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Chapter 9: The Pull

Author: Lola Ade
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-06-05 22:35:54

Rowan’s POV

I didn’t go home.

I couldn’t.

Not when her scent still clung to my skin like smoke. Not when the echo of her voice—sharp and soft and furious all at once—kept bouncing off the walls of my skull like a curse I couldn’t shake.

I took the elevator to the top floor of the hotel, past the hollow silence of midnight, and keyed into the penthouse suite. Being Alpha had its privileges, even when it felt like a crown of thorns digging into my skull. The room was dark, silent, spacious—yet still, it felt too small for the way my thoughts paced inside me.

I didn’t bother turning on the lights.

Instead, I moved to the window, the city washed in hues of silver and shadow below me. I pressed a hand to the glass, leaning into the chill like it could numb the storm still roaring under my skin.

She pushed me out.

Calla Rivers—no, Elena, or whoever the hell she pretended to be—pushed me out of her hotel room like I was nothing. And it should’ve pissed me off. It did. But beneath the offens
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