Chained Hearts: From Slavery to Sovereignty - Chapter 8 - : The Shadows of the Past

Maria is a werewolf of the Veilwood Pack, where every woman is born with a gift. But with her twenty-first birthday drawing near and no ability to call her own, her family arranges a marriage that feels more like a cage than a future.On the run from a fate she refuses to accept, Maria narrowly escapes a predator who wants to claim her for himself. Shaken and desperate, she stumbles into the arms of another man whose eyes burn with recognition—her mate.But the predator is still out there, and he wants Maria just as much.Torn between the mate who awakens her heart and the danger that tempts her into the shadows, Maria finds herself desired by two men who will stop at nothing to claim her.Love, obsession, and destiny intertwine, and her choice could cost her everything.

Good news: You've transmigrated! And you have a phenomenally powerful master!Bad news: When you were ten, your master ran off and left his wife behind, leaving you to prop up the crumbling sect all by yourself.Good news: An uninvited junior sister shows up, claiming to be the number one beauty in the world!Bad news: You were born blind.Good news: Suddenly, one day, you realize you have regained your sight!Bad news: Something is wrong with your junior sister… Something is wrong with your master's wife… Something is wrong with all of them!…You Su , who had always been a blind man, wakes up one day to see giant tentacles dripping with copper-green slime writhing restlessly all around him. He traces the tentacles back to their source—the entity wearing that snow-white, celestial dress is no holy fairy maiden, but a shifting grotesque mass of filthy flesh.…“You can see?”“Don't be afraid, Fairy. I'm blind.”

He has won the most flamboyant compliments and the most vicious swear words.

He is a guy with rebellion flowing in every vein in his body.

He’s a white kid who’ll never be a celebrity.

He is a young man from the countryside in the eyes of the public.

He’s Tommy Hawk.

He was born again.

Welcome to the first half of the American Dream and the second half of the American Nightmare.

Let us please, come Tommy Hawke, in the winter of 2022.

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A famous actress slicing through monsters with flawless five-star choreography…A singer nuking mobs with long-range fire magic…A cold businesswoman trying to buy the entire monster hunter academy……and me—a dead-tired office worker who just wanted to log in and breathe.