تسجيل الدخولDexter "Please... just listen to me," she whispered, barely audible through the pounding in my ears. I stared at her. Every inch of her face, every fucking tear trembling in her lashes, was etched into my memory. Still as beautiful as the first day I saw her, but it didn’t matter. None of it did. Not when I could still taste betrayal on my tongue like blood. Not when I still saw Lucas’s blade tearing through my gut every time I closed my eyes. She tried to step forward. "Don’t," I barked, my voice cracking through the cold air between us. My hand moved on its own, reaching into the side of my boot where the handle of the knife waited. I pulled it out slowly, deliberately, letting her see the way the moonlight caught the blade. Her eyes widened. She knew that knife. "You recognize this?" I asked, voice rough, low. I turned it slightly, let the green sheen of the dried poison catch her eye. "Same shit your fucking friend used on me. I nearly died, Aria. Because of you." Her lips
AriaThe night was unusually quiet. Still. The kind of stillness that clung to your skin like damp fog, thick and heavy with something unnamed. I stood by the narrow window in the small guest chamber Whitney insisted I use, hands resting on the cool stone sill, my breath fogging up the glass. The moon was high, almost full, casting pale blue shadows across the courtyard of Diamond Spark Pack.I rubbed my arms, the air feeling too thin. Something felt wrong. Deep in my chest, I felt it stir. A tremble beneath the surface of my skin, like the ground quaking before the storm. My senses were off, sharp, too sharp. Every sound felt louder, more distinct—the rustling leaves, the far-off hoot of an owl, the slow shifting of guards below.And then it hit me—his scent.My heart lurched in my chest. I stumbled back from the window, hand clutched over my mouth.Dexter.I hadn’t seen him. I hadn’t heard his voice. But my body recognized him like it always had. My pulse raced, wild and desperate.
DexterI stared at the map sprawled out across the table, its surface worn and creased from years of use. My fingers hovered over the inked outlines of territories, tracing the path that led to Diamond Spark Pack. I didn’t even blink. My jaw clenched hard enough to hurt. Every breath I took burned.I was done waiting.I didn’t care what Whitney wanted. I didn’t care about peace. Fuck peace. Aria walked away. She left me bleeding in the dirt and didn’t look back. If that wasn’t betrayal, I didn’t know what the hell was. And if she thought she could hide behind her sister’s walls and her Alpha title, she had another thing coming.I was going to her. I was going to end this, one way or another."You're serious about this?" Marcus, one of the rogue leaders asked from across the room, his brows furrowed, eyes dark with concern. "You really want to strike Diamond Spark?""Dead serious," I muttered, folding the map and standing. The weight of my decision pressed against my spine, but I welco
DexterThe knock came sharp and hard against my office door, snapping me out of the paperwork fog I’d been drowning in for the last hour. I didn’t look up."Come in," I muttered, voice low, strained. My fingers still hovered over the stack of reports I'd barely touched.The door creaked open. My gamma stepped in, eyes unreadable, jaw tight."You’re gonna want to hear this," he said.I sighed, finally leaning back in the chair, letting it creak under my weight. "Unless the packhouse is burning down, it can wait."He didn’t move. Didn’t flinch. That was enough to make me look up."What?"He tossed a sleek black envelope onto my desk. No insignia. No seal. Just a folded piece of weighty paper that already reeked of bullshit."It was delivered by one of ours. Said he found it pinned to the training gates this morning."I reached for it slowly, the tension in my chest already beginning to tighten. My fingers dragged it closer. The paper was thick, expensive. Whoever sent this had taste—or
DexterWhen I stepped into the training grounds that morning, it was the silence that struck me first. The warriors were already assembled, standing in perfect formation, eyes locked straight ahead. There was a chill in the air, one that mirrored the cold settling in my chest. The quiet wasn’t peaceful—it was expectant, like the calm before a storm. And it made everything feel heavier.“Alpha,” my Gamma said as he approached, nodding his respect. “Everyone’s ready.”I didn’t answer right away. Just watched them—all of them waiting for something. Orders. A fight. Hope. Something I wasn’t sure I could give anymore. My grip on the reins had been too loose for too long. If I didn’t get it together, everything I’d fought for would start to slip through the cracks.“Begin,” I said simply.They moved as one, launching into drills with practiced efficiency. My eyes scanned the field, watching every movement—sword strikes, defensive shifts, the way their bodies responded to pressure. But my mi
DexterThe first thing I noticed when I woke up was the cold. Not just the breeze drifting in through the cracked window or the chilled edge to the sheets clinging to my bare skin. No, this was deeper. Colder. A silence that settled under my ribs and wrapped around my bones. Aria was gone, and I felt it in a way that made the air too thick to breathe.I didn’t speak to anyone that morning.Not the guards waiting at my door, not the healers who’d hovered like vultures for the last week. I didn’t say a single word, not even when I stepped into the training grounds and the warriors lined up the moment they saw me.I knew they were watching me closely. Watching how I moved. Looking for signs of weakness, of injury, of anything that could mark me as less than the Alpha I used to be.They didn’t find any.Because if I was anything now, they say it am fucking ruthless, and I like that.I picked up the blade one of them offered me without a word, rolled my shoulders back, and got to work. My
AriaI slammed the bedroom door shut so hard the walls shook.His room. My prison.I stood there, breathing hard, fists clenched at my sides. My heart pounded like it was trying to break out of my chest, and for a second, I couldn’t tell if I was angry or just hurt.No. Angry. I was angry.I paced
AriaI lay on Dexter’s stupid bed, staring at the ceiling like a fucking idiot. My heart pounded in my chest for no damn reason, and I hated it. I hated how restless I felt. Angry. Furious. But mostly… humiliated. I didn’t even know why it cut so deep. It’s not like I loved him. Hell, I wasn’t even
AriaI woke up feeling quite horrible, my head was pounding so much that I thought it's going to burst open. The bed felt heavy to my body, my skin was burning hot, yet I shivered under the thin blanket. As I tried to sit up, my arms just collapsed in on themselves."Fuck…" I croaked out; my throat
DexterMy phone buzzed on the table. I didn’t want to look — I was in the middle of this goddamn meeting, surrounded by men who barely knew what the fuck they were doing, and all they ever waited for was my final word. But something told me to check.I glanced down. A message from my mother.I open







