All Chapters of The five who were never meant to love me : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Chapter Two: What the Moon Woke Up Aurora woke to the sound of hushed voices arguing somewhere nearby. Her body ached in places she didn't know could ache, and her throat felt raw, as if she'd been screaming for hours instead of minutes. She kept her eyes closed for a moment, listening. "—cannot happen. The council will hear about this within a day, you understand that? A day." That was Luca's voice, tight and clipped. "Then we deal with the council," Kieran said, quieter but with an edge that made the room feel colder. "Deal with them how?" Damon's voice, low and controlled, the way it always was right before he made a decision nobody could argue with. "There is no precedent. None. A wolf bonding with five Alphas isn't just rare, it's against the law we've upheld for three hundred years." "So what, we pretend it didn't happen?" Ryder snapped. "I felt it. You felt it. All of us felt it at the same time, Damon. You can't reject something like that." Silence followed his

Chapter Four: Living Under One Roof The council's departure didn't ease the tension in the estate. If anything, it multiplied it, spreading through every hallway like smoke that refused to clear. Damon avoided her for the rest of the day. When Aurora finally cornered him near the training grounds that evening, arms crossed and refusing to move until he gave her answers, he simply said the matter was closed and walked away before she could argue further. "He's hiding something," she told Noah later that night, pacing the length of the study while her brother sat with his head in his hands. "You heard her. Sealed records. About our parents. And he knows something about it." "I'll talk to him," Noah said, though his voice lacked conviction. "But Aurora, right now we have a bigger problem. The council's given you thirty days, and until this is resolved, you're a target. For rival packs, for anyone who wants to exploit the situation, for anyone curious about what makes your blood

Chapter Six: What Was Inside the Box Luca didn't touch the box again. He stood there staring at it, gloves still on, like it might do something none of them could take back if he moved wrong. "We need to get this inside," Damon said finally. "Away from the gate, away from open ground." Nobody argued. Kieran scooped the box up carefully, cradling it the way a person carries something they don't trust, and the group moved back toward the house in a tight cluster around Aurora, eyes scanning the tree line the whole way. They gathered in the study, the same room where Damon had kept the photograph hidden days earlier. Luca set the box on the desk and stepped back, arms crossed, waiting. "Well?" Ryder said. "Somebody open it." "That's exactly what I don't want to do without knowing what's inside first," Luca said. "We already know something's inside," Kieran said. "We heard it move." "Which is exactly why I don't want to open it," Luca snapped back. Aurora stepped forwa

Chapter Eight: The Name Behind the Attack The unconscious intruder woke up strapped to a chair in the estate's basement an hour later, and refused to say a single word for the first twenty minutes of questioning. Aurora stood behind the two-way glass with Noah, watching Kieran and Damon work the room with a patience that felt anything but reassuring. "He's not talking," Noah said, arms crossed tightly over his chest. "He will," Aurora said. "You sound very sure of that." "I've watched Kieran train for eleven years. I know what patience looks like right before it runs out." As if summoned by her words, Kieran leaned down close to the man's ear and said something too quiet for the glass to carry. Whatever it was worked. The man's expression cracked, fear breaking through whatever bravado had held him together until now. "He's a mercenary," Damon reported when he finally stepped out of the room twenty minutes later, wiping blood from his knuckles that wasn't his own. "H

Chapter Ten: What Slept Below The tremor lasted only seconds, but it left the entire house in stunned silence. "What was that?" Ryder asked, gripping the edge of the counter as the last of the dust settled. "I don't know," Luca said, already typing frantically. "There's no fault line under this territory. No mining activity nearby. Nothing that should cause ground movement like that." "I know what it was," Elias said quietly, and every eye in the room turned to him. "Or at least, I have a very strong guess." "The army," Aurora said. "The one you just told me might be waking up." "It fits the timing," Elias said grimly. Damon reappeared in the doorway, having felt the tremor from the war room, expression tense. "We don't have time to investigate mysteries right now. Ironwood is a day out. Whatever that was, it needs to wait." "It might not wait," Elias said. "If the vessel really did activate something ancient, ignoring it won't make it go away. It'll just mean we're