All Chapters of FAKE MATE, REAL BOND: Chapter 41 - Chapter 45

GinaI don’t know how long I sit there, my hands are untied now. My mind is a storm. A thousand questions crash into each other, louder than my own heartbeat. Louder even than the ragged edge of my breathing.He says he’s my father. I had been so sure Damian was my father, nothing made sense anymore. Who was my father and who was really telling the truth? The words replay over and over, like a wound I can’t stop picking at.I try to look away from him, this man who calls himself Dante but my gaze keeps dragging back to him. It’s the eyes. The same pale gray that looks back at me in every mirror. The same shape, the same impossible color.Goddess help me. I almost whisper. There was only one person who had all the answers I needed and she was not here. My mother. Part of me wants to believe it. Because if he’s telling the truth, then Damian is nothing to me. I’m not the cursed produ

RoseWhen the summons came, I knew before the messenger even spoke.Some truths have been waiting so long to be heard, they vibrate in the air like a warning before a storm.I was sitting alone in the small guest room Alpha Ryan had offered me. The afternoon light streamed through the lace curtains, glinting off the silver brush I hadn’t touched in hours. My hands were folded neatly in my lap, but inside, I was anything but composed.I hadn’t slept in days. Not since Gina disappeared.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw her as a baby, her dark hair in soft curls, her little mouth searching for comfort and then I’d see her now, grown and afraid and stolen away by hands I couldn’t see.I’d failed her.Just as I failed everything I ever loved.When the knock sounded, I didn’t flinch. I only smoothed my skirt and called, “Come in.”It was Gamma Hugo, Ryan’s second-in-comma