All Chapters of Theirs To Possess And Ruin: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

(Few Days Later)VIVIENNE POVI paced my room, counting every drag of the second hand on the battered clock beside the bed.“Where are those little menaces?” I grumbled under my breath, casting a murderous glare at the door like I could summon them with sheer will.Ridiculous. Since when did I start looking forward to those twins barging in? What the fuck was happening to me? I was the Viper...queen of solitude, goddess of snark, breaker of spirits. And now I was… what?Standing here, restless, waiting for two giggling hellcats who couldn’t go a day without dragging me into some new mess?Pathetic.I hated how fast they’d gotten under my skin. Maybe it was the silence when they weren’t around. Maybe it was how Maya made me laugh without even trying, or how Mara always knew when to shove a pastry in my face before I could get mean. Maybe it was just that they made Ivy’s absence hurt a little less, like the edge of it dulled whenever they were close.But today, no twins. No noise. No di

Vivienne’s POVKane’s eyes were on me, glaring like he wanted to eat me, and I cringed at the thought because the way he stared was too intense, too raw, like he could already taste me on his tongue and was fighting the urge to take a bite right here in front of everyone. The restaurant noise faded into a dull hum around us, the clatter of plates, the low murmur of voices, the occasional burst of laughter from some table in the back but all I could feel was the weight of his gaze pinning me in place, heavy and hot, making my skin prickle and my pulse kick up despite how much I wanted to hate it. I shifted in the booth, crossing my arms tight across my chest like that could block him out, but it didn’t. Nothing blocked Kane when he decided to look at you like you were the only thing in the room worth devouring. I shouldn’t have followed him to this damn restaurant... Asher deceived me... I'm gonna kill that mother fucker when I see him. He handed me to Kane -like goods and told

VIVIENNE POVWalking back to the villa with the girls was wild in a way that made my chest ache, like I was watching someone else’s life from the inside out.Mara and Maya were arm in arm, arguing about the dumbest thing, if tomato counts as a fruit, or some other nonsense I’d usually roll my eyes at.But I just kept grinning like a lunatic, stuffing my hands in my pockets so I wouldn’t accidentally reach out and drag them both back inside like some needy kid who didn’t want her friends to leave.I was seriously considering asking them to stay over. Goddess. The thought alone made me wanna slap myself. Vivienne Moreau, the Viper, Alpha-slayer, breaker of bones, reduced to puppy eyes and awkward goodbyes.Blame it on that damn fruit. The healing, the poison, the silence Ivy left behind...yeah, blame it all. Couldn’t be that I just wanted company for once in my miserable life.We reached the main gates, the twins still bickering, their laughter echoing in the warm night.I trailed behin

Dante’s POVHer scent hit me immediately I began to regain my senses and I knew exactly where I was... how the hell did I end up in her room? The smell of her filled my lungs like smoke, sharp and wild, mixed with the faint trace of last night’s whiskey still clinging to my skin and the sweet, buttery warmth of whatever she’d eaten yesterday that still lingered on the sheets. My head throbbed, heavy and dull, the kind of headache that came from too much alcohol and not enough sleep, but worse than the pain was the realization sinking in slowly and cold... I was in her bed. Naked. Arms wrapped around her. Her back pressed to my chest and her ass nestled against my hips. My cock, already half-hard from the warmth and the scent of her, stirred fully awake when she shifted in her sleep, soft curves sliding against me in a way that made my breath catch hard in my throat.“Well, you couldn’t stop thinking about her and you took so many alcohol and damn pills to get you drunk and

Vivienne’s POVWalking around the courtyard would have been more fun if I didn’t have five guards tailing me every single step or twenty more hiding in the shadows like the cowards they were, their eyes always on me, always watching, always ready to jump if I so much as breathed wrong.Those men really didn’t trust me, and I couldn’t blame them, but it still made my skin crawl, made every movement feel heavy, like I was dragging chains even though the collar around my throat was the only visible one.The sun was high and bright, the air smelled of pine and sweat and the sharp metallic bite of steel from the training rings, warriors clashed in the distance with grunts and curses that echoed across the stone, but none of it felt real to me, none of it reached past the invisible wall they’d built around me.I kept my pace slow and deliberate, boots crunching on the gravel path, head high, shoulders back, refusing to look like prey even when I felt like it.I wondered why the twins weren’