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The Portal in Reign’s Room

Author: Angel Cole
last update Last Updated: 2026-01-04 09:49:27

No one suspected anything at first.

The city walls were high.

The castle was busy.

Life had settled into a rhythm that almost seemed normal.

Reign, Luca, and Ash had school, training, duties.

They had friends.

They had cars.

Reign drove something sleek and black and responsible, like he had a board meeting at age seventeen.

Luca had a silver muscle car that was way too loud and definitely illegal.

Ash had a beat-up truck with good bones and a bad muffler, because he liked hearing it cough when he revved it.

For a while, it was good.

They laughed.

They sparred.

They outran guards and snuck up on walls and flirted with girls from neighboring packs.

They were wolves, but they were brothers first.

But then something changed.

Reign and Luca began disappearing together.

Whispering.

Late-night meetings.

Shared looks over dinner.

Ash wasn’t dumb.

He grew up with two geniuses and a mother who could smell lies through solid stone.

He noticed.

At first, he let it go. They were twins. They bonded
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  • The Alpha King's One-Time Rejected Mate   The Art of Containment

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