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A Dark Lily

Author: Monellawrites
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-06 20:03:13

Aria

Before I had woken up to realise that it was all a dream, I found myself screaming in top of my voice.

I jumped out of bed with my heart pounding profusely and my body drenched in ice-cold sweat. Instinctively, my hand reached to my belly. And now that I was awake, there was nothing but silence. I could no longer hear the fire, no smoke, no running and no dreadful screams for help. It was nothing but the night.

Next to me, Kol lay calmly sleeping, softly breathing in and out. This was the first time in weeks that he had slept like this without waking up to every odd noise. It was something I couldn’t take away from him.

And so I gulped down the lump in my throat and climbed out of the bed as quietly as I could.

I went out to balcony. I allowed the moonlight touch my bare skin. It felt so cool. The world somehow felt still but I couldn’t say the same about me.

That dream, of a burning skyscraper, a building that I had never seen before, the rising fire so hot that I could not touc
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    KolI had given the final instructions to my remaining soldiers. Elias stood beside me, folding his arms and listening and nodding in approval every now and then.“We double perimeter watch at all entry points. Two shifts at a time. I don’t want a single blind corner,” I ordered.“Yes, Alpha,” a few of the warriors chorused before fanning out.Elias remained, still watching me. His expression wasn’t unreadable, if anything, it said too much. Fatigue, quiet satisfaction, and something else... the wear of loss. Maybe he saw it in me too.“You know,” he said after a pause, “when we first met... I never thought you’d lead this pack through hell and come out standing.”I gave him a side glance. “Neither did I.”Elias chuckled. “It’s not just surviving, though. You made the hard calls. You took the heat. You walked away when it cost you. You still came back.”“That’s what leaders are supposed to do,” I said, though my voice lacked conviction.“No,” Elias said, shaking his head. “That’s what

  • The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake   The Harrington Sisters

    AriaI sat beside Kol in the backseat of Elias’s car. He rested his hands in mine and neither of us spoke. What was there to say? It wasn’t one of regret but tiredness. Physical, emotional, spiritual exhaustion. The kind that doesn’t settle in your bones but in your soul.Lira was dead.The thought alone made it hard to breathe. And it wasn’t because I didn’t want her gone. It was because I never wanted her to be what she became. My sister. My enemy. My executioner. My guilt.I slipped my hand into my coat pocket and curled my fingers around the locket. She had died with it on her.The same locket she once gave her before I left for boarding school. It had once held a picture of us in matching red scarves, laughing like our world wouldn’t turn out to be the way it did. I should have thrown it into the fire with her. But I didn’t. I couldn’t. This was the last piece of the Lira I knew, if that girl ever truly existed.Kol then stirred beside me. “If you hadn’t come when you did… I do

  • The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake   The Little Girl On The Train

    AriaI couldn’t breathe in that room anymore. It felt like the walls were closing in. Not with Kol out there, hunting Lira. Not while she was still alive.I paced in circles, using one hand to cradle my stomach while the other clenched at my side. I should’ve gone with him. I should’ve stayed by his side. I knew Lira better than anyone. I could’ve helped.So I stormed out the room. But I didn’t make it far. Elias stepped in front of me like a wall, with crossed arms and grim eyes“Where are you going?” he asked, already knowing the answer to his question.“Move,” I said flatly.“I swore to Kol that I’d keep you safe—”“And I swore to myself I wouldn’t sit still while my husband walks into danger!” I snapped. “You know her, Elias. She’s not just smart. She’s evil. If she wants Kol dead, she’ll find a way, even if he’s surrounded by a hundred men.”He didn’t answer.I stepped closer. “I’m not just his mate. I’m his Luna. If something happens to him while I sit here protected behind your

  • The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake   The Upper Hand

    KolI remembered that night vividly. Lira stood in front of the mirror, while fixing the clasp of the locket around her neck, just above her collarbone. I was behind her, folding my arms and watching with a lazy half-smile tugging at my mouth."You changed your perfume," I said casually.She glanced at me in the mirror. “I didn’t wear any.”“Lira.” I chuckled, walking closer until I was standing behind her. “Don’t lie to me.”She raised a brow. “I’m not. That’s just me.”I leaned in, breathing her in, subtle, sweet, a little musky with a hint of warmth.“Well,” I murmured, “your body’s scent smells better than anything you could ever buy.”She smiled faintly. “Thank you.”I hadn’t thought about that in a long time. And now, that was exactly the scent I was following. Not perfume. Not soap. Her. And so I crouched behind the wheel of my motorcycle, sniffing the air for that particular scent.We’d been driving for days, but this morning, the scent grew stronger, more tangible. Her trail

  • The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake   When Mercy Dies

    KolI sat outside the infirmary, balancing my elbows on my knees and my fingers digging into my scalp.Aria hadn’t made a sound in hours since she was screaming at everyone. She was finally asleep. Her body was worn thin from the spell, the screaming and most especially, the loss. But I couldn’t rest. I couldn’t even blink without seeing her collapse into my arms, without seeing her blood on my hands, her voice cracking as she begged Lira for our child’s life. That sound, it wasn’t something I’d forget. Not today. Not ever.I had sworn to protect her. I had made that promise with conviction, and I failed.And I failed because I let my mercy outweigh my instincts. I listened when she begged me to give Lira a chance. I convinced myself that there was a trace of the old Lira left in that broken body. But there wasn’t. There never was. There was only poison. And I’d let it live and fester.And now, she has taken everything from us.I tightened my fist whilst staring at the floor. This was

  • The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake   The Last Thread

    AriaThe room was filled with incense and candles. It’s warmth felt shallow even as I held Kol’s while standing before the witch.She laid the components for the ritual before her. The bloodroot that had been freshly plucked from the soil. She dropped it into the bowl first. Then came a strand of Kol’s hair, which she burned slowly. And last, was my offering.The witch looked at me.“The item must be something you hold dear… something sacred.”And so, with my trembling fingers, I reached up to the golden locket around my neck. It caught in my hair for a second, but I yanked it free. My locket.Inside were pictures of me and Lira. One from before everything, before betrayal had names and consequences.The witch nodded and placed it into the bowl. And then, she began.She started with low chants and hums that sounded ancient. The candles flared. For a moment, the ground shook. I clutched Kol’s arm, watching as a dark and violet smoke began to swirl from the bowl, like the colour of a dy

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