บททั้งหมดของ Breaking the Angel: Children of the Night Book 2: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

AUTHOR'S NOTE Breaking the Angel is a sequel to Alpha's Feral Kitten featuring side characters from that novel, but can mostly be read as a Standalone. There's some context from Alpha's Feral Kitten, but at its heart Breaking the Angel is Selena and Dominic’s story and no one else's.SELENA“Selena, isn’t it time you did the laundry? I told you I want it biweekly.”“Yes, Nox,” I tell my foster brother. “I'll get right on it.”I'm just moving a little slow today, and he should know why, but he never thinks about anything other than himself.He cups my chin. “Make sure it's all done before you go to bed tonight. I'll be generous and let you have some rest. Aren't I a good Alpha?”“Yes, Nox. You're a good Alpha.”“That’s my good girl.” There's never been a time when I've been free.I was born in the Frost Pack of Maine to a werewolf father and a human mother. Both died when I was very young and already conscripted into service as a kitchen girl. I was immediately “fostered” by the Alp

SELENAI take a minute to look around. I'm in an attic bedroom in the same tower as the basement cell. It's actually a nice small space, with French doors that lead to a balcony and little nooks for a desk and a vanity dresser. There's even a tiny bathroom, with a claw foot bathtub, a wobbly shower, a toilet, and the world's smallest sink. I decide to take a shower, and it works surprisingly well. I brush my teeth and put on a black midi skirt with a matching sweater set. I clip my hair back with a gold floral clip, letting some strands inevitably fall. Then I use the colored lip balm Nox once bought me as a Christmas present to stain my lips even more red and make them sparkle a little. I use some of the lip balm on my cheeks and blend it in as natural blush. Then I use some Vaseline on a q tip on my eyelashes to make it look like I'm wearing mascara on my naturally black eyelashes. And that's the extent of the makeup I'm allowed to own. Not that I own anything. Everything I have ca

SELENAA fated mate is a dumb concept anyway. I'm still thinking about that while I'm on my knees, scrubbing the toilet in the common room bathroom in one of the towers. At least I don't have to clean all the suites, just the public toilets. Sweat pours down my face. I've changed into a pair of cutoff jeans shorts and a gray tank top. It's particularly hot in this bathroom, so I have the door propped open. I hear someone clear their throat and look up.There's a guy standing there, one of the inner circle here. His hair is long, black, and wavy, and he has a septum piercing. His t-shirt is covered in different colors of paint. He's cute. “Yeah?” I say. “Women's room's across the hall if you want to use that while I'm still cleaning this one. I don't know why they aren't unisex.”He smiles to himself. “I don't need to use the restroom. I'm just wondering what you're doing.”I look him straight in the eyes. “I'm doing my taxes, can't you tell?”He barks out a laugh, like he's startled.

DOMINICIt was when Selena burst into tears that I knew I had to find a different strategy for making Lunacy pay through this girl. I can’t keep bullying her outright, I don't have the stomach for it.I'm really not a bad guy. I'm just in a dark place.Besides, Tristan said he wanted something poetic. Maybe I can manage that without really hurting this girl. I'm not about to get a guilty conscience over separating Nox from any girl. He can't be good for her.“Abby! Hurry up, I'm starving!” I'm eating dinner out with my sister before escorting Selena to her evening English elective. Abby is taking her sweet time getting in the car.“C'mon, Abbs, don't be like this. She meant nothing to us.” Abby's dipshit roommate–one of three, all male, all dipshits–is whining about some miscommunication between them. This happens a lot.I honk the horn.“Okay, Dom! Listen, Rafe, you guys know I'm moving out next week. Fun time is over. Let's just all agree to be platonic friends from now on.”“Abbs,

DOMINICShe's making friends. Spending time in Billie’s dorm room with the girls. Getting presents from Raven (because of course she is). She wasn't supposed to fit in this well.“Tris, I'm at a loss. Billie put a stop to any bullying. Selena stonewalls me about Nox. It's hard to get in her head. That girl is untouchable.”“You'll think of something,” my best friend says. “The hazing went pretty well, and now you can move on to fucking with her head. Plant doubts about Nox. Flirt with her. Be seductive. Do whatever you have to do, I want them broken up. He doesn't get to have happiness when half the shit that went down he was there for.”I rub my hand across my face. I'm sitting across from Tristan at his desk in his office. As Alpha, he has his own command center in the Rock House, and as his Beta I spend a lot of time there.“You have to understand, this girl is different. There's something about her. I can't put my finger on it. She's just…different.”He looks at me blankly. “Diffe