Priscilla’s POV I lay back against the silk sheets, the low hum of the vibrator filling the room. Two days had passed since Selena went to meet Kaid, convinced she could twist his head into believing she was his fated mate. Pathetic. My breath hitched as I imagined her face when he inevitably looked at her the way he always did—like she was something unpleasant stuck to the bottom of his feet. I knew it hadn’t worked. How could it? Aria was the fated mate to all four of them. Selena was an annoyance, not a contender. The first wave of pleasure began to build in me, curling low in my stomach. I let my eyes slip shut, indulging in the thought of her failure. I expected her to come storming back, spitting venom, desperate to salvage her pride. I expected the tantrum, the screaming, the drama she was so well known for. Instead, she returned calm, almost smug, claiming her “plan” had worked. I nearly laughed. The lie was so obvious it was almost insulting. She was too afraid to ad
Kaid’s POV I sat in the cold, white box again. Selena’s perfume still lingered on my skin, faint but enough to make my jaw clench. She Thought my weakness was a door she could kick open. She was wrong. Even with the collar burning me from the inside, I found the strength to drive my foot into her chest, hard enough to send her sprawling. I didn’t care if she broke something. I hoped she did. Now I was back here, sitting on the smooth floor, my back to the wall, breathing slow to keep the rage from spilling over. Across from me, Thane’s voice broke the silence. “What happened?” I didn’t lift my head. “I don’t want to talk about it.” Caspian’s voice came from directly across my cell, light and teasing as always. “You look like you just came back from war.” I didn’t answer as I looked at them. Thane, from the cell beside his, leaned forward so I could see the calm steel in his eyes. “You’ll have to tell us, Kaid. We need every piece of information we can get if we’re going to
Eliza’s POV We were at Tyla’s secret bunker. It was hidden enough, deep in the forested hills, surrounded by nothing but wild grass and dense trees. If you didn’t already know it existed, you’d walk right past the metal hatch buried beneath layers of brush and rock. It was… efficient. Which was good, because the Shadow Pack would be hunting us by now. Thanks to Sheila. That traitor. I would have taken us to my own hideout, but that would’ve been suicide. The place used to be my father’s playground. It was a perfect little lab for his twisted experiments. His victims. His toys. That man didn’t just destroy lives; he catalogued them. And they already know who he was. They’ll trace his secret places, and if we’d gone there, we’d have been discovered in seconds. I looked around at the bunker. Clean enough. Lined with reinforced steel, a power system that hummed steadily underground, even a filtration system for air and water. I couldn’t help but run a hand along the wall. “Why do
Aria’s POV My heart felt like it might explode. It pounded painfully in my chest, and I had to bite the inside of my cheek to stop myself from trembling. Mr. X gave a low, mocking laugh as he stood up. “Why are you even protecting those little boys?” he sneered. “Even though they’re your fated mates, I can promise you none of them will ever acknowledge you as theirs.” I lifted my eyes to him, my body weak. My spirit might be bruised, but it wasn’t broken. “That’s where you’re wrong,” I rasped. “So very wrong.” He frowned, and I forced myself to keep going. “Don’t you remember the day you demanded the Apex brothers hand me over?” I added. I met his gaze dead-on, my voice rising with the memory. “And instead of surrendering me, they chose to fight you and your minions” “My mates may be power-driven, and they’ve made decisions for their own benefit… but when it came to me, They went against everything they usually do. They chose me.” Mr. X scoffed, his eyes gleaming w
Aria’s POV Her voice wavered, but it was still steady enough to split me open. “I know what you’re feeling, Aria. You feel confused, betrayed, and hurt. And you should be. Because the mother you remember, the mother you loved. was only a part of who I truly was.” I couldn’t move. Every word she said burrowed under my skin like thorns. “I wasn’t as good as you believed I was,” she continued. “But what’s coming for you… it’s because of the mistakes I made long before you were even born.” She inhaled shakily on the screen, and I watched as she looked away for a heartbeat, then turned back, her gaze more haunted than I’d ever seen it. “This began before I was Luna. Long before the Shadow Pack branded me as their queen.” Her lips trembled, but she kept going. “I was just a girl when I met your father. He wasn’t my fated mate, and I wasn’t his. But we loved each other. Deeply and Recklessly. Enough to pretend fate didn’t matter.”Eliana looked back at the camera. “The man who rai
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