Mag-log inWhen Luna Queen Ashlyn Stormborn is burned alive for murdering her husband, she thinks death is the end. Instead she’s reborn in a different world where her mate, Lycan King Hunt Stormborn, is alive. But this Hunt doesn’t recognize her. Worse, he believes she betrayed him and has taken her as a war bride to destroy her. Now trapped in a palace full of enemies, Ashlyn must uncover the truth behind the assassination that destroyed her first life before the man she still loves becomes the man who kills her.
view moreAs I slowly woke up from my deep slumber, all I could hear was my heartbeat. It went faster and faster. I panicked. I had no idea how to calm down. I kept hearing it beating, how my heart pumps my blood through my veins at a fast tempo.
I try to move around my body, to find a more comfortable position, in the hopes that my heartbeat will slow down. But it only worsened my anxiety. To my horror, I noticed that I was in some way tied down, to what I think is a mattress. I try to move around my weak limbs with not much success. My hands and ankles were tied down with some type of cuffs. It did not hurt, but it was not comfortable either.
I didn't know what to do. What happened? Why was I tied down? These were the kind of questions that kept running through my mind. I had now enough strength to open my eyes. Darkness. I was surrounded by darkness while I was being tied up to some kind of bed. My heartbeat did not slow down. How did I end up like this?
I couldn't remember anything.
'Do not panic,' I told myself. Panicking won't help me. I took a deep breath and then another one, and another one, as many as I needed to slow down my heartbeat so my head became clear. I tried to remember my last memories. I dig and dig through my mind and nothing came up. Only blurry images. What had happened?
The last thing I could remember clearly was that I was done with work... Then I left the building in one piece. So that meant nothing happened at work, right? What happened after that? I wanted to take a cab but decided against it. I didn't want to go home yet. So, I took the long route by walking home. What then?
From here on the images became foggier.
I walked and walked and then I broke down. Did I cry? Yes, I cried. I broke down and I went sitting on the pavement to take a moment before collecting myself. And then... nothing.
Everything after that was either blurry or black until a moment ago when I woke up. How stupid I was. I was too busy with my self-pity that I did not notice someone followed me and took me with them. How stupid I was.
I literally could scream at myself. I knew so well how dark and evil people can be and still I walked into somebody's trap. I knew how scary the world was and yet I became the victim of just another injustice, another crime. Soon I will be just a statistic. Nobody will care about me missing or being dead. Thus, I knew I will be another unsolved case that in a couple of years will turn into a cold case. Where men will found out years later that I was abducted and God knows what else happened to me.
Tears formed in the corners of my eyes. The sadness of it all hit me like a wave. I wanted to do so much more with my life. I closed my eyes and let my silent tears fall.
Life was truly unfair.
No, stop thinking like that, thoughts like that won't help you now. Try to find a solution instead of thinking about problems. So I tried moving again, hoping I could escape from my bounds. Unfortunately, no matter what I tried it did not help. I opened my eyes again. I squinted them to try and find something in this darkness that could help me to escape my current situation. I looked around and I could see some silhouettes but I couldn't make anything of it. A frustrated sigh escaped from my lips.
I tried to think of any ordinary items I could use to set myself free, but I quickly came to realize that I don't have anything in my pockets and I had not hair clips in my hair.
That was my last idea. No other options came to my mind. I came to the conclusion that there were no solutions to any of my problems. The thought of screaming for help crossed my mind but then again it could also attract my kidnappers if they were out there. Maybe that isn't a good idea, but then again what should I do?
The only thing that I could think of is to wait, to wait for my heartbeat to slow down, to wait for some signal that I was being held at some place against my will by people I did not know. Because right now I don't know if this is an evil master plan by my fiancé or by some stranger.
So waiting it is.
I think I fell asleep again because I was jolted awake by a sound of an opening door. The light fell into the room and the silhouettes became more clear. The first things I saw were a dresser and the light grey and pink walls. Then I saw two figures coming up to me. Fear was all I could feel and think of.
I could hear how they moved around the room. One whispered to the other about something I did not understand. My heartbeat went through the roof as I had never been so afraid as I am right now. Never in my life have I felt this hopeless.
Then after a couple of seconds, the curtains in the room were opened and the whole room was lightened by the sun. Well at least it's a beautiful day, a beautiful day to die I thought.
Chapter 34A small squeak left my mouth. Hunt just stood there, fresh from the bath, water still sliding down his skin. Completely naked.My face burned hot. I spun around so fast my shoulder hit the doorframe. “Sorry,” I muttered under my breath, pressing my palms to my cheeks. The image refused to leave my head. Broad shoulders, the hard lines of his back and hips, the way the light caught every ridge of muscle. For one long second my thoughts emptied out. Nothing but heat and the sudden loud beat of my own heart.My wolf stirred inside me, bright and eager, pushing forward like she wanted to get closer. I slapped my cheeks lightly, once, twice, trying to shake sense back into myself. “He’s not my husband,” I whispered fiercely. “My husband is dead. This Hunt is a different man. Different. Don’t you dare get any ideas.”My wolf only whined, still excited. I slapped my face again, smaller this time, and forced my breathing to slow. I couldn’t afford this. Not with him. Not when getti
Amber's POV"Hey." I felt someone kick my feet. "I know the stone is comfortable and all, but it's time to get up."A low thudding ache started behind my head as I winced and slowly fluttered my lids."Come on." The person kicked my feet again. "Get up, princess.""Wha-- " I opened my eyes fully. wincing and frowning as I lifted my head from the dungeon stone wall."Ally?""At your service," She bowed cockily. Her lips twitching as she straightened and stretched out her hand. "No, seriously. You need to get up."My brain was still muddled. Fuzzy from sleep as I took the grip and allowed her pull me to my feet."Why are you always everywhere?" I muttered, yawning.To my side, I noticed with a start that the cell gates were open.My eyes moved down to my waist suddenly. "Lucinda—""She's gone," Ally replied. "She technically only had to spend the day and jolted the second dawn broke."It made sense for her to leave, but the keys— "I had the keys on me. How did she- "Ally's spine stiff
Chapter 32Ashlyn's POVI knew without a doubt the person holding me was a man. And knowing which man was never far from the Lycan King, I knew the man that grabbed me in particular was the Beta."Let go!" I grunted, my voice muffled against his palm as I drove my elbow into his side.He let out a low string of curses but promptly let go. Still huffing angrily, I spun around to face him, my eyes spitting anger."What was that?!""Shhhh!" Alex shushed me. Looking over my shoulder, back at the chamber worriedly. Like he feared the noise might have disturbed Hunt or whatever version of Hunter stood in that hall.Then without a response to me, He grabbed my hand again.My wrist this time as he pulled me harshly out of the catacombs and back to the main dungeon passage."Aren't you supposed to be guarding Veronica? Don't tell me you left her all alone.""I ask the questions!" I hissed spitefully, pulling my wrist back in annoyance. "What's it to you anyway?"Alex stuttered. His mouth openi
Chapter 31Ashlyn's POV"You can't leave." Lucinda's voice followed me down the corridor. "You're my jailer. You have to,""Stay in the cell," I said without turning."That's not, there are rules,""Lucinda." I stopped walking. Didn't look back. "Stay in the cell."The groaning came again from below. Lower than the first scream. More sustained. The sound of something ongoing rather than something sudden.I followed it.The dungeon had levels I hadn't known about.The passage revealed itself at the far end of the corridor, a staircase descending behind an unmarked door that sat slightly ajar, as though someone had come through it recently and hadn't bothered to pull it fully shut behind them.I pushed it open.The smell hit me first. Iron and sweat and something charred underneath both. The staircase was narrow, the walls close, the torchlight from below casting everything in uneven amber.I went down.The sounds grew with each step. Not screaming anymore. Something worse, the low, rhy
CHAPTER 17Ashlyn’s POVI had never been in the pack dungeons.Not even when I stood accused of killing my husband.Like the rest of the pack members. To me, the dungeons were a myth.A threat uttered to keep you in line.Not a physical cell with cold stone walls and metal shackles that blinked whe
CHAPTER 14Hunt’s POVWhat the fuck was she wearing?She stepped out of that closet, and for a second, my head went blank.I stared, not breathing.Every word I was going to say, forgotten as she pulled the thin fabric of her robe tighter about herself.Then the light smell of her jasmine soap hit
CHAPTER 12The sound of Hunt’s voice reverberated through the hall.My spine was frozen, my pulse pounding in my ear, but Hunt’s Beta seemed unfazed.He stood against Hunt’s storm. His back straight as he responded evenly. “We’ve contained the infected man, Lycan. He’ll be treated. Once he regains
Chapter 11Ashlyn’s POV“What—“ My entire spine went stiff. My ears pricked as I listened again.This time, the terror in the screams had me bolting from my chair.My heart slammed against my ribs as I rushed out of my chambers.The hallway was still deserted. But somewhere in the palace, the crie






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