Chapter: Chapter Forty SevenDread crept over her, a chill running down her spine. She stared at the message, a surge of fear and confusion flooding her mind. Who was behind this threat? The text had come from a different number. Her thoughts raced, trying to make sense of the menacing warning.With a shaky hand, she put the phone down, her mind reeling with a thousand questions and an equal number of fears. The ominous message echoed in her mind, leaving her on edge and uncertain of what would come next.Taking in a deep breath, she composed herself and walked out of the building, hurrying to the one person that made her feel safe in all the chaos revolving around her life.Crystal threw herself at Ryke immediately she set her eyes on him, catching him off guard, and he hesitated before wrapping his arms around her. It was unexpected; her words of missing him, the sudden embrace, all of it felt unreal to him, especially given the strained circumstances between them.When they finally disconnected from the hug, R
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Chapter: Chapter Forty Six“I asked you a question, Crystal,” Logan gritted his teeth.Shaking her head, Crystal took a step back from the painting and let out a hollow laugh, “I just realized something. Crystal? I thought I was snowflake.”Logan’s glare intensified, “That still doesn’t answer my question.”Crystal rolled her eyes and turned to Isabella, “So I guess I was wrong and you are innocent,” she spat."Wrong or not, it doesn't change the fact that I had nothing to do with whatever mess you've found yourself in," Isabella finally spoke, her voice calm but tinged with an undercurrent of irritation.Crystal's frustration flared, her eyes narrowing as she retorted, “Logan might have gotten you out but I know what I saw and I have evidence. There are also witnesses that saw you enter Ryke’s mansion.”Isabella chuckled darkly, a bitter edge to the sound. "Evidence can be deceiving, and witnesses can be manipulated. You should know that, Crystal."Crystal shook her head in disbelief. "I trusted you, Isabella
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Chapter: Chapter Forty FiveCrystal stepped into the sterile, echoing confines of the visiting room at the correctional facility. Her breath caught as she caught sight of Isabella, sitting calmly, seemingly indifferent to the world around her. Crystal's heart pounded against her chest as she approached the table, her emotions in turmoil, her hands trembling with a mix of apprehension and longing for answers."Isabella," Crystal's voice quivered slightly as she took a seat across from her former best friend. Isabella lifted her gaze casually, her expression unreadable. Crystal's eyes searched Isabella's face, seeking any hint of remorse, of the friendship they once shared, but found nothing."I'm surprised you came," Isabella remarked casually, her tone devoid of emotion. "I had to," Crystal replied, her voice breaking slightly. "I need to understand, Bels. Why? Why did you do it?"Isabella leaned back in her chair, a faint smirk playing at the corners of her lips. "I have no idea what you're talking about," she
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Chapter: Chapter Forty FourChloe slowly fluttered her eyes open, the hazy blur of the hospital room coming into focus. The sterile scent, the faint hum of machines, all too familiar yet always disconcerting. As her vision cleared, she caught sight of Christian, his relief evident as their eyes met.A faint smile tugged at Christian's lips, but Chloe could see the underlying worry etched in the lines of his face, his attempt at humor failing to mask his concern. "Hey there, sleeping beauty," he quipped, a weak attempt to lighten the weight of the moment. "Is this becoming our thing now? Almost getting killed and ending up in the hospital?”Chloe managed a small, tired chuckle, but the gravity of their situation weighed heavily upon her. "Seems like it," she murmured, her voice hoarse from the ordeal. "But I wouldn't mind a change of pace anytime soon."Their banter masked the underlying tension that lingered in the air. Chloe's gaze softened as she reached out, her fingers lightly brushing against Christian's ha
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Chapter: Chapter Forty ThreeThe cacophony of voices echoed around him, distant yet somehow piercing. He found himself standing in the hazy periphery of a scene, a memory from his childhood that remained etched in his subconscious—the day he overheard his parents arguing.Their voices, once muffled whispers, now reverberated sharply through the walls, a symphony of discord that shook the very foundation of his understanding. Logan crept closer to the partially ajar door of his father’s study, drawn by the urgency in his parents' voices. He lingered, unseen, on the periphery of their heated exchange."I can't believe you're bringing this up again!" Jessica’s voice was filled with a mixture of anguish and exasperation."Jessica, he deserves to know," his father's voice replied, the weight of responsibility tinged with a hint of sorrow.Their words were like shards of glass, piercing Logan's sheltered world, fragmenting the illusion of his reality. He stood frozen, unseen, as the truth unfolded in the exchange bet
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Chapter: Chapter Forty TwoLogan's sleek black sedan pulled up outside the police station. Stepping out, his demeanor was one of controlled urgency, every stride purposeful as he approached the entrance.Approaching the front desk, he spoke with a tone that demanded attention. "I need to speak with someone in charge regarding the arrest of Isabella Montez."The officer behind the desk regarded Logan with a hint of skepticism, his uniform crisply pressed as he sized up the affluent newcomer. "I'm sorry, sir. I can't provide details about ongoing cases."Logan's frustration simmered beneath his controlled demeanor. "I understand, but Ms. Montez's arrest is a mistake. I need to rectify this immediately."The officer glanced at his computer screen before meeting Logan's gaze. "I'll see if someone can speak with you, sir. Please wait here."Minutes dragged like hours as Logan paced the station's lobby, his mind racing with a myriad of scenarios and strategies to make Isabella's release. Finally, a stern-looking de
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Fated to my One Night Stand
Amber Moon gave up her title as Princess and heir to the Realm and spent three years as an Omega to prove love was real, only to watch the man she sacrificed everything for choose her best friend instead.
Betrayed and heartbroken, she ran.
In the forest where Rogues attacked, a stranger saved her life. Under the full moon, they realized they were fated mates and gave in to a steamy one-night stand, never seeing each other’s face.
At dawn, she woke alone, told she meant nothing by a man posing as her mate’s subordinate.
Shattered, Amber returned to the Palace and agreed to the contract marriage her father had been demanding—to Axel Edgewood, the Alpha she’d never met.
But when Axel walked into the room, Amber’s world tilted.
He was the wolf from the forest. Her mate. The man who’d thrown her away. And he didn’t recognize her because of her hidden identity.
But she did him.
Axel had spent his life fulfilling duty. Now, bound by a curse, he stood across from a Princess he didn’t want and proposed a one-year contract marriage. Fulfill their duty, then walk away.
For Amber, one year was freedom from the man she hated.
For Axel, one year to find the mate he’d lost.
Neither expected the curse to demand more than a contract. Or for the secrets between them to tear the Realm apart—hers is a ticking clock she doesn’t know exists, his is a darkness that kills without mercy.
One year. One contract. One impossible truth.
What happens when the mate you’re searching for is the wife you’re trying to escape?
And when the man you’re running from is the only one who can keep you alive?
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Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and Twenty: Go Suck a Fat One~Axel’s POV~I was in deep shit.I knew it the moment I watched her close off completely in my office after I had said I would feel nothing but relief, which was the truth, but I had only said it to get that exact reaction from her.The moment I saw it happen and wanted nothing more than to undo it just as fast, I knew I had been wrong about whatever this was.Being inside her once would not fix it. It would only make it worse. So as much as I had felt her, memorized every pattern of her day over the last four months, known exactly when she stepped into a room seconds before she did, her closing off and staying away from me had served me well.If serving me well meant resulting in irritation with every single thing in existence.I had known I was in deep shit before, the kind that could not be undone, but the moment my lips touched hers — not like during our mating ceremony when it had been to get a reaction out of her, this time because something would have burned through me if I h
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Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen: Destabilized~Amber’s POV~I didn’t know if I pulled away or simply pushed him the hell away from me and the rapid blinking started again even though my brain had caught up.Definitely because my brain had caught up.And I went through that same brain looking for some words, any word that would be a fitful reply for what he just told me while he stared down at me with a closed off expression.‘Come on Amber. Come on. You can do this, find your zeal to speak, find speech, find something.’“Are you fucking kidding me?”‘There it is.’The question came out so loud that for one imaginative moment, I could have sworn my father’s body actually stirred from how loud I was but it was all in my head.I didn’t expect him to answer because it was rhetorical.“No.”And there it was again, that damn two lettered word and the exact same way he had said it when he shot me down when I offered for us to do the exact same thing he had offered a night before, right before he told me that he would feel relief if he h
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Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and Eighteen: Queen. Tonight~Amber’s POV~It felt like I could not remember a time when I was not crying.And even though every tear I had inside should have dried up by now, even though my eyes burned and my throat was raw and my chest ached from the force of it, I could still feel myself crying. Like my body had decided it was never going to stop and had simply committed to it.My hands reached out, shaking so badly I could barely control them, and pushed the hair on his forehead away from his face.His skin was warm.That was the cruelest part.Because warm meant alive. Warm meant he was still in there somewhere. Warm meant there was something left to hold onto even though the healers had looked at me with that expression, the one they tried to hide behind professionalism but could not, the one that said they had done everything they could and everything they could had not been enough.The tears came again.Fresh and violent, like the first wave had never happened, like my body had found some reserve it had
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Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and Eighteen: All Hail Axel Edgewood, The King~Axel’s POV~“Start talking.”The head warrior standing across from me was older than most of the men I commanded. Grey threaded through his hair at the temples, his posture was rigid with the discipline of decades, and his face carried the specific expression of a man who had failed at the one thing he had been put on this earth to do and knew it.“They came in the early hours, Alpha Edgewood.” His voice was steady but I could hear the fractures underneath it. “Between three and four in the morning. Through the eastern perimeter.”“How many?”“We counted twelve. Possibly more. They moved in coordinated units. Two to disable the perimeter wards. Four to neutralize the eastern guard rotation. The rest went directly for the King’s chambers.”“Directly.” I repeated the word and let it sit in the air. “Which means they knew the layout.”“Yes, Alpha.”“Which means someone told them.”He did not answer that. His jaw tightened.I took a step forward. “How did twelve wolves get through reinfo
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Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and Sixteen: One Day When I Am Big and Stronggggg~Amber’s POV~“One day when I am big and stroonngggg.” I drew the words out in the singing tone and gestured with my hands, flexing arms that had nothing on them worth flexing, tiny muscles that did not exist yet no matter how hard I squeezed.My mother picked it up without missing a beat. “You will be a Queennnn.”I burst out laughing and threw myself forward onto her because that was what I always did when she made me laugh, just launched myself at her like she was the safest place in the world.Because she was.But this time she winced.It was small. A tightening around her eyes, a breath that caught halfway through, and anyone else might have missed it but I did not miss things when it came to her. I had stopped missing things months ago.The smile fell off my face immediately.“I am sorry.” I scrambled backward. “I am sorry, where did I hurt you? I did not mean to hit you so hard and—”“Amber.” She cut through the panic with a gentle smile that sat on her face like it belonged th
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Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and Fifteen: The Day The King Fell~Amber’s POV~Time was supposed to move slowly when it was fixated upon.But that was not what happened in my case. Because after that day in the office when I had looked into Axel Edgewood’s eyes and watched the blankness behind them echo louder than his words ever could, after I had felt every good moment between us obliterate into nothingness inside my chest, the days had blurred together.And in what felt like a blink, a total of one hundred and twenty two days had passed.I knew the exact number because I had spent every single one of them ticking it off. Counting down to the day I would never have to see Axel Edgewood again if it were to be by my will.“You get a kiss if you can guess where we are going after this.”Rosella’s voice broke through my thoughts and I looked up, meeting her cheeky grin from across the table.I rolled my eyes and realized that if I was given a penny for each time this woman made me do that, I would rival Axel’s net worth by now.“I told you to stop fl
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