All Chapters of The Alpha's Villainess: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The darkness only lasted for a moment.When I opened my eyes next, I was in water. Floating slowly down to the bottom of a void as bubbles filled my vision around me. Almost beautiful in the way they moved, dancing in the small light that came from above.Was this heaven? If true, it was kind of disappointing. I didn’t even like swimming that much. Surely, I deserved something a little more interesting after dying the way I did. Was there no justice in the afterlife for someone like me?I thought back on the life I’d just left, how I’d spent my entire time either chronically online or so engrossed in reading that I rarely went outside. I worked from home as a freelancer, taking odd jobs in illustration and design. Barely the grand artist career I’d envisioned growing up, but usually enough to pay my bills. Or, at least, it had been. I couldn’t deny that the money had slowly been drying up over the last few years, the use of AI starting to take over. In another year or so, I was sure I

Oh... fuck.What the hell was I meant to do? No wonder the poor girl was terrified of me, some of those bruises on her body were likely my own doing. I’d just finished reading how she killed Scarlett in the future and now I was about to get a front row seat to the live action production.Was I just doomed to accept that fate?Man, I really was sent to hell.“Scarlett!” the man yelled again as he reached me. Immediately, he started checking me over as if searching for injuries. “How are you feeling? Are you sore anywhere?”I was too stunned by everything happening to respond right away, allowing him time to fuss over me. It hadn’t taken much effort to figure out who he was, and I genuinely didn’t know what to say. My situation was now potentially dangerous if I spoke the wrong thing or upset him.Because in this pack, his word was law.He was Alpha Liam, leader of the Easthaven Pack.Just as the book described, he was incredibly handsome. With copper coloured hair and deep brown eyes, h

“Scarlett! I heard you’re awake!” a woman yelled, walking through the bedroom door without waiting for invitation. I wasn’t sure who had the audacity to intrude on the Alpha like this, but I certainly wasn’t about to question it.Milliseconds before Liam’s lips were about to touch mine, she had managed to interrupt the moment, saving me from a deed that I definitely didn’t want to do. I wasn’t sure that I could happily act my way out of that one. The urge to slap him away had been visceral.Both of us immediately turned to look up at the lady who entered, of who stopped dead in her tracks the second she spotted us together in the intimate positions we were in.“Oh, Goddess... I’m sorry,” she gasped. “I didn’t know you were here, Alpha.”With a hand over her chest, she gave a small but respectful bow to Liam. A formal greeting, it seemed. I took a mental note to remember that, each of these books having different ways of showing respect.To my immense relief, Liam then moved away and w

Look, I knew that Aurora didn’t really need my help. Obviously, she was going to be fine even if I didn’t intervene. She had a long, eventful life ahead of her, filled with many moments of retribution. But what if we could make the events of her birthday a little more... satisfying? Hopefully rewarding enough for Aurora to stop seeing me as a threat and to not hate me entirely. I was sparing her from her lowest moment, a day she described in the book as being the worst day of her life. With this plan, she would avoid all of that and make Liam into the joke instead.Then bam – next thing you know, we’d be leaving Easthaven, laughing together about how pitiful Liam looked when she rejected him, and slowly growing closer during our journey to the Capital. A trip that would only take a few days to arrive. Just in time for her to be swept off her feet by her loving Victor, forgetting all about me in the process of the plot continuing. The next time I crossed her mind, I’d already be cozyin

It didn’t truly matter... right?Once he saw Aurora tomorrow, and realised she was his fated mate, he would quickly forget all about Scarlett. The matebond would override anything he felt right now. It had to be stronger than anything else. It was a stupid magical, hand picked, Goddess given connection. Surely, that had to mean something.Or, at least, I sure hoped it did.Nevertheless, it was the confirmation I’d been looking for. Learning that the storyline could change depending on the different actions I took was a big discovery. It gave me hope that things really could turn out for the better.I gently grabbed the wine from Liam’s hand, and set both glasses down on the coffee table. With a look of genuine solemnity, I then turned back to him and held his hands in mine.“Are you sure about this, Liam?” I asked innocently. “That’s a really big commitment. If you were to mark me, you’ll never know who you were fated for. You’re depriving the pack of the person the Goddess chose as L