All Chapters of Ruin Me, Alpha: Breaking The Enemy's Daughter: Chapter 41 - Chapter 43

I ended up in the gardens. The same gardens where Ares had found me after the council meeting, where he'd first started breaking down my walls.I sank onto a stone bench and buried my face in my hands.How had I been so stupid? So blind?All those moments, the cabin, the wolves, the way he'd looked at me in the chapel, I'd thought they meant something. I'd thought he was changing. That we were changing.But it was all a lie. A manipulation. A game.And I'd played right into his hands like the naive fool I was.The pain in my chest wasn't just heartbreak. It was humiliation. It was the sickening realization that every tender moment, every whispered word, every gentle touch had been calculated. Weaponized. I'd handed him my heart and he'd used it to stab my father."There you are."I looked up to find Julius standing at the entrance to the gardens. But this wasn't the Julius I knew. His face was a mask of cold fury, his eyes glittering with something dark and dangerous. His hands weren'

I ended up in the gardens. The same gardens where Ares had found me after the council meeting, where he'd first started breaking down my walls. I sank onto a stone bench and buried my face in my hands. How had I been so stupid? So blind? All those moments, the cabin, the wolves, the way he'd looked at me in the chapel, I'd thought they meant something. I'd thought he was changing. That we were changing. But it was all a lie. A manipulation. A game. And I'd played right into his hands like the naive fool I was. The pain in my chest wasn't just heartbreak. It was humiliation. It was the sickening realization that every tender moment, every whispered word, every gentle touch had been calculated. Weaponized. I'd handed him my heart and he'd used it to stab my father. "There you are." I looked up to find Julius standing at the entrance to the gardens. But this wasn't the Julius I knew. His face was a mask of cold fury, his eyes glittering with something dark and dangerous. His hand