BOUGHT BY THE BEAST
When Rielle Morven is betrayed by her boyfriend and sold at an illegal werewolf auction to pay off his debts, she expects her life is over. But the male who buys her for five million dollars isn't a werewolf alpha — he's something far more dangerous.
Caspian Valdyr is a lycan king with a reputation for violence and a hunger for control. He doesn't just want Rielle's body — he wants to claim her soul through an unbreakable mate bond that will tie them together forever.
But Rielle carries a secret in her blood that makes her worth more than gold to the wrong people. When a fifty-million-dollar bounty is placed on her head, Caspian must decide: return her to the monsters who want to breed her like livestock, or go to war to keep what he's claimed as his.
In a world where power is everything and mercy is weakness, Rielle discovers that being owned by a beast might be her only path to freedom. But freedom comes with a price — and Caspian's claiming bite will mark her as his for eternity.
One auction. One bite. One bond that will either save them both or destroy everything.
A fast-paced, high-heat dark romance featuring an obsessive anti-hero, a heroine discovering her hidden power, explosive chemistry, and absolutely no holding back.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 65: What She CostsThe document contains maps.Detailed ones, drawn with the kind of precision that requires either exceptional memory or direct access, showing underground facility layouts across three levels with guard rotations marked in a different ink color, supply routes annotated in a third, and structural weak points circled in red with the confidence of someone who has been inside and paid attention to load-bearing walls.I spread it across the flat of a weapon rack and lean over it beside Caspian while Ezra stands back and lets us look, and the scale of what I am seeing settles over me with cold clarity.Blackstone Keep was a research outpost. What Ezra has drawn here is a command center, built into a mountain range I recognize from Thorncross's eastern border maps, accessed through mine shafts that were listed as exhausted and abandoned in the kingdom's official records forty years ago."How long has this facility existed?" I ask without looking up."The current iteration, thirty years," Ezra
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Chapter: CHAPTER 64: The ArmoryThe armory is in the castle's eastern wing, three levels below the war rooms, deep enough that sound does not carry up to the inhabited floors and the walls are thick enough to muffle whatever happens inside.I notice that on the way down and file it under reasons this is a terrible idea that we are doing anyway.Caspian walks beside me with his hand loose at his side, not touching the sword at his hip but within easy reach of it, and through the bond I feel him running tactical assessments the way he always does when walking into uncertain ground, cataloguing exits and blind corners and the specific acoustics of stone corridors that have not changed in three hundred years. I pull my own power up to a low ready state, not released but available, golden warmth sitting in my chest like a banked fire waiting for a reason to become something larger.The armory door is unlocked and slightly open, which means we are expected, and inside the smell of weapon oil and cold metal hits me immedia
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Chapter: CHAPTER 63: Twelve NamesI read the name twice because once is not enough to make it real.Ezra Valdyr.Caspian's brother. His second. The man who has stood at his right hand through wars and succession crises and the last weeks of Shadow Court attacks, who was wounded at Blackstone Keep, who has been driving the investigation into noble house infiltration with an urgency I read as loyalty and apparently should have read as something else entirely.I look up at Caspian and watch him read the same name, watch his face do something I have never seen it do before, a fracture so brief and so controlled that I would have missed it entirely if I were not bonded to him, if I could not feel through that connection the specific quality of this pain, which is not surprise exactly but the particular devastation of a suspicion confirmed that he had spent years refusing to fully examine.He knew. Not consciously, not with evidence he could act on, but some part of him had catalogued inconsistencies and filed them in a pla
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Chapter: CHAPTER 62: Look Closer To HomeCaspian takes the letter back from me and reads it a second time, which he only does when the first read has unsettled him enough that he wants to be certain he understood it correctly."Aldric was moved," I say, working through it aloud because talking helps me think faster than staring at four lines of cramped handwriting. "Not fled. Moved. Someone extracted him and his household under the cover of a false departure, which means the gate falsification was not his operation, it was done for him, and whoever arranged it had enough access to our departure approval process to fabricate documentation that passed initial scrutiny.""Someone inside the castle," Caspian says."Someone inside the castle who also knew our investigation was coming and had enough time to set up an extraction before we could act," I confirm. "Which is not Aldric protecting himself. That is the Shadow Court protecting an asset before we could question him."The distinction matters enormously and we both know it.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 61: The House That RanThe name hits me before Ezra finishes his sentence."Which house?" Caspian asks, already moving, already the King rather than the man who was holding me thirty seconds ago.Ezra pushes the door open without being invited, which tells me everything about how seriously he is taking this, and stands in the doorway with a face that has not slept and does not intend to. "House Maren," he says. "Lord Aldric's people confirmed the departure at the eastern gate checkpoint around the third hour. The gate guards logged it as a pre-approved trade delegation, but when I cross-referenced the exit roster against the approved departures list this morning, no such approval exists."Aldric. Who sat in that Council chamber yesterday and called the genealogical investigation political suicide with the practiced ease of someone who had already decided it was a line he would not cross. Who protested noble house dignity so forcefully that I had noted it and filed it under suspicion but had not yet acted on
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Chapter: CHAPTER 60: No More Thinking TonightThe documents are still spread across the table when I wake before dawn, and for a long moment I lie still in the darkness listening to Caspian breathe and trying to convince myself that the cabin he described last night is real, that it exists somewhere beyond the Council chambers and breeding charts and the image of Keira's smile dissolving into smoke and falling stone.It does not work. My brain is already cataloguing threats before I am fully conscious, sorting through genealogical patterns and prototype capabilities and the particular expression on Lady Lyra's face when Ezra described the hybrid warriors, the way her eyes had gone not shocked but calculating, the way she had asked her question about civil war a little too smoothly, like someone who had already considered the answer."You are thinking so loudly I can feel it through the bond," Caspian says without opening his eyes."Lyra," I say. "Something was off about her yesterday and I cannot stop turning it over."He opens h
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Owned By The Alpha King
He found me before the monsters did.
I don't know if that makes him my salvation or just a more dangerous kind of predator.
My name is Vaelis. I've had six other names before this one, four cities in three years, and one rule that has kept me breathing since I was sixteen years old.
Don't get caught.
I almost made it.
Then Thalrion Bloodryn decided he wanted me, and men like Thalrion Bloodryn don't want things quietly. They don't ask. They don't negotiate. They arrange situations and they wait and they look at you with silver eyes across a crowded room like you were always going to end up exactly here, in his building, drinking his coffee, reading a file with your name on it that goes back further than you knew your own blood went.
I am not a person to the men hunting me, I am the most valuable weapon on earth.
Thalrion says he's different.
The problem is... I believe him.
The bigger problem is that believing him might get us both killed.
Because Noctyros Malvane has been watching longer than either of us knew. And what he wants from my bloodline is something no sane person would allow. And the war that is coming for Thalrion's throne has my name written at the center of it in red.
Owned By The Alpha King is a dark MM werewolf romance with explicit 18+ content, extreme power dynamics, possessive alpha energy, forced proximity, and a bond neither of them asked for and neither of them can survive without.
If you like your alphas dangerous, your omegas unbreakable, and your romance so charged it keeps you unlocking chapters at two in the morning, this book was written for you.
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Chapter: Chapter 27: The CourtroomThe designation court building is the kind of architecture that wants you to feel small.High ceilings. Cold marble. The particular silence of a place that has been making binding decisions about people's lives for long enough that the walls have absorbed it. We walk in at nine forty seven and every person in the lobby tracks Thalrion the way they tracked him across the penthouse room the first night, that same gravitational awareness, except here it has a different quality.Here it has edges.Our legal team is already inside. Four of them, sharp and prepared, and they fall into step around us with the ease of people who have done this before. Soren is on my other side and Caius is behind us and I am walking into a designation courtroom to prove that the bond between me and the Alpha King is real and I am thinking about this morning and his arm around me and the specific warmth of something that does not need proving.The courtroom is already occupied.Noctyros Malvane is at the oppos
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Chapter: Chapter 26: Thursday MorningI wake up before he does.That's new. Every other morning in this building, I have been awake before the city, before the light, before anything, running on the particular nervous energy of someone whose body has never fully believed it was safe to sleep. This morning is different. This morning I woke up slowly, which I haven't done in eight years, coming up through actual sleep like surfacing through warm water, and I lay there for a moment just... breathing, before I remembered what today is.Thursday.10am.Designation court.I sit up carefully and the room is grey and quiet and Thalrion is asleep beside me, which is something I am going to need a moment with because seeing him like this, guard fully down, face completely still, all that controlled authority just, gone, replaced by something that is just a person sleeping, does something to my chest that I am not ready to examine before coffee.I get up.I find his shirt on the floor and put it on because it's closer than mine and
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Chapter: Chapter 25: The MarkHe is unhurried about everything.That's the thing I learn about Thalrion in the next hour. The same patience he brings to everything else, the same deliberate certainty, he brings it here too, and it is the most disarming thing I have ever experienced because I have spent eight years being braced for the world to move fast and take things and he just, doesn't.He takes his time with me like I am something worth taking time with.His hands are warm and certain and he pays attention in a way that makes thinking in complete sentences difficult, noticing everything, adjusting to everything, and the bond between us in this proximity is nothing like what it has been at a distance, it is open and loud and everywhere, every point of contact between us lit up and specific and I understand now why bonded pairs talk about it the way they do because language is genuinely insufficient.I pull him closer and he comes and his mouth finds my jaw, my throat, and my wolf is so present and so certain a
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Chapter: Chapter 24: Seventy Two HoursSoren walks in twenty minutes later and reads the room in approximately three seconds.He looks at me. He looks at Thalrion. He looks at the space between us which is smaller than it was this morning and has a different quality to it now, something settled and charged all at once, and he opens his mouth and Thalrion says, "Don't."Soren closes his mouth.Then he puts his bag down and says, "The filing is legitimate. He found a sympathetic court clerk, different one from the last, and pushed it through before our legal team caught it. The hearing is Thursday morning, 10am." He looks at Thalrion. "Judge Arvel. Noctyros picked him specifically.""Arvel," Thalrion says. Something in his jaw tightens. "He's been in Noctyros's pocket for two years.""Three," Soren says. "We confirmed it this morning.""So the hearing is already compromised," I say."The hearing is a performance," Thalrion corrects. "Noctyros doesn't expect to win it on legal merit. He expects to use it to create a window. E
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Chapter: Chapter 23: What Almost HappensHe doesn't let go of my hand when we leave.We just walk out onto the street and he is beside me and his hand is around mine and the city is loud and indifferent around us and neither of us addresses it. We just walk. The cold air hits my face and I let it do its thing and I don't think about Zara or the bar or any of it.Four minute walk back to the building.We take seven.Nobody rushes.Back upstairs, the apartment is quiet and empty and Thalrion gets water from the kitchen because apparently, that's what he does when he needs a minute, and he sets a glass in front of me and leans against the counter and just looks at me.I drink the water."She meant what she said," I say. "About not being done.""I know.""You're too calm. That doesn't bother you?""I'm calm about things I'm certain of," he says. Simply. Directly. Leaving absolutely no room for misreading what certain means.My wolf does something embarrassing in my chest.I put the glass down and cross my arms and look at the ci
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Chapter: Chapter 22: Not GracefulShe is already there when I arrive.Corner table. Something red in her glass at eleven in the morning like the day owes her a drink and she has decided to collect early. Dark hair, red mouth, the kind of body that enters a room slightly before the rest of her, and she is watching me cross toward her with an expression that is doing several things at once and none of them are friendly.I sit down.She looks at me for a long moment without speaking.Then she says, "You're not what I expected.""What did you expect?" I ask."Not you," she says. Like that's an answer. Like I am so far outside what she pictured that the specifics don't matter.The waiter comes. I order coffee. She doesn't order anything, just waits for him to leave, and then she leans forward with her elbows on the table and looks at me with those dark eyes and drops the pretense of whatever opening she was going to use."How long has he known you?" she says."Four days," I say.Something moves across her face. "Four days,
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FAMILY SECRET: CLAIMING MY FATHER'S TOY
When 19-year-old art student Elena Chen moves into billionaire CEO Silas Kingston's estate with her social-climbing mother, she accidentally discovers the truth behind his fortune — a brutal criminal empire built on blood and secrets. The discovery should get her killed. Instead, it makes her the most dangerous kind of target: desired.
Caught between Silas and his volatile son Julian, Elena becomes the center of a twisted power struggle where her body is the battleground and her silence is the price. With her mother's freedom hanging in the balance and evidence that could destroy them all, Elena is forced into an arrangement that shatters every moral boundary she's ever known.
But in the darkness between their sheets and their sins, Elena awakens to a terrifying truth: she craves the very dominance that's destroying her. As the criminal world closes in and loyalties fracture, she must choose between the good girl she's always been and the dangerous woman she's becoming.
A dark mafia-erotica romance where power is currency, pleasure is control, and the only rule is survival.
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Chapter: Chapter 72: What Vincent NoticesHe doesn't ask where I've been.That's the thing about Vincent. He gives me space as a feature not a flaw, this deliberate, principled looseness of hold, and usually I love it and tonight when I come through the door at seven with cold-coffee thoughts and Mikhail Volkov's pale eyes still somewhere in my peripheral awareness, the space he gives me feels like something I have to walk across before I reach him.I kiss him hello and he kisses me back, warm and present, and his hand cups my face briefly in the way he does, like checking I'm real, and then he goes back to the stove and I sit at the kitchen counter and watch him cook and try to locate myself in the room."Natasha's installation is coming," I say."Good," he replies."I walked back through Belleville," I say. Which is true."Mm," he says.He doesn't ask anything else and I don't offer anything else and we eat dinner and talk about other things, his Amsterdam broker, my Sorbonne seminar on Thursday, whether the restaurant on R
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Chapter: Chapter 71: Coffee With MikhailHe walks slowly, which I didn't expect from him. Vincent moves with purpose, always somewhere to be, always the next thing. Mikhail walks like he has decided the street is exactly where he wants to be and the rest of the world can organize itself around that.I tell him about the Allard situation. Not all of it, not the Marco complexity, but the shape of it, the Weis inventory, the restitution claim, the voicemail with its careful language about reaching an understanding.He listens without interrupting, the coffee warm in my hand, Belleville moving around us in its afternoon way, the market stalls and the noise and the particular light of a Paris afternoon that can't decide if it wants to be winter or spring.When I finish, he is quiet for half a block."He'll try to reframe the documentation," he says. "Position it as a legitimate wartime acquisition through some intermediary that no longer exists and can't be questioned. It's the standard approach for collections with this kind of
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Chapter: Chapter 70: The Part Where It Gets ComplicatedMarco calls the next morning at nine while I'm still in bed and Vincent is in the kitchen making coffee and the day is grey and soft outside the windows.I answer it because I've decided to be direct and there is no version of direct that involves avoiding the call."You found something," he says, before I say anything past hello. His voice is careful, not confrontational."Yes." A pause. "How significant?" "A Weis inventory piece," I say. "Documented seizure 1942. Unresolved restitution claim filed 1946. Currently in Allard's collection with no acquisition record between 1942 and 1948."The silence that follows is long enough to tell me everything I needed to know about what Marco knew and when."Elena..." "I've already notified the Commission," I say. "Professor Moreau advised me yesterday. I've suspended work on the four affected pieces pending investigation." I keep my voice even. "I want to be clear that this is not negotiable and I'm not calling you to discuss whether I did
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Chapter: Chapter 69: What We Do With Tuesday NightsProfessor Moreau takes one look at my documentation, asks three precise questions, and tells me to file a formal notification with the Commission for Looted Art in Europe within the week and to stop all work on the four affected pieces until the claim is investigated. She says it without drama, the way she says everything, like ethics are not complicated, only the situations that require them.I walk out of her office at five feeling lighter than I expected.The decision is made. The process is started. Marco doesn't know yet and Bernard Allard doesn't know yet and the fee is almost certainly gone and I find, standing on the pavement outside the Sorbonne with the evening coming in cold and pink over the rooftops, that I don't care about the fee. I care that I found it and said something. I care that Rachel Weis's eight unlocated paintings are one fewer tonight than they were this morning.I text Vincent: Leaving the Sorbonne now. Long day. Need you.His reply comes in forty seconds: I
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Chapter: Chapter 68: What The Records SayThe Geneva collector's name is Bernard Allard and he is seventy-three years old and has been collecting since before I was born and the provenance documentation he has sent through Marco is, in places, the most carefully constructed misdirection I have ever seen.I've been working through the collection for two weeks, methodical and thorough, cross-referencing ownership records against the Art Loss Register and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe databases and three separate archive sources for wartime Paris and Rome. Most of the collection is clean. Complicated in places, the ordinary chaos of things changing hands across decades, but clean. Thirty-eight of the forty-two pieces have ownership chains I can trace without significant gaps.The other four are a problem.I am sitting at the kitchen table on a Tuesday morning with my laptop and three archive tabs open and a cold coffee I forgot to drink and I am looking at a Modigliani-adjacent work, oil on canvas, 1919, which entered
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Chapter: Chapter 67: MikhailNatasha's studio is in Belleville, third floor of a building that smells like mildew and someone's excellent cooking, and it is the most chaotic space I have ever been in and I mean that as a pure observation with no judgment attached.There are rolls of fabric everywhere. Not folded, not organized, just existing in great bolts of color leaning against walls and draped over a worktable the size of a small car and piled in corners like they got there under their own power. Threads hang from a wooden frame suspended from the ceiling, hundreds of them, different weights and colors, and in the afternoon light they catch and shift when the heating comes on and the whole thing moves like something breathing.The installation she's building is about border infrastructure, she told me last Friday, about the aesthetics of division, and standing inside it now I understand what she meant by politically ugly. It makes your chest tight in a way you can't immediately explain."Touch it," she says f
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Chapter: Chapter 48: London PrepThree weeks moves fast when your life is expanding in every direction simultaneously.I hand in my notice on a Monday morning and my manager takes it better than I expected and worse than she pretended, telling me she was thrilled for me while her left eye did something involuntary that told a different story.I spent my last two weeks completing handovers and briefing my replacement and saying goodbye to people I genuinely liked and a few I genuinely did not and trying not to feel the particular bittersweet weight of closing something that was good even if what comes next is better.Rhys watches me process all of it without trying to rush me through any of it.That is the thing about him that I keep discovering in new ways. He does not manage my emotions toward a more convenient conclusion. He just stays in them with me until they resolve naturally, which means I never feel alone in anything even when the thing I am feeling is complicated and does not have a clean name.We go to the
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Chapter: Chapter 47: The CallHelena Cross picks up on the first ring."Ms. Vann," she says. "I expected you to wait the three weeks.""I expected to wait the three weeks too," I say. "You bought Rhys Callahan's restoration project."A pause. Not the pause of someone caught out, the pause of someone who was waiting for this specific sentence."I did," she says."Why?" "Because it is an exceptional property with significant heritage value and my company has been looking for a London-adjacent retreat and event space for two years," she says. "When it came to my attention that it was available, I moved on it.""It was not available," I say. "Rhys has a contract.""Rhys has a contract to restore it," she says pleasantly. "Which I fully intend to honour. I bought the property, not the restoration agreement. He continues his work, I own the building when it is finished." A pause. "It is actually a rather elegant arrangement."I sit with that for a moment.She is telling the truth. I can feel it. Not the whole truth nec
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Chapter: Chapter 45: Helena CrossHelena Cross talks for twenty minutes and I do not interrupt once.Not because I have nothing to say but because she is the kind of person who constructs an argument the way architects construct buildings, load bearing, no wasted material, and interrupting it would be like knocking out a wall mid build just to prove you could.She tells me what Harlow Creative Group is building in London. A new division, brand strategy at a scale that most firms do not attempt, working with clients across four industries simultaneously, the kind of creative challenge that requires someone who can hold multiple complex narratives in their head and make them all point in the same direction.She tells me why she wants me specifically. Not flattery. Evidence. She has read everything I have put out publicly. She has spoken to people who have worked with me. She references specific decisions I made on specific campaigns by name and explains exactly why those decisions told her something about how I think.S
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Chapter: Chapter 45: Helena CrossHelena Cross talks for twenty minutes and I do not interrupt once.Not because I have nothing to say but because she is the kind of person who constructs an argument the way architects construct buildings, load bearing, no wasted material, and interrupting it would be like knocking out a wall mid build just to prove you could.She tells me what Harlow Creative Group is building in London. A new division, brand strategy at a scale that most firms do not attempt, working with clients across four industries simultaneously, the kind of creative challenge that requires someone who can hold multiple complex narratives in their head and make them all point in the same direction.She tells me why she wants me specifically. Not flattery. Evidence. She has read everything I have put out publicly. She has spoken to people who have worked with me. She references specific decisions I made on specific campaigns by name and explains exactly why those decisions told her something about how I think.S
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Chapter: Chapter 44: The OfferIt arrives on a Thursday morning while I am eating toast.A formal letter. Printed on heavy cream paper with a logo I recognize immediately because everyone in my industry recognizes it. Harlow Creative Group. The largest brand strategy firm in the country. Three international offices, clients that are household names, the kind of company that does not send letters to mid level strategists at smaller firms unless they want something specific.They want something specific.I read it twice standing at the kitchen counter in my socks.Senior Creative Director. London office. Relocation package included. Salary that makes my current one look like a rough draft. A team of twelve. Full creative autonomy on accounts that I have been watching from the outside of my career and wanting to be inside of for six years.London.I put the letter down.Pick it up again.Put it down.Rhys comes out of the bedroom in his grey shirt, hair not yet sorted, and stops when he sees my face."What happened?"
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Chapter: Chapter 43: Derek Makes His MoveHe is waiting outside my office building on a Tuesday.Not Stanley. Not a lawyer. Not a phone call or a message or a carefully managed interaction with distance and legal language between us.Derek. In person.With the particular expression of a man who has rehearsed something and is not entirely confident it survived contact with reality.I stop walking."No flowers this time," I say."You put the last ones in the conference room," he says. "I heard.""They were nice flowers," I say. "The conference room deserved them."He almost smiles. Almost. "Can we walk?" he says. "Just walk. Ten minutes."I look at him.He looks back.There is something different about him today. Not the hospital rawness and not the performance either. Something in between that feels more like the actual man underneath both of those versions, quieter, more certain of very little, which paradoxically makes him seem more trustworthy than he ever did when he was certain of everything."Ten minutes," I say.We walk
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