Rings of the Arcana - Chapter 11: Ghost Town (1)

CONTENT WARNING:/This novel contains mature themes, explicit sexual content, strong language, and adult situations. Reader discretion is advised./---She ran from the devil who raised her…And married the one who wore a crown.After her parents’ tragic death, Lydia Andreyevna’s life became a nightmare. Stripped of her name, inheritance, and freedom by her uncle—Lord Alexander—she was treated like property and promised to a Count four times her age.Desperate to escape, she fled into the cold night… and straight into blood.A stranger. Wounded. Beautiful. Terrifying.She should’ve left him.But she didn’t.She touched him once—and fate branded her forever.Her uncle caught her the next morning. Her escape failed. But when she begged Queen Olga for protection, the Queen offered her a deadly bargain:Marry the masked Grand Duke of Zolotaria.The king’s hunting dog. The butcher of the East. The devil in a crown.The man feared by kings.The heir to the throne.The same man she once saved.Ivan Romanov.They say he bathes in blood. That he kills without blinking. That he conquered kingdoms with a smile behind a mask. That no one sees his face—and lives.Some call him the devil. Others call him Death’s favorite son.But behind the mask is the same man she found dying in the dark.The same voice that haunted her dreams.The same hands she once held.Now, he’s her husband.Her jailer.Her obsession.She doesn’t know if she’s his prisoner, or his weakness.Cold and untouchable, Ivan doesn’t share his bed. Doesn’t share his secrets. But she sees it—the hunger in his eyes. The pain in his silence. The way he looks at her like she’s the only thing keeping his demons at bay.She should fear him.She should hate him.But the moment she dares to take off his mask… it’s already too late.Because Ivan wants her—her fire, her body, her heart.And in his world, what he wants, he keeps.Even if it means burning down the kingdom.She thought she was running from hell.She ended up in his bed.And the most dangerous thing of all?She doesn’t want to leave.

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Her voice cracked. “The picture. My picture… it’s all over Instagram. It’s everywhere, Liam!”Silence.Then a careless sniff. “Yeah. Saw it.”“‘Saw it’?” she repeated. “You’re the only one I sent it to last night! Now it’s EVERYWHERE. What the hell did you do?!”Liam let out a sharp breath. “Jesus, Bella. Relax.”“Relax?” she whispered. Her voice rose, raw and hysterical. “My naked body is trending and you want me to relax?!”Bella Rivers didn’t come to Whitethorn Academy looking for a second chance.She came to disappear in a new world, somewhere no one knew her name. Not the boy who leaked her nudes, and especially not her best friend who gave nothing but pure evil in return for her love.Fresh in a new school in the heart of the forest she blends in like a chameleon.Sensing the energy from the last living descendant of the cursed Moonblood line, four boys powerful and untouchable, the Greek gods, start circling around her like they’ve picked up a scent.“Did I become this beautiful overnight?”Luca Damaris, a power-intoxicating werewolf would tear to pieces anyone who so much as touches the sand she walked on.But he dies in a wrong bonding with Bella.Or not?

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