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Chapter 11 - The Library
The Alpha Loves his Villainess/Sophi Liddell
The library is…fantastic.I exhale a long breath as I enter, avoiding the urge to turn in a slow circle to move my eyes over every gorgeous bit of this place. My wolf pants, her toes eagerly tapping at the sight of the low-lit desks and study nooks, the arching windows of the glass ceiling, the automated brass ladders that lift library aids with ease up and down the four-story shelves. And everywhere just…books.Quick, let’s take a few more, my ravenous little wolf says, spinning in an eager circle. Just start at random – you can carry more - or I’m sure we can get through twenty by dinner – all the things we don’t know – I have to admit that I’m tempted, but I just smooth a mental hand over her fur, knowing that we’ve got work to do and the books we want are not in this room.I fix my eyes on the librarian’s station at the center of the room – a series of oak chest-height desks built like a fortress around the reference center. And at the center of that, a set of spiral stairs tha
Dernière mise à jour : 2025-03-12Chapter 12 - Manuscripts
The Alpha Loves his Villainess/Sophi Liddell
“This text list is unusual,” she says, the dryness of her words suggesting just how much of an understatement that is. “As you have Dr. Arzento’s permission we will of course fetch the texts. But you will be kept under close supervision. Is that clear?”“Of course,” I say, nodding eagerly.She takes a deep breath, looking me up and down. “Can you even read the original Itanian in which these are written?”I give her my absolute prettiest smile. “Est da lingua mia miteria,” I say, quite calm, my accent perfect.And it’s not a lie. Itanian is my mother tongue – my twin brother’s, too. My father had Itanian nurses brought in expressly for us after my mother died. Learning the ancient forms in later study had comparatively been a piece of cake, at least for me. Matteo had shown none of my interest after childhood, preferring to waste his time being useless.The librarian’s eyebrows go slightly up, but I can’t tell if she’s impressed or contemptuous.It doesn’t matter. The result is the sa
Dernière mise à jour : 2025-03-12Chapter 13 - An Invitation
The Alpha Loves his Villainess/Sophi Liddell
SabrinaRhett stares at me for a long moment, his mouth turning down into a frown.Or, well a deeper frown. He was already scowling, which seems like rather a base state for him.Slowly, he turns to me and starts back towards my carrel.What is he doing? My wolf growls, all of her emotions all tangled up. Wariness and ferocity at war with excitement –Why are you excited!? I snap at her, my eyes on Rhett as he slowly crosses to me.I want to knowww, she whines, scratching her claws at the dirt of my soul. What is he!? Why do we know him!?I grit my teeth, looking up at this huge, well-built wolf as he steps into my study space.“Hi, Rhett!” I say, giving him a sad little wave, letting him see that he’s making me anxious.But, because he’s not a gentleman, he doesn’t back off or do anything to put me at ease.“Studying?” he asks, lifting his chin at my book.I nod, my chin bobbing, twisting my hands in my lap, hoping he gets the picture that I very much want him to go away. But if he r
Dernière mise à jour : 2025-03-12Chapter 14 - Rivalry
The Alpha Loves his Villainess/Sophi Liddell
God damn it, I’m better than this. Why is he riling my temper? Why am I letting him?“I have to get back to work,” I say, heaving an adorable, contented sigh and turning back to my research.From the corner of my vision, I see him dip into what can barely be called a bow. “I’ll look forward to seeing you at dinner, Celestial.”“Thank you, Hawthorne,” I say. “That will be all.”He laughs at my dismissal, which is honestly below his station - the kind of wording an Alpha or a Celestial would use to dismiss their maid, not someone else’s trusted guard. But Rhett Hawthorne is pushing my boundaries and needs to be set in his place.I listen as his footsteps fade away, tension draining from me as they do.He is trouble, my wolf whispers, a little whine in her voice.I know, I say, full of dread, reminding myself of the conclusion I came to yesterday. But he won’t be around long to bother us.My wolf whines again and turns in a circle, not liking it. But we promised Cosy we wouldn’t kill any
Dernière mise à jour : 2025-03-12Chapter 15 - Dinner
The Alpha Loves his Villainess/Sophi Liddell
CosetteI frown, looking Sabrina up and down, knowing she can’t wear the same clothes I’ve “borrowed” for her to dinner with Prince Max tonight. Celestials have…insane wardrobes for this sort of thing.“Sabrina, I can’t steal you anything like what you’ll need for tonight,” I say, shaking my head and looking at her current outfit. “The laundry won’t notice a skirt missing, but some sort of gown…”“That’s okay,” she says, her eyes moving to my wardrobe. “Don’t you have…any of your mom’s clothes?”My face pales slightly, my eyes darting to my wardrobe.Because I do have some of my mom’s clothes. Not a lot but – some. My mother loved sewing – loved designing things, really. To call her just a seamstress is…reductive. The clothes she made are vintage, utterly unique, stunning, and…Well, mine.Mine.And I’m not trying to be selfish, but they’re one of the only things that I have left to remember her by. Clothes I was saving for…I don’t know, when my life is better? When I have the time an
Dernière mise à jour : 2025-03-12Chapter 16 - Peer Pressure
The Alpha Loves his Villainess/Sophi Liddell
Sabrina “Oh, it doesn’t matter,” he says casually, pushing the door shut and dropping an arm around my shoulders, escorting me toward the table. “You look fantastic, Betty. And I love that you didn’t change – it’s refreshing. We should all come as we are more often.”I settle into the chair he leads me to, pretending embarrassment as he settles in next to me. “My apologies for my appearance,” I whisper, looking around at everyone. “I didn’t know.”“Oh, you look adorable,” says the dark-haired young woman across the table from me. She gives me a sly smile. “Like you’ve been in the library all day! Very academic, very librarian chic.”I bite my lip a little. “I was in the library all day.”She blinks, smile fading. “Wait, really?”I nod and her mouth circles into a scandalized o, like that’s the most gauche thing she’s ever heard.“Everyone,” Max says, leaning forward and looking around the table. “This is Betty Spencer. Betty, this is Ally Jones and Flora Barone.”I nod to the young w
Dernière mise à jour : 2025-03-12Chapter 17 - Secrets
The Alpha Loves his Villainess/Sophi Liddell
SabrinaI slip my eyes casually away from Rhett’s face, pretending that I didn’t hear him even as my wolf snarls. “Kai is very kind,” I say quietly, studying Kai – who smiles at me – and then looking up at Max. “I don’t think he’d try to take advantage of anyone like that, let alone someone he cares for.”“Thank you, Betty,” Kai says, raising his wine glass to me like that’s the end of it. Ally laughs while the others at the table – Rhett excluded – smile and shake their heads.“And what about you, Betty?” Ally says, turning her attention exclusively to me. I meet her eyes, shrinking a little, pretending to be shy even though my wolf snaps her teeth, eager to engage. “Are you a candidate for the Tournament this year? Tossing your hat in the ring? Who knows – if you are, perhaps our Kai will find that his affections have shifted –““Enough, Ally,” Max murmurs, sending her a short glare.Ally grins and raises her hands like she didn’t mean anything by it, settling back in her seat.Bu
Dernière mise à jour : 2025-03-12Chapter 18 - Fire Magic
The Alpha Loves his Villainess/Sophi Liddell
SabrinaI smile shyly at him, pretending to be quite pleased by the compliment of his notice. But of course I know that – everyone does. “It runs in my family, a little,” I whisper. True, too – conveniently so.Because I don’t actually have fire magic at all – but if everyone thinks Betty does, they won’t be asking any questions about what it is that I can do. It’s half the reason I’m here, anyway – to increase my powers through the readings of Philomena d’Caia’s diary.Everyone thinks she’s a whore – but it was all a clever disguise. Yes, d’Caia used misogyny as a disguise for her true identity as a powerful sorceress. And I’m here to steal all the spells that I’m convinced are encoded in her diaries. My wolf bares her teeth in my soul, incredibly eager to continue our work, kind of urging me to leave this dinner and go back to the library right now – it’s still open for two more hours, after all. We could learn so much in that time…But I stroke a mental hand over her fur, calming
Dernière mise à jour : 2025-03-12Chapter 19 - First Date
The Alpha Loves his Villainess/Sophi Liddell
SabrinaThe air out on the balcony is very light and breezy, with just that little nipping chill in it that’s unique to the end of winter, just before spring takes hold. I take a deep breath, leaning against the iron bars that look out over the rolling, wooded hills west of the Seminary. Hills I lived in for a few days trying to find the right time to sneak onto these grounds, all curled up between the roots of trees…I close my eyes for a moment, pushing the memory from my mind. That’s all passed now. I take a sip of my wine, truly relishing the luxury of it. It’s different, after a time of deprivation.Something of which Prince Maxwell has no true experience, I’m sure.“Nice out,” Max murmurs. I open my eyes and watch as he puts the decanter of wine down next to him, leaning next to me on the bars, swishing what’s rest of his wine around in his glass. “Warmer, finally. I’ll be glad when this winter goes away.”“I won’t,” I say, relaxing and taking a deep breath. “I like it chilly. M
Dernière mise à jour : 2025-03-12Chapter 20 - Bully
The Alpha Loves his Villainess/Sophi Liddell
Sabrina“Oh,” I say, letting my voice fall slightly. “Then are you and Ally…”Max returns his eyes to my face, smirking slightly. “No, Betty. I’m not seeing anyone right now. Ally is my cousin and she and Elov are actually…well, doing whatever they’re doing.” He sighs, shaking his head at that. “But she’s family, which means Rhett can’t get rid of her no matter how hard he tries.”My shoulders straighten at this news as I mentally sort through the royal family tree, realizing that Ally and Max do indeed share a great-grandfather on his mother’s side. I mean, I knew the royal family was deeply entwined with the nobility of Vastria, but I hadn’t known that Max and she were close.Very interesting.“Not nice of Rhett to try to get rid of your friends,” I say softly, biting my lip.“Eh, Rhett doesn’t really care about being nice,” Max murmurs, shrugging and bending down to lift the decanter, pouring a little more wine into my glass. I watch the liquid sloshing in, intuiting that Max wants
Dernière mise à jour : 2025-03-12
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