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Something was wrong

Author: Calliee
last update publish date: 2026-04-15 18:12:11

RYAN

Something was wrong. My head felt like it had been split open and reassembled in the wrong order. My mouth was dry, my limbs heavy, and there was a strange, chemical aftertaste on my tongue that had nothing to do with food I ate.

I opened my eyes and the ceiling was unfamiliar. The light was orange-tinged, the kind that only happened when the sun was setting rather than rising.

The sun was setting.

I sat up so fast the room tilted violently, and I had to grip the edge of the bed to keep my
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    RYANI couldn't sit still.I'd tried. I'd sat on the couch for approximately four minutes before my skin started crawling and I had to get up. Then I'd stood at the window for six minutes, watching Barcelona move below me like nothing in the world had gone wrong today, before that became unbearable too. Now I was doing laps of my own penthouse like a caged animal, phone in my hand, checking it every thirty seconds for something that wasn't coming.Fourteen missed calls out. Zero answered.I set the phone down on the kitchen counter and pressed both hands flat against the marble and made myself breathe. She didn't want to talk to me. I knew that. I understood it… understood it in the way you understand something that still feels like being gutted every time you think about it. She'd seen that video and she'd walked out and she wasn't picking up and the last look on her face…I stopped that thought before it finished.I just needed to know she was safe. That was it. That was the only th

  • The Bride He Never Wanted    Tell me everything

    OLIVIAUpstairs, my father led us back to the Alpha's study.I remembered this room. The heavy desk. The territorial maps on the walls. The bookshelves filled with lineage records and pack law and centuries of Hunter history. I'd snuck in here as a girl to read those books by lamplight, convinced that if I learned enough, understood enough, proved enough… it would matter."Leave us," my father said.His remaining guards exchanged a glance. "Alpha, with respect, your health…""Leave us," he said again, and despite everything, despite all of it, there was still just enough of the old authority in his voice to make them move without further argument.Axiel caught my eye from the doorway. I gave him a small nod. He stepped out and closed the door.And then it was just the two of us.My father stood behind his desk for a moment, one hand braced against its surface like he needed it for balance. Then he came around from behind it and, for the second time today, lowered himself to his knees.

  • The Bride He Never Wanted    I hope it was worth it

    OLIVIAThe inside of the Alpha's residence was somehow worse than the outside.I remembered these halls as full of life… wolves moving with purpose, the smell of food from the kitchens, the low hum of a functioning pack at work. Now it felt hollow. Like a body still walking around after the heart had stopped.Portraits lined the entry corridor, generations of Hunters staring down at me with stern, unforgiving eyes. I had looked at these faces my whole childhood and wanted so desperately to earn a place among them.Now I walked past them and felt absolutely nothing.My father led us through the main hall, past pack members who froze and stared and bowed their heads all over again. A woman I vaguely recognized… one of the kitchen staff who used to slip me extra bread as a child… pressed her hand to her mouth when she saw me. I looked away before either of us could feel anything about that.It was when we reached the sitting room that I stopped walking."Where's Mia?"The question came o

  • The Bride He Never Wanted    My honor

    OLIVIAThey waved us through, and we drove into the pack territory proper… and immediately, I knew something was very wrong.The buildings I remembered as well-maintained and proud looked shabby now, in need of repair. Paint was peeling. Roofs were missing shingles. What had once been carefully tended gardens were overgrown and wild.And the pack members we passed… they looked... diminished. Thin and tired. Like they'd been struggling for a long time."What the hell happened here?" I whispered, staring out the window in shock."The pack has been in ruins," Axiel reminded me gently. "Your father meant it when he sent me."We passed more buildings and more pack members. Children who should have been playing looked listless. Adults who should have been working on various tasks stood around in small groups, talking in low voices.The entire place felt like it was dying.And then we turned a corner and there it was- the Alpha's residence. The building where I'd grown up, where I'd trained,

  • The Bride He Never Wanted    Welcome home

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  • The Bride He Never Wanted    Heartbeat

    OLIVIAThe moment I stepped into my apartment and shut the door behind me, everything I’d been holding in finally crashed down at once.I dropped my bag by the door, kicked off my shoes, and leaned my back against the wall, closing my eyes. I was exhausted. Physically, mentally, emotionally. My bo

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  • The Bride He Never Wanted    I’ll come for you

    DAISYI walked away before he could see the tears spill. My vision was already blurring, by the time I reached the hallway, my chest was tight like something was crushing it from the inside. I kept my head down, my steps fast, until I found the restroom and pushed the door open.The moment it shut

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  • The Bride He Never Wanted    The shock

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