LOGINCHAPTER 72~KIM~“I never pegged Catherine for someone to be this emotional.” Richard and I walked side by side from the car to the mansion entrance, laughing and chatting like we’ve always had this life and it felt right.“You have no idea.” He responded. His hand slipped, or I wanted to think so, but his finger was crossed with mine for a few seconds.The touch was subtle, but it felt like an electric shock. The world stopped spinning for a second and his eyes locked in with mine. Nothing was said, but somehow a lot was heard.“She always exudes so much grace. You’d never guess.” I managed to avert the silence and we continued in small steps to the dinning room.“Well, you’re learning every day…” he said,“I sure am.”“Well, I said one hour…” Catherine’s voice hit us even before our feet crossed the entrance.“We’re sorry. We got a little carried away and lost track of time.” Richard sounded less and less confident as we walked in and found Logan and Elena at the table with Catheri
CHAPTER 71~KIM~“I’ve never known Catherine to be this strong willed.” I said to Richard.The mansion had a large premises that was basically a marble floor. It was cleaned thoroughly daily and was now a reflective surface.“My mother can get insufferable,” Richard responded. “Especially when she’s excited about something.”“Aren’t you disturbed?”“About?” he responded to my question with one of his own.“The fact that we’re lying to her?” I ended that as a question, because I assumed it was obvious enough.Richard was quiet for a while and that was my answer.“Well, I am, but like…you will get pregnant eventually.” I saw his attempt to wave off the topic. I did not try to push any further.Catherine made it clear that we had to be on this walk for at least an hour and a half. We only just started and the last thing I would want was to make this walk awkward with at least one more hour to spend.“I’m sorry you have to go through this stress.” He broke the five minutes of silence afte
CHAPTER 70~KIM~‘Why am I even surprised?’It left me in awe that Richard just dropped a bomb like that on me and walked away, expecting me to get with the program like nothing happened.‘Classic Richard.’I rolled my eyes, rushed through my glass of juice and went out to join Galina in the car.“Are you okay?” Galina probed after minutes of silence in the vehicle.“I’m fresh out of prison, Galina. All I want right now is to go to bed and sleep for the next twelve hours.” I got down immediately and she pulled over in front of the mansion.“With any luck, I will wake up tomorrow morning and find that all of this is a dream.” My speech was not exactly directed at Galina. Just a random expression of myself as I headed to my room. “I could use waking up five years ago, fresh out of nursing school.”“Kim.” His voice was slightly higher in pitch than normal.Logan.I rolled my eyes out of pure exhaustion.My hand was on the door knob of my room. I waited for him to come close and reluctan
CHAPTER 69: OUR LITTLE SECRET~KIM~Three days!I spent three days in the holding cell for a crime I knew absolutely nothing of.Rage felt like an understatement for what I was feeling.“Kim…” I turned around when I heard Galina’s voice.There was a guard with her, unlocking the cell.“You’re free to go.” The guard said.“Really? Just like that? After humiliating me, they figure out I’m innocent and they just want to release me like a thief in the night. No apologies, not even setting the records straight? Really? Just ‘you’re free to go?’”The guard didn’t stay long enough to completely hear me rant.“Galina…”“Kim, we have to go. I’ll explain everything.” She had a bit of urgency and worry in her tone and I was sure it wasn’t because she was eager to see my suffering end.“What is going on?” It didn’t matter how many times I asked Galina that, she simply wouldn’t respond.We walked from the dungeon back to my room, where she had prepared a bath for me.There was a meal waiting on th
CHAPTER 68: She’s PREGNANT~RICHARD~For the first time since this chaos, I saw how this was my fault as much as it was the person who placed a pillow over Talia’s face.It was my fault our union was not consummated. It was my fault Talia could even insult Kimberly in the first place. It was because she had to protect me that she launched at her, because she couldn’t tell the world that she couldn’t be pregnant without any form of intimacy.If all of that hadn’t happened, Talia would not be in the position to be murdered. She was a feisty woman and could easily defend herself and if she didn’t die, no one would look in Kimberly’s direction.Experiencing that shame first hand. The shame of not being able to say that Kimberly was not pregnant because I hadn’t even touched her, I blamed myself for everything.“Alpha Richard, if we’re going to look this over, or be mild on her punishment for the sake of the heir, we have to know. Is she pregnant?” the chief councilman asked me again.“Ye
CHAPTER 67: The COUNCIL Meets~RICHARD~“This is not fair. She didn’t even know that Talia was dead. How could she be the one that killed her?”I could not control my anxiety.I paced from one end of my mother’s room to the other. Luckily, there was enough space to do so, since my mother was one person that enjoyed minimalist interior décor.She always hated how heavily decorated the mansion had to be, but my father would insist that every furniture, painting on the wall or flower vase had a story to tell and must remain in the mansion.She got her own room and placed just a bed in the corner, a dressing mirror pressed to the wall on the left side of the bed and on the opposite side, her closet.It didn’t matter to her that the room was the size of a hall comfortably able to accommodate fifty adult wolves, a small fluffy red rug at the foot of her bed was all the design she needed to polish the plain white aesthetic the room had and for me, this meant enough space to pace around and e
CHAPTER 4: The Consummation Clause~ Kim ~Dinner that night was torture.The entire family had gathered — my parents, Elena, Richard, and Richard's mother, Catherine Fell. She was an elegant woman in her sixties with silver hair styled in a classic updo and sharp green eyes that seemed to see ever
CHAPTER 3: The Wolf's Den ~ Kim ~ My feet moved before my brain could talk me out of it. I walked toward the cabin, drawn by curiosity and something else I couldn't name. Why had Richard chosen this exact spot? Was it coincidence? The cabin was beautiful up close. It looked like a sanctuary. A
CHAPTER 2: A Taste of Freedom ~ Kim ~ I stood on the sidewalk outside the Fell mansion the next morning, breathing in the city air deeply for the first time in four years. It smelled like grease and gasoline and humanity and life. I loved it. "Where to first?" Galina asked, linking her arm throu
CHAPTER 1: The Midnight Encounter~ Kim ~I shouldn't have been in Alpha Richard Fell's kitchen at midnight wearing my sister's nightgown, but there I was, stealing cookies like a thief.Four years in the rogue dungeon had taught me about hunger. Real hunger — the kind that made you dream of chocol







