All Chapters of The Alpha's Ruined Bride: Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

Kessa "He had no right to do that." Mia said it quietly, her hand moving in slow circles on my back. She meant it, I could hear the genuine anger underneath the gentleness of it. I sat with it for a moment. The bruising on my throat was real. I had checked it in the mirror already, the marks of his grip visible against my skin, and I had stood there looking at it with a feeling I couldn't name cleanly. I wasn't Aurora. That was the part that kept coming back to me, circling in the space behind everything else. I wasn't her. I didn't know if I was her. The blood pint was still a promise I hadn't fulfilled, the heirloom still missing, the truth about who I actually was still sitting in the middle of an unfinished sentence that nobody in my life seemed willing to complete. And Ronan had stood in my office and put his hand around my throat and told me I had deceived him, and given me no room to respond, no space to offer the truth , which was that I didn't know. I genuinely, comp

Ronan"You went to see her." That was the first thing Naledi said as soon as I stepped into the locked room. Her voice was calm, but there was that faint, dangerous edge I had learned to recognize over the years.Before I had left for the Silverpine pack, I had ordered her moved, taken to a more secure place. Somehow, I had found myself getting wary of what Naledi was capable of. She was unpredictable, dangerous and cunning.“And I see the mask is off,” she added, tilting her head, eyes glinting with amusement.I removed it fully, letting my features be seen, the real me. The monster, the man foolish enough to believe in the same woman twice, only to have her destroy me.“That has nothing to do with you,” I roared, my voice echoing off the walls.She recoiled slightly, placing a hand on her chest as though I had scared her. I knew better. That gesture was all part of her act, calculated to make me doubt my own senses.“I must say,” she began, smirking faintly, “you actually look bette

Kessa There has been a sharp pain lodged into my heart for a while now, and no matter how hard I had tried to push it off, it was impossible. It pressed on my chest like a weight I couldn’t lift, relentless in its insistence. “The more you think of him, the worse it gets,” my mother, Luna Sara, said softly, sitting across from me at the small dining table. Her eyes, filled with quiet concern, never left mine. “You should see a doctor, Kess.” I didn’t realize that my hand had been clutching my chest, squeezing hard, trying to contain the ache. I shook my head slowly. “I will be fine,” I breathed out, almost as if saying it aloud would make it true. Her gaze softened, yet a frown tugged at her lips. “You see, Kessa. I might not be inside your head, but I am your mother. And it is clear that you are going through pain.” I leaned back, letting out a shaky breath, staring at the wooden surface between us. “Mother… if I told you I didn’t want to go to a doctor, would you… would you

Kessa It was the second hearing, and I came ready. The first session had established the framework, the charge, the denial, and the conflict of interest around Quinn's testimony. This one was where the actual weight of evidence would begin to settle, and I had spent the time between preparing for exactly that. A new judge had been assigned. Elder Eric, one of Elder Marlow's people, which I was going to treat as coincidence because acknowledging anything else would require me to pretend I was surprised, and I wasn't. I had known Elder Eric from before he left the pack with his family years ago. He had always been precise and always been fair in the specific way that people were fair when they had no personal investment in the outcome. He had returned earlier this year, and from everything I had observed since, the time away had agreed with him. Fiona was already seated when I arrived. She looked at me when I came through the door with an expression that I could only describe as th

Nysera.I waved Jane off before I walked away, through the dark alley that should have scared me. I knew that there was someone behind me, lurking there in the dark.Yet, I chose to walk through the alley, I was ready to take off my anger on them, all that I had stored in, when I should have given the perfect answers. I wasn't even shocked when I found more men in the alley, whistling as I passed but they never came to me. It was best to them not to even come closer to me.I dipped my hands into the jacket's pocket, letting the chill air reminded me life before it got so hard. Being a rogue was good, I had a family, people that understood me because they were going through the same thing."You should join us, lady. We will make sure you have the best time of the night." Someone called out from the crowd.I toned them out, even when their laughter got so loud for some minutes then it went quiet. "You should check who is behind us, Nysera." Raven suggested.If I was right that there wa