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作者: Calliee
last update 公開日: 2026-01-25 00:01:43

RYAN

I was so happy as I watched her serve the food onto plates for both of us, carefully portioning out the Jollof rice and adding the fried plantains we'd made earlier. The way she moved around the kitchen, so confident and at ease, made my chest feel tight with something I couldn't quite name.

This felt so surreal. If anyone had told me a few months ago that I'd be here with Olivia today, in her kitchen, learning to cook, laughing together like this, I wouldn't have believed them. Hell, I wo
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  • The Bride He Never Wanted    Three days

    OLIVIA It was a small laugh, kind of rusty, like something that hadn't been used in a long time… but it was real, and it moved across his face and made him look, for just a moment, like someone I remembered from a long time ago. Someone from before everything went wrong.From the doorway, Axiel was no longer pretending the cough was a cough."I'm going to accept it," I said, "and I'm going to make my own changes. Real ones. Not adjustments to the existing structure — a genuine rebuild from the ground up. New resource strategy, new alliance approach, new internal policies. The council will advise but they will not override me. Everything gets examined." I looked at my father directly. "All of it. Including things that have been done a certain way for thirty years simply because they've been done a certain way for thirty years.""Yes," he said, still recovering from the laugh. "Yes. Anything you need.""Good." I stood up, and he looked momentarily startled. "But not today.""Not—""I

  • The Bride He Never Wanted    I got you

    OLIVIAThe drive back to the main pack grounds felt different in the morning.Yesterday, coming in, everything had looked like a wound… the peeling paint and the overgrown paths and the hollow-eyed pack members had landed on me like evidence in a case I was still deciding whether to take. This morning, with proper sleep and Axiel's eggs and the particular clarity that comes from having actually made a decision, it looked different.Not better, exactly. The problems were all still there, plain as ever in the early light — a loose shutter hanging off the community hall, a fence line that needed replacing, a garden that wanted serious attention. Nothing had changed overnight.But it looked like a list now instead of a verdict.*That needs fixing. That needs replacing. That needs someone who actually cares to spend three hours with it and a set of tools.*Manageable problems. Hard, expensive, time-consuming, emotionally loaded… but manageable.I'd spent the drive making mental notes, and

  • The Bride He Never Wanted    Slow heat

    AXIELThe pack grounds were quieter now, the last lights going out in the windows as I crossed back toward my chambers. Overhead the sky was clear and I stopped for a moment and looked up at them.Two months I'd been living in this place, watching it slowly come apart and holding the whole operation together. Two months of careful conversations and long evenings and learning which elders were reachable and which were calcified beyond help. Two months of not knowing if any of it would work.And today Olivia Hunter had walked back through those gates and in the space of an afternoon had looked at a seven-year-old boy on a fence post and shaken his hand like a promise.Yeah. She was going to say yes.I walked back inside, and she was exactly where I'd left her… one hand tucked under her cheek, the covers pulled to her shoulder, breathing slow and even.I gently carried her to my room, placed her on the and laid beside her.I kept to my side, but the moment I settled against the pillow Ol

  • The Bride He Never Wanted    I appreciate it

    AXIELShe was asleep.I noticed the exact moment it happened… the way her breathing changed, slowing and deepening, the slight release of tension across her shoulders that had been there all day like something she'd been carrying and hadn't been able to put down. One moment she was watching the film with that expression she had… and then her head drifted, and then she was simply gone.Her head was on my shoulder.I stayed very still.I was aware that I was smiling in a way that probably looked ridiculous, and I was equally aware that there was nobody here to see it, so I let myself have it anyway. She's here.After everything… after months of living in a deteriorating pack and having difficult conversations with a dying Alpha and navigating the very delicate question of how to reach a woman who had every justifiable reason to want nothing to do with anything connected to the situation… she was here. In my space. Asleep on my shoulder, with the film still playing softly in the backgro

  • The Bride He Never Wanted    Are you okay?

    OLIVIAHe drove us off the main pack grounds to a smaller cluster of residential buildings on the territory's north edge… newer construction than the main residence, less grand but better maintained. He parked and led me to the second floor of the end unit, and when he opened the door I stopped in the doorway for a moment.Okay. He hadn't been exaggerating.It was warm, first of all… genuinely warm, with soft lighting. He'd rearranged the furniture into something that actually made sense for the space. There were books stacked on the side table and a decent rug under the coffee table and curtains that matched, which given what I'd seen of the rest of the pack's current state of resources seemed almost miraculous."Did you just… bring all of this?" I asked, stepping inside."Some of it. Some I found in the pack's storage." He shrugged out of his jacket and hung it by the door. "There's a lot of decent furniture buried in that storage building on the west side. Nobody's been using any

  • The Bride He Never Wanted    A quick stop

    OLIVIAAxiel was waiting in the hallway outside, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed."How'd it go?" he asked."He wants me to take over as Alpha."Axiel blinked. "Well. That's... not a small ask.""No. It is not." I started walking and he fell into step beside me easily, matching my pace. "He's also in worse shape than I thought. The famine is real, the pack numbers are down, and half their alliances have dissolved." I glanced at him sideways. "You knew all of this when you came to get me.""I knew some of it.""Axiel.""I knew most of it," he amended. "But I also knew that if I led with *your father's pack is in famine and falling apart and he wants you to take over as Alpha,* you might have said no before you'd seen it for yourself.""You were probably right," I admitted. "I'm still slightly annoyed.""Noted."We walked in silence for a moment, down the corridor toward the main entrance. Through the windows, I could see the pack grounds… the overgrown paths, the building

  • The Bride He Never Wanted    I was free

    OLIVIAI woke up with a long, dragging stretch, my joints popping one by one as if they were annoyed. I'd finally decided to move. For a few seconds I just lay there, staring at the ceiling, confused about where I was or what time it was.I shot upright and grabbed my phone.6:42 p.m.“What the hel

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  • The Bride He Never Wanted    On his knees

    OLIVIAHow?How did he find me?Of all people, of all moments, of all the places he could’ve been in this entire city… why was Logan standing right in front of me?My grip tightened on the handle of my ridiculous oversized pink suitcase as my mind scrambled. My chest felt tight, my throat felt clog

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  • The Bride He Never Wanted    Let her go, Ryan!

    OLIVIAMy heart was beating ridiculously fast. I felt exposed, embarrassed, overwhelmed, and before I could even think of what to say or how to explain anything, Ryan suddenly moved.He bent down and lifted me off the ground. I froze, clutching the leaf tighter to myself as he walked quickly away f

    last update最終更新日 : 2026-03-25

  • The Bride He Never Wanted    Gentleman of the Year

    LOGANMy chest hurt.Not the kind of hurt that made you gasp or hold your ribs.No.The slow, deep, splitting kind. The kind that started in your stomach, climbed into your lungs, and settled right behind your heart like a knife wedged permanently in the wrong place.I stared straight ahead as Oliv

    last update最終更新日 : 2026-03-25
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