Todos os capítulos de Caught In Between Lust And Desires Book 2: Capítulo 131 - Capítulo 140

🖱️ River 🖱️The estate was quiet in a way the palace never was.No guards shouting shift changes across courtyards. No messengers sprinting past with urgent parchment. Just wind moving through old oaks, a kitchen that smelled permanently of bread, and Sammy's mother humming somewhere in the back of the house like nothing in the world had ever gone wrong.I stood on the porch at dawn with a cup of tea going cold in my hands, watching mist lift off the fields, and felt like a man standing exactly halfway across a very narrow bridge.Three days. We'd been gone three days.Behind me, through the open window, I could hear Aria's delighted shrieking as Sammy's father chased her around the sitting room on all fours, playing some ridiculous game that apparently involved being a very slow, very dramatic werewolf. It was the most joyful sound I'd heard in two years, and I hated that a small, guilty part of me kept flinching at it, waiting for the other shoe to drop."You've been out here an h

🖱️ Jayden 🖱️"Fall the eastern regiment back to the second ridge," I said, tracing the line on the map with two fingers. "If the border skirmishes continue past nightfall, I want fresh warriors rotated in before dawn. Nobody fights exhausted on my watch.""Yes, Your Majesty." The captain bowed and moved off to relay the order, and I straightened over the war table, rolling the stiffness out of my shoulders.Years of ruling had taught me how to give orders without flinching, how to read a battlefield the way I'd once read grief, how to be the kind of king who didn't need anyone standing behind him to hold the weight steady.For one unguarded second, my mind drifted the way it sometimes still did, quieter now than it used to be toward Jane's sharp laugh across this same table, toward River's easy, steadying presence at her shoulder.I dismissed the thought before it could settle.Not because it hurt anymore, not really. Three years of careful letters and quiet visits had mended most o

🖱️ Victor 🖱️I sat back against the pillows once Jayden and Sammy had finally, reluctantly agreed to let Corrin run her tests, and let myself do the thing I'd been too disoriented to attempt since the moment I first opened my eyes.I reached inward.Stan?Silence answered me. Not the strained, exhausted silence I remembered from the months leading up to the ritual, when he'd fought so hard to reach me that every attempt cost him visibly. This silence felt different. Emptier. A room with the furniture removed rather than a door simply closed.Stan, are you there?Nothing.I sat very still, waiting for the particular dry, familiar weight of his presence to settle back into place the way it always had, even at his weakest. It didn't come. I reached again, deeper this time, searching every corner of my own mind with a growing, hollow dread.He was gone.Not weakened. Not resting, the way he'd described himself before. Simply, completely absent, the space where he'd lived for weeks now f

🖱️Jayden🖱️The palace had finally gone quiet by the time I closed our bedroom door, the celebrations winding down, Jane and River gone home with a sleepy Aria draped over River’s shoulder, and Leo tucked into his own room down the hall after refusing to leave Victor’s side for most of the evening.Five years of waiting had ended in a single night, and the three of us were finally, impossibly alone.Sammy sat on the edge of the bed, still moving carefully, his body relearning muscles it hadn’t used in half a decade. Victor stood by the window, watching the quiet palace grounds below, something contemplative and raw still lingering behind his eyes.The way they recovered so fast after waking up was insane, but then again, they aren’t ordinary people. I’m just happy they’re fine.I crossed the room slowly, drinking in the simple, impossible fact of both of them being here, breathing, present in a way I’d stopped letting myself fully believe I’d ever witness again.“You’re staring,” Sam

🖱️ Jayden 🖱️"You're pregnant, Your Highness," the healer said, looking at me with a small, knowing smile, and happiness nearly burst me into something else entirely.I sat there on the edge of the exam table for a long moment, letting the words settle properly, my hand drifting slowly to my own stomach like I needed to confirm it with touch before my brain would fully accept it.It had been one month since my entire life changed for the better. One month since Sammy and Victor opened their eyes after five impossible years. One month of relearning how to simply exist beside them instead of grieving them, and our sex life, if I was being completely honest, had been nothing short of absolute perfection.So the news didn't exactly surprise me.But gods, I was happy.I thanked the healer, still slightly dazed, and made my way back toward our rooms with my heart hammering somewhere near my throat, joy bubbling up so fast I could barely contain it long enough to walk in a straight line.T