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Uncontained

Chapter Twenty-OneUncontainedUNCONTAINEDVERA POV - Operations OfficeThe board meeting for the logistics corridor has just ended. Numbers are solid. Timelines are aggressive. Everyone is pleased with the projections.Except the man sitting across from me.Kael has been silent for the last twenty minutes, golden-brown eyes fixed on me with an intensity that makes the air feel heavier and thicker. His wolf is close to the surface. I can feel the pressure of it against my skin even from six feet away. It is not threatening. It is claiming. It is a warning wrapped in want.I ignore him completely and gather my files into a neat stack, organized by region and timeline. Professional. Untouched. Cold.A polite voice cuts through the residual tension in the room."Ms. Ashford."I look up. Daniel Reeves, one of the senior analysts from the partner firm, stands a respectful distance away holding two cups of coffee. He is tall, well-dressed, and has been nothing but professional throughout th

최신 업데이트 : 2026-10-07

TORN

Chapter Twenty-TwoTornTORNFREYA POV - 11:03 p.m.A single lamp burns on my desk. The rest of the room is black.I speak into the encrypted phone with perfect calm. No emotion. No hesitation."Six men. Underground garage of Ashford Trading. She usually leaves between 11:40 and midnight. Make it look like a robbery. No survivors if possible. I want her gone before the Alpha feels anything."The voice on the other end confirms. Understands. Will comply.I end the call and lean back in my chair. My hand is completely steady as I reach out and touch the photograph of Vera Ashford pinned to the wall.For the first time in weeks, I smile with real satisfaction.Planning is finished.Blood is next.***VERA POV - Ashford Trading, 11:51 p.m.The joint-project floor is quiet. Most of the lights have been switched to night mode. I lock the final contracts in the safe and pull on my coat.Daniel, one of the senior partners on the logistics corridor deal, is still at the far glass table reviewi

최신 업데이트 : 2026-10-08

silver

Chapter Twenty-ThreeSilverFREYA POV - Ashworth Penthouse, 1:18 a.m.The message arrives while Kael's mother sleeps down the hall."Target alive. Shoulder wound. St. Aurelia Hospital. Police at the door."I read it twice. Then I delete it.Alive.Six men, a gun, and a garage with no cameras on the east side. She still lived.I put the phone face down on the kitchen counter and press both hands flat against the marble until my fingers stop shaking. When I walk into the study, my face is already arranged.Kael is at the window. His phone is against his ear. His jaw is locked. I can hear the ringing from across the room, and then the click of voicemail.He lowers the phone, stares at it, and dials again."That is eleven times," I say softly.He does not answer. He does not even turn around."Kael, the doctor said she needs you here. Your mother—"A crash comes from the bedroom.It is the sound of glass breaking, then the night nurse shouting.Kael is gone before I finish the sentence.K

최신 업데이트 : 2026-10-10

CLAIM

Chapter Twenty-FourClaimCLAIMVERA POV - Hospital Side Room, Same AfternoonDaniel is stable.The bullet missed major arteries by half an inch. He will recover. In six weeks he will be back at work. In three months he will forget this ever happened.I am still in the same blood-stained clothes when Kael finds me again in the small family waiting room I had retreated to. He closes the door behind him with deliberate control. The sound of it is soft but absolute.The bruise on my cheek has darkened since this morning. Purple bleeding into black. His eyes go straight to it, then to the dried blood on my sleeve that is not mine.For a long moment neither of us speaks.The silence is so heavy I can feel it pressing down on my chest. I can hear his breathing. Fast. Controlled but fast.Then his voice comes low, rough, barely contained."You almost died last night. A man stood in front of you with a gun and fired. And the first thing I see this morning is you holding another man's hand lik

최신 업데이트 : 2026-10-11

BREAKING

Chapter Twenty-FiveBreakingBREAKINGFREYA POV - Ashworth Penthouse, Private Wing, 11:47 p.m.The city lights beyond the window look cold.Countless buildings. Countless windows. Countless people below who do not know that their Luna is crumbling. That the woman who was supposed to bring stability and power to the Ashworth household is nothing but a playing piece that no one wants anymore.I sit on the edge of the bed in a silk robe. The fabric is cream colored. Expensive. The kind of thing that a woman wears when she is trying to look beautiful for a man who will not look at her.The phone is still warm in my hand from the last encrypted call. My fingers are trembling slightly but I force them to stop. Still. Controlled. Like a woman who is still in command of her own body.But I am not in command anymore.I know it.He knows it.The entire pack knows it.The doctor's report from earlier in the day confirmed what I already knew in my bones.The "heart episode" Kael's mother suffered

최신 업데이트 : 2026-10-12

MINE

MINE***VERA POV***The car door opens at eight seventeen in the morning and I freeze.The entrance to Ashford Trading is no longer mine. A wall of black-suited men stands in disciplined formation in front of the building. At least thirty of them. Maybe more. Earpieces in. Eyes scanning every angle with the efficiency of trained soldiers. Dark suits that move like one organism. One unit. One will.Ashworth security.Kael's men.They part just enough to let my car through but the message is unmistakable. Crystal clear. Nothing enters this building without authorization. Nothing leaves without being noted. Nothing moves without eyes on it. The control is absolute.My jaw clenches so hard I can feel my teeth ache.This is not protection.This is a cage.Mara rushes down the steps with her tablet clutched to her chest like it is armor. She is already apologizing before she reaches me. Her entire body language screams that she tried to stop this. That she pushed back and failed."Boss—" sh

최신 업데이트 : 2026-10-13

FRACTURED

FRACTUREDVERA POVThe day has been a war of numbers and security details and Kael's claim in my office. By the time I unlock my penthouse door at eight forty-five, my shoulders ache from holding myself rigid for twelve hours.I go straight to Mila's room.She is asleep on her side with one arm around the white bunny. Her dark hair is spilled across the pillow. In the soft night-light she looks so much like him it steals my breath. The same brow. The same mouth. The same quiet intensity even in sleep.I sit on the edge of the bed and brush a strand of hair from her forehead. Then I lean down and press a long kiss there.I thought I had outrun this life.I built walls. A company that was entirely mine. A new name. A new face. Everything that was supposed to keep me safe from the man who chose his mother over our bond.Yet the universe simply waited. Then sent my past walking back with gold in his eyes and the word "mine" on his tongue.My heart skips traitorously at the memory of how p

최신 업데이트 : 2026-10-14

still writing

WRITINGVERA POVThe joint project has entered its third week. Numbers are clean. Progress is steady. I have kept every interaction with Kael strictly professional. Every glance brief. Every word measured.Today he is already at the long glass table when I arrive. His sleeves are rolled to the elbows. He reviews the northern checkpoint schedules with the kind of fSTILLocus that made me fall for him five years ago. His brow is furrowed. His fingers move across the screen with precision.A small black box sits on the corner of my desk.No card. No note. Just the box.I ignore it for twenty-three minutes.I ignore it while I review the morning reports. But my eyes keep drifting back to the black velvet box sitting on my desk corner like a promise.When curiosity finally wins, I open it.Inside, resting on dark velvet, is a single fountain pen.Matte black. Heavy. The exact weight and balance of the one I lost years ago during the move from this life to that one. I run my fingers over th

최신 업데이트 : 2026-10-15

RAIN

RAINVERA POVVERA POVThe last of the staff left an hour ago. Mara had looked apologetic when she announced her mother was sick and she needed to go. I waved her off without looking up. The remaining work was mine alone.Or so I thought.Kael is still here. He sits at the far end of the long glass table, laptop open, pretending to review the same northern corridor files he finished before dinner. Every few minutes I feel his eyes on me. The mate bond hums low and constant like a second pulse under my skin.I refuse to acknowledge it.I am deep in a revised budget column when a ceramic mug appears at my elbow. Black coffee, exactly the way I take it. No sugar. No cream. Just the bitter dark heat of it. The ceramic is warm against my fingers.I look up and shoot him a flat glare."I don't need it."Kael's mouth curves. Soft. Knowing. Like he understands exactly what I am thinking. Like he always has."You do if you want to keep walking in a straight line."There is no point arguing. My

최신 업데이트 : 2026-10-16

CAUGHT

VERA POVVERA POVHis mouth is a single heartbeat away from mine.The mate bond is a living thing between us, pulling so hard it feels like it might crack my ribs. Rain slides down his face and onto my lips. His hand is still buried in my wet hair. Every instinct I have is screaming to close the distance, to take the warmth he is offering, to let the old Wren surface for just one reckless moment.I shove him away with both hands.The rejection is sharp. Violent. Kael rocks back on his heels, eyes dark, rain dripping from his jaw. I scramble to my feet, snatch my phone and the umbrella from the soaked grass, and force the cold mask back into place so completely it feels like armor locking shut.My breath comes in gasps I cannot control.My heart is still racing like I have run a mile.Every cell of my body is screaming at me to go back. To take his hand. To let him pull me back down into the rain and finish what we started. The bond is a live wire under my skin, burning, demanding, ref

최신 업데이트 : 2026-10-17

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