LOGINGwendolyn was never meant to be weak but six years of marriage to Cole turned her into a woman who endured everything until he crossed the line. When their five years old daughter Josie is dying as a result of her wolf awakening too soon, destroying poor little Josie from the insides, Cole doesn’t just neglect them, he files for a divorce, cuts Gwen off any means of income and walks away with another woman. Desperate to save her child, Gwen turns to the only man powerful enough to help. Xavier Holt, her husband’s stepbrother. Xavier comes to her rescue, except he has a request. A request that puts Gwen in a dilemma. A marriage, one without boundaries or rules. Gwen doesn’t break, she chooses revenge. With Xavier by her side, she’s no longer the omega they once underestimated. She’s the woman who will destroy them all.
View MoreGwen’s povThe door clicked shut and my legs simply stopped working.I went down slowly. It wasn’t a fall, just a slow descent with my back against the side of the bed.I pulled my knees to my chest as I felt the cold of the floor through my clothes then I sat there in the quiet of the room and let everything I had been holding all day come apart at once.The crying came from somewhere deep and old, it wasn’t the clean kind that released something and left you lighter. My tears were the kind that came from a place that had been sealed for a long time and had finally found a crack.And then the memories came the way they always came when I was too tired to keep them out.I had been seventeen and mopping the floor of the pack house corridor when he turned the corner and stopped.I remembered looking up and finding him watching me and my first instinct had been to apologize for being in the way, for existing in a corridor he needed to use because that was what omegas without families di
Xavier’s povGwen and I left for the hospital, Josie had been discharged and had to be brought home.Josie was still pale but slightly better than we had last seen her, on the drive home she didn’t say a word and just laid close to her mother with her head on her thighs.As we got home she held my hand from the car to the front door and didn't run ahead the way she normally did.I opened the door then she turned to Gwen.“Mummy, can I watch TV?” She asked.“Of course my baby” Gwen replied with a light smile.We all went to the sofa, Gwen sat as I turned on the television and put on one of the cartoon channels Josie loved to watch.I sat with them until Josie’s eyes got heavy and she drifted off against the cushions and neither of us said a word to each other the entire time.Gwen carried her to bed as I waited downstairs and listened to the penthouse settle around me.I thought about the courtroom, Graham's voice and the look on Gwen's face when the judge asked for evidence she didn't
Gwen’s pov The courtroom smelled like old wood with a hint of citrus and lavender, it had this institutional chill of a room where people's lives got decided by people who didn't know them. I sat beside Graham with my hands folded on the table, my back straight and my face giving nothing away as I watched Cole's lawyer stand up and begin dismantling me with the smooth confidence of someone who had done this many times and found it easy. "Your Honor." His voice filled the room without effort. "Miss Rivers is an omega, she is a rank that within the Hallow Pack carries specific designations regarding stability and capacity and we are not here to be unkind about that; however we are here to be honest." He paused for weight. "Miss Rivers has demonstrated a consistent pattern of instability even as we speak, her child is currently hospitalized with an unidentified substance in her system and the question this court must ask is simple. That question is how does something like that
Gwen’s povJaniya had been restless all day.I had felt it since morning that low unsettled pulling that my wolf did when something was wrong and she knew it before I did, pacing somewhere deep inside me like she was trying to tell me something that I wasn't listening to carefully enough. I had put it down to the week, it was probably just my encounter with Cole that caused it or the weight of the drive sitting in my dresser and the latest Jessica Sterling touching Xavier in that office and all the things I was carrying that I hadn't put down yet.I had not listened.I should have listened.The doctor was young, younger than I expected for someone delivering news this heavy.He was careful and steady in a manner that made me think of when he might have learnt to carry difficult information into rooms."We found a substance in her system," his tone was even."Something that shouldn't be there.""What substance?" I heard my own voice come out very flat. "That's the difficulty." He loo
Xavier’s pov She was extraordinary and I was standing right beside her and still felt like I was watching her from across a room. The mic was in my hand, the room was full and every face was turned toward the front then I looked out at all of them. I looked at her standing beside me and thought t
Xavier’s povThe press room was exactly the kind of environment I had learned to move through without effort even with the lights and cameras and the stillness of a room full of people waiting to write something down. I had done enough of these to know how they moved, where the difficult questions
Xavier’s povWork had been hectic in the way that it wasn’t just one large thing to handle but like twenty small things stacking on each other and transforming into an enormous task. It was rare that I found myself wanting to get out of work but it has become a regular occurrence as of late becaus
Gwen: "You look like you're going to war," Riley said from the chair by Josie's bed. "Maybe I am." I checked the mirror one more time. This was one of the small merits of the private ward that it had an actual mirror. I turned slightly to check the back of the dress. Black lace over a nude sli






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