Chapter: 95Chapter 95:In the chamber, Luna Ruby's sudden cry for help had the castle in a whirlwind of activity. Alpha Dante, alerted by the urgency in her voice, rushed to her side, his heart pounding with worry.As he entered the room, he found Luna Ruby in the throes of labor, her face etched with pain and determination. He immediately rushed to her, offering his support and reassurance. "Ruby, I'm here. You're not alone. We'll get through this together."The pack doctor, who had been reunited with his wife Melissa Sabrina, arrived swiftly. With years of experience in shifter medicine, he knew precisely what to do. He assessed Luna Ruby's condition and nodded at Alpha Dante. "She's in labor, but we have time. Let's make her as comfortable as possible."The room was quickly transformed into a haven for Luna Ruby's labor. Soft lights and soothing scents filled the air, and the presence of loved ones offered solace.For hours, Luna Ruby endured the intense waves of pain, her grip on Alpha Dante
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Chapter: 94Chapter 94:In the wake of the joint council's decision to banish Rae from both the shifter pack and the vampire lair, a sense of relief washed over both factions. The threat that had manipulated them into discord was no more. But as they moved forward, the fragile peace they had worked so hard to maintain was a constant reminder of the turmoil that had shaken their worlds.Alpha Dante and Luna Ruby stood side by side, watching as their pack members began to rebuild what had been fractured. They knew that the journey toward a lasting peace had only just begun.Luna Ruby turned to Alpha Dante, her eyes reflecting both relief and determination. "Dante, we've been through so much. I hope this fragile peace can hold, and we can build a stronger future."Alpha Dante nodded, his voice filled with quiet optimism. "I believe it can, Ruby. Our unity is what makes us strong. And Rae's banishment sends a clear message that we won't be manipulated or divided."The shifter researcher, now on the p
Last Updated: 2023-10-15
Chapter: 94Chapter 94:In the wake of the joint council's decision to banish Rae from both the shifter pack and the vampire lair, a sense of relief washed over both factions. The threat that had manipulated them into discord was no more. But as they moved forward, the fragile peace they had worked so hard to maintain was a constant reminder of the turmoil that had shaken their worlds.Alpha Dante and Luna Ruby stood side by side, watching as their pack members began to rebuild what had been fractured. They knew that the journey toward a lasting peace had only just begun.Luna Ruby turned to Alpha Dante, her eyes reflecting both relief and determination. "Dante, we've been through so much. I hope this fragile peace can hold, and we can build a stronger future."Alpha Dante nodded, his voice filled with quiet optimism. "I believe it can, Ruby. Our unity is what makes us strong. And Rae's banishment sends a clear message that we won't be manipulated or divided."The shifter researcher, now on the p
Last Updated: 2023-10-15
Chapter: 93Chapter 93:Flashback:The moon hung low in the night sky, casting an eerie glow over the shifter pack. The quietude of the night was broken by the agonizing wail of an Omega. This was a night etched in the memories of those who witnessed the horror that transpired.One day ago, the moon had adorned the night sky, much like the present, but it was a different story altogether. That night, the pack was oblivious to the dark and sinister events unfolding in the shadows.In the midst of the moonlit woods, a young and vulnerable Omega named Tobias had ventured out alone. Unbeknownst to him, the shadows concealed a sinister figure. It was Rae, the cunning vampire council member, hidden in the darkness.Rae had chosen his victim carefully, knowing that an attack on a defenseless Omega would further escalate the tensions between the two factions. As Tobias wandered deeper into the woods, he felt an unsettling presence and turned to see a figure shrouded in darkness.The Omega's eyes widened
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Chapter: 92Chapter 92:The atmosphere in the pack was heavy with uncertainty as Alpha Dante, Beta Ravi, and Melissa Sabrina, the pack doctor, huddled together. They knew they had to get to the bottom of the incident involving the injured patient, a high school colleague of theirs.Alpha Dante, his face etched with concern, inquired, "Melissa, what do you think could have caused the patient's injuries and the loss of so much blood?"Melissa Sabrina, known for her expertise, examined the details carefully before responding, "Alpha Dante, it appears as though some creature or creatures, possibly figureheads, might have attacked him. The patient has lost a significant amount of blood, and his condition is critical. He appears lifeless, like something has drained the very essence of life from him."The weight of her words hung in the air, the implications chilling. Alpha Dante turned to Beta Ravi, and their eyes met, both realizing the gravity of the situation.After a moment of contemplation, Alpha
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Chapter: 91Chapter 91:The news had reached Alpha Dante like a thunderclap. A stranger had ventured into their territory and followed Irene. He couldn't comprehend the reason behind it, but he knew he had to confront the situation."Alpha Dante," the guard stammered, "a stranger has entered our lands and followed Irene."Alpha Dante's eyes narrowed as he questioned the guard, "Are you certain, and do you know the stranger's intentions?"The guard gulped and replied, "Yes, Alpha. I've never seen this person before, and it's unusual for outsiders to enter without permission. I don't know their intentions."Alpha Dante didn't hesitate. He left his chamber, flanked by guards, his heart pounding with unease. Thoughts swirled in his mind as he walked briskly. Why would anyone follow Irene? What could be the stranger's motives?As they approached the area where the stranger was last seen, Alpha Dante's eyes widened in disbelief. There stood Irene, her expression a mix of confusion and concern, and besi
Last Updated: 2023-10-14
Sweet Unhappy Heart
Content Warning: This book contains sexually explicit material and is intended for readers aged 18 and above.
"I’m engaged to your sister. You can’t do this."
His dark-green eyes bored into mine under the sheets, as he stroked my cheeks.
"You’re not even into women, Liam. You know you’re not. You know you want this. You want me."
And Liam couldn't deny it,
He lived to burn for Jackson Maddox.
~
Liam Sinclair had always lived according to his father’s rules, polished, quiet, and hidden in the perfect image of a future CEO.
Behind closed doors, he carried a secret that could destroy everything his father built. He was gay. But scandal had no place in the Sinclair legacy, and Liam made sure no one ever found out.
That is, until the night everything changed.
When his father arranges an engagement with Avery Maddox, a woman Liam barely knows, he unravels. A single night of rebellion leads him to a club, where a one-night stand with a seductive green-eyed stranger spirals into something far more complicated.
The next morning, the stranger's identity is no longer a mystery. His name is Jackson Humin Maddox, the brother of his intending Fiancee.
Now Liam is trapped between duty and desire, legacy and love. But Jackson doesn’t care about titles or contracts. Engaged or not, he wants Liam, and he is not letting go.
This is a forbidden tango of chemistry, but Liam Sinclair has to choose, to either pretend his one time mistake was baseless, or to fall maddeningly in love with it.
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Chapter: 200Third person's POV The prison visiting room smelled like industrial cleaning solution and decades of bad decisions.Liam Sinclair sat across from his father at 7:15 PM. The table between them was bolted to the floor. The guard by the door was watching them with the particular attention reserved for inmates whose charges involved federal conspiracy and attempted murder.Astor Sinclair looked smaller than Liam remembered. Not diminished. His father would never be diminished. But compressed somehow. Like the walls of the cell were already reshaping him into something that fit their dimensions."You came," Astor said. His voice was neutral. Neither pleased nor surprised."I need information," Liam said flatly. "You're the only person who might have it."Astor's mouth curved slightly. Not quite a smile. "Straight to business. I taught you that.""You taught me a lot of things." Liam's tone didn't change. "Most of them wrong."The guard shifted position slightly. Astor ignored him."Wha
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Chapter: 199Third person's POV The photograph arrived on Liam's phone at 4:47 PM.He looked at it for seven seconds without speaking.Jackson was across the room, standing at the window with his back to the light. He'd been there since they'd returned from the briefing, watching the street below without comment. The silence between them had stopped being uncomfortable somewhere around the second hour."Jackson," Liam said.Jackson turned. Something in Liam's voice made him cross the room quickly.Liam held out the phone.Jackson took it. Looked at the screen. His expression didn't change for three full seconds.Then it did."That's—" Jackson stopped. Started again. "That's not possible.""Sometimes somethings are impossible and sometimes nothing is impossible. So here in this situation, I'm so certain that it is true. Janet recovered it from a corrupted file," Liam said quietly. "Legacy corporate records from 2003. The only Marcus Jefferson that connects to the addresses we've been tracking."Ja
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Chapter: 198Third Person's POVThe West Ark contract had a face.Two faces, precisely — Mateo Reyes and Elena Reyes, brother and sister, the visible architecture of a deal that had moved enough money to fund a small government and had done so through a structure elegant enough that three separate regulatory bodies had looked at it on three separate occasions and found nothing worth pursuing. Carlos Reyes, a name that rarely comes out among others of their family. Carlos always gets the low rating because he always hid his hardness behind Mateo and Elena, respectively. The Reyes family was old money in the specific Mexican sense — not narco money, or not exclusively, but the kind of generational wealth that had survived long enough to develop legitimacy the way sediment develops into stone, layer by layer, until the original material was no longer the point.Mateo had been the operational face. He had attended the meetings, signed the documents, appeared in the photographs that existed in the plac
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Chapter: 197Third Person's POVThe phone rang at 7:14 in the morning, which was how Morgana knew it was Henri.Henri Voss had three rules about communication that he had maintained without deviation for as long as she had known him. He never used the same line twice for sensitive information. He never called after nine in the evening, because evenings were for the kind of thinking that required no interruption. And he never called at a civilized hour when he had found something that mattered, because finding things that mattered had a way of making sleep irrelevant.She was already awake. She had been awake since four, which was not unusual. Sleep had been a negotiation since the year her son died, something she approached carefully and lost regularly, and she had long since made peace with the hours between four and seven as her own — a stretch of time that belonged to no one and therefore belonged entirely to her.She answered on the second ring."You found something," she said. Not a question.
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Chapter: 196Third Person's POVThe tie was wrong.Jackson stood in front of the mirror in the hotel bathroom and adjusted it for the fourth time, and it was still wrong, and he understood with a clarity that it had nothing to do with neckwear that the tie was not the problem. The tie was just the thing his hands were doing while his mind worked on something it could not yet put into language."You are going to be late," Liam said from the doorway."I know.""The board has confirmed the press briefing for eleven. Emily has the statement ready to read if you do not want to speak directly. But we both know you are going to speak directly.""I know that too." Jackson looked at his own reflection with the detached assessment of someone checking that the external version was holding together regardless of the internal situation. Suit. Tie that was still slightly wrong. Face that had the controlled neutrality he had been practicing since he was old enough to understand that Maddox men did not show thing
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Chapter: 195The Hunter and the HuntedThird Person's POVThe parking garage on Delancey Street had forty-three surveillance cameras.Danny Finn had counted them over three days of reconnaissance, mapping blind spots, identifying the fourteen cameras that were either broken, poorly angled, or pointed at sections of wall that had not changed since the garage was built in 1987. He had planned his route through the structure with the precision of a man who had spent nine years learning that the difference between finding someone and being found was exactly the kind of patience that grief, if it did not destroy you, eventually taught.He had been careful.He had been thorough.He had been wrong.---Three days earlier, Danny had picked up Dollar Fabs's trail through a contact in the chemical distribution network — a man who imported specialty solvents and knew every buyer in the region with the kind of granular memory that only survived through genuine fear of being on the wrong side of an inventory d
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Chapter: 68Chapter 68The estate was unusually quiet that night, as though the air itself braced for the shift coming.Outside the balcony of the east wing, the city lights blinked lazily in the distance—innocent and unaware.Inside, Gabriel stood near the bar pouring himself a small glass of whiskey. His expression was drawn, eyes low, a thousand thoughts stirring behind them. The fire in the hearth danced quietly, throwing gold across the walls like a memory trying to burn itself into the future.Grandpa Edward Audrey entered the study, slowly but with a presence that made the room shrink into silence. He wore a long ash robe, simple, soft. But the weight of his decisions cloaked him heavier than armor.“You wanted to speak?” the old man asked, sinking into the armchair near the fire.Gabriel turned. “Yes, sir.”He came to sit across from him, swirling the glass once before speaking.“You really plan to announce the CEO tomorrow?”Edward nodded. “Yes. It’s time.”Gabriel hesitated, leaning fo
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Chapter: 67Chapter 67: The Birdie New LoungeThe Birdie New Lounge wasn’t just another uptown spot trying to sell champagne dreams in plastic flutes—it was that rare kind of hush-money luxury, Mira walked in first, in a burnt-orange silk blouse that hugged her soft in all the right ways. Nia followed, her black leather pants tight, her shirt sheer just enough to tease—but not too much for the cameras hovering in corners.“Reservation?” the host asked, tone snobbish, eyes skimming their intertwined fingers.“Under ‘Nia,’” Mira said, sharp and confident.They were led to a corner booth wrapped in velvet and mystery. It faced a stained glass window of a bird mid-flight—free, untouchable.“I can’t believe we’re doing this,” Nia muttered, smoothing her hands down her lap.Mira smiled, almost mischievous. “Doing what? Dating like real people?”Nia looked around. “I mean… this place. Us. You. After everything.”Mira leaned in, voice sultry. “Say it plain, babe. You mean after Zac.”Nia tensed, jaw tw
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Chapter: 66Chapter 66: The Rats in the BasementThe safe house wasn't safe anymore. Not with the weight of secrets cracking its walls and the smell of betrayal thick in the air like mold. It was a rundown warehouse on the edge of the city, hidden behind a row of forgotten shipping containers. A perfect place for ghosts like them—Raymond, Henry, and now, Pigo.Pigo stepped inside like a man stepping into a lion’s den with raw meat strapped to his chest. His black hoodie was damp from sweat, despite the night’s cold. His eyes scanned every shadow, every creak, every dark corner.Raymond stood by a table, nursing a half-empty bottle of whiskey, his gold wristwatch loose around his tattooed wrist. Henry leaned against the far wall, arms folded, face stony, jaw twitching.“You’re late,” Raymond said, not looking at him.“No, I’m not,” Pigo answered, shrugging off the hood. “You’re just desperate.”Raymond finally looked up—eyes bloodshot, smile dry. “We pay you. Watch your tone.”Pigo snorted, walke
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Chapter: 65Chapter 65: Family ReunionThe scent of disinfectant still lingered in the air. Not from a hospital, no—but from the scrubbed-clean warehouse Gabriel’s people raided just hours ago. The place where they had found her. Where a mother had been kept like she was a number. A warning. A pawn.Nia’s hands were trembling even as she stood still, like her body knew something massive was coming and couldn’t decide whether to run or fall to its knees.Zia, however, didn’t wait. She stepped forward the second the back doors of the SUV opened and the woman in the red shawl stepped down. A woman whose eyes had seen too much, whose bones carried secrets carved in silence. Her mother. Their mother.“Mom?” Zia breathed, voice cracked, like her throat had dried up with the years.The woman looked up. Time had done things to her face. Lines like rivers carved from pain, but her eyes… those eyes were mirrors. Zia saw herself. Nia. All the years. All the longing.“My baby,” the woman whispered, before
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Chapter: 64Chapter 64 – The RaidNight fell like a silk curtain pulled down hard over a stage of secrets. The air around Grandpa Edward Audrey’s estate felt too still, like even the wind knew something deadly was about to go down. Every breath was tight. Every silence heavy. Every second, loaded.Inside the main boardroom, the atmosphere was suffocating.Zia sat beside Lorenzo, her fingers interlocked with his, her eyes focused but clouded. Nia stood by the window, arms crossed, jaw clenched. Mira was on the far end of the room, phone in hand, barely blinking. Gabriel leaned forward, knuckles resting on the polished table, while Grandpa Edward stood tall, his cane tapping rhythmically against the floor like a war drum.Then came the call.Gabriel’s phone buzzed, a vibration that broke the room like a bullet through glass. He answered on speaker.A voice, deep and smooth but urgent, filled the air.“We’re in position.”Gabriel nodded. “Are you sure it’s the place?”“No doubt,” the voice confirme
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Chapter: 63Chapter 63 — Old Wounds, New FireLorenzo’s phone buzzed violently on the polished mahogany table, its vibration slicing through the tension that had momentarily cooled. The name on the screen sent a slow, cold fury boiling in his chest.Sophia.He didn’t pick it at first. Just stared at the name like it was a ghost that owed him blood.Zia caught the flicker in his eyes. “Who is it?”He didn’t answer. Instead, he snatched the phone and stood, stalking out of the boardroom like a silent hurricane. The hallway was empty, clinical in its silence, but the rage in Lorenzo’s steps made the walls pulse.He picked the call.And didn’t say a word.Her voice came first—soft, breathy, rehearsed. “Lorenzo…”He exhaled, but it sounded like thunder.“You have the nerve,” he said, his voice low, controlled, almost quiet—yet blistering with venom. “You have the gall to call me now?”“Lorenzo, please… I didn’t know who else to—”“You didn’t know?” His laugh was dry. “You didn’t know when you dragged
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