable. Like something fragile is cracking.I only remember the sound....Screaming.Ella.My wolf surges forward violently, slamming against my chest, furious that I ever wasted time on roads and doors and keys.“Ella!” I roar, already moving.Gabriel is in the living room, shirt torn, hands and arms smeared with blood—her blood. His eyes snap to me, red-rimmed and wild with fear and relief.He looks younger like this. Not my Beta. Not my right hand.Just a man who doesn’t know how to save a transforming child.“She won’t listen,” he says hoarsely. “She’s fighting it. She thinks if she stops it, it’ll stop hurting.”My heart breaks clean in half.“She doesn’t un

  • Tempting My Best Friend's Father    I'M SO SORRY, HOLLY

    ~DAMIEN~The drive starts in silence.Not the calm kind, but the heavy, choking kind that presses against your chest and makes every breath feel like punishment.The engine hums beneath us, tyres cutting through the snow-covered road, but all I hear is Gabriel’s voice in my head. Over and over again.She’s shifting.She’s bleeding.I think she’s on the brink.My hands tighten around the steering wheel until my knuckles ache. I welcome the pain. It keeps me grounded. Keeps me from losing my mind completely.We drive past Holly's spoiled car on the road, but she says nothing.Normal Holly would have said something about her car, but she didn't.Instead, she sits beside me, quiet. Too quiet.I don’t look at her.If I do, something inside me might crack, and I don’t have time for that. Cracks turn into breaks, and I cannot afford to break right now.Ella needs me whole.Alive.Present.I keep my eyes fixed on the road, jaw clenched so tight it aches, hands locked

  • Tempting My Best Friend's Father    BIG TROUBLE AT HOME

    ~DAMIEN~The phone ringing instantly feels wrong for no reason.Too sharp. Too loud. Like it’s cutting through something fragile I didn’t even realise I was holding together.I pull back from Holly slowly, my body already on edge before I even see the caller ID. My wolf stirs beneath my skin, restless, uneasy—like it already knows.I answer.“Dad.”Gabriel’s voice comes through strained, breathless, and my heart drops straight into my stomach.“There’s a big problem at home.”Every muscle in my body goes tight.“What kind of problem?” I ask, though part of me already knows this isn’t something small. Gabriel never panics. He never sounds like this.There’s shuffling on the other end. A sharp breath.“It’s Ella,” he says, and my world tilts. “She’s… she’s shifting. For the first time.”My chest locks.“She’s what?”“It started suddenly,” he rushes on, words tumbling over each other. “The moon, the emotions, everything just hit at once. Dad, it’s bad. Really b

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