18 | When It's Time To Face The Wolf In The Room

Dhara was tired. So damn tired.If it weren’t for someone knocking on the door, she wasn’t sure what would have happened. Honestly, she was dreadfully shocked by her ability to cave in to this man’s lust. Or perhaps he was simply exemplifying the lust of her own. Why else could she not push him away? Why wouldn’t her heart jolt with a protest at his advancements? Why did she feel like she wanted him to touch her in ways no one ever did? Why did she want to surrender herself to his will?Those were the questions that bothered her to the bones. Day and night. Right and left. On and off. There was no end to it. No end at all. He was a conundrum she wasn’t able to figure out. Like a puzzle, the pieces of which were way too complicated for her simple brain to comprehend. All that time he was far, she felt like she could do it. That everything was normal and t

Last Updated : 2024-04-08

19 | When She Can't Run Like A Coward

Dhara had run out of the room so fast, her head spun and her legs shook even long after she had shut herself in the room for almost an hour.It was just so weird.Not, not just weird. It was unbelievable. A meteor-shower kind of unbelievable. It just didn’t feel real. None of it did.Her chest rose and fell with untamed breathing while her eyes watered, panic settling deep into her bones. She didn’t know what to do, or how to handle this new piece of bizarre information. Was it even true? Everything that she had seen with her own two eyes. Or was it something cooked up by her own silly brain? It was so impossible to be sure. Or to believe in beings like him…Dhara shook her head and drew another rush of fresh air into her shocked lungs. She needed to get her head back on track; she needed to think straigh

Last Updated : 2024-04-09

20 | When He's Glad They Have Found A Mutual Ground

Zayden glanced to his side and found Dhara lost in her thoughts. He knew she was lost because even though they had reached her apartment complex a few minutes ago, she hadn’t made a move. She kept staring out the window, her breathing steady, her body relaxed, but her mind? Her mind was at war with itself. He could tell. He could almost feel it in his bones. And dammit, he wished he could give her a bit of respite from all these overwhelming emotions and the conflict that she was clearly fighting with herself. But if there was anything the Alpha male had learned from his past experience, it was that one had to face their demons alone. He could assure her, support her, and give her a shoulder to worry on for all he wanted, but the truth was that no one knew her better than she knew herself. If there was anyone who could help her right now, it was her own wisdom and her strength. No one else. Quietly, he sighed, running a hand through his dark hair. A part of his was glad and overjo

Last Updated : 2024-04-28

21 | When She Thinks He's Mistaken And She's Nothing Special

Dhara couldn’t sleep all night, but that was expected of her, considering the kind of week she had spent. God, she still couldn’t believe it. Now that she was back in her safe haven—her home—the realization of what had transpired in the last few days started to slam into her chest with a force that made her eyes go round with shock and her mouth drop open in disbelief.Fuck! Who could have thought, though? Who could have thought that creatures like werewolves and witches existed? That they lived among humans with no trace of suspicion at all. That the world was crammed with so much more than she or any normal person understood.Rising from the bed, Dhara quietly moved away and found herself standing in front of the dressing table. She saw herself wearing an extra-large t-shirt as a nightdress and noticed her dark hair piled up on top of her head, making her look even messier than she felt inside. But that was not what she was trying to look at. What she was trying to see was what made

Last Updated : 2024-05-22

22 | When She Realizes He's Playing Dirty

Dhara didn’t know what was worse.To think what he was suggesting was insane, or that she was actually considering it.“Leave for your packhouse,” she repeated, nodding as if slowly—very slowly—processing it. Then she tipped her head to the side. “And where exactly is your packhouse?”“In the mountains, of course,” he said, as if that was the most normal thing to say, as if he was saying the weather was nice and the sky was blue and the roses were red.“What the hell?” She was pretty sure he hadn’t even realized what came out of his mouth. Because why else… why else would he say something so absurd and not feel even an inch of… well, shock, like she was feeling right now?“Mountains? Mountains?” She couldn’t hold back the surprise on her face—or in her voice. “Are you crazy or something? How can you even expect me to drop everything and go to some mountain with you? Forget the fact that we hardly know each other, but straight off to the mountains? What kind of crazy talk is that?”How

Last Updated : 2026-01-23

23 | When She Admits She Has A Crush

He was grinning like an idiot.She knew he was.Dhara rolled her eyes as she tried to ignore Zayden’s annoyingly heavy presence in her home. He was hanging out in the drawing room with his other… people. She honestly didn’t know what they were to him. Were they friends? Co-workers? Relatives? Seeing how they always followed his demands like it were the end of the world, they looked more like his cult, and he their cult leader.The mere thought made a strange sensation pass through her spine.Anyway…She tried to focus on her sister instead, the only person who mattered to her the most. She sat straighter than she already was, shifting on the edge of the wooden chair in Nina’s room.“So, we need to talk,” she said to Nina, her sister, who had been sitting on the bed for what felt like forever, waiting desperately for what this way-too-early morning meeting was about.Nina was pretty sure the sun had not even risen yet. And yet, here th

Last Updated : 2026-01-24