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THE TYRANT'S CONTRACT BRIDE CH.86
Killian suddenly remembered something. He reached into his jacket and pulled out Serena's phone with an apologetic look. "Almost slipped my mind - you might want to check this before we really get this party train rolling'," he said with an exaggerated wink, sliding the device across the table towards her with a casual flick of his wrist. "We don't need any buzzkill calls from the real world to ruin our night."Serena's brow furrowed slightly as she scooped up the phone. Her fingertips swiped across the screen to check for any missed notifications. Sure enough, there were a handful of missed calls - a few from Jenkins and a couple more from her manager Kate. She briefly debated whether she should call them back with her thumb hovering over the return call icons as she chewed absently on her full bottom lip.But the lure of a carefree night out on the town, unburdened by any stresses, was simply too tempting to resist. She gave out a soft sigh and turned off her phone fully be
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If it wasn't for the solid wall of heated flesh that Serena’s limbs collided with a split-second later, she probably would've face-planted right into the marbled club floor. A pair of strong, muscular arms encircled her slender frame, allowing her to regain her balance and steady herself.Killian was on his feet and moving before his brain even fully processed what was happening. Every finely-honed instinct he possessed had him tensing in a cold spike of adrenaline, ready for violence as his gaze snapped towards the source of the commotion. However, he forced himself to pause and assess the situation with a calculated detachment, taking in Serena's steadying form and the lack of any immediate threat. No real danger would come to her as long as he was there watching over her with the focused intensity of a hunting predator.Serena finally steadied herself. Her chest was heaving slightly as she blinked and tried to get her bearings. Then her gaze lifted with indignant anger as
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Serena decided to continue drowning herself in alcohol, trying to forget the last couple of minutes and the fact that Britney was dead. "Sister-in-law..." Killian's gruff tone snapped her back to the present. Serena glanced over to see him eyeing her. Although her vision was blurry due to drunkenness, she saw no remorse or desire in his piercing stare - only the cool calculation of a bodyguard assessing potential threats to his principal and determining the appropriate course of action.Killian was many things: a skilled operative, an efficient killer when the brutal situation demanded it, and above all, fiercely loyal to Knox. He was no lovesick fool prone to getting swept up in misguided romantic notions. Serena was strictly off-limits in that regard. She was practically family. He viewed her as a sister-in-law to be sheltered and protected at any cost, nothing more. Killian watched the woman down one glass after another until she could barely register anything around h
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Serena hovered above Knox's unconscious form lying motionless atop a large king-sized bed. Her eyes were still glowing with an eerie, otherworldly white light, like twin orbs burning from within. She climbed onto the bed and straddled Knox's muscular frame, settling her slight weight on top his chiseled, tattooed chest with her thighs clamped on either side of his powerful torso. Her slender fingers reached out, tracing featherlight patterns along the coarse stubble lining his strong, angular jawline with an almost reverent tenderness completely at odds with the strange atmosphere permeating the room.Then, with an agonizing slowness that made it seem an eternity was being stretched out in that single weighted moment, Serena leaned down until her slightly parted lips met Knox's in a searing, passionate kiss. A blinding burst of incandescent white light immediately flowed from her mouth in a raging torrent, pouring into Knox's body like a river of molten starfire.The very ai
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The mocking lilt in Serena’s throaty murmur, caused an icy sliver to pierce Enzo's gut. His hands clenched into tight fists, the tendons and musculature in his arms and shoulders tensing and bulging as he visibly strained against the invisible bonds holding him immobile. It was as if every fiber of his being were straining to launch itself across that short distance and tear Serena apart with his bare hands.Only Meredith's presence at his side, her smaller hand coming to rest against the rigid plane of his heaving abdomen in a silent gesture of comfort and restraint, prevented him from likely doing just that. The soothing warmth of her touch helped anchor him, preventing the rising tide of his demonic fury from cresting and sweeping away what remained of his control.Then Serena's weird smile turned into a knowing smirk as she swept her eyes over Meredith's voluptuous figure in a very natural but obviously inappropriate and crude inspection."Well, well...I must say, you cert
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Knox gritted his teeth when he couldn’t just exorcist this damn entity out of his mate’s body without hurting her in the process. Serena’s lips stretched into a mocking smile when she saw his struggle to hold himself back from hurting this mortal body. Had he truly fallen in love with her? Why did the idea of it hurt so much?"I've spent ages trying to earn your forgiveness, pleading my case and offering every repentance," she continued in a stronger voice tinged with desperation. "But you never once granted it to me, no matter how I debased myself before you. Yet you so easily forgave this...this woman, simply because she happened to be your fated mate in this pathetic reincarnation."She shook her head slowly, her eyes shimmering with unshed tears as she held Knox's uncompromising stare."Well, the reason I've come barging so inelegantly into your lives this time is because I chose to take matters into my own hands. I want to help you both complete that mate bond, once and for all,
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Knox summoned all his willpower to force his other self that had roughly shoved him outside just moments before back into submission.It was a like vicious psychic tug-of-war, leaving him feeling utterly spent and disoriented once he'd finally wrestled back dominance. His vision swam in a dizzying blur, the room seeming to tilt and spin around him in a nauseating vertigo-like sensation. He hadn't yet been able to replenish his depleted energy reserves. Enzo and Meredith were at his side in an instant, quickly moving to steady Knox as he sat upright on the bed.Serena's delicate form was cradled securely in the crook of his other arm, blissfully unaware in her deep unconscious state of the otherworldly chaos that had just violently played out. Her chest rose and fell in a slow, steady rhythm, a strand of silken hair falling across her peaceful face."Easy there, boy," Enzo's gruff voice sounded. "Are you okay, son?" Meredith asked in a voice thick with worry, her brow crea
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The sound of hurried footsteps approaching broke through her whirling thoughts. She looked up to see Marcus, her most trusted assistant, rushing towards her with naked concern etched across his features."My lady!" He skidded to a halt before her. "I felt an immense surge of mystical energy emanating from this chamber. Are you unharmed?"She waved off his worries. "I am unhurt, but we have a potential crisis on our hands."She beckoned Marcus closer with an impatient gesture, then began relaying in clipped tones everything she had witnessed regarding Knox's unexpected abilities and the implications they carried.Marcus's eyes widened incrementally until they were as large as saucers. "You cannot possibly be suggesting..." He trailed off, visibly shaken. "That he is one of the Ancient Ones?""It would certainly explain a great deal about his nature," she said with a curt nod. "Which means our entire situation has abruptly changed in ways we could never have foreseen."A cold, c
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Only the monsters remained a seemingly endless horde that would continue to ravage and destroy until the entire world was little more than a barren, lifeless husk. Knox could not, would not, allow that to happen. Not after everything, not after the unfathomable sacrifices that had already been made in the pursuit of preventing such a future from coming to pass. Too much had been lost, too many lives extinguished in the fires of this onslaught. Darkness swirled around him and began coiling outwards to merge with the torrential downpour. The vortex rapidly expanded, growing in size and ferocity until it became an all-consuming maw ready to devour everything in its path. The earth itself seemed to tremble by the vortex of annihilation taking form, as if the very world were protesting the profane nature of the forces being brought to bear. The air itself seemed to warp and twist, reality buckling under the strain of the immense power being channeled. Each bolt of lightning tha
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Knox simply remained there for long, excruciating moments, taking in the sight of her serene repose as if etching every line and curve into his tortured memory so he wouldn't lose even the tiniest detail.Suddenly, Serena's body was engulfed in a dazzling burst of light, with glowing tendrils extending outward to encircle Knox's form. He pulled the light within, absorbing it as if he were a hole eating the stars. It was the portion of his soul he had given Serena in both their past lives and this current one, now being reclaimed after her death. Then Knox rose to his feet with fluidity, seemingly defying the rules of gravity once the last remnants of that magnificent essence were sucked back into his form."Let us never meet again!" he intoned, his voice a discordant rasp that held no trace of anything remotely human. The words carried such weight, such profundity of power that the trembling maid instantly crumpled motionlessly to the floor. Her mind simply could not withstand the
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Tears burned hot in Meredith's eyes at the brutal truth of Enzo's words. She had failed - failed utterly to protect Knox, failed to prevent this future from becoming their new reality. Deep in her soul, she could feel the ancient spirits of Queen Minerva and Princess Myra weeping bitter tears of sorrow and regret. Their sacred bloodline, their eternal legacy was now irrevocably tainted by this unraveling of fate.A choked sound somewhere between a sob and a bitter peal of laughter escaped her lips when Sahar's severed head came rolling to a stop at her feet with her dead eyes still holding a mocking glint of triumph even in death. The twisted wench had achieved her ultimate goal - to bring about the utter ruination of their legacy, the destruction of every last Cavalieri-Delgaard dynasty. All around them, the battle raged on with no end in sight, the air thick with the sights, sounds and smells of death. Killian's towering Lycan form, battered and bleeding from a thousand savage
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The sight of everyone she loved fighting for their very existence against such overwhelming odds...it was a blade twisting in Meredith's heart.A searing agony lanced through her and she knew Enzo was injured. It was the effect of a mate bond whether fated or chosen. She stumbled, gasping for air as she clutched at her chest. The pain was almost beyond endurance… like a molten lance of agony that threatened to bring her to her knees. Tears burned in her eyes and her sight blurred as the true gravity of their situation hit her like a battering ram. Any wound inflicted by these abominations was fatal. Their claws, fangs, and very essence were imbued with a poison that corrupted all it touched.“Is there no way?” Her mind reeled like ashes on the wind as another spasm of anguish gripped her in its merciless talons. “Is there no way to save them all? To avert this future I've foreseen?”Her body trembled violently and her legs threatened to give out beneath her as she watched her love
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Meredith drew on her newly regained powers and unleashed a torrent of energy at the beasts. The demons recoiled, shrieking in fury and anguish as magic seared their rotting flesh. The stench of burning meat filled the air, mingling with the miasma that clung to the creatures.Meredith maintained the onslaught, driving them back through the shattered doorway with relentless determination.Next, she sealed the room with an impenetrable barrier when the last of the abominations stumbled back into the hall, wailing in pain and wrath.She turned to face the trembling girl. "Stay here if you wish to live, child," Meredith instructed. "This madness needs to cease, and soon, before it swallows us all."Then she swept from the chamber and out into the chaos that had engulfed the estate's once-clean halls. The hallway ahead was a nightmare come true, with claw marks on the walls, bloody paintings, and the crushed bodies of fallen defenders strewn over the floor like discarded objects.Meredi
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Meredith's heart thundered against her ribcage as she paced the length of Knox and Serena's bedroom suite. Her footfalls echoed with a hollow resonance that belied the emptiness gnawing at her very soul.The incessant rattling and banging against the thick oak door grew more insistent with each passing moment in a cacophony of destruction that served as a reminder of the hellish forces laying siege to their home. Beyond that rapidly crumbling barrier, chaos ruled in an unholy storm of violence that threatened to devour all Meredith held dear.Shrieks of unimaginable agony intermingled with roars. Each haunting wail, each guttural bellow, sent a fresh wave of anguish coursing through Meredith's immortal frame. How many had already fallen? The question burned in her mind like acid, eating away at what little composure she managed to maintain. How many brave warriors, loyal protectors of the estate had lost their lives under the claws of these abominations? The faces of those she had
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"I'm the only woman alive now who can give you an heir, bear you children to carry on your bloodline..." Her words were a hushed whisper. "I am your rightful mate at long last. We were always meant to be together as one, you and I. Two halves of the same whole."She sniffled again as a fresh wave of tears spilled forth. "You should have accepted my request earlier, when I simply wanted to enjoy one night with my betrothed...to bask in the warmth of your embrace, as is my right as your—"Her words died on her lips when Knox suddenly closed the distance and wrapped his hand around her slender throat in a grip, wrenching her forward until her feet left the ground. Then he slammed her head back against the stone wall with brutal force to crack her skull. Sirona let out a pained, wheezing laugh as she stared up at him with wild, unfocused eyes. A thin trickle of crimson seeped from the corner of her mouth, tracing a macabre path down her chin."You...you wouldn't dare..." she choked out
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Knox felt as if the entire world had collapsed around him, with a devastating blast of despair and despair threatening to break what little remained of his damaged psyche into a million shattered fragments. The sheer, all-consuming agony that had lanced through him was unlike anything he'd ever experienced before. It that it defied description… as though every nerve ending in his immortal body had been set ablaze and doused in acid simultaneously.The air became heavy and oppressive as the full impact of what had happened started to sink in, and the cold stone of the dungeon walls seemed to close in around him.Knox simply couldn't - no, he utterly refused with every fiber of his being to accept the cruel reality that his worst fears had been realized in the most brutal and decisive way imaginable. Serena. His beautiful, precious mate...the very radiant light in his darkness...she was gone. Why? The question kept coming back to him, echoing through the vast emptiness of his head, e
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The huge double doors to the dungeon at one of Knox's estates slid open, revealing his towering figure. An oppressive air accompanied him, making it feel as if the very atmosphere held its breath in his presence. Dark tendrils like mist swirled around him, and his eyes that was always cold, blazed with a fury that made them appear even icier than usual. His mind was still reeling from the hateful words Serena had hurled at him in the car earlier, and in a moment of desperation, he had teleported himself here.Knox despised himself for losing control and slapping Serena in a moment of anger. He couldn’t forgive himself, especially when the thought crossed his mind that perhaps Sirona had found a way to bypass his restraint meant to keep her in check, and had gotten into Serena’s mind. More than half of him believed the venomous words Serena had spoken weren't hers but were instead Sirona’s doing. This belief drove him to the dungeon, determined to confirm his theory.His eyes lan
