HIS BIGGEST MISTAKE
Elara Reed has endured years of abuse as her pack's omega—the lowest rank, treated as less than nothing. When the arrogant Alpha heir Kai Thornwood discovers she's his fated mate, he's revolted. In front of the entire pack, he publicly rejects and humiliates her, then marks another she-wolf as his chosen Luna to solidify his disgust.
But Kai made one fatal mistake: underestimating Elara.
During the rejection, Elara's wolf breaks free, revealing what was hidden her entire life—she carries True Alpha bloodline, a power thought extinct for centuries. That night, she vanishes without a trace.
Three years later, Alpha Kai's world is crumbling. His pack is failing, his chosen Luna is barren and bitter, and mysterious enemies are picking off his wolves one by one. Desperate, he tracks down the one person who might save them: Elara.
But the broken omega he rejected is gone. In her place stands Alpha Elara Reed—confident, powerful, and leader of the fastest-growing pack in the territories. She's thriving, happy, and definitely not interested in helping the man who destroyed her.
Oh, and she has three-year-old twins. His twins. With Alpha powers that shouldn't be possible at their age.
Now Kai must grovel, fight, and prove he's worthy of a second chance—while enemies close in on Elara's rare bloodline, traitors sabotage from within, and a rival Alpha offers Elara everything Kai failed to give her: respect, partnership, and love.
The clock is ticking. The bond may be severed, but the danger is just beginning. And Elara holds all the power now.
His biggest mistake might cost him everything—including his life.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 53 - Opening My HeartELARA POVI kissed Kai in the rain and something shifted. Not the fear disappearing completely. Not trust magically appearing fully formed. Just a quiet recognition that I was tired of protecting myself. Tired of holding back. Tired of being so careful that I was missing the life happening right in front of me. Kai had proven himself. Over and over. Through thirty days of conditions and weeks of careful dating and consistent effort to be exactly what I needed. And I was still holding him at arm's length because I was afraid.But fear wasn't keeping me safe anymore. It was keeping me lonely. Keeping me from the mate I actually wanted. Keeping me from the family we could build if I was brave enough to let him in completely."Come inside." I told him when we got back to Shadow Creek. Both of us dripping wet. Both of us grinning despite the rain. "The twins are asleep. Zara went home. We can talk without interruptions.""Talk?" He raised an eyebrow. "That's what we're calling it?""Actual
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Chapter: Chapter 52 - Courting My MateKAI POVI spent twelve hours planning our first date. Called three restaurants. Made reservations at the nicest one. Canceled when I realized Elara hated formal dining. Made new reservations at a small Italian place she'd mentioned loving months ago. Bought flowers. Returned them when Marcus pointed out roses were cliché. Bought wildflowers instead because Elara had a whole section of them in Shadow Creek's garden. Changed my outfit four times. Finally settled on casual but clean. Jeans and a button-down that Luna said made me look like a real daddy instead of a scary Alpha.I was nervous. More nervous than I'd been facing Cornelius. More nervous than during the Council meeting. More nervous than any moment in my entire life because this mattered. This was the beginning of proving to Elara that I could court her properly. That I could be romantic without being overwhelming. That I could respect her boundaries while showing her I cared.I picked her up at seven exactly. She answered th
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Chapter: Chapter 51 - The TruthELARA POVThe twins ran off to celebrate and suddenly it was just Kai and me standing in the playroom surrounded by scattered toys and the weight of what we'd just decided. I'd said yes. Actually said yes to completing the bond. To trusting him. To building the life we should have had three years ago. And now reality was setting in. Now the fear I'd been suppressing was crawling back up my throat threatening to choke me."Hey." Kai touched my face gently. "You okay? You just went pale.""I'm terrified." The admission burst out before I could stop it. "Kai, I just agreed to complete our bond. To trust you completely. To risk everything on the hope that you've actually changed. And I'm absolutely terrified.""Of me?" He looked stricken. "Elara, I won't hurt you again. I swear. I'd rather die than—""Not of you hurting me intentionally." I interrupted. "Of you changing back. Of this transformation being temporary. Of waking up one day and discovering that the wolf I fell in love with was
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Chapter: Chapter 50 - Day 30KAI POVI woke up on day thirty knowing Elara was going to reject me. Not because she'd said anything. Not because the bond carried certainty. But because hope felt dangerous. Felt like setting myself up for devastation. Safer to prepare for no. Safer to accept that thirty days of transformation wasn't enough to earn back what I'd destroyed. Safer to brace for heartbreak than risk believing she might actually say yes.I'd done everything she asked. Met every condition. Proved the changes were real. But that didn't guarantee anything. Didn't mean she was ready to trust me. Didn't mean thirty days could undo three years of damage. She had every right to say no. Every right to decide that co-parenting was all she could offer. Every right to protect herself from the wolf who'd destroyed her once already.And I'd accept it. Had promised I would. Had meant it when I said I'd love her regardless of outcome. Would keep being the father the twins needed. Would keep transforming myself. Would k
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Chapter: Chapter 49 - Watching Him ChangeELARA POVI left the ceremony with the twins asleep in my arms and my mind racing. Twenty-nine days of watching Kai transform. Twenty-nine days of reading therapy notes that showed exactly how much work he was doing. Twenty-nine days of witnessing him face every wolf he'd hurt and take full responsibility. And today. Today he'd stood in front of hundreds of wolves and publicly dismantled everything his father had built. Had honored omegas. Had abolished rank abuse. Had proven that transformation wasn't just talk.It was real. Everything he'd claimed. Everything he'd promised. The changes weren't performance. Weren't temporary. Kai had actually become someone different. Someone better. Someone I barely recognized as the arrogant Alpha who'd rejected me three years ago.And tomorrow I had to give him an answer. Had to tell him if thirty days of perfect behavior was enough to earn back my trust. Had to decide if I was brave enough to complete the bond or if fear would win again.I got th
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Chapter: Chapter 48 - The Work BeginsKAI POVDay one of Elara's thirty-day test started with therapy at eight in the morning. Dr. Reeves was a no-nonsense wolf who specialized in Alpha trauma and toxic pack dynamics. She'd been recommended by Elder Iris after I'd admitted I needed professional help deconstructing everything my father had taught me. I'd been seeing her for two months already but this was different. This time Elara would be reading the session notes. Would see every ugly truth I'd been unpacking. Every admission of how damaged I'd been. Every moment of vulnerability I usually hid from everyone."Your mate wants transparency." Dr. Reeves said when I explained the new arrangement. "That's healthy. Shows she's taking your transformation seriously enough to verify it. How do you feel about that?""Exposed." I admitted. "Terrified she'll see how messed up I actually am and decide I'm not worth the effort.""And if she does?" Dr. Reeves pushed. "If she reads these notes and decides you're too broken to trust?""
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The Billion Dollar Bet
Grace Monroe was a supermodel who walked away from the runway to build something real… her own sustainable fashion line. When billionaire hedge fund manager Carter Vaughn pursued her relentlessly, she believed she'd found a partner who saw beyond her face. Three years into their marriage, she discovers sex videos of Carter with multiple women, including her former best friend Stella. But the real devastation comes when she finds a contract: Carter married her as part of a bet with his elite boys' club… the first to stay married to a "perfect 10" for three years wins fifty million dollars. She was never a wife. She was a wager.
Grace takes the scorched-earth divorce settlement and disappears. What Carter doesn't know: she's pregnant with twins.
Grace returns as the founder of GRACE, a feminist fashion empire built on her viral campaign exposing "trophy culture." She's on magazine covers with her twin boys, August and James, refusing to name their father. She's wealthy, powerful, and untouchable. Carter's reputation is destroyed, his boys' club dissolved in scandal, and his fortune is crumbling from boycotts and bad investments.
But when Carter discovers the twins are his… through a morally questionable secret DNA test—everything changes. He's not the man who made that bet anymore. Prison time for securities fraud, the loss of everything he valued, and watching Grace become the woman he prevented her from being has broken and rebuilt him. Now he wants his family back.
Can a man who treated her as a commodity learn to truly love? Can she risk her sons' hearts on the father who didn't know they existed? And when Carter's former friends try to destroy Grace's empire to punish Carter, will she let him fight beside her or will she prove she never needed saving?
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 43: His AnswerGRACE'S POVCarter called at midnight. I was still awake, going through financial projections with David over video call, trying to figure out if delaying the IPO two weeks would be enough time to recover investor confidence. My phone lit up with Carter's name and I almost declined it. But something made me answer, made me put David on hold and take the call I'd been avoiding since I left Naomi's office six hours ago."It's midnight, Carter. Whatever you want, it can wait until morning." I kept my voice flat, professional. The voice I used with people who didn't matter."I know. I'm sorry. I just needed to say something and if I waited until morning I'd talk myself out of it." He sounded tired. Raw. "Grace, I need you to understand why I'm really helping you. Not the noble answer I gave in Naomi's office. The truth.""I don't need your truth. I need your testimony against Marcus." I pulled up my laptop, tried to focus on the numbers David was showing me. "Save the confessions for your
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Chapter: Chapter 42: Unlikely AllianceGRACE'S POVCarter showed up at my office three hours after the second article dropped. I was in an emergency board meeting, watching my directors debate whether to postpone the IPO or push through the crisis, when Meredith knocked and whispered that Carter Vaughn was in the lobby refusing to leave until I saw him."Tell him I'm busy. Tell him to go through my lawyer like everyone else." I turned back to the board, tried to focus on David explaining how we could stabilize investor confidence if we moved fast enough. But my brain was stuck on Carter downstairs, on what he could possibly want now when my world was burning down around me.Meredith came back ten minutes later. "He says it's about Marcus. Says he knows how to stop him. Grace, he looks desperate. I think you should hear him out."I excused myself from the meeting, took the elevator down to the lobby already regretting this decision. Carter was pacing near the security desk, still in yesterday's wrinkled clothes, looking lik
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Chapter: Chapter 41: The ArticleGRACE'S POVThe article went live at six in the morning. I knew because my phone started buzzing before my alarm went off, texts and calls coming in so fast the vibrations blended into one continuous hum. I grabbed it off the nightstand, saw Naomi's name on the screen along with fifteen missed calls, and knew something terrible had happened."Tell me you haven't seen it yet." Naomi's voice was tight. Angry. "Grace, don't read it. Let me summarize so you're not blindsided by the details.""Seen what? Naomi, what's going on?" I was already opening my browser, typing my name into the search bar. The Business Journal article was the top result. Headline in bold: "Grace Monroe's Secret Affair & Baby Trap: The Untold Story Behind the Billion Dollar Victim."My stomach dropped. I clicked the link before Naomi could stop me, started reading. The article was long, detailed, written by Sarah Martinez who I'd never heard of but who apparently had sources close to the situation. Sources who claim
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Chapter: Chapter 40: Marcus's MoveMARCUS'S POVI found out Carter was chasing Grace from Richard's text at two in the morning. "Your boy's in Portland stalking his ex. Got himself arrested. Thought you should know before this blows up."I called Carter immediately. Voicemail. Called again. Nothing. Sent a text: "What the fuck are you doing in Portland?"No response. I sat in my home office staring at my phone feeling something cold settle in my chest. Carter was supposed to be past this. Past Grace, past the guilt, past caring about what happened to the woman who'd destroyed us. We'd made a pact after the scandal broke. Brothers before anyone else. The club above everything. No woman was worth betraying that.And now he was in Portland. Chasing after Grace and the kids everyone kept saying were his. Kids I'd told him couldn't possibly be real, that Grace was using for sympathy, that he needed to forget about. He'd agreed. Said he was moving on. Fucking liar.My phone rang. Carter finally calling back. I answered ready
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Chapter: Chapter 39: What He WantsCARTER'S POVI sat in Tom's conference room for twenty minutes after Grace left. Just sat there staring at the empty chair where she'd been, replaying every word she'd said. You don't have children. You have DNA matches. The words kept looping in my head like a punishment I deserved but couldn't accept.Tom was on his phone with Naomi, trying to salvage something from the wreckage of that meeting. I wasn't listening. Couldn't focus on legal strategy when Grace's face was burned into my brain. The coldness in her eyes when she looked at me. The absolute certainty in her voice when she said I'd never be their father. Like it was already decided. Like nothing I did would ever matter."Carter." Tom hung up, sat down across from me. "We need to talk about next steps. Naomi's threatening harassment charges on top of the restraining order violation. She wants all communication to go through lawyers only. No more direct contact with Grace.""I heard." My voice sounded hollow. "What else did s
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Chapter: Chapter 38: Naomi Steps InGRACE'S POVCarter was arrested at his hotel six hours later. Naomi called to tell me while I was putting the twins to bed, her voice satisfied in a way that should've made me feel victorious. It didn't. Just made me tired. Tired of fighting, tired of being afraid, tired of checking security cameras every ten minutes to make sure Carter wasn't back at my door."They picked him up for violating the restraining order. He'll spend the night in holding, probably be released tomorrow on his own recognizance since it's a first offense." Naomi was clearly reading from notes. "But this is good for us, Grace. Really good. Shows a pattern of disregarding court orders, of prioritizing his wants over legal boundaries. Any judge will see this and think twice about giving him access to the twins.""What happens now?" I pulled the twins' bedroom door mostly closed, left it cracked so I could hear if they woke up. "Does he go to trial? Do I have to testify?""Not criminal trial. This is civil contemp
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