LOGINChapter 121HAROLDI slammed my bloody fist hard against the cold floor, a sharp shockwave of fresh pain shooting straight up my arm. “Bitch!” I growled through my gritted teeth, the sound vibrating with pure hatred.She had hooked me right there. In that exact moment of weakness, when I was sobbing uncontrollably like a terrified child in her arms, she had cast her line. She had reeled me in for years of blind, unyielding service. All the cover-ups, all the illegal operations, all the dirty work, and every single body we had buried had led to this dark, freezing room.I was crashing out hard now, my mind fracturing under the weight of it all. But the fiery anger inside me burned so much hotter than the physical pain. Revenge. I wanted it so fucking bad it tasted like warm, metallic blood in my mouth. Agatha would be ruined. She would be destroyed. And the beautiful thing was, I knew exactly how to make it happen. I knew where all the skeletons were buried because I was the one who
HAROLDThe secondary room was pitch black, except for a thin, mocking yellow light cutting under the bottom of the door. They had thrown me in here like a pile of rotting garbage.Even with my wolf's strength, I couldn't fight back. I couldn't do a damn thing. Not after they plunged a serrated silver blade deep into my side right before dragging me in, leaving the toxic metal to burn against my raw ribs and completely paralyze my healing. The silver felt like liquid fire rushing through my veins, an excruciating poison that forcefully grounded my wolf, locking him behind heavy chains and leaving me weak enough for them to easily overpower. Me. The damn Alpha’s son. Reduced to a broken dog bleeding on the floor.With everything I had done, I didn’t even think my father would think of saving me now. If he knew the truth, he wouldn’t even bother to listen to what I had to say. He would look at me with nothing but pure disgust and disappointment, because all I had done was disappoint him
Harold’s POVI coughed hard, a spray of warm blood flecking my cracked lips. I shook my head against the cold floor. “You’re... you’re bluffing. You wouldn't risk your own name like that.”“Am I?” She let out a soft, musical laugh that made my skin crawl. “Darling, I built an insurance policy so flawless it would make Machiavelli blush. If I die... if I am killed, or even if I just disappear under suspicious circumstances, everything is released to the high council automatically.”“But not under my name. Under yours. Every illegal account. Every operation designed to frame our rivals. Every financial trail leads straight to the pack funds you supposedly managed. Every piece of evidence proves you orchestrated Deja’s death.”She stepped closer, her shadow completely swallowing me.“The thugs who attacked her? They were paid directly from your private accounts but it looks like I own it,” she whispered, her voice dripping with sadistic joy. “The warehouse cleanup? Done entirely on your
Harold’s POV“Oh, poor Harold... You want honesty, don't you? So let’s be honest.”I stared blankly at the woman I thought I had completely figured out by now. The air in the room felt entirely too heavy, pressing down on my lungs. My mouth opened and closed like a fish gasping for air before I could finally sum up the courage to force the words out. “Stop joking, Agatha. This isn’t funny.”“I’m not joking,” she said. Her tone was flat, completely matter of fact, lacking even a shred of hesitation.The dry, nervous laughter that escaped my throat died instantly, choking me. “What do you mean you’re not joking? Agatha, look at me and tell me she's lying. Tell me you had no hand in what happened to me and Deja.”Agatha shrugged elegantly, swirling the liquid in her cup as if we were discussing the evening weather. “I did. I planned the entire thing, Harold. I manipulated you. I lied to you from the very start. Valentina has always been telling the truth... and I am the mastermind behin
VALENTINA My throat felt dry, desperate for even a single drop of water. My wrists hurt from the ropes biting deep into my skin, and my head still pounded relentlessly from whatever they had used to knock me out cold. Every muscle in my body ached from being tied to this same damn chair for what felt like an eternity. I hated every inch of it. Every inch of this damned damp room. I hated the ropes digging into my flesh. I hated Agatha with every fiber of my being. I hated Harold and his smug face Most of all, though, I hated that I couldn’t stop thinking about Horace. Did he know I was missing? Did he even care anymore? Or did he still believe I was the one who murdered Deja? The thought stabbed deeper than the ropes ever could, twisting like a knife in my chest. Lita growled inside me, her voice fierce and unyielding. “He’ll come.” I closed my eyes, leaning my head back against the hard chair. “I don’t know.” “He’ll come,” she repeated, stronger this time. I wished I had her
HORACEThe whiskey tasted like absolutely nothing anymore. That was a real problem because in the beginning. Those first few days it had burned hot. Hot enough to throw some of the noise screaming inside my head but now it just slid down my throat like plain water while my entire life kept collapsing around me in slow horrible pieces that I couldn’t stop no matter how hard I tried. I sat alone in the study room of the rebuilt penthouse with a half-empty bottle on the table right in front of me and another one lying somewhere on the floor where I must have dropped it earlier without even noticing. The place looked exactly like it had before the fire with the same furniture and the same walls and the same expensive bullshit that used to feel like home but now everything felt empty.Like somebody had stolen something important from it or maybe... someone.My jaw clenched so tight it ached as I stared at nothing in particular because every single corner of this space still carried trac
VALENTINA "Thank you," I said, my voice steadying. "Zuria would have loved it. I just wish she were here to keep me from overthinking everything.""You don't need to think," he said, his eyes darkening. "Just walk in there and let them bleed."I laughed, the tension breaking just enough for me to
HORACE "I... didn't forget." "You lie, Horace. I can see it in your eyes." Marco chuckled, clearly amused by my lack of care. "Why are you so nonchalant about everything?" "That’s why you’re my manager, isn't it?" "Well, I knew you'd forget. That’s why I already have everything sorted out."
HAROLDI marched out of the gym, the plastic bottle in my hand surrendering to the pressure of my grip. My lungs burned, and it wasn't just from the drills. Valentina was a goddamn puzzle box, and I was losing my patience with the riddles. She was smart, lethally so and that trick had my mind racin
VALENTINA"Okay, we’d start with a light warm-up first, and then we can move on to the real work."I pointed toward the open floor, my voice steady despite the way Lita was still purring in the back of my mind about the view. Horace didn't move immediately. He just stood there, his eyes tracking th







