Chapter 271 – I’d rather bleed in the real world with you than smile here without your soul

NATHAN'S POV For the second time, I opened my eyes in her dream. But this time, I wasn’t just another version of myself conjured from Sophia’s memories. I was… me. Fully. The first time I’d entered this world, I’d gotten lost – lulled into the illusion, the peace of it, the dangerous perfection that felt so close to what we’d both wanted. I didn’t even remember when it started slipping. That was the thing about enchantments like this – they didn’t drag you under. They sang you to sleep. I heard the laughter. I’d seen the twins playing, their cheeks flushed with joy. I’d looked into her eyes and seen no trace of the pain I’d caused her. And for one blissful moment, I let myself believe it was real. But that version of me – the version she dreamed up – he was built to stay. To keep her locked in this golden cage. Not me. It had taken everything I had to claw my way back to awareness, to fight off the numbness that crept in like vines around my mind. Elara’s warning echoed in my

Last Updated : 2025-06-10

Chapter 272 – My name is Sophia. Fucking. Lancaster!

SOPHIA'S POVWe stepped out of the bathroom like nothing had happened.My hand was still tingling where he’d held it so tightly, anchoring me to the truth, but I forced a smile as we walked down the hallway together. The illusion around us shimmered with deceptive warmth – the hallway walls soft with golden light, the scent of sugar and vanilla hanging in the air. Every detail was still perfect. Every corner still whispered comfort.I couldn’t let it fool me. Not again.Nathan’s hand lingered at the small of my back, just like it always did. The practiced ease of it – the way we slipped back into the charade – should’ve unsettled me more, but instead, it gave me strength. We could pretend. We had to. Victoria was watching. Listening. We couldn’t give her a single reason to suspect that I knew.But inside, I was burning.The version of me that had floated through this world for weeks – I hated her now. I hated how easily she’d believed this dream. How quickly she’d swallowed the lie. M

Last Updated : 2025-06-11

Chapter 273 – And I knew – we'd just declared war!

SOPHIA’S POVI didn’t sleep.Not because I didn’t try – I did. I lay next to him, heartbeat pressed to heartbeat, my fingers laced with his like they belonged there. And they did. But every time I closed my eyes, I’d see his – wide, wild, vulnerable that night – from the time before the spell retook him. The moment he was still in there.And now… he wasn’t.I knew it before I opened my eyes that morning. My heart fluttered slowly, still holding on to some ridiculous hope that he had won the battle again and was Nathan – My Nathan – again.But I was wrong. The silence had changed. It wasn’t stillness. It was hollow.Nathan was already moving around the room — dressed, cheerful, soft voiced again.“Morning.” He said, turning toward me with a smile that once would’ve made me melt. It was his – the version Victoria had designed. Tender. Polished. Completely unaware.And it broke something in me.“Sleep okay?” He asked, crossing to me with a mug of something warm. “You kept reaching for me

Last Updated : 2025-06-12

Chapter 274 – You reminded me what love’s supposed to feel like

SOPHIA'S POVHe didn’t let go of me.Even when the floor pressed cold and hard under us, even when his breath came in ragged bursts and the illusion cracked and groaned around us, Nathan held on — fiercely, desperately — like I was the only thing anchoring him to this world.And maybe I was.His forehead rested against mine, slick with sweat. His arms, trembling with the weight of everything he’d been made to carry, stayed locked around my waist like releasing me would send him spiraling into something he wouldn’t come back from. It was like the second time he went under, the enchantment knew he had escaped and had locked him down even harder. I don't even want to know the horrors….I could feel his wolf beneath the surface — restless, battered, but alive. And goddess, that mattered. That meant we still had time. The man looked like he had been through battles, a victim of war, just to be here. I didn't realise how much he must have gone through the first time he broke through. It ma

Last Updated : 2025-06-13

Chapter 275 – Then let her watch this!

SOPHIA’S POV“Oh,” she purred, her voice thick like syrup. “There you are, love. I was starting to worry you’d gotten lost.”Nathan stiffened beside me.And just like that, the air dropped ten degrees.Victoria glided into the kitchen as if she owned it, the hem of her molten gold gown whispering across the tile. Behind her, the walls pulsed and flickered, revealing glimpses of decay beneath the dream – scorched wood, broken glass, things that had no place in a fucking memory. She was the only thing still fully formed — and that was what scared me most. She hadn’t cracked. She was still holding on.And her eyes — Goddess, those eyes — were fixed on Nathan like he belonged to her.“Don’t move.” I murmured to him without turning, feeling the rise and fall of his breath beside me. “She’ll try to pull you under again.”“I won’t go.” he said, voice low, trembling. “Not again.”Victoria’s smile grew — slow, indulgent and cruel. Oh so very cruel.“Oh Nathan,” she said, her tone dripping mock

Last Updated : 2025-06-14

Chapter 276 – She wants you to come

NATHAN'S POVThe winds had gone quietNot peaceful kind — not the kind that brought rest — but the sort of quiet that came after the screaming stopped, the screams from that reality. It was kind that left your bones buzzing with aftershocks, your muscles tight with the knowledge that something was wrong. Still wrong. That something was yet to happen.Sophia was asleep again.Not the enchanted kind this time, thank the goddess. Just exhaustion. Her head rested on my shoulder, breath soft and uneven, one hand still curled in the fabric of my shirt like she couldn’t believe I was real. She looked so beautiful, with her raven black hair contrasting with her skin. I couldn't get over how radiant she always was – no matter the situation. “She's brave.” My wolf hummed in approval.“Yes, she is. She always was.” No matter what was thrown her way.I didn’t move.Didn’t dare.Not because I was afraid of waking her — but because I didn’t know what I’d do if I let myself stand. If I let this mo

Last Updated : 2025-06-15