All Chapters of The Ruthless Alpha's Unwanted Bride : Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

STOLASI sat back in my chair, staring at the handle on the closed door long after the sound of Sylvia's footsteps faded down the hall.The dark mist beside my ear swirled faster. She belongs to the northern wolf, Stolas... Her heart is still tied to him... She plays you for a fool while her mind speaks to him across the border…"I am well aware," I said quietly, tapping my fingers against the polished desk.The girl thought she was clever. She thought holding a knife to her wrist and forcing me to sign a blood-oath paper gave her leverage. She believed that paper bound my hands, that a few written words and a drop of blood would keep my armies locked behind my own borders while she plotted in my own home. She must have forgotten who I was.Oaths were tools for the weak, chains meant to keep fools in line. I had killed her father, taken her mother, and bent this kingdom to my will through force and blood. I was not about to let a frightened girl and a piece of stained paper dictate

SYLVIAA shriek tore from my mouth as I threw my body across the rug toward my mother.Stolas stepped back, pulling his blood-stained blade up. A cruel smile spread across his face, his satisfaction broad as he watched me scramble through the red pool expanding across the room."Mother! No, no, no!" I sobbed, dropping to my knees beside her.I turned her over, pulling her upper body into my lap. Blood gushed from the open tear, soaking through my clothes, hot against my skin. Her breath came in wet, broken hitches, her lips open as dark droplets spilled over her chin. Her eyes unmoving and foggy, searching for my face."Stay with me," I wept, pressing my palms flat over the deep tear in her skin. "Stay with me, Mother!"I closed my eyes, searching deep within myself to reach the power resting inside my blood. In the hours before this nightmare, my mother had begun telling me how my father worked his divine gifts, recalling the motions, the mental focus, and the spiritual intent she ha

SYLVIAA throbbing ache burned through my centre as consciousness returned to my mind.I opened my eyes, my vision blurring before the canopy of my bed came into focus. Pain radiated from my ribs down to my legs, the remnant of Stolas’s dark magic burning beneath my skin.I tried to pull my arms forward, but a loud metallic clank rang through the room.Thick metal cuffs locked my wrists to the headboard. I pulled against the bindings, but the metal held fast against the frame, leaving my arms stretched high above my head. I looked down toward my legs. My ankles were bound together with similar metal links, anchoring me to the base of the bed. The skin on my arms bled where the metal bit into my flesh.The door swung inward, and Willow walked into the bedroom. She carried a wooden tray holding a bowl of soup and a mug of water. Her face was blank. Her eyes were dull, hollow, and staring directly ahead at the floor. She moved with stiff, mechanical steps, showing no expression on her fe

SYLVIAThe door swung open.I pulled against the cuffs fastened to my headboard, the chain links rattling against the bed.Cyprian stepped into the bedroom, closing the entrance behind him without making a sound. He had cast off his wedding coat, his shirt sleeves rolled up to his elbows, his face pale and strained."What are you doing here?" I rasped, my voice sore from screaming at Willow. "Come to check on your bound bride?"Cyprian crossed the rug with fast, silent steps, stopping beside the edge of the bed.He reached down toward his belt, his fingers moving near his key ring."I am begging you to listen to me, Sylvia," Cyprian said, his voice dropping into a desperate whisper. "Let me help you escape. You cannot stay in this room."A bitter laugh burst from my lips, rough and painful. I recoiled from his hands, pulling my bound wrists back as far as the metal allowed, digging my feet into the sheets."Let you help me?" I snarled, baring my teeth at him as rage flared hot in my

SYLVIA"Show yourself!" I screamed into the white nothing around me, spinning in every direction, searching for anything to hit, anything to grab onto. "You dragged me here for nothing! Give me something real, or leave me alone!"Nobody answered."I said show yourself!" My voice cracked apart at the end, and I didn't care. I was done being calm about any of this. My mother was gone. My sister wasn't herself anymore. Vane was somewhere fighting a war I couldn't see, and I was locked to a bed frame waiting for a monster to claim me the moment his council meeting ended.I dropped to my knees in the white expanse, my hands curling into fists against nothing at all.A figure walked forward out of the light, and something about the way he moved made me freeze before I even saw his face clearly."Sylvia."I knew that voice. I'd know it anywhere, even after all these years, even through everything I'd lost since."Dad?"He stopped a few feet away, and my legs gave out completely. I scrambled