LOGINVanessa.
“No, i…. I...I don't want to die.” I managed to say, still struggling to catch my breath.
“Good, because I only grant death to people who don't want to live anymore.” he said, grabbing my neck.
“Alpha Damian, she is here. Ella is here?”
I didn't recognize the voice but he immediately let go of his grip on my neck. Any minute longer and I think I would have died.
He walked towards the strange man standing at the door, the room was full of tension now. Who was Ella and what was she here for? They both stepped outside and he shouted from the doorway. “You better be on your best behavior when I come back or you are going to join your mother.”
Painful tears stung my eyes, every time he mentioned my mother I wished she had lived long enough to protect me.
I was woken up by a bucket of ice cold water being poured all over me. I now had on just a slip dress and it was soaking wet and clinging to my body.
“Who do you think you are sleeping until noon you little slut.” Alpha Damian’s Beta, Dwayne said as he uncuffed my hands looking at me like I was some filth. “Clean this whole place up and make yourself presentable for the Alpha.”He said, pushing me off the bed with so much force as soon as he was done handcuffing me.
I fell on the ground head down hurting my face, my whole body was in menacing pain and it was burning up. It was like my body had been stomped on by everyone, every part of me was in pain. I quickly got up, before I could receive another beating and started limping around the room collecting all the dirt on the floor.
“Is something wrong with your leg? I can break it for you so that you can limp properly.” The beta said in a loud commanding voice I almost fell from fear. He was standing at six feet tall, with a huge body, it was like he was built to torture.
I forced myself to walk properly as I walked towards his direction to collect the hand cuffs he had dropped on the floor. He spanked me hard and I let out a loud scream, which I immediately regretted. He slapped me on my left cheek so hard that I fell on the floor. He followed it up by kicking me in my stomach several times and I started coughing blood. He kicked me several times until I stopped screaming and just lay there clutching my stomach. My wolf was still nowhere to be seen. I was helpless.
“Stop it Dwayne, you are going to kill her.” a female voice said from the doorway making him stop.
“I thought you said you wanted her gone.” Dwayne asked the mystery woman who was now standing over me. She was a blonde with long hair that went down to her waist.
“I do want her gone, but definitely not dead.”She looked at me lying there and took her left heeled leg and stepped on my already broken leg and twisted it. I felt so much pain I got numb. “You better go back to wherever you came from you little whore. Alpha Damian is mine, am his chosen mate and I need you to be gone.” she said removing her leg from my broken crushed leg. “If you do not find a way to get out of here, I am going to kill you with my own damn hands.”
“Why are you worried about her anyway? You are his true mate, she is just a slave he plays with.”
“Until she is gone, Damian is not going to let the ritual take place. You know how the man loves his freedom. And you know our parents don't have much time before they will be killed.” she said to Dwayne, it seemed like they knew each other and were planning something, but i was too hurt to even concentrate on their conversation.
“I have been looking for you two everywhere.” I heard the Alpha’s voice. I could recognize it anywhere it had a distinctive darkness and roughness in it. “What happened here?” he asked, looking around the room, with me lying on the floor in my own blood.
“She was trying to be hard headed, seems she is yet to learn her lesson. She is feisty.” Dwayne answered, laughing sarcastically.
“Can you imagine the little bitch spit on me.” the mysterious woman added, hugging the Alpha.
“Dwayne take Ella out of here.” The alpha commanded Dwayne. He had no expression on his face and he didn't seem angry at all. “I will take care of her.”
What did he mean to take care of me? Was he going to kill me? I started shaking uncontrollably out of fear. He walked towards me and squatted next to me.
“You belong to me now, am not going to hurt you if you do what I say okay?” he asked, tucking strands of my hair behind my ears.
I quickly nodded as he helped me get up, he took me to the bathroom and bathed me and bandaged up my broken leg before he took me back to his bed and violated me.
I did not oppose him, just let him do whatever he wanted and when he was done he kissed me and said good girl and left me. I cried myself to sleep.
JordanThe moment she slips out of my arms, the bed feels cold.The sheets still hold her warmth, her scent gods, her scent and my whole body reacts to it like I’ve been starved for years and only just tasted what I was meant to have all along.I lie back on the pillows, breathing her in.Vanessa, my mate.The bond is new raw, bright, pulsing like a second heartbeat under my skin. I can feel her in the shower across the room. Not just the sound of running water, but her emotions, her softness, her contentment. She’s humming under her breath, and somehow even that is intimate.It takes everything in me not to get up and go to her instantly.But I’m frozen in awe for a moment.Because I never thought I would feel this way. So undone. So possessed. So connected.I’m the Alpha. The hybrid. The strongest damn creature in this territory. Yet one small woman with no rank just unraveled me com
VanessaHis lips are still on mine when I realize I’m not breathing.Or maybe I’m breathing too fast, too shallow like my body can’t keep up with what Jordan just awakened inside me. My hands are still fisted in his shirt, my body pressed flush against his, and when he finally pulls back, only a fraction, only enough for air to slip between us, his eyes are no longer just Jordan’s eyes.They are glowing, silver around the edges, storm dark in the center. The look of a hybrid Alpha barely holding himself together.And all of that intensity, all of that hunger is focused entirely on me.“Vanessa,” he breathes in, and my name sounds like something sacred on his tongue. “If you keep looking at me like that” His voice drops into something rougher. “I won’t let you go tonight.”I swallow hard. “Maybe I don’t want to be let go.”Something in him snaps at my r
JordanHer words hit me like a shifting earthquake silent, invisible, but enough to crack something deep inside my chest.I didn’t move on my own. Something controlled me. I didn’t choose him. I wasn’t betraying you.I stood there under the steaming water, staring at her as the last of those words faded into the air between us. For a long moment, the only sounds were the pounding spray, our uneven breaths, and the thundering of my own heart.I didn’t trust my voice at first. I didn’t trust myself at all.She looked wrecked, her eyes wide, trembling, cheeks flushed with heat and shame and fear she didn’t know how to name. And fuck, it gutted me because I knew she wasn’t lying. Vanessa had never been able to hide her emotions from me. Even before she remembered anything, her body always spoke louder than her words.But what she told me, It twisted everything I thought I understood.Finally, I found my voice.“What do you mean something controlled you?” I asked quietly, stepping closer.
Vanessa The moment we crossed the border back into Jordan’s territory, everything shifted.The air changed, the atmosphere shifted and the silence hardened.No one spoke to me.Not Kade, not the patrol warriors walking ahead and behind us, not even the omegas who rushed forward when they saw the state we were all in. Their eyes found Jordan, taking in the blood on his arms, the fury still carved into every tense line of his body.And then, they glanced at me. Not with relief. Not with concern.With disappointment and accusations and betrayal. Whispers followed me like a second shadow.“She protected him.”“She got in the Alpha’s way.”“She chose Damian over us.”“What if she is still tied to him?”I wanted to scream that none of that was true, I wanted to shout that I had no idea what came over me.But I had no voice.Not right then.I was still trembling from the inside out.Jordan didn’t look at me once on the entire walk home.He walked ahead of me, his muscles tight, his jaw cl
Jordan The moment I saw Damian’s hand on her, something inside me snapped.It wasn’t just anger. It wasn’t jealousy.It was instinct, pure, violent, territorial instinct.My vision tunneled. All I could see was Vanessa’s arm, caught in his grip. Her scent was tangled with fear and defiance, and every cell in my body roared to life, demanding blood.Kade said something beside me, maybe my name, maybe a warning but the sound drowned beneath the thunder pounding in my skull. My wolf surged forward, claws ripping at my skin from the inside. My vampire side flared hot, sharpening every sense into lethal clarity.Damian met my gaze and he smiled that smug face. I didn’t remember choosing to shift. I didn’t remember stepping forward. I didn’t remember anything except the moment my hybrid form tore through the forest with one purpose. Destroy him."Step away from her," I growled, but even I barely recognized my own voice deep, distorted, vibrating with the force of two beasts fighting for
DamianThe night was silent after she ran. For a long while, I just stood there, watching the spot where her scent still lingered wild, sweet, and painfully familiar. My wolf prowled beneath my skin, restless and angry that I’d let her go without forcing her to stay.But I knew she’d come back.They always did.The bond between us wasn’t something that could simply be broken by choice. She could pretend all she wanted, wrap herself in Jordan’s arms, whisper his name l instead of mine but her soul still remembered. The blood oath we shared wasn’t something the Moon Goddess could erase.When I finally heard the faint crunch of leaves, I smiled to myself.Right on time.She emerged from the darkness again, hood pulled low, steps hesitant but determined. My chest burned with a strange mix of pride and fury, she looked like a queen even when she was walking into the lion’s den.“Vanessa,” I said softly, spreading my arms. “You came back.”Her eyes flashed with something fierce. “I came t







