Chapter: Chapter 161: Coming HomeISABELLA’S POVThe taxi pulled up in front of my parents’ house just as the sun dipped behind the mountains. I paid the driver and stood on the sidewalk with my three suitcases. The air smelled like pine and fresh bread. It felt familiar in a way that made my chest tight. I had not told them I was coming. I did not want questions on the phone. I just needed to be here.I dragged the suitcases up the walkway and before I could knock the front door opened. My mother stood there in her apron, eyes wide with surprise.“Isabella? Oh my goodness, honey!”She pulled me into a hug right away. Her arms felt warm and strong. I held on longer than I meant to. “Isabella?”“Papa” My father came out behind her and wrapped both of us up. For a moment it felt good and safe. Then the questions started.“What a surprise,” my mother said as she helped me carry one suitcase inside. “We did not know you were coming. Is Dominic with you?”I forced a small smile. “No. He's uhhh.. he's busy with work. I jus
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Chapter: Chapter 160: The WeightISABELLA’S POV I sat on the cold kitchen floor with my back against the cabinet. The bottle of red wine stood half empty beside me. I had gotten so bad with drinking that I did not bother with a glass anymore. I just brought the bottle to my lips and took another long drink. The taste barely registered as I think I have gotten used to the taste. The floor tiles pressed hard into my legs but I did not move. Moving felt like too much effort. Nine months had passed since that night with Dominic. Nine months since I watched the door close behind me and cried in the elevator like my heart was being ripped out. I thought the pain would ease with time. I thought one day I would wake up and feel like myself again. But the pain did not ease. It changed into something worse. It became this heavy numbness that sat on my chest and made every breath feel like work. I tried therapy for a while. I went to sessions twice a week and talked about my feelings. The therapist was kind and patient. Sh
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Chapter: Chapter 159 :Confess to her VIVIAN’S POVSix weeks had passed since Dominic transferred out of my care. I kept telling myself I was fine. I filled his old Thursday slot with a new patient who was struggling with anxiety after losing his job. My schedule stayed full, my notes were clear and on time, work felt steady. I had thought about him only a manageable number of times. I had not opened his file once since I sent the referral. I was fine. Or at least I tried to be.I had just finished with my last patient for Tuesday and I gathered my things to go home. The office had gone quiet and everyone else had left for the day. I turned off my computer, checked that the lights in the hall were off, and walked through the waiting room toward the exit.Then I stopped dead.Dominic was sitting in the chair by the window. He stood up the moment he saw me. There was something different in the way he held himself. No careful composure trying to manage the space around him. Just a man getting to his feet because the person h
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Chapter: Chapter 158: Still in denial. DOMINIC’S POVThree days had passed since that last session with James and his words would not leave me alone. I kept hearing him say that fear of my own feelings was not the same as healthy self awareness. I had spent the last three days walking around my penthouse and asking myself the same questions again and again. Was I really different now? Or was I just delaying the same mistakes with a different face?The doorbell rang and pulled me out of my thoughts. I opened the door and found Mia standing there with two bags of groceries in her hands.“Hi Mia… what… what are you doing here?” I asked.“I have come to cook for my brother,” she said, stepping inside without waiting for an invitation.“Mia, I am fine. I can cook for myself.”“I know you can but I want to. Let me take care of you would ya?”She walked straight to the kitchen and started unpacking. I followed her and helped put things away. We moved around each other the way we used to when we were younger. For a while we worke
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Chapter: Chapter 157: The RealizationDOMINIC’S POV I arrived early for the fifth session with James but stayed in my car until the exact time. I had spent the entire week turning over what I said in his office last time. The words had come out before I could stop them. *She makes the room feel different when she is in it.* I had not planned to say that. I had not even planned to admit it to myself in that way. All week I kept hearing James’s response in my head. I had wanted to argue with him. I had wanted to insist that it was just another version of the same problem. But I could not make the argument hold even if I tried. I walked into his office and sat down. James gave me his usual nod and waited. He never rushed the beginning of a session. He let the silence sit until I was ready to fill it. “I have been thinking about…what I said last week,” I told him. James nodded again. “Tell me about that.” I looked at the plant by the window. The leaves were now slightly uneven on one side. “I said she makes th
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Chapter: Chapter 156: New RoomDOMINIC’S POVDr. James Sterling’s office felt different from the one I had left behind. The walls had warmer colors. More books lined the shelves, a large plant sat in the corner, its leaves reaching toward the window like it had been there for years. James himself was fifty-two. He moved with the kind of stillness that came from decades of sitting with other people’s difficult truths without being shaken by them. I sat down across from him and felt the weight of starting over.This was my first session with him. I had transferred because I needed a different approach. I told him that much. I said I felt the previous work had reached a point where I needed fresh eyes on things. James nodded without pressing for more details. He simply asked me to tell him what I hoped to work on.I talked about the patterns I had been fighting. I told him about Aria and how I got obsessed. About how I had turned love into control and scared her. I used plain language because he was a stranger and str
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COMA TO QUEEN: The Alpha triplets won't let me go
"You said anyone who wants my pathetic self can have me, Kieran. Say hello to the three men who do."
For three months Selene Ashcroft floated between life and death.
A car accident arranged by rogue wolves stole her unborn son and left her alone in a hospital bed. Not one visitor. Not one flower. Not one call from the husband she gave her life to.
When Selene finally comes home, she finds Alpha heir Kieran Draven tangled on the couch with her older sister Jessica. The same sister who ran away years ago because she refused to marry him. The same sister he really wanted from the start.
Kieran doesn't apologize, he simply informs her that Jessica is moving in as his Second Mate.
Something inside Selene breaks.
She asks him if she's allowed a second mate too. He laughs and tells her nobody would ever want her pathetic self.
That night, drunk and shattered at a bar, Selene runs into Caius, Ronan and Killian Ashbourne. The infamous Ashbourne triplets. Her husband's closest friends. The three men who have hated her since the day she married Kieran.
She wakes the next morning in a hotel room with hazy memories and their scent all over her skin.
She goes home to pack her things and asks Kieran for a divorce.
But he refuses and tells her he doesn't let women like her damage his reputation. He tells her she's staying and helping plan the ceremony and if she tries to run, Amelia pays the price.
Selene smiles for the first time in months and agrees to stay.
But not without quietly planning her own revenge.
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Chapter: Chapter 4 — The UltimatumPOV: SeleneI didn't stay in the hotel room for long.I took a quick shower, washing away the smell of cheap tequila and club sweat. When I put the oversized men's dress shirt back on, the heavy, lingering scent of cedar, rain, and dark smoke wrapped around me again. It felt like a phantom touch against my skin, making my inner wolf stir restlessly for the first time in years.I ignored it. I found my hospital sweatpants folded neatly on a chair, put them on, and ordered a cab back to the Draven estate.I was done crying. Waking up in that hotel room, completely alone but safe, something inside my chest had fundamentally shifted. For six years, I had bent over backwards trying to be the perfect Luna, the perfect wife, desperately hoping Kieran would eventually love me. I had swallowed my pride, endured his coldness, and accepted the scraps of affection he threw my way.And what did it get me? A dead son, a coma, and a husband sleeping with my sister on our living room couch.Dignity w
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Chapter: Chapter 3 — The Breaking PointPOV: Selene"Did I hear that's right?" Amelia asked, her big eyes looking between Kieran and Jessica.My motherly instincts kicked in immediately. Despite everything Kieran had just said, despite the absolute shattering of my own heart, I couldn't let my daughter witness our family falling apart. I couldn't let her carry that trauma.I quickly stepped forward, wiping my eyes and forcing a painful, trembling smile. "Amelia, baby, listen to me. Mommy is back. Don't worry about what they are saying, we can just..."But Amelia completely ignored my outstretched hands. She brushed right past me as if I were invisible and ran straight toward the couch, her face lighting up with pure, uncontained joy."Dad, are you actually taking Mum Jessica as your mate?!" She squealed excitedly, grabbing Kieran's hand.The words hit me like a blow to the chest.Mum Jessica.My lungs completely stopped working. I stood frozen in the center of the lavish living room, the world spinning out of control."Yes,
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Chapter: Chapter 2 — The Spare DaughterPOV: SeleneI always knew Kieran didn't love me.That wasn't a secret. Six years ago, on the night before the grand Draven-Ashcroft wedding, my beautiful older sister Jessica packed her bags and ran away. She wanted freedom to be with other men, not an arranged marriage.But our parents couldn't afford to lose the powerful alliance with the Draven pack. So, they dressed me in Jessica's leftover wedding gown, pinned my hair up, and handed me over to Kieran instead. I was nineteen, the spare daughter, the backup plan.For six long years, I swallowed my pride. I smiled through his coldness. I raised our daughter, Amelia, and tried to be the perfect Luna. I thought if I just loved him enough, if I was just loyal enough, he would eventually forget about Jessica. I stayed up late waiting for him to come home from pack meetings. I made sure the mansion was run perfectly. I tried so hard to fix our broken family.But as I stood in the doorway, staring at them on the couch, the truth finally s
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Chapter: Chapter 1 — The Cold AwakeningSelene POV "No, please!" I screamed into the darkness, choking on my own blood. "No no...NO!!"I jolted upright.My lungs hitched, pulling in a massive, ragged gasp of freezing air. My eyes flew open, wildly scanning my surroundings. The accident. I had an accident, I was sure of that. But right now, I wasn't in a crushed car. Instead, I was in a bright, blinding white room, the frantic squeal of a heart monitor echoing in my ears."Selene? Selene!"A pair of hands grabbed my shoulders, pushing me gently back against a wall of pillows. My vision blurred, before finally settling on the face. My best friend, Nora, stood over me, her face pale and streaked with tears. She looked like she hadn't slept in weeks."Nora?" My voice cracked, sounding hoarse. "Where..."My hands moved on pure instinct, dropping instantly to my stomach.It was flat.The heavy, round life I had carried for six months was gone. My womb was completely empty.A cold, paralyzing terror gripped my chest. "Nora. My b
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