Todos os capítulos de Ruthless Obsession: Capítulo 91 - Capítulo 100

Lyra Ashbourne POVI had muted my glowing glass screen after assuring Kaia I was still alive and just needed a day in the Ashbourne Pack Lodge to rest. I prayed she would pass that message along to her father, who had tried to scry my location a hundred times by Sunday night. I could not bring myself to speak to him. I had seen the dark panic in his vampire eyes and heard the cold harshness in his baritone, and both had cut me to the quick. Walking away from me in the middle of the Eternal Covenant Hall when I was so terrified and vulnerable was ten times worse than when he tried to end our secret affair weeks ago.Well, the High Lord of House Draven did not have to worry about me anymore. I would raise my wolf-vampire hybrid alone in the shadows and never ask him for a single copper of pack resources. I rolled over on my thin mattress and slammed my palm onto the glowing spell-clock to silence its chiming. I had hit the snooze rune twice already, but it was time to drag myself up and

Lucien Draven POVLyra was absolute perfection, and I could not wait to have her skin flush and swollen with my child beneath me, the vision burning clear behind my eyes as I filled her tight Epsilon body to the brim. That dark, possessive urge was what had landed me in this catastrophe in the first place, but it felt agonizingly good sinking deep inside her wet heat, dousing her womb with my potent vampire seed. I could not help myself. It was not as if she could get any more pregnant, and while a faint pang of guilt hit my chest for being reckless with my best friend’s daughter, I knew in my gut I would do it all over again, even if my standing on the Vampire High Council burned to ash.Lyra let out a soft wolf yawn, collapsing against my bare chest in the middle of her bed. "Are you feeling drain-weak, High Lord?""Just weary," I growled low, my dark hand trailing down her skinny waist as she ground her slight hips against mine, smiling up with that hungry wolf look that proved she

Lyra Ashbourne POVI didn’t know what had happened to my body when I woke in the soft bed and felt Lucien leaning over me. I had caught the faint crinkle of thick parchment, guessing he was leafing through the sketches I kept by my nightstand. It had been my nightly ritual in the Ashbourne Pack Lodge to sketch thermal blood-spas and high-born retreats, even if my Epsilon rank meant I was never meant to see them built.The moment Lucien’s broad weight shifted beside me, my head spun like I was falling off a cliff.I was so nauseous, dry-heaving hard into my elbow, but nothing came out. I had expelled every drop of bile hours ago. My mouth was dry as ash, my throat burning like I had swallowed hot silver sand.I remembered the exact second Kaia had walked into the lodge room and how their dark vampire voices had clashed, but it was all hazy now. By the time they started throwing around words about a baby, my wolf mind couldn't even process it.When Lucien had carried me out to the carria

Lucien Draven POVThe day had been one of the absolute hardest I had faced in decades. Seeing Lyra collapse onto the cold floor was a brutal wake-up call, shoving the truth straight into my chest—I cared for this little wolf far more than I had ever dared to admit. I was more determined than ever to protect her and our unborn hybrid child, and now that Kaia was blabbering about covenants and living spaces, I knew Lyra and I had to get on the same page before the Crimson Vampire Council tore us apart.I had already sworn I would provide for her and the pup, and now that we were finally alone in the Healers Guild ward, I needed to spell out how it was going to happen. We had an entire future to build, starting with the immediate truth.I leaned over the narrow bed, pressing my lips to her warm cheek while brushing a loose strand of pale hair behind her ear. "I think we have a lot of things to settle, little wolf."Lyra offered a weary smile, her small fingers wrapping around my large ha

Lyra Ashbourne POVLucien was going to be an intense, fiercely protective father. I wondered if he had been this possessive with Kaia when she was born, or if he had hovered over her mother's bloodline the same way while she carried his child.Released from the Black Hollow Healers Guild only yesterday, Lucien had insisted I stay in his velvet-draped bed to recover, but my wolf could only tolerate being caged for so long. Since he refused to let me return to the Moonclaw Artisan Hall, I had nothing to do but regain my strength and obsess over the nursery. I snatched my parchment tablet from my satchel and padded down the long stone corridor toward the back guest wings of Draven Blood Manor.His grand master suite and private sanctuary took up over half the front floor, while the guest chambers were squeezed into the far end of the hallway, cold and barely used. I opened the heavy oak door directly across from them, revealing the private training hall where Lucien spent his mornings.I