Valeria’s plan was simple: Endure living in the same house as her notoriously sexy stepbrothers. Make it through the last months of high school. Leave the Red Ridge Pack—forever. And things were going quite well until the first thing her wolf - Hazel - screamed on her eighteenth birthday was, “Mates!” To her horror, she looked up and saw it wasn’t just one—but all four of her stepbrothers. Alerion, the cold and calculating leader. Caius, the cute geek Zane, the Casanova, who made her heart race and her head spin. And Lysander, the quirky one who had sworn to make her life in school difficult Each of them is determined to stake their claim, but Valeria has no interest in being part of their game. With her stepfather pressuring her into an arranged marriage and her mother turning a blind eye to her struggles, Valeria has one goal: to escape and never be found. But the bond between mates is impossible to ignore, and when secrets unravel and tensions ignite, Valeria finds herself caught in a dangerous web of jealousy, desire, and betrayal. Her freedom was all she ever wanted, but will she risk losing her heart to the ones she vowed to leave behind?
Lihat lebih banyakCHAPTER 34 ~Valeria~I swear, my lungs just refused to work right after what I witnessed. My heart was drumming so quickly that everyone close to me turned to stare at me with concern.“Are you sure you still want to watch this?” A girl by my side asked.I nodded my head without thinking, “Yes, I can.”“I don’t think so.”“Maybe, you should take a minute walk away from this.” She suggested, trying to grab my hand and pull me away from the crowd.“I promise you that I’m okay.” I pulled away from the stranger and inched closer to Zane so she wouldn’t bother me again. That was when he also got the hint and moved. Zane blocked my vision with his palm when my heart didn’t stop beating so loudly. The cedar scent of his palm was the quickest remedy I didn’t know I needed. “I’ll let you know when it’s okay to watch.” He murmured. Everywhere was so silent like they had already uttered a last minute prayer for Alerion’s soul. Under duress, I shoved Zane’s palm away and counted back from
Chapter 33~Valeria~If I had placed a bet on how dirty this could get, I would have been a lot richer than my stepfather. Guys didn’t do words. They did fists. “The rules are simple,” the leader sneered, rolling his shoulders as he measured up to Alerion. “One-on-one. No weapons. Just our wolves and human forms. The loser gets on their knees and apologizes to the winner.” I didn’t like the idea of that. Sure, I trusted my brothers to win at their best but it wasn’t everytime that one could get lucky. I was going to object to their childish suggestion when Alerion accepted the challenge. “Fine. But when I win, I don’t want your apology. I want you to keep your worthless mouth shut and beg for Valeria’s forgiveness.” The crowd cheered his boldness in support while our opponents cringed in irritation. The leader smirked, then nodded to his chosen fighter, a broad-shouldered, thick-necked werewolf who looked like he could break bones just by clenching his fists too hard. He was ta
Chapter 32~Valeria~The moment Alerion’s name was announced as the winner, the crowd erupted into cheers. I could hear my brothers' names being called next, Caius and Zane tied for second, and Lysander trailing just behind in third. Not everyone was pleased with their victory but they didn’t care. The competition had been tense and they gained more enemies than we expected. I could feel eyes on me. One that spiked danger in my spine. Then, I saw them. A group of werewolves, unfamiliar but not completely unknown. They moved through the crowd with arrogant confidence, their laughter so irritating and intentional. But it wasn’t just their presence that made my stomach twist. It was them. The ones who had bullied me before. The ones who had made my life a living hell. And now, they were here. I swallowed hard, my palm slick with sweat. My body flinched with discomfort before my mind could fully grasped the danger. I retraced my steps. My brothers, on the other hand, stood still lik
~Zane~Winning had never been just about proving myself to just anybody. I was born a Cassian, raised in a house where strength, dominance, and victory were the only things that mattered. Losing wasn’t an option, not to Alerion, not to Caius, not to Lysander. But tonight, none of that compared to the real reason I was dead set on winning.Valeria. Every display of my manliness in my wolf form that I put into this competition was for her. I had to show her that I wasn’t just another jealous, irrational, possessive freak who couldn’t protect her. I had to prove that I was the only one who deserved to own her. Not Caius. Not Lysander. Not anyone else who thought they could slip into her life by being a goody bag and then snatching her away. “Come on, man.”“You got this.” I mentally prepped myself as I warmed up while glancing at her.Damn, she was the prettiest girl in this crowd and I didn’t care how every other girl looked. They didn’t matter. The first event was tracking prey, a
~Valeria~You know that moment when you're stuck between the Devil and the deep blue sea, and neither option looks pretty? Yeah, that was me.Zane was heading straight for me, eyes dark with anger, jaw tight, walking trouble disguised as charmfor naive little girls. My instinct pinched me to take the nearest exit, but that would only make things worse.So I stood gracefully, glancing around to see if anyone else had noticed the raging tornado that had just entered the room.Caius must have noticed but he didn’t budge and I didn’t expect him to.“Zane, what a surprise.” My lips curled into something resembling a smile, but my teeth were clenched. “Didn’t expect to see you here.”If his eyes could shoot fire, I’d be ashes by now. He didn’t say a word but his eyes howled a thousand things I could understand. A few people were already staring and my heart raced from being the center of attraction in a bad way.Without caring at all for his image or mine, Zane grabbed me by the arm and dr
~Valeria~“You need a break from that shithole they call an academy,” Landon said the moment I answered the FaceTime call. His face filled my screen, seeming more upset over the stories he had heard of my suffering. I sighed, shifting against my pillows. “Unless you have a magic wand to make everyone shut up, I don’t see how that’s possible.”Landon leaned back against what looked like an expensive leather chair. “Actually,” he drawled, “I’ve got something even better.”I raised a brow. “And that is?”“There’s a gala this weekend—high-end, exclusive, the kind of event that could actually do you some good.”I hesitated. The idea of walking into a room full of powerful strangers, pretending I belonged, made my stomach twist.“I don’t know, Lan…”He tilted his head. “Come on, Val. Think of it as a chance to network. Expand your circle. Show people you’re more than the rumors.”I bit my lip, still unconvinced. “I’d rather stay home and study with Caius.”“Study? Come on, Val.”“There wil
~Valeria~If there was a world record for how fast someone’s life could go to hell thrice in a row, I was pretty sure I’d just broken it.I thought everyone went back to paying attention at Amanda but she doubled her game and it made it even worst with the scandals.School had become a torture ground and I dreaded the weekdays badly.Even teachers looked at me with disgust and made snide comments about my grades dropping low.“If you focused more on school than boys, you wouldn’t have an F on your maths test.” Mr. Collins said as I approached him in his office about my scores.Right there, my breathing went shallow and I was close to passing out from the drum of insults loaded on me.I expected them to know better. I wasn’t skipping classes to make out under the bleachers. I was suffocating under the pressure of deadlines, assignments and soul crushing comments and drags on my social media.But it didn’t matter to them to stop and think for a second that I was the victim here.Swallow
~Valeria~The thing with rumors? They never really die. You can suppress them with facts but some people would never accept the truth. They would rather eat me up with their eyes and mutter insults in disgust. And right now? I just wanted the ground to swallow me from this walk of disgrace.I knew appearing in school would be the biggest mistake but I didn’t expect the silence. I thought they would throw crumpled papers at my head, laugh in my face or mutter curses but they didn’t.Not even a single whisper as I passed, just eyes, so many damn eyes watching me like I had their favorite soap opera on my face.Honestly, it was worse than the gossip. At least when people talked, I could pretend I didn’t care but not now.“Just keep walking.” Lysander muttered beside me, jolting me back to the reality that he was here.I did keep walking, head high, spine straight like a model like I hadn’t read half the school calling me every single name under the sun on social media last night.Slut.
~Valeria~The guilt was eating me alive.I wasn’t the one who called Landon. I wasn’t the one who embarrassed him. But I was the reason it happened.Maybe that’s why Alerion’s words wouldn’t stop echoing in my head.I exhaled sharply and pulled out my phone.I hesitated for a second, my thumb hovering over the call button. Then, before I could talk myself out of it, I pressed it.He answered almost immediately.“Val?” His voice was deep, groggy, like he had just woken up. And damn, it was the kind of voice that could make any girl weak in the knees.I swallowed. “Hey… are you busy?”There was a pause. Then a lazy chuckle. “Well, I am now.”Despite everything, a small smile tugged at my lips.“I..uh, I’m sorry for disturbing you.”“I can never see you as a burden, Val.” His voice was soft, sincere.And just like that, my heart did a stupid little flip.His words made me even more guilty because he was the sweetest guy ever and I just had to make him look bad with my selfish actions.Cl
Valeria POVI am now Alpha Cassian’s stepdaughter not just that, I also have four hot, dangerously sexy step-brothers – the kind of hotness that will make your pulse race just by standing in the same room with name and leave a wet patch in between your legs. Me… a girl who has been an only child all my life. It has just been me and my mommy and I loved the arrangement. I loved that I could not share her with someone else but my mother fell in love and although I know I have no say in her choices, I just wished she had chosen another species... maybe a human and not a werewolf.So, here I am, standing on the Private tarmac of the Red Ridge Pack Airport, waiting for a crew to hand us our luggage. Well, my step-father was not only a powerful Alpha, but he was also wealthy and had sent a private jet to pick up me and Mom.“Thank you!” my mother murmured gratefully to the Porter who finished loading all of our luggage as we turned and followed behind him.My mother glanced at her phone. “...
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