All Chapters of THE VEILED BRIDE : Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

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THE OFFER

PAIGEThe Kiraman estate had never felt this small.Or perhaps I had simply never noticed before how empty it could become when the right people stopped paying attention. I stood at the top of the staircase and looked down at the movement below. Servants crossing the entrance hall. My father's study door closed in the middle of the afternoon. Nobody talking about Fabian anymore. That was the part that made something hot and ugly move through my chest. A few weeks ago he had been the heir of the Southern Gates. My fiancé. The man every conversation eventually circled back to. Now it was as though he had been edited out of the record entirely.I tightened my fingers around the railing.Even his family had started moving on. One of the older servants walked past me without looking up from the tray she was carrying. I almost laughed. How quickly people forgot. How quickly they moved from grieving to inconvenienced to absent.Giovanni stumbled out of the library down the corridor. He was d

THE BLOOD THAT REMAINS

Catherine (Sorceress)Paige was gone.I watched the door close behind her and smiled. She had no idea what she had just agreed to. None of them ever did. People saw power and forgot to ask what it cost. They saw a door and never thought to wonder who had built it or why it had been left open at exactly the right moment. I turned toward the altar and looked at the dark mark on my wrist. The same mark my brothers carried. The same mark now moving beneath Paige's skin whether she could feel it yet or not. She would think it was a gift. It wasn't. It was a leash, and eventually she would feel the tension of it, but by then it would not matter."Do you really think she'll do it?" one of the men asked.I glanced over my shoulder. "She will, she claims she’s strong— the baddest but in truth Paige is not just weak in heart but in strength, she nothing compared to the twins epesically now that Kiva knows she is pure blood. Paige has accpeted not just because she wants power but because she is

A DIFFERENT KIND OF POWER

PAIGEThe first thing I noticed when I stepped into the room was that Bryan was alive. The second was that he looked terrible. Good. He deserved worse. He sat at the center of the abandoned warehouse with his arm wrapped in a bloodstained cloth, surrounded by the remnants of his men. Most of them looked exhausted. One had a swollen eye. Another was favouring his left leg. Apparently Tamara had left an impression. None of them noticed me at first. That was almost insulting consideirng how much power those creepy witches had given me, they were supposed to feel that I, Paige had step into the room they should shiver and bow in fear, but no they did quite the opposite by not even noticing. What else could I expect from rascals like them?Bryan was speaking. "We lay low."One of the men frowned. "For how long?""Until we know where the twins are.""The twins?"Bryan's expression darkened. "Don't say their names like they're some ordinary fucking women. That bicth nearly killed us "I step

IT IS A TRAP!

KIVAI read the letter again. Then again. The words hadn't changed. Ada was dead.My fingers tightened around the paper until it crumpled slightly at the edges. "No."Tamara stood across from me, silent. For once she wasn't making a joke or pretending nothing could reach her. She stared at the letter in my hand."She can't be." My voice cracked.Tamara swallowed. "That's what we're going to find out.""What?""We're going to the old-age home." She said it quietly, and there was something in her voice that was colder than I had heard from her before. "I don't believe it either."I looked down at the letter again. The messenger had said Ada had requested it be delivered after her death. But nothing about that made sense. Ada had been alive. She had sat with me and held my hands and told me things about my mother, about Tamara, about eighteen years of protecting us. She had looked me in the eyes and given me everything she had been carrying. And now suddenly she was gone.How. Why. And w

SO PREDICTABLE

KIVAFor a moment, nobody moved.The courtyard had gone unnaturally quiet, the kind of silence that didn't feel peaceful. It felt like something holding its breath. I kept my eyes on Paige. There was something different about her that I couldn't name immediately. The Paige I remembered had always been desperate, for Damien, for approval, for a version of herself that other people would look at and want. This woman wasn't desperate. She looked certain. That frightened me more than her anger ever had and there was just this new aura radiating round her it was overwhelming and maginficent as well. Not just one thing but a lot of things has changed about paige and they were not good things"Where is Ada?" I asked.Paige's smile barely shifted. "You came here for her?""Answer me.""You're still asking questions."Tamara stepped forward. "I won't ask twice."Bryan immediately moved behind Paige. I noticed. So did Tamara. He was still afraid of her. At least something about this still made

"MY SWEET NIECES"

TAMARASomething inside me broke. The world disappeared. There was no courtyard, no old-age home, no Paige, no Bryan. There was only Kiva, and Paige's hands were on her. I lifted my hand. Paige was ripped away from Kiva so violently that her body flew across the room and crashed through a wooden table. "Tamara!" Kiva's voice reached me. I barely heard it. My eyes were locked on Paige. She tried to stand. Blood ran down the side of her face. "What the—" I looked at her. That was all. I didn't move. Didn't speak. The floor beneath Paige exploded. Three crimson spears shot upward. She screamed and threw herself sideways. One tore through her sleeve. Another slammed into the wall beside her head. The third struck the floor inches from her hand. Bryan had gone pale. He stared at me with the expression of a man who had finally understood something he had been too confident to consider before.I wasn't angry anymore. I was something worse. Empty."Tamara." Kiva's voice trembled. I turned tow

DON'T SUPPRESS HIM

DAMIENSomething was wrong. I knew it before Vesper said a word. I stood in the middle of the hall, staring at the empty space where Kiva should have been. "Where is she?"Vesper hesitated. "She left with Tamara." My head snapped toward her. "When?""Earlier." My voice dropped. The entire hall went silent. Knox wasn't here. Tamara wasn't here. Kiva wasn't here. Everyone had collectively decided that my wife disappearing was acceptable."Where did they go?"Vesper swallowed. "I don't know." Something dark moved beneath my skin. Kage stirred, not a voice, just pressure. A warning. I closed my eyes. No. Not now. I forced the darkness down. Kiva. That was all that mattered. "Who knows where they went?" Vesper looked toward Knox's usual position, remembered he wasn't there, then said: "Knox knows the way to Ada's old-age home."I was already moving. "Get him." "He isn't here." "Then find him." I headed toward the entrance. My mind worked through every possibility. Kiva wouldn't disappear w

WHY AM I ALWAYS LOSING?

PAIGEPain. That was all I could feel. Pain in my ribs. My shoulder. My head. Everywhere. I tried to move my arm. Nothing. I tried to summon my healing. Nothing. My body had always obeyed me before, even injured, even exhausted, even pushed past reasonable limits. Not anymore.Tamara had done this. I stared at the ceiling, breathing through clenched teeth. I had walked into that room with power. With a plan. With people behind me. I had Kiva in my hands. I had been so close.And now I was lying on the floor like garbage. I laughed bitterly. What a joke."You look terrible." I turned my head. Bryan. Sitting against the wall several feet away, one hand pressed to his ribs. He looked almost amused. I glared at him. "Fuck you."He chuckled. "Still got some fight left.""Help me."His eyebrows rose. "Help you?" "Yes." He stared for a few seconds before laughing again. "You really thought those people were going to save you?""I didn't—""You did." He shook his head. "You're pathetic."My nai

THE DARKNESS WE CARRY

KIVAA dull, pounding ache behind my eyes, and beneath it the specific heaviness of a body that had been emptied of something essential. I tried to move. Nothing. My wrists were tied above my head, my ankles bound. I pulled against the restraints and they didn't shift at all. Then something tightened against my throat and I froze. A collar. Not metal. Something darker, a strange material that pulsed faintly against my skin like it was alive. I reached for my power instinctively. Nothing happened. Not even a spark. My heart dropped."Tamara." My voice came out hoarse. I turned my head. She was lying beside me, wrists restrained the same way, head tilted to the side, breathing shallow. "Tamara." Her eyes opened, she winced in pain. She blinked several times, trying to figure out where she was. Then she groaned. "Oh, fuck.""You're awake.""Unfortunately." She tried moving. The moment she pulled against the restraints her face twisted. "Whoever made these things is a fucking genius. Not

THE SEARCH

DAMIENEvery time I closed my eyes, I saw Kiva. Her face. Her voice. The last moment I had seen her, standing in the corridor with Tamara beside her, both of them moving toward something I had not thought to stop. And then she was gone. Taken. Two words that sat in my chest like something burning, and no amount of control I had spent years building made them feel smaller.I stood near the entrance of the estate, staring into the darkness beyond the gates. My right hand stood beside me, close enough that I could hear his breathing, waiting for me to say something he could act on."You should stay here," he said.I looked at him. "No.""Damien—""I'm going."He sighed. " let me come with you."I didn't answer. I was already walking toward the car. He followed without asking again. Neither of us spoke during the drive. There was nothing useful to say and we both understood that. The silence was not uncomfortable. It was the silence of two people who had already said everything that matte

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