Lahat ng Kabanata ng ONCE REJECTED, NOW HIS OBSESSION: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 20

LEAHThe drive back to the house felt like I was in an oven. Dante was already in the house and to my luck I was forced to use another car yet heaven knows I was more bothered about what was going down tonight. The car came to a halt and I swallowed harder before taking a deep breath and stepping out. There was no doubt he was going to touch me tonight. At the balcony he had whispered eight o'clock in my ears and I had half an hour to get my shut together.“We'll help you get ready" Two maids appeared from nowhere and I knew they were made by the way they dressed, but I've never seen them before Half an hour past and I was sitting in his… Our room and he was nowhere to be seen. I nervously moved back and forth in the room as I stared at the clock that was exactly eight then the door cracked open making me freeze in place.“You seem very impatient little one” His voice sent chills down my bone and to make it worst, I was excited I shouldn't be excited but I was The night was unlik

DANTE'S POVLeah had changed.I watched her from the balcony, gripping the stone railing as I observed her in the clearing below. She was drenched in sweat, her muscles trembling from exhaustion, yet she refused to stop. Every day, she pushed herself harder, training relentlessly from dawn until her body betrayed her. Even then, she forced herself back up, unwilling to accept defeat.It had been weeks since she started, and I could see the transformation not just in her body, but in her spirit. The once fragile woman I had found, broken and afraid, was gone. In her place stood someone new, someone fierce. She was rebuilding herself, piece by piece, shedding the weight of her past like a snake shedding its skin.And damn, it was mesmerizing to watch.But I was also concerned. Even if I knew she found out about the portrait long ago, she refused to say anything in it, each night my heart crawled knowing she was still refusing to say a single word and letting it play in her head. I look

LEAHI paced back and forth in the safe room, I could hear the chaos rumbling outside, but the paper in my hand had me trembling. Something was going on, and I didn't know what it was, but it was clear that it had something to do with me. Dante asked me not to look from here and I knew too well that I shouldn't even if everything in my body screamed for me to go. I opened the paper for the tenth time in the last hour. “I wish we had met, and this chaos wouldn't have happened to begin with, but I presume you know nothing and your husband is not saying anything and the portrait?”My heart slammed against my chest as I remembered the portrait, I had refused to say anything about it, but who was this and this battle was all because I haven't met him?My head was railing, yet I couldn't do about it, what was Dante hiding that I didn't know? I held on to the paper tightly waiting for anything and after two hours the door flew open reveal Dante covered in blood but not his. “Are you ok?”

LEAHI had enrolled myself into the school Kiara was while completely ignoring Dante's warning of being in danger. I hated his protective shield over me especially now that I didn't trust him anymore, it felt like he was going to stab me in the back. Stepping out of the car, the academy’s grand gates loomed before me, a masterpiece of wrought iron and gold, standing as a symbol of knowledge and power. A shiver of nerves danced down my spine as I stepped through, inhaling the crisp morning air. The sheer size of the academy was overwhelming, its towering stone walls whispering of history and tradition. The pathways buzzed with students, their chatter blending into voices that felt both foreign and oddly welcoming.When I married Darren he had taken me out of school claiming it was not something I was meant to do, I accepted my fate for I loved him, but that was all a lie to begin with My heart clenched with pain as the memories of everything flood my mind, how could I have been so ab

LEAHThe letter slipped from my hand again, landing silently on the floor like it had given up on me too.I couldn’t move.I couldn’t speak.Everything I thought I knew about Dante, about myself, about this world I had been thrown into was crumbling around me like a sandcastle caught in a rising tide. The words from the parchment still echoed in my head, burning themselves into my mind.“Leah Waters… key to breaking the lycan curse…”It didn’t make sense. None of it made sense. I didn’t have a wolf. I didn’t even belong in this world—not really. And yet, somehow, I was a thread in a prophecy too ancient to comprehend. A prophecy that had claimed the lives of women just like me. Women who looked like me. Women who had all died the same way.Poisoned.Used.Discarded.The sound of the door creaking behind me should’ve made me jump, but I was already numb. Already drowning. The only reason I knew who it was without turning around was because of the silence that came with him. That bone-d