Alle Kapitel von Tempted By my Evil Lycan Stepbrother: Kapitel 101 – Kapitel 106

Riley’s POVThe moment the words left my mouth, I froze.I had not planned to tell him. Ezra had always been impossible for me to read. He could burn down my world for me one second and turn around to kiss another girl the next. Also I knew that he was such a dangerous fuckboy. He had so many more options besides me. Telling him how I felt would only humiliate myself in the end.Yet I still let it slip out.I had spent so long trying not to hand him the softest part of me that now, with the words already hanging between us, I felt almost dizzy with panic.Ezra slowly turned around to face me.The moonlight cut across his face, but I still couldn’t read it. His expression had gone so still that it scared the hell out of me.“You said…you love me?” he asked, his voice slightly hoarse.My throat felt tight. I swallowed and forced myself to breathe.There was no way back now.“Yeah,” I said quietly, clenching my fists. “Yeah, I do.”He kept staring at me.My heart was beating so hard it h

Riley's POVI stormed back to my room, fury still burning hot beneath my skin.The maids were already waiting for me, their faces carefully blank as they curtsied. I guessed they were trying to be sensitive with everything going on at the palace.One of them stepped forward, her voice soft and apologetic. "Miss Riley, we need to prepare you for tonight's mourning ceremony."Yeah right, the ceremony.This was exactly what I hated about the palace. Leon and Yilia had been killed by Ezra's own hand, and yet here we were, preparing for some elaborate mourning ritual like we weren’t the murderer ourselves.It’s all fake condolences and crocodile tears. Everyone playing their parts in this twisted theater.And I was Leon's fiancée. At least on paper. Which meant I had no choice but to play along.I stood there like a mannequin as the maids fussed around me, eventually wrestling me into a black satin gown that clung to my body like a second skin.They pinned my hair back, applied dark makeup

Riley's POVNothing could have prepared me for what I saw through those bars.Mateo’s face was wrecked. Bruises layered over bruises, left to darken without treatment. Split lip, dried blood crusted along his hairline and down his neck.He was holding his ribs with one arm, and the angle told me at least two were cracked.My hands were shaking so badly I could barely get the key in the lock."…Riley?" His voice came out hoarse. "Is that…you?""Yeah it’s me. I came." I shoved the cell door open and dropped beside him, already checking his pulse, his eyes, the way he was breathing. "Shit. Oh god I can’t believe this…who did this?!"His breathing was quick and shallow. He had lost the strength to answer.My mind was a total blank now.I thought when Ezra threw Mateo into prison, it was just a pure warning. A few rough nights, bruises. Nothing more. But it was so, so much worse than I thought!"Come on." I got his arm over my shoulder. "We're leaving."I managed to drag his heavy body out