The Wicked Games we play for love
## **The Wicked Games We Play for Love**
*Book One of The Wicked Series*
Fourteen years ago, Dorian Vanderbilt abandoned Troy Summers in an orphanage.
He locked her in a closet, walked away with his new wealthy family... and never came back.
She spent fourteen years preparing for one thing.
Revenge.
Now twenty, Troy earns a place at an elite university where Dorian studies, armed with a simple plan: make him fall hopelessly in love with her, then destroy him piece by piece.
Only Dorian isn't the boy she remembers.
He is quiet. Calculating. Beautiful. Dangerous.
A man with silver hair, ancient eyes, and a talent for seeing through every lie she tells.
As Troy's carefully crafted seduction begins to work, her plan starts unraveling. The university hides violent secrets. Men fight like predators. Wolves roam the forests after dark. A lonely vampire mourns the loss of sunlight. Ancient druids guard magic that should no longer exist. And Dorian is not simply the heir to a powerful family...
He is the nine-tailed fox.
Bound by an ancient fae treaty that has stolen freedom from every supernatural race, Dorian has spent centuries manipulating allies and enemies alike in search of a way to break it. Troy was never supposed to become part of that plan.
But the more they deceive each other, the more dangerous their game becomes.
Every kiss is a test.
Every touch is a lie.
Every act of intimacy is another move in a ruthless battle between revenge and love.
Until Troy discovers the truth.
The boy she swore to destroy may be the only one capable of saving them all.
And Dorian's greatest weakness has never been his enemies.
It's the orphan girl he left behind.
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Chapter: Chapter 8 - A pack, unturned.Troy awakens with the sun lighting streaks over her face, softly, as if whispering to her to wake up. For a moment, she doesn't want to listen. She moves her bare legs between the sheets, and the silk flows over her skin like warm, liquid gold.Her eyes flutter open. The sheets feel different. The room looks unfamiliar. When she moves her head, a sharp pain stabs through the back of her skull.Troy grunts as she tries to touch it. There is no blood, but it is a swollen spot that really hurts when she presses down on it.Looking down at her body, she realizes she is covered with grey, luxurious silk sheets. She sits up swiftly, and then she sees her nakedness. Troy grabs the sheets over her chest and looks around. Where the hell is she, and why is she naked?As she is about to stand up from the bed, the door creaks open and Dorian steps in. Softly, without making a sound. His eyes immediately find hers, and the look in his eyes is intense. Focused. As if he just located prey. She gri
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Chapter: Chapter 7 -Dorian is absent.Completely absent. For days. Since the night in the woods. And while Troy tries her best to concentrate on her lectures, her anxiety spirals deeper and deeper with every passing hour.Sitting in class now, staring blankly at the professor as he rambles on about economics, she realizes she hasn’t heard a single word in the last twenty minutes. Her leg bounces underneath the table. Her fingers twitch around the pencil in her hand.Where is he?The thought keeps drilling through her skull.The pencil snaps between her fingers.A few students glance at her, startled, but Troy ignores them. She drops the broken pieces onto the desk and reaches into her bag for a pen instead. Opening her notebook, she starts writing furiously.But it isn’t class notes.Dear Diary,Actually, dear Dorian…Where are you? You're supposed to be here. Have you left me again? Abandoned me all over again? You have, haven’t you?Or are you dead? Did those wild dogs finally get you? If they did, I s
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Chapter: Chapter 6 - Don't screamTroy spends the afternoon after class again at Trish’s dorm, getting ready for the bonfire. This time, Trish insisted. Troy didn't even have to hint.“Trish, can I ask you a question?”Trish comes out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her, her black hair hanging low down her spine. “Sure, what's up?”“So… have you noticed something different from the men around this campus?”Trish sits down carefully. “Different? Well, except for the fact that everyone around here looks like Rambo…no.”Troy laughs at that. “Yeah, exactly that. I don't know what to make of it.”Trish starts dressing in her jeans and shirt for the night. “And the fighting…”“Right…why are they always fighting? That’s not normal.”“High testosterone perhaps… not that that’s a bad thing… actually, the fight from before, the darker dude… he is on fire.” Trish prowls around the room while putting on some pink lipstick.“That’s the guy who bought us drinks last night.”“Wait, really. Oh my, I didn't recognize him.
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Chapter: Chapter 5 - D.O.R.I.A.NThe next morning, both Troy and Trish awoke late. Not having her own stuff at Trish’s made getting ready a nightmare.Her hair isn’t blown out the way she likes it, and her makeup is not entirely on point. Looking in the unfamiliar mirror, she barely has a minute to track her eyeliner straight. Then, they are too late for the first class, but just in time for the second one. She doesn't even get a chance to open her bag or write in her diary before the lecturer screams at them to open their books.So, she takes her favourite therapy method and disguises it inside her book. She randomly starts doodling. There are so many things to write.Dear Diary…The way he looked at her last night. He genuinely stared. And the things he said.She starts scratching his name again. Over and over, filling the margin until the ink runs thick. D.O.R.I.A.NThen, the glowing eyes… The way he could track her pulse…There’s the enemy complication.So many intricate puzzles to solve. So little time.Why do
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Chapter: Chapter 4 - A full moon, almost.“Everyone does.” Troy retreats a bit and takes his hand, tries to bend it outward, but to no avail. He holds on with an iron grip.“You're a first-year. You're not supposed to know… Who are you?”“Get your hands off me, dick.” Troy bites through the pain that is searing in her arm, then she looks down at where his crotch is, measuring the distance with her eyes. If she lifts her knee now, she might reach and hit him right in the nuts…As if he can see the plan unfolding in her eyes, he also looks down, narrowing his eyes. Then he releases her, holding his hand in the air as if surrendering. A smile flashes on his face, then it's gone.“It was you behind that tree yesterday. Why were you stalking me?”“Stalking? God, you have some issues, don't you? Paranoid much?”“Vigilant.”“Listen, I heard your name at the… the fight… people said he was your guy… they said your name.”Dorian keeps quiet at first, looking her up and down. “But why did you stalk me?”Troy takes only a split second to
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Chapter: Chapter 3 - Some King“Poppy, look!” Trish yells as she holds out the perfect black dress. Troy almost chokes on her soda when she sees it.Standing up, she clasps her hands together. “Oh, Trish, this is super cute… is this yours?”“Well, yeah, but I’ve worn it plenty of times already; try it.”Troy takes the dress carefully. It may be second-hand, but it looks so well taken care of. And she is definitely not used to dresses like this.Standing in front of the mirror with the dress held against her body, she tilts her head.Will this get me him?“Will this get me… some free drinks?” she asks with a slanted smile, thinking of how to get Dorian to properly notice her the way she wants him to. Even though, since this morning's encounter, she has the small, unsettling feeling that she has no idea what she’s getting into.“A lot of free drinks!” Trish giggles behind her. “Put it on, let’s see.”Troy strips out of her clothing right there. Where she comes from, all girls shared a room, and privacy wasn't really
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