Chapter: Chapter 5BRAUNI opened my mouth in shock.Something was very much different about her. Her power pushed back against mine and it was in that moment that I realised that she was an Alpha too. "You're an Alpha." I couldn't hide the shock in my voice.Her expression shifted slightly. "I'm a designer here to discuss a project. Nothing more." She responded with no shock in her words.Does she even know how I've been since the day she disappeared? And now... she's talking about project. However, my mind was more invested in the thoughts of her being an alpha."Your mother's bloodline." I'd researched her family for years after she left, trying to understand her, trying to find any clue about where she might go. "She was supposed to be the Alpha of Brace pack before your father took over."Her voice was cold. "It does not matter now. All that matters is this contract in front of us."I stepped back. If she wanted professional then fine. I'd give her professional. For now."Fine. You want to keep th
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Chapter: Chapter 4SOLANA;Five Years LaterFive years was a long time. I was able to build a new life and convince myself that I had made the right choice. I had given birth to my lovely daughter, Luna, now five years old.But memories of Braun still haunted me here and there. Because Luna was a carbon copy of him, and the only thing she inherited from me was my bright blue eyes. I could almost forget him. Almost."Solana, this is huge." Isla, my assistant and best friend, who co-founded my interior design company said to me. We were overlooking contract documents spread across my desk. "Steele Industries wants us to redesign their entire corporate headquarters. We, a small interior firm." She looked up, excitement twinkling in her eyes. "Do you understand what this means for our firm?"She saw the pensive look on my face and her smile crashed. "We're going to take this, right?"I stared at the Steele Industries logo on the letterhead and felt my stomach drop. Even now...the past wasn't giving me a br
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Chapter: Chapter 3BRAUNTaking one last glance at her room, I rushed towards the hall to address the staff panicking as I've just lost something vital.Before I could get there, the terrified and perturbed staff members were already assembled.I stood in front of twelve staff members who all looked nervous. They should be nervous. Someone had to have seen Solana leave. My burning gaze scan then as adrenaline pumps inside me."Did anyone see Solana today?" I asked. "After three o'clock?"They all shook their heads in denial. How the fuck did she go missing without one person noticing? I'm firing everyone!"Someone must have seen something. She didn't just disappear into thin air." I snarled, running my fingers through my hair before they connected with my jaw.Martha, the head housekeeper, stepped forward. "Alpha, I was preparing dinner in the kitchen all afternoon. I didn't see Ms. Solana at all today." She defended and I returned a soft glare at her."What about the rest of you?" I looked at each face.
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Chapter: Chapter 2BRAUN"So you're absolutely certain about this?" Ezekiel asked again. He'd been my father's lawyer before mine and sometimes he still treated me like I was fifteen.His eyes scanned me as if I wasn't the braun he knew. The 30 minutes drive to get here just for this bemused him as he even had to take a seat and scoff unbelievably.Here I was, in his office, sitting down and staring at the contract across his desk. There were thoughts lingering in head but her face...her smile and those eyes that were the most beautiful thing that I've ever seen, I want to keep her, own her and my heart, I don't know, it beats more than expected.Maybe I'm sick."Yes." I leaned back in my chair. "I want the contract dissolved. I want to marry her for real, she's more than a contract wife to me now." I looked up at him, my eyes twinkling. "I like her.""Like?" He questioned raising a brow at me as I can tell he was stifling a laughter. I nodded as my gaze lingers around his face."Why?""She's an interes
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Chapter: Chapter 1SOLANA"I want the contract dissolved by the end of the month, Ezekiel. Draw up the papers."I pressed myself against the wall outside Braun's office, one hand clutching my stomach and the pregnancy, my other hands clenched in a fist. He was on the phone with his lawyer.Braun sounded tired. "This arrangement isn't working. I need to end it properly."End it.The words repeated in my head as I couldn't breath but trembled where I stood.Perhaps...I was wrong again, to open my heart to a man who'd only see me as nothing but a wife on paper.I pushed myself off the wall and ran.My vision blurred and soon the tears started leaking from my eyes. If he wanted a divorce so badly, that meant he would ask me to abort the baby since he wouldn't want anything attached to him and I could not have that done. I wanted to keep the child growing within me.The baby had been a surprise. Six months ago, on the Harvest moon, I was drunk and so was he. That night we fell into each other's arms and he
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