Semua Bab Taming The Ruthless Billionaire Alpha : Bab 11 - Bab 20

THE PRICE OF THE BOND Kael wasn’t sleeping anymore. Not truly. He dozed in bursts—minutes stolen from exhaustion—but every time his eyes closed, he saw her. Felt her. Heard her voice whispering through the marrow of his bones. And when he woke, he wasn’t alone in his own mind. The wolf was closer now. Not just pacing at the edges of his sanity, but pressing against it—breathing down his neck. Watching with yellow eyes through the mirror. Waiting for a moment of weakness. He knew what it wanted. Liana. Not the woman. The mate. The bond had been completed—but not tamed. No ritual, no spell, no slow burn of romance to ease them into it. Just blood and battle and instinct. One desperate bite to save her life… and now she was embedded in him. Woven through every nerve ending. A second pulse beneath his own. And it was breaking him. Every touch burned. Every glance from her made his claws itch. Her scent—gods, her scent—was a drug that set his teeth on edge. He couldn’t be arou

ENEMIES IN SILKMaya was many things—sharp-tongued, stubborn, suspicious to the bone—but subtle was not one of them.By day two at Kael’s estate, she was already poking around the halls like a bloodhound in boots. Servants avoided her. Guards pretended not to watch her. And the other shifters?They hated her on sight.“Does everyone here have a stick up their ass,” she muttered to Liana, “or is it just me?”“They’re just… not used to outsiders,” Liana replied carefully, looping her arm through Maya’s as they walked the garden path just beyond the eastern wall. “Especially not ones asking a million questions and trying to pick the locks on forbidden doors.”Maya smirked. “I only tried one lock.”“And you almost lost your fingers.”“Worth it.”But beneath her sarcasm, Maya’s gaze darted constantly—to the treetops, the walls, the corners of Kael’s territory. She might’ve laughed and teased and played nice with the castle staff, but Liana could see the truth in her best friend’s eyes.She

THE BLOOD THAT REMEMBERSThe scent of death clung to the air like fog.Liana stood at the cliff’s edge, wind tangling her hair, eyes fixed on the body that lay broken beneath moonlight. The woman’s chest still smoked where the word TRAITOR had been branded—by claw, by magic, or both.Kael said nothing.But his wolf was rising.She could feel it pulsing off him—an electric hum beneath his skin, a violent silence before the storm. His shoulders shook, his fists curled at his sides, and when Xander arrived moments later, even he hesitated before stepping closer.“She's taunting you,” Xander said grimly. “Us. The entire bond.”“No,” Kael growled. “She’s testing how far I’ll go.”His eyes glinted like wildfire. “And she’s about to find out.”Liana’s heart pounded—not from fear of Kael, but of what he was becoming. What they were becoming. She didn’t recognize the way her pulse now synced with his anger. How her vision sharpened, how her bones felt like they were vibrating, reacting to him.

LUNA, UNLEASHEDThe moonlight didn’t wait for permission.It poured through the training hall’s high arched windows like a spotlight—silver, sharp, watching. And in its glow stood Liana, sweat dampening her skin, bare feet steady on the stone, hands lifted as if holding an invisible thread between them.Sierra’s voice sliced through the silence.“Again.”Liana exhaled. Focused. She closed her eyes and reached inward—not for muscle, but for memory. That ancient silver current within her bloodline. The part of her that remembered what it meant to command without submission. To wield power not as domination, but as divine truth.Her palms glowed.The air shimmered.And then—her body surged.The pulse of energy shot outward like a shockwave, rattling the walls, making the torches flicker.But again, she lost control.The silver blast snapped like a whip, wild and uncontrolled, slamming into a pillar and cracking it halfway through.“Dammit,” she hissed, clutching her temples as the recoil

QUEEN OF THE FALLING MOONThe storm hadn’t come yet—but the sky already knew it was coming.Heavy clouds gathered over the estate, thick and swollen, as if the heavens themselves braced for something ancient and inevitable. The air crackled with static, with fate.In the center of the training field, Liana stood barefoot in the grass.She no longer flinched when her power rose.She welcomed it.The Luna essence no longer felt like a curse or an alien force waiting to consume her. It had a rhythm now—a breath, a pulse, a voice. And when it surged, she didn’t choke it down.She spoke to it.Commanded it.The wind swirled around her, whispering secrets that only those born under divine moons could understand. Silver light glowed at her fingertips—not violent like before, but steady, like a heartbeat beneath her skin.Kael watched from the edge of the clearing, arms folded, jaw locked.Every fiber of his being screamed to rush to her. To touch her. To shield her.But she’d told him not to