All Chapters of Reckless Royals of Nocturne Prep: Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

CONRADI woke up screaming.My hands clawed at my chest, at my arms, searching for the marks. The bruises. The proof. There had to be proof. There had to be something left behind from what they'd done to me.But in place of everything that was done to me, there was nothing.My skin was smooth. Clean. Not even a scratch.I sat up fast enough to make the room tilt. My door was intact. There was no splintered wood. No broken frame. The bed was against the wall where it belonged, not shoved up as a barricade. The floor was clean. No blood. No torn towel. No evidence of the violation that was still playing behind my eyelids every time I blinked.I touched my throat. The place where fingers had dug in hard enough to cut off my air. Nothing hurt.My thighs. My hips. The places where hands had grabbed and held me down while I thrashed and begged. There was no pain or tenderness. There was nothing at all."What the fuck," I whispered.The room stayed quiet. Too quiet. Like it was holding its b

CASSIANI heard Miyori's voice cut through the hall like a blade."That is disappointing coming from a third year." Her tone was sharp enough to draw blood. "Do you remember when Seraphina's accident occurred?"The boy faltered. His face was still red, but some of the confidence had drained away."It happened before Rae Vale even stepped foot on these grounds," Miyori continued. "Seraphina's death was tragic. But that was also caused by drugs. Horrifying as that is, it had nothing to do with an alleged Omega attending Nocturne. An alleged Omega who happened to be Seraphina’s sister."Murmurs spread through the crowd again. Quieter this time. More uncertain."I also think," Miyori said, "that this is the perfect time to quell these rumors by telling you all that Rae Vale is not an Omega."My eyes snapped to Rae. She'd gone very still. Her hand had slipped from Kieran's grip."I was… I am."Her voice rang out clear. Steady. Every head in the hall turned toward her."When I came to this

CASSIANI watched Rae's chest rise and fall too quickly. Her breathing was uneven. Ragged. Like she'd been running instead of just standing here in the hallway with me."You seemed like you were holding it together so well," I said quietly. "Back in your room. Back in the hall. During the meeting."She laughed. It was a hollow sound that made my chest ache. "I was pretending. I am good at pretending.""What changed?""Martha." Her hands twisted together. "She told me something about my mother. About how she ran away from him. My father. My biological father. Whoever he is."I waited. I let her find the words."It was implied that I was hidden." Her voice dropped lower. "That I had to be hidden. Which means he must be bad, right? Horrible. Dangerous enough that my mother had to flee from him."She looked up at me then. Her eyes were wet but no tears had fallen yet."With what I've done," she continued, "I believe I'm the same way. I have to be just like him. Evil.""You're not evil."

RAEI stood in the hallway outside Miyori's office, staring at nothing in particular. My mind kept circling back to the same impossible thought: Alpha Magnus Vale wasn't my father.The man who somewhat raised me. The man whose name I carried. The man I'd spent seventeen years trying to please, trying to avoid, trying to understand. None of it mattered because his blood didn't run through my veins.I could call him. I wanted to. The urge to ask if my mother, Sigourney, had been close to anyone at school burned in my chest. I needed to know if she'd ever talked about friends, professors, anyone who might have known something about the people she’d been involved with. But just thinking about it made my stomach twist.What would happen when Magnus discovered his real daughter was dead and that the only child he thought he had left, the girl he'd sent to Nocturne Prep was a fraud? A bastard who had no right to the Vale name?I couldn't do it. Not yet. Maybe not ever.My feet carried me down

CASSIAN The ice magic faded from Miyori's fingertips, but she didn't move from the doorway. She just stared at me. At the destruction around us. At the ash coating every surface like snow. "Why?" Her voice was quiet. Careful. "Why would you summon him after a century of hiding?" I couldn't look at her. My eyes stayed fixed on a charred piece of my bookshelf. On what used to be years of research. "My father and Elena made a deal." The words came out flat. Empty. Like saying them out loud would somehow make them less real. Miyori's hand flew to her stomach. The gesture was immediate. Instinctive. Like she'd been punched. "I knew." She pressed harder against her middle. "I knew one day it would come to this." "Rae carries that wound in this life." I finally looked up at her. "The wound from whatever deal they made. It's still with her." Miyori's face had gone pale. Her violet eyes searched mine like she was looking for something. Hope, maybe. Some sign that I was wrong. "He must