Betrothal Sentence

« Sors-moi cette ordure. Et que le feu nettoie son passage. » La sentence est tombée de ses lèvres, ces mêmes lèvres qui, quelques heures plus tôt, me juraient un amour éternel. Mon âme sœur. Mon destin. Mon bourreau. En une nuit, il a tout pris : mon innocence, mon titre d'héritière de la meute, ma dignité. Après m'avoir poignardée, il a voulu me réduire en cendres. Fin de l'histoire ? Non. C'est là que la vraie tragédie commence. Ma chute m'a jetée directement dans la gueule du loup. Littéralement. Je suis devenue la propriété du Roi Lycan. On le dit fou. On chuchote qu'il a perdu la raison il y a des lunes. On le craint plus que la peste, plus que la mort elle-même. Il incarne le froid, l'impitoyable, la force brute. Son regard seul promet la souffrance. Et ce monstre prétend que je lui appartiens. Sa bête, cette chose sombre qui habite en lui, m'a choisie. Elle me désire avec une obsession qui glace le sang. Il est décidé à me plier à sa volonté, même si cela doit signifier me briser os par os, briser ce qui reste de mon âme. Maintenant, esclave dans son palais de ténèbres, je dois trouver la force de lui résister. Je suis prise au piège de son jeu pervers, dominée par ses griffes sombres. Mais chaque fois qu'il me regarde, je vois autre chose que de la cruauté dans ses yeux. Je vois une reconnaissance. Une connexion. Et c'est cela, le plus terrifiant : comment lutter contre un homme qui, au plus profond de sa folie, voit en moi bien plus qu'une captive ? Comment nier ce lien primal qui, malgré la haine et la peur, commence doucement, inexorablement, à nous unir ?

Three years ago, during a critical moment of a business negotiation, the proprietary data I personally compiled ended up becoming the weapon that secured the victory for my business rival. I was taken away on the charges of leaking corporate secrets—and my girlfriend, Kelly Stone, smugly flashes the proprietary data at me, mocking me for my foolishness. After being given a five-year prison sentence, I suffered endless torture behind bars and died from the internal injuries. However, I got to witness everything that happened following my death. Whitney Evans, a college senior of mine who had a thing for me, did everything in her power to clear my name. She sold her company and pursued every avenue she could. In the end, after losing everything, she cried herself unconscious at my grave. Then, suddenly, my eyes opened again. I saw Kelly sneaking a USB drive into her handbag before turning to leave. I grabbed the USB drive from her and looked her in the eye, warning, "What you're doing is against the law, Kelly. I advise you to watch yourself from now on. Also, it's over between us. Don't even set foot inside my office again." Immediately, I went looking for Whitney. Three years have passed since then. In that time, I've managed to secure success in both career and love. It won't be long before I complete the acquisition of my company's business rival, Havenshire Group. Yet, the night before the official signing, I drink a glass of milk that Whitney gives me. My body swiftly goes weak, and I collapse on the couch. When I regain consciousness, I find myself lying on the floor with my hands and feet bound in metal chains. I can hear Kelly's and Whitney's voices ringing loud and clear. "No one will be able to see that you forged Caleb's signature for the share transfer agreement with Sam as the recipient, right?" "We'll just keep Caleb locked up here, so who's going to know that the signature is forged? His company has been expanding too quickly. We can't let him ruin Sam. It's all your fault, anyway, Kelly. I wouldn't have had to waste all those years on Caleb if you'd just stolen the data back then!" Taking in my restraints, I let out a self-deprecating smile. All along, I believed that Whitney and I loved each other. Turns out I've just been deluded this whole time. If Kelly and Whitney care about Samuel Gibson that much, they'd better spend every moment of their lives guarding him from now on. I'm going to do everything in my power to destroy him!