All Chapters of THE CONTRACT WIFE OF THE DEMON WOLF: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

LENAI kept staring at the sentence until the words stopped looking real. Aaron remained beside me, one hand resting on the desk while I read the record again, and neither of us spoke for several seconds.“What does ‘command’ mean?” I asked, and my voice sounded strange in the quiet room. Aaron took the page from me carefully and said, “We need somewhere with older records.”We searched the address attached to the Blackwood name and found an old estate listed outside the city. Aaron contacted the archive and requested the Blackwood registry while I searched through everything we had already collected.“She knew,” I said quietly, and Aaron looked over at me. “I don't know how much she knew, but she was scared of people finding out something about me.”The archive sent us copies of several old documents before noon, and the oldest one dated back farther than I expected. The Blackwood name appeared in records from a time when several families now considered ancient were not even mention

AARONThe sentence from the Blackwood record stayed in my head long after Lena stopped speaking. I read it again, then looked through the pages beneath it, searching for anything that could explain what the word ‘command’ meant.There was nothing useful in the remaining pages, so I opened the oldest Krane records we had brought out. I had spent years searching those files for an explanation of the demon, but I had always searched for a curse, a weapon, or a person who had done this to me.Now I was looking for Lena. That realization made the old records feel different in my hands.One damaged registry changed everything. It contained a reference to a Blackwood descendant whose identity had been protected by my grandfather decades earlier, along with instructions that her location must never be recorded in council documents.I stared at the name Blackwood until the letters blurred. My family had known someone was searching for her long before I was born.“My family knew,” I said, and

Zain Finds OutZAINI found out Lena was pregnant because one of my father's people mentioned it during a meeting I had not expected to matter. He said it casually, as if he were discussing another business development, but the moment I heard Lena's name beside the word pregnancy, I stopped listening to everything else.“How far along?” I asked, and the man looked at me with mild surprise before giving me the estimate he had heard. I did the calculation in my head immediately, and the answer seemed obvious enough that I did not question it.The timing matched the last period when Lena and I had still been connected. We had been separated for months by then, but I knew the dates well enough to believe the child had to be mine.I sat alone in my office after the meeting and stared at the city through the glass. Lena was carrying my child, and somehow that single fact made every memory I had tried to bury come rushing back.I remembered her in college, sitting across from me with boo

Gary MovesALPHA GARYThe call came before sunrise, when most of the house was still quiet and my security team had not yet started the morning shift. I answered without checking the number because only a handful of people had access to this line, and the man on the other end knew better than to call me unless he had something important.“Zain has confirmed it,” the man said. “Lena Blackwood is pregnant.”I leaned back in my chair and looked toward the dark windows. “And the child?”“He believes it is his.”I gave a small nod, though he could not see me. Zain being the father was useful information, but it was not the part of the report that interested me most.“Is there anything else?”There was a pause before the man answered. “There is a bigger problem, Alpha.”I waited.“The Blackwood bloodline has awakened.”My fingers stopped against the arm of the chair. For several seconds, I said nothing because those words carried more weight than any pregnancy ever could.“Are you certai

YERAI had never seen my father lower his voice when speaking about business unless he was discussing something he did not want the rest of the house to hear. That was why I stopped outside his study that afternoon when I heard Lena's name, and the words that followed made me stay.“The pregnancy changes the situation,” my father said, his voice low enough that I almost missed him. “Zain still believes this is about his heir.”A second voice answered through the speakerphone, and I recognized Zain's father immediately. “Let him believe that, but the child is not the reason we need Lena.”I moved closer to the door, careful not to let my shoes make a sound. My heart had started beating faster, although I still had no idea what I was about to hear.“She is the last Blackwood descendant,” Zain's father continued. “If her wolf awakens completely, we lose control of something that has been contained for generations.”My stomach turned at the words. I had heard my father speak about Lena a