All Chapters of OUR LITTLE SECRET : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Velgrave Academy loomed like a dark secret on the edge of the city — all sharp spires and obsidian glass that caught the morning sun like fire. Ophelia Wolfe didn’t flinch at the sight of it. She didn’t flinch at much, really. Not anymore. Her black boots clicked against the marble steps as she walked past the metal detectors that weren’t built for her kind. Normal schools worried about guns and knives. Velgrave worried about bloodlines. And power. Especially her kind of power. Ophelia Wolfe, born to a legacy of Bloodborns gifted with memory manipulation, had been labeled dangerous before she could walk. She could rewrite moments, erase trauma, implant ideas so delicately you’d think they were your own. And she hated using it. But Velgrave was not a place that let you live soft. You either sharpened yourself or bled for someone else’s ego. “Back again, Wolfe?” The voice sliced through the air behind her — smug, taunting. Carl Maddox. She didn’t need to turn around. She alread

Ophelia grabbed the scattered pages, heart racing. “It was an experiment. Nothing more.” Carl stood there, quiet, too quiet. The air between them was electric — not the playful static of before, but something heavier. “You tested your powers… on me?” “It was months ago. I erased it.” “Not well enough.” She looked at him. Really looked. His eyes weren’t full of that cocky amusement anymore. There was hurt there. And something else she couldn’t name. “Why me?” he asked, voice lower now. “Why not anyone else?” “I don’t know,” she whispered, truth spilling out like blood. “Maybe because I couldn’t figure you out. You’re the only one who makes the world go quiet.” The silence between them cracked open. Then he stepped forward. Close. Closer. Her breath hitched. “You erased the memory,” he said. “But not the feeling.” And with that, he turned and walked out, leaving the scent of smoke and power in his wake. The next day, Headmistress Vale summoned them both. “You two seem to

She ran straight to Carl. He didn’t ask questions. Didn’t smirk or tease. Just took one look at her face and said, “What happened?” She showed him the sigil. The reflection. Everything. For once, he didn’t try to make sense of it with logic. He just said, “Then let’s burn the place down.” She almost laughed. “You’re insane.” “No, I’m in.” “In what?” “Whatever you’re doing. Whatever this is. I’m not leaving you alone in this.” And that, somehow, terrified her more than any experiment or conspiracy. Because Carl Maddox had just picked her. And if he got hurt — it would be her fault. Pact They made a plan. Meet in the North Tower during Solstice Trials. Use the distraction of the public exhibition to slip into the central lab core. Carl would handle disrupting the power grid. Ophelia would extract data from the system — find proof of Project Halo, and everything Velgrave had done to them. But before they parted ways that night, she caught his hand. “Carl.” He looked bac

The hidden base was a mess of shadows and adrenaline.Carl's hands were still trembling as he tossed their stolen files onto the table. Sweat clung to his collar, streaks of blood dried at his temple, but his eyes — his eyes never left her.Ophelia sat in the corner, her thigh wrapped tightly in gauze, the faint scent of burned leather rising from her torn jacket.Lilith paced in circles, electricity still sparking at her fingertips. “We just broke into the Academy’s deepest archive, unleashed a siren-level breach alarm, and now have the names of over two dozen cryo-frozen Subjects with experimental powers. I think it’s safe to say… we’re officially terrorists.”Carl gave her a look. “Rebels.”“Sure,” Lilith snorted. “Fancy terrorists.”Ophelia didn’t laugh.Her voice cut through the room, low and steady: “We woke up something Velgrave buried for a reason. This isn’t just about them hiding things. It’s about what happens when the world sees what they created.”Carl moved to her side.

Ophelia and Carl moved fast.Ezra and Lilith fanned across sectors.They reached out to hackers, underground networks, even former professors with guilty consciences.One by one, the others came out of hiding.— Tobias, who could fracture reality in small spheres.— Nina, whose singing voice triggered seizures in sensors.— Kai, with heat-based teleportation.— And Rei, a former Velgrave instructor who turned spy.Some were broken. Some furious. Some just scared.But they all shared one thing: Velgrave had taken something from them.Now, with the Wolfe siblings leading the rebellion, they had something to fight for.And as Ophelia stood at the edge of the underground base, watching the broken find purpose, she whispered to Carl:“They made a mistake letting me live.”Carl kissed her temple. “They made a bigger mistake trying to erase you.”The base was alive now.What had once been a shelter for four fugitives had transformed into a hive of rebellion. Screens glowed with