All Chapters of CHOSEN BY RUIN: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

At just seven years old, Liliana Veyne knew her adopted parents were keeping a secret about her.Having spent all her years inside the towering walls of the Veyne’s estate in Eldoria- the human world, hidden away from the rest of the world like a sacred secret, she knew that much.Rhea Veyne, her sister, was treated differently. But Rhea was a free bird, flaunted around like she was an only child. While she was just seven, Rhea was nine.Though she had learned that they were only raised together. Rhea was their parents’ biological daughter, while she was told her own parents died in a car accident after her birth. She was too young to understand history, but not too young to realize that her sister was favored more.“Poor Liliana. She doesn’t have a wolf. You will have to later release her for the humans one day.” She had overheard the words from her parents’ guest one day while she was peeping from the corridor- since she couldn’t sit with them like Rhea did. Her little brain had be

“Kill?” I ask, my expression contorting to a frown.Alpha Sorren’s gaze drops to my body. “If you can’t do it, I have numerous other uses for you.”There is no way those other uses would be better.He continues, “If you don’t agree to it. I will traffick you off to someone who needs a breeder and kill them after he’s done using them, or I’ll return you to Kol and inform him that you’ve been secretly training to avenge your parents’ death.”A cold wave of fear replaces the control I had wrapped around myself. How did he know?“How do you…”“Know?” Soren takes the word from me smoothly, the corner of his lips lifting. “You’re naive if you think you have a loyal friend in Kol’s house.”My heart breaks immediately. He doesn’t need to say it. The only person that knows of my personal affairs in Scarlet Pack is Maerra. Heavy disappointment rolls through me.Then realization. Was that why she didn’t want more of my secrets? Because she knew she would tell them? I’m glad I didn’t later tell

Liliana’s POVDarian’s green eyes give nothing away before he eventually speaks, “Follow me.”He moves. I fall in step behind him as he leads us out, through the hallway illuminated by both natural lights and the chandeliers above. His strides are fast. I can hardly meet up. Not when I have my little bag back weighing on my arms heavily.Students pass around us in clusters, and I find myself searching for Sloane- the first year I met earlier before everything escalated. I don’t see her. Instead, my eyes catch a group of three girls watching me.Their eye colors are…something else. But they keep looking.Then I hear one say, “I would love to spar with her. I heard she’s got some temper.” I swallow. She must be sick in the head to sound so amused at the idea of fighting someone with a temper.Then the tall blonde beside her grins. “Me too. Let’s see how far her temper would get her when I feel her bones crack in my hold. Orgasmic.” She swoons.I blink away, realizing Darian is already

Liliana’s POVI have never experienced arousal before in my life. Even when Alpha Kol would force himself on me severally, I never felt pleasure. I had only heard about it, read books that had sexual details, but I had never knew what it was like to be turned on.I’ve heard other slaves moaned under Alpha Kol in his room. Some even offered themselves to him because they enjoyed it.My case was different. I had only known pain. Even on nights that I tried to pleasure myself with my fingers. I had only known numbness.I thought of myself as cursed. And that was part of my secrets that I wanted to share with Aunt Maerra before I left Scarlet pack.If I had known this is what it feels like to be aroused, maybe I would have been having sex every day of my life.Xaden grasping my waist like he could snap it into two isn’t enough, I need him. I need to be naked. “What are you doing to me?” Xaden’s voice falls into a disturbed-strained-whisper between us- aggravating my arousal.“Please…” I

I feel doomed and cornered.“How are you feeling?” Luna Gwen asks.How can I possibly explain what is happening inside me? The heat hadn’t vanished. I have only been surpressing it. Worrying about my fate has made it easier to not focus on the strange sensations my body still experiences.“I’m…” I swallow, my fingers tightening against the sheets. “I’m still feeling… it. My body feels… strange.”Her brows draw together. “Is this your first heat?”For a split second, I consider lying. Saying no might make me seem experienced and less suspicious. But what if they expect knowledge I don’t have if I lie that it isn’t my first heat? What if I say the wrong thing?“…Yes,” I finally answer.Her expression changes to one of concern.“That’s unusual,” she murmurs. My pulse spikes, but I force myself to stay still.“I wasn’t told much,” I said carefully. It was partly honest.She studies me for a long moment, as if weighing something in her mind. Then she exhales softly.“I have pack matters to