เข้าสู่ระบบแชร์
CHAPTER THIRTY THREE — The Storm Behind the Visit
วันที่เผยแพร่:
2026-03-27 00:41:52
บทล่าสุด
The Alpha's Christmas Sin Chapter Seventy six— The Site
Ava’s POVWe left at dusk. The same time Celeste had specified in the authentic summons, the one sitting in her contact’s hands while the forgery sat on our study desk. She’d confirmed she would be there. The elder council would be there. The winter gathering was real, and it was happening, because the council didn’t cancel for threats. They never had, in all the centuries they’d been holding the wolf world’s memory in common.That was the problem and the advantage. The gathering gave us cover. Our arrival would look exactly the way it was supposed to: the Ashmoon heir attending the winter gathering. Nothing in our approach would signal to Selene that we knew it was her plan all along.We drove north. The city fell away behind us, the dark bayou giving way to old-growth forest. The stars came out, sharp and cold, the further we got from the lights.Different passengers this time. Not just Luca and Sera but also four of Marcus’s wolves in a second vehicle behind us, the advance team po
The Alpha's Christmas Sin CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE — What We Know
Damian’s POVLuca listened without interrupting. When I finished laying out the situation, he was quiet for a handful of seconds. Then he set his tablet on the desk and started making calls. No dramatics. No visible alarm. Just the immediate shift from absorbing information to acting on it, which was the quality I’d valued most across six years of working together.I watched him and turned over the shape of what we were walking into.Three agendas, converging. Selene, with the ritual she’d been building toward since before the fire. Adrian, stripped of his board position but still holding years of accumulated corporate leverage, still dangerous because he had nothing left to lose. Vincenzo, with his network’s remaining operational capacity and the cold fury of a man who’d been taken out of his own game and hadn’t finished responding.Not an alliance. Something worse. A planned alliance had a single decision-making structure just like a head you could cut off. Three separate agendas ha
The Alpha's Christmas Sin CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR — The Trap
Ava’s POVThe summons came on a Wednesday, and the moment I touched it, something prickled at the base of my skull.Harold’s office. Formal pack communication. The elder council, requesting my presence at the winter gathering on Christmas Eve, at the oldest pack site in the region. I read it twice. Then a third time, slower, my coffee going cold beside my elbow.Something was wrong.Not the language,because that was the exact opposite of wrong. Every formal phrase, every archaic consruction. Celeste had described elder council communications exactly like this, old and weighted and precise. Not the timing either. Christmas Eve was when the winter gathering always fell. This was something else, something I couldn’t name. Even my wolf felt restless.I found Damian in the study. He took one look at my face and set his book down.“You feel it too,” I said, handing him the document.He read it once. His eyes narrowed almost imperceptibly. “Yes.”“What is it?”He set the paper on the desk, c
The Alpha's Christmas Sin Chapter Seventy three — The Week Before
Ava’s POVOne week until Christmas Eve, and Jamie showed up with a tree strapped to the roof of a borrowed car.It wasn’t a massive one, just a modest little fir that fit snugly in the corner of the library without demanding we rearrange the furniture. She hauled it through the front door herself, pine needles scattering across the floor, her cheeks flushed from the cold and her eyes bright with that particular ferocity she got when she'd decided something was happening and heaven help whoever stood in her way.Luca opened the door for her. He looked at the tree then at Jamie. Something flickered across his usually impassive face which disappeared as soon as it came and he stepped aside without a word.She set it up in the library corner with the same efficient competence she used for display arrangements at Petals. Stepped back. Cocked her head. Found the angles. Nodded once, satisfied."Good," she declared."It's a tree," Theo said from the hallway, blinking at it."It's a Christmas
The Alpha's Christmas Sin Chapter seventy two — Three Weeks
Damian’s POVCeleste called back within an hour.I didn’t hear the words because I was in the study, pretending to read…but I felt the conversation through the bond like a change in barometric pressure. Ava’s frequency shifted from steady to sharp. The call lasted forty minutes. When she walked into the study, her face had that look and something heavy had landed, and she was still figuring out where to put it.“Sit down,” I said.She sat.“The winter gathering isn’t what I thought.” She tucked her feet up under her, a habit she’d developef. “It’s not a ceremony. There’s no performance. No formal role for the Ashmoon heir to play.”“Then what is it?”“A remembering.” She looked at me, her green eyes darker than usual. “Celeste described it as the one night the elder council holds the wolf world’s memory in common. Every significant event of the year. Every loss. Every restoration. Every pack that answered the mountain sends a representative. Every elder who was alive when the Ashmoon
The Alpha's Christmas Sin Chapter Seventy one— The Quiet Before
Ava’s POVChristmas was three weeks away.Jamie told me because she knew I hadn’t been tracking it. The weeks since the garden had blurred into each other with that thick, full quality time gets when every day carries enough weight to matter. Nothing had slid past without texture. Every sunrise had registered. Every quiet coffee on the veranda, every evening in the piano room, every Thursday morning phone call from Marcus that ended before it got awkward, all of it had stacked up into something that felt less like survival and more like living.The wolf world was still reorganizing. Formal acknowledgments kept trickling through Luca's monitoring system, pack after pack finding its footing relative to the Ashmoon claim. Some were gracious. Some were cautious. A few read like they'd been drafted through gritted teeth but they came. That was the point.Celeste called twice a week. Celeste had been in regular contact since the pack reckoning, the elder wolf taking an active interest in th
The Alpha's Christmas Sin Chapter Thirty-six - Sparks Beneath the Skin
Ava's POVThe rain had not stopped since the night before. By morning the entire bayou looked different. I stood barefoot in the training field behind the house. Mud clung to my feet, and my muscles already ached. And Sera looked entirely too pleased about it.“Again,” she said.I groaned.“Sera…”
The Alpha's Christmas Sin CHAPTER TWELVE — The Space Between
Ava's POVThursday came in gray and cold and I was already awake before my alarm.I had been lying in the dark since five thinking about what Elena might say and trying to prepare myself for something I couldn't prepare for because I didn't know what shape it was yet. That's the thing about waiting
The Alpha's Christmas Sin CHAPTER TEN Things That Don't Have Names Yet
Ava's POVI woke up at three in the morning with my heart beating too fast and my skin on fire.Literally on fire,not just a figure of speech or at least that was what it felt like, a burning that started at the surface and went deeper than skin, moving through muscle and bone like something trying
The Alpha's Christmas Sin CHAPTER SEVEN — Cracks in the Wall
Ava's POVThe board dinner was in four days and I was stress cleaning my bedroom at eleven o'clock at night.This was not new behavior. I had always cleaned when I was anxious, something my mother used to say was my way of controlling the things I could when everything else felt uncontrollable. She
บางทีคุณอาจจะชอบ
Blood Bound To The Vampire King
J. Tarr99.0K viewsSeducing The Bloodmoon Princess
Bryant116.7K viewsBride of the Vampire Lord
jobless.dreamer49.3K viewsRise of the Phoenix
Cooper56.1K viewsToo late Ex! I found my Mr. Right!
Emojis717 viewsHer Last Death
Sede_ink300 viewsThe Blood Opera
S. A. Holloway685 viewsClaimed by Death
Miranda Miley 1.2K views
