Chapter 632 Chapter 631: The Illness That Opened the Door to Something Worse Sophia recovered. It did not happen all at once, nor did it feel like something she had achieved on her own. The strength returned to her body gradually, slipping back into her limbs in a way that
Chapter 631 Chapter 630: The Beauty That Was Forced to Bleed Warning: This Chapter contains sensitive and distressing themes, including violence and the abuse of a minor. Sophia blinked. Her head turned slightly, confusion flickering across her face. “My… hair?” she asked softly. Her mother made a face as she
Chapter 630 Chapter 629: The Softness That Hid Something Cruel Sophia fought to open her eyes. The light greeted her immediately. It was too bright against her eyes, perhaps too sharp too. She shut them again with a small sound, her brows pulling together as discomfort settled behind them. It
Chapter 629 Chapter 628: The Kind of Anger That Demands Blood but Learns to Wait Lysander didn’t waste time. He stepped out just as Brynhild’s presence faded down the corridor, his pace quick. “Brynhild,” he called out. He reached her in seconds, his hand closing gently but firmly around hers.
Chapter 628 Chapter 627: The Pain That Refuses to Fade Orion exhaled slowly as he placed her back on the bed, carefully. Like even the smallest mistake might break her all over again. His hands lingered for a second longer than necessary before he finally pulled away, his chest still
Chapter 627 Chapter 626: When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot Hold For a moment, Orion was frozen. Not because he didn’t understand what was happening, but because his mind refused to accept the scale of it. Sophia’s eyes were open. But she wasn’t there. The screams had stopped
Chapter 626 Chapter 625: The Night Something Inside Her Broke Warning: This Chapter contains sensitive and distressing themes, including violence and the abuse of a minor. Someone was screaming. The sound tore through the air, raw and broken, like it didn’t belong to anything human anymore. Sophia didn’t know who
Chapter 625 Chapter 624: The Kindness She Was Never Meant to Understand Sophia stared at Alaric, her brows pulling together slightly, confusion settling deep in her chest. Her mother had said it was her fault. And the more she thought about it… the more it made sense. If she had
Chapter 624 Chapter 623: The Kindness That Should Not Exist Here Sophia did not sleep that night. She lay curled on the cold stone floor, her back pressed to the wall, her knees pulled to her chest, her fingers digging into the thin fabric of her dress as she listened.
Chapter 623 Chapter 622: Beneath the Castle Where Silence Screams That night, Sophia did not return to her room. Her mother did not allow it. Instead, she was taken beneath the castle that sat alone atop the hill, its silhouette carved against a sky that no longer felt like night
Chapter 622 Chapter 621: The Choice That Comes With Knowing Annabeth didn’t speak immediately. She stared at the snow in front of her, her fingers brushing lightly against it, like she was trying to ground herself before saying something she couldn’t take back. Ronan didn’t rush her. He just watched
Chapter 621 Chapter 620: The Weight of What We Know Annabeth stayed rooted. There was something different in his voice. It wasn’t teasing or playful. This sounded heavier. And she couldn’t explain why—there were many things she couldn’t explain when it came to her reaction to him—but her chest tightened.
Chapter 620 Chapter 619: The Weight They Carried After the short meeting, Orion left along with Ronan. Tobias was the last to leave and did not want to leave Raina, but alas, he had to leave, and he had to meet Sam after all. Raina was asleep in her cot,
Chapter 619 Chapter 618: The Cost of a False Vision Content Warning: This Chapter contains themes of violence against a child/trauma involving a minor. Sophia learned at four that cruelty was not something described. It was not something someone learned. It was something that was embedded in people. Cruelty flowed
Chapter 618 Chapter 617: The Weight of What Was Remembered Back At The Nightshade Pack Orion and his friends were in Lysander and Brynhild’s home. Tobias held Raina in his arms. She took to him instantly, cooing softly, and normally they would have made a joke about how Tobias was
Chapter 617 Chapter 616: The Price of Being Seen Sophia did not remember the last time she had felt that light. It lingered even after she left the garden that day, tucked somewhere quiet inside her chest, fragile and glowing in a way she did not have words for. She
Chapter 616 Chapter 615: The Garden That Remembered Before It Happened A month later, Sophia learned how to forget on purpose. It was not the gentle kind of forgetting that came with sleep or distraction. But the kind that required effort—quiet repetition, deliberate burial, like placing stones over something still
Chapter 615 Chapter 614: The Things Returning to the Surface The medical facility had grown quieter, but not calmer. Quiet was not peace here. It was only the moment right before something broke. The warm scent of herbs still hung in the air, curling through the corridors in slow, invisible
Chapter 614 Chapter 613: The Color of Obedience Content Warning: This Chapter contains themes of psychological abuse and abuse of a minor. There are punishments that leave bruises. And then there are punishments that do not need to touch the skin at all. Sophia would only learn much later that
Chapter 613 Chapter 612: The Child Who Saw Too Much There are defining moments in life. Things that turn quietly at first, like a door left half open, and then later become the hinge on which everything else swings. Things that decide left from right without ever asking permission. Some