All Chapters of His Broken Vow: Chapter 171 - Chapter 180

The Rolls-Royce screeched to a halt.Bella's heart slammed against her ribs.Outside, dozens of crimson eyes glowed between the trees.Watching.Waiting.Hunting.The forest had gone unnaturally silent.Even the wind seemed afraid to move.Linda grabbed Bella's arm instantly."Stay close."Lord Shevek was already out of the vehicle before either woman could react.One moment he sat beside them.The next, he stood on the road.His black coat swayed behind him.Dangerous.Elegant.Terrifying.For the first time since meeting him, Bella understood why vampires feared him.Why covens obeyed him.Why his enemies disappeared.The air around him changed.Darkened.Thickened.Power rolled from his body in invisible waves.The glowing eyes hesitated.Then a low growl emerged from the forest.Another followed.Then dozens more.Hilda surged forward inside Bella."Something's wrong."Bella agreed.Those weren't ordinary wolves.The scent reaching her was strange.Twisted.Corrupted.Almost rotte

Bella's fingers went numb.The photograph blurred before her eyes.For a moment, she thought she was imagining it.Hoping she was imagining it.Praying she was imagining it.But no matter how many times she blinked, the image remained the same.Sienna.Standing beside Dave Stark.Close enough to touch him.Close enough to claim familiarity.Close enough to make Bella's stomach twist painfully.The woman everyone believed had vanished months ago looked very much alive.And very comfortable beside the man Bella loved.The boutique suddenly felt too small.Too crowded.Too hot.Too suffocating.Hilda erupted inside her mind."Something is wrong."Bella couldn't disagree.Her pulse hammered against her ribs.Then her phone began ringing.Dave's name flashed across the screen.Once.Twice.Three times.The vibration felt like a personal attack.She stared at it.The image.The call.The image again.Her thoughts spiraled.Why was Sienna with him?Why hadn't he called earlier?Why had Sienn

Bella's breath caught in her throat.For a second, the world seemed to stop turning.The man standing before her had Dave Stark's face.Not exactly.But close enough to send a violent shock through her system.His silver eyes.The shape of his jaw.The dark hair falling carelessly across his forehead.Even the way he stood carried a strange resemblance.Yet there were differences.This man looked younger.Lighter.Less burdened.Where Dave carried the weight of kingdoms and wars on his shoulders, this stranger seemed untouched by responsibility.He smiled.A warm, easy smile.Nothing like Dave's dangerously calculated smirks."Are you alright?" he asked.Bella stared.The stranger blinked.Then laughed softly."That bad, huh?"Hilda suddenly stirred."He's not Dave.""I know that," Bella muttered internally."Then why are you staring at him like you've seen a ghost?"Because she practically had.The stranger tilted his head."I feel like I should introduce myself before you keep looki

Bella's world tilted.For several seconds, she simply stared.Her mother stood frozen outside Lord Viktor Shevek's private suite, cheeks stained pink, dark hair tousled by sleep. The oversized black dress shirt she wore clearly wasn't hers.It certainly wasn't packed in their luggage.And it definitely belonged to Viktor.Bella's jaw nearly hit the floor."Mom?"Linda looked as though she'd been caught committing a crime."Bella, I can explain."The explanation didn't seem to arrive.Behind her, Viktor leaned casually against the doorway, looking entirely too pleased with himself.That irritated Bella instantly.Very few things could distract her from the disaster involving Dave Stark and Sienna.This was one of them."Explain what exactly?" Bella demanded.Linda opened and closed her mouth.Nothing came out.Viktor folded his arms."Your mother spent the night here."Bella blinked.Then blinked again."Father!""What?" he asked calmly.Linda looked ready to sink through the floor."B

Sleep had been the first real mercy Rose had felt in a very long time.Not the fractured kind that came with fear or the instinctive waking at every unfamiliar sound—but something deeper. Heavier. The kind that wrapped around her like a second skin and pulled her under without permission or resistance. Lord Shevek had held her through the night as though she belonged there, as though the world outside those walls had stopped existing entirely.For a brief, dangerous moment, she had believed it.That belief still lingered in her chest when morning arrived.Soft light filtered through the curtains, spilling across the bed in muted gold. Rose stirred slowly, her body warm and unsteady, still carrying the ghost of his presence beside her.Except he was no longer beside her.A subtle tension in the air made her pause—something charged, intimate, unsettling in a way she couldn’t immediately name. Her breath caught before she even understood why.There was movement beneath the covers.Her he