Married in Her Name
When poor dressmaker Leah Parker delivers a wedding gown to the powerful Grant family, she expects payment, not a trap. But the real bride, Olivia Grant, has vanished on her wedding day, and the Grants need someone to protect their billion-dollar alliance with cold CEO Daniel Cole. Forced to wear Olivia’s dress and marry in her name, Leah enters a dangerous contract marriage built on fear, lies, and hidden identity.
Daniel has never met Olivia, but he quickly senses that his new wife is not the spoiled heiress he expected. She is too quiet, too kind, and too terrified of the family that claims to love her. As suspicion turns into protection, Daniel begins to uncover the mystery behind Olivia’s disappearance—and the truth that Leah was never chosen by accident.
In a marriage that began as a mistake, Leah may become the only woman Daniel refuses to lose.
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Chapter: Chapter 257: The Widow’s ConditionAnna Fisher chooses the meeting place herself.The legal-aid office sits behind a public library, far from both families’ buildings. Its consultation room has chairs, a scarred table, and windows facing a courtyard.Her second message is precise. Daniel cannot enter the building. No male security officer may stand near the door, and nothing may be recorded without her permission. She will leave if anyone connected to the Grants appears.Daniel reads the conditions in the west study, his jaw tightening with each line.“She may be walking into a monitored location.”“The organization is independent,” Elaine says. “The office manager has agreed to close the rear room.”“That does not secure the street.”“Marcus can watch from two blocks away,” Leah says.“That is too far for him to reach you quickly.”Leah understands his fear. Anna may know something about Olivia’s disappearance and the Grant driver who died. If Patricia learns about the meeting, another witness could be silenced.Yet A
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Chapter: Chapter 256: The Dead DriverBrett Fisher’s face remains beside the reflection after Marcus identifies him.In the public foundation photograph, he stands behind a Grant vehicle with his hands folded in front of him. His dark driver’s coat has the same pale piping visible in the reading-room glass, while one shoulder sits slightly lower than the other.Four months after Olivia disappeared, Brett died in what the official record described as a single-vehicle accident.Elaine places the report on the central screen.His car left a narrow road outside the city shortly after midnight, struck a stone barrier, and overturned down a shallow embankment. The weather was clear, the road was dry, and the toxicology report found no alcohol or controlled substances. There were no passengers and no known witnesses.“The report attributes the accident to excessive speed,” Elaine says.Daniel stands beside Marcus, reading with a cold expression. “Was there a mechanical failure?”“None was recorded.”Marcus continues studying Bre
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Chapter: Chapter 255: The ReflectionElaine does not enlarge the reflection again until she has preserved the original photograph in three separate locations.She creates a forensic copy, records the file hash, and verifies the metadata against Tyler’s archive. Only then does she open a working version and isolate the glass panel behind Olivia and Tyler.At first, the reflected shape could belong to anyone.The person wears a dark coat with a pale line near the collar. One arm is held close to the body, while rain, distance, and the angle of the glass distort the face beyond recognition.Still, the posture does not look accidental.The figure is facing Olivia.Leah stands beside Daniel near the evidence table. Olivia remains in the foreground, gripping the folder marked with Ward’s archive code. Tyler is close to her, unaware that someone else has entered the photograph behind them.Someone had been watching five days before the rehearsal and Olivia’s disappearance.“Can you make the reflection clearer?” Daniel asks.Ela
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Chapter: Chapter 254: The Photo of Olivia and TylerThe charity meeting ends without another private exchange between Leah and Patricia.Daniel stays close as they leave the conference room, but he does not touch Leah or question her while reporters wait in the lobby. He allows the cameras to record a husband accompanying his wife rather than a man pulling her away from danger.Leah answers one question about the legal-aid proposal and ignores two about Margaret. When a reporter asks whether she intends to attend the Grant family luncheon, she gives the response they prepared.“Private family gatherings are not appropriate while related legal matters remain active.”Daniel adds nothing.Only after the car door closes does he turn toward her. “What did she say?”His voice is calm, but the anger beneath it has not cooled.Leah looks through the tinted window as the Ellery Trust building disappears behind them. Patricia’s final warning still presses against her thoughts.You should be afraid of what the gown will say.“She tried to make m
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Chapter: Chapter 253: Leah and Patricia Face Each OtherPatricia’s warning settles between them beside the glass display case.“Careful. People believe calm women longer.”Leah keeps her expression steady.The restored lace collar beneath the glass is more than a century old. Its threads have darkened with age, and several damaged sections have been repaired so carefully that the newer work disappears unless someone knows where to look.Leah knows where to look.She also understands Patricia’s warning.The woman is not threatening her openly. She is testing her, searching for the moment Leah becomes angry enough to be described as unstable or frightened enough to be called confused.Across the conference room, Daniel has stopped listening to Lady Ashbourne.His attention is fixed on Leah.Elaine has moved closer to him, likely reminding him that approaching too quickly would create the exact picture Patricia wants the room to see: a controlling husband, a distressed wife, and a concerned adviser trying to help.Leah refuses to complete tha
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Chapter: Chapter 252: Mrs. Cole’s First MoveLeah makes her first public move somewhere Margaret would never have chosen.The Ellery Textile Preservation Trust occupies two floors of a restored municipal building near the old arts district. Its conference room has pale walls, uncomfortable chairs, bad coffee, and a long table already crowded with funding proposals.The Trust funds the restoration of historically significant garments. It also provides legal support for women whose clothing businesses, original designs, or inherited collections have become entangled in family disputes.Its work is respectable without being fashionable. Society reporters rarely attend its meetings, and Margaret has never appeared at one of its events.That makes it the safest public room Leah can find.The invitation came through Marian Ellery, who had worked with the preservation specialists responsible for the bridal gown’s neutral custody. Marian did not mention the sealed evidence or the Grant dispute. She simply asked whether Mrs. Cole would a
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The Alpha's Hidden Heir
Finn Foster has spent his life hiding what he is: a rare male Omega.
In Riverton, male Omegas are not treated like people. They are treated like scandals, secrets, and valuable property for powerful Alpha bloodlines. Finn survives by taking suppressants, keeping his head down, and protecting his younger brother from the rich families who could destroy them both.
Then one night, Finn is drugged and locked inside an elite Alpha club, promised to another man before midnight.
Everett Stone finds him behind a gold door.
Everett is a ruthless Alpha billionaire, heir to Stone Group, and already promised to Vera Lawson, the perfect Omega bride chosen by his family. Saving Finn should be a mistake. Wanting him should be impossible. Touching him could ruin everything.
But Finn’s scent breaks through every rule Everett has lived by.
By morning, Finn is gone.
Three months later, Everett finds him again in a poor clinic under a false name.
Pregnant.
Terrified.
And hunted by the same Lawson family Everett is supposed to marry into.
Now Everett must choose between the bride who can secure his empire and the runaway Omega carrying his hidden heir.
Finn refuses to be hidden.
Everett refuses to let him go.
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Chapter: Chapter 75: Not Your SecretThe front doors close behind Vera with a final, polished sound.For several seconds, no one in the receiving room moves.Finn can still feel her gaze on his body. Rightful heirs. Powerful families. A future that does not belong to him because wealth has already decided blood matters more than consent.The room is warm, but his skin feels cold.Owen stands close enough to catch him if he sways, though he wisely does not touch. Dean is speaking quietly to one of the guards near the entrance, ordering Vera’s car followed and every recording device around the estate identified. Everett remains where Dean stopped him, his chest rising too sharply beneath his dark shirt.His anger fills the room even after Vera is gone.Finn cannot bear it.He turns and walks toward the staircase.“Finn,” Everett says.Finn continues.His legs are unsteady, but he refuses to let anyone see him struggle. He reaches the first step before Everett follows, keeping several feet between them.“You should rest,” E
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Chapter: Chapter 74: The Word RightfulThe word hangs in the receiving room long after Vera finishes speaking.Rightful.Finn feels it settle over his skin like something dirty.Vera has not said baby. She has not said pregnancy. She has not said Stone heir, custody, or bloodline contract. She does not need to. Her gaze has already dropped to Finn’s stomach, and the careful emphasis in her voice has turned every missing word into a threat.She knows enough.Perhaps she does not know how far along he is. Perhaps she has no medical confirmation. Perhaps the Lawsons are still guessing from the clinic, his illness, and Everett’s disappearance.It does not matter.They know where to strike.Everett’s dominance surges through the room with enough force to make the chandelier tremble.The fire behind the glass flares. One of the guards outside shifts closer to the doorway, and Dean steps between Owen and the pressure before Everett notices what he is doing. The Alpha’s face has become frighteningly still, his eyes fixed on Vera w
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Chapter: Chapter 73: The Bride EntersVera enters the estate through the front doors as if she has been invited.Security has already taken her phone, searched her bag, checked the car, and limited her staff to the gate. Two guards remain outside the formal receiving room, while Dean stands near the staircase with the expression of a man who expects trouble to arrive wearing perfume.Vera does.She walks beneath the chandelier in a cream coat, her posture perfect, her face composed. Nothing about her suggests frustration over being kept outside in the mist. She looks like a woman arriving exactly where she intended to be.Everett waits for her beside the fireplace.“You have ten minutes,” he says.Vera removes one glove slowly. “How romantic.”“This is not a social visit.”“No,” she agrees, glancing around the room. “Social visits usually involve less armed security and fewer hidden guests.”Everett’s face hardens. “You came with a camera positioned on the road.”“I came prepared for your refusal.”“You came prepared to c
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Chapter: Chapter 72: Vera at the GateThe alarm is silent.Finn would not have known anyone had reached the estate if the guards had not begun moving below his window.One moment, the grounds are still beneath the gray morning sky, dark trees dripping from the night’s rain and mist hanging low over the long driveway. The next, two guards cross the front terrace while another vehicle turns away from the main house and heads toward the gates.Finn stands beside the bedroom window with Dr. Bishop’s cup of tea cooling between his hands.Owen is still asleep in the adjoining room. Everett left before sunrise after Finn turned away from him, and Finn has spent the hours since trying not to remember the silence that followed his accusation.Being protected in secret still feels like being hidden.Everett had found no answer.A knock sounds at Finn’s door.He stiffens. “Who is it?”“Dean.”Finn opens the door only after checking the lock twice.Dean stands in the corridor wearing the same dark suit as the night before, though the
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Chapter: Chapter 71: Still EngagedEverett does not answer immediately.The silence after Finn’s question feels heavier than the heartbeat that filled the room moments ago.Dr. Bishop closes the case around the portable scanner and looks between them. She has heard enough to understand that the next conversation will not belong to medicine, even if its consequences may still affect her patient.“I am going to check on Owen before I leave,” she says. “Finn, stay in bed. I mean that as advice, but I will become unpleasant if you ignore it.”Finn barely hears her.His eyes remain on Everett.Dr. Bishop pauses near the door. “Stress is not harmless tonight.”Everett’s jaw tightens at the warning.Finn pulls the blanket higher over his legs. “Then maybe he should answer quickly.”Dr. Bishop leaves without commenting, closing the door behind her.Everett stays beside it.The distance between them is only a few yards, but it feels larger than the road between Lark Street and the estate. Finn is sitting in a Stone bedroom, car
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Chapter: Chapter 70: The First HeartbeatDr. Bishop waits until the room settles again.Everett remains near the door, his control restored so tightly that the air around him feels almost rigid. Finn sits on the edge of the bed with his hands clasped between his knees, trying not to think about the word fragile.It has already lodged beneath his ribs.Fragile means one wrong night could matter. One missed meal. One desperate run through the rain. One frightened body pushed beyond what it can bear. Fragile means the life inside him is not protected simply because it exists.Dr. Bishop closes her medical bag, then opens a smaller case she brought from the clinic. “I would like to perform an early scan.”Finn looks at the compact machine and feels fear crawl up his spine. “You already confirmed it.”“I confirmed the pregnancy. The scan may tell us more about its position and development.”“May?”“It is early,” she reminds him. “We may not see much.”That should make the decision easier. Instead, Finn’s stomach tightens.The pre
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His Dangerous Truth
Adrian Blackwell has the perfect life: a powerful company, a respected family name, and a fiancée who fits the future chosen for him. As a CEO, he knows how to control every room he enters and hide every feeling that does not belong in public.
Then Julian Hart ruins him.
Julian is an intelligent, openly gay journalist who writes a viral article exposing Adrian as cold, manufactured, and trapped inside his perfect image. Adrian wants revenge, but when his company forces him into a reputation-repair interview series, Julian becomes the one man he cannot avoid.
Their meetings begin with hate. Adrian wants control. Julian wants the truth. But every argument brings them closer, and every touch becomes harder to deny.
Soon, Adrian is hiding a forbidden relationship with the journalist who destroyed his reputation. Behind closed doors, hate turns into desire, and desire turns into something neither man expects.
But Julian refuses to be Adrian’s secret forever.
In this steamy MxM hate-to-love romance, Adrian must decide whether to protect the life everyone expects from him or choose the man who makes him finally honest.
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Chapter: Chapter 79: The InvitationAdrian wakes before Julian and lies still long enough to understand that the night has not disappeared.Julian is asleep on his side, one hand resting near Adrian’s chest and his face softened by exhaustion. Morning light enters through the partly open curtains and falls across the sheets without exposing anything either of them needs to regret.Adrian watches him breathe.The promise from the night before returns with uncomfortable clarity.Tomorrow, do not make this disappear.Adrian had answered that he would not.Now tomorrow is here.His phone vibrates on the bedside table.Julian stirs but does not wake. Adrian reaches carefully across him and silences the sound before it can start again. The screen shows three messages from Annabelle and one calendar notification marked urgent.He opens the invitation first.BLACKWELL GROUP ANNUAL LEADERSHIP GALAThe event is nine days away.It is one of the company’s largest public evenings of the year, an investor dinner disguised as celebrat
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Chapter: Chapter 78: Nothing to Hide BehindJulian arrives at Adrian’s apartment shortly after seven with an overnight bag he has spent the entire train ride pretending means nothing.He could have left it at home. Adrian did not ask him to stay, and Julian made no promise that the evening would last beyond dinner. Still, the bag hangs from his shoulder when Adrian opens the door, carrying a clean shirt, a toothbrush, and more hope than Julian is willing to examine.Adrian notices it.His gaze drops briefly, then returns to Julian’s face without comment.Julian almost resents him for the restraint.“You can say something,” he says.Adrian steps aside. “I was trying not to make assumptions.”“You have become very committed to that sentence.”“I have made expensive mistakes through assumption.”Julian enters. “That sounded rehearsed.”“It was not.”“That is worse.”A quiet smile touches Adrian’s mouth as he closes the door.Julian has been inside the apartment before, but never like this. Their earlier meetings in Adrian’s world
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Chapter: Chapter 77: Not Yet SafeThe profile becomes more successful each day, and Julian feels less secure with every new reader.By Monday morning, it has been translated by three international outlets, quoted in two business newsletters, and discussed on a cultural podcast whose hosts spend forty minutes debating whether Julian’s understanding of Adrian is proof of exceptional journalism or compromised judgment.The magazine’s traffic continues climbing.So do the messages.Some readers thank Julian for writing about power without making wealth look noble. Others praise the way he held Adrian responsible while allowing him to remain human. Several people say the profile helped them understand what it means to grow up inside a family where love is measured through obedience.Those responses matter to Julian.They are buried beneath everything else.Strangers send him edited photographs of himself and Adrian with romantic captions. Someone creates an account devoted to collecting every public moment they have shared
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Chapter: Chapter 76: The Man Julian WroteThe profile goes live at seven in the morning.Julian is awake when the magazine publishes it, though he has slept for less than three hours. He sits at his kitchen table with his laptop open and a cup of coffee cooling beside him, watching the page refresh until the headline appears.THE MAN BEHIND THE BLACKWELL NAMEHis name is beneath it.For several seconds, Julian only stares.The article looks different on the magazine’s website than it did inside the editing system. The paragraphs feel more permanent. The photographs create a public version of the story even though Sarah chose them carefully: Adrian at a company event, Adrian during one of their formal interviews, Adrian standing alone after the announcement that his engagement had ended.There is no photograph of them together.Julian had insisted on that.The article should stand on the work, not on the speculation already surrounding its writer.He scrolls to the opening.“Adrian Blackwell was raised to become a symbol befor
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Chapter: Chapter 75: The Profile Before PublicationJulian reads the final profile from beginning to end without touching the keyboard.He has already revised it six times this week. Sarah removed two repeated arguments, strengthened the section about the board review, and questioned every sentence that seemed to rely more on Julian’s feelings than the public record. Legal has checked the descriptions of the Blackwell Group, Celeste’s statement, and the timeline surrounding the engagement.There should be nothing left to change.Still, Julian sits at his desk before most of the newsroom arrives and studies the opening as though it belongs to someone else.“Adrian Blackwell was raised to become a symbol before he had the chance to become a man.”The sentence has survived every revision.Julian once feared it was too compassionate. Then he worried it sounded cruel in a way the rest of the profile did not support. Now he understands why it unsettles him.It is intimate without revealing anything private.Anyone could have seen the polishe
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Chapter: Chapter 74: Celeste Refuses the ScriptCeleste recognizes the plan before anyone explains it.The meeting takes place in her father’s private office at the Carrington Foundation, where the windows overlook the sculpture garden and every chair has been chosen to make difficult conversations appear civilized. Charles Carrington sits behind the desk. A family communications adviser occupies the chair beside him with a leather folder resting across her knees.Michael stands near the windows.His presence tells Celeste everything.She closes the door behind her but does not sit.“You asked to see me,” she says.Charles gestures toward the empty chair. “This will not take long.”“That usually means someone has already decided what I should say.”Her father’s expression tightens. “Sit down, Celeste.”She remains standing for another second before taking the chair opposite him. She places her handbag beside her feet and folds her hands in her lap.Michael turns from the window.He looks composed, concerned, and almost paternal. Ce
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Erasing the Luna
Rhea Moonmere wakes in the Alpha wing beside an empty bed, expecting another ordinary morning as Luna of the Obsidian Pack. Instead, her clothes are gone, her portrait has vanished, and every servant in the house screams as if she is an intruder.
Her husband, Alpha Maddox Stormhaven, no longer remembers her. To him, Rhea is a dangerous stranger claiming a bond no record can prove. But when guards touch her, his wolf reacts with violent possessiveness. His mind has forgotten her name, her face, and their vows, yet his wolf still knows she is his mate.
As the pack pushes another woman toward Maddox’s side, Rhea is forced to fight for the place stolen from her. But being remembered is not enough. Maddox must choose her again—not because of instinct, not because of duty, but because his heart still belongs to the Luna no magic could erase.
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Chapter: Chapter 76: Northwyck SilenceRhea woke before sunrise and waited for fear to catch up with her.She lay still beneath the unfamiliar blanket, listening beyond the bedroom door. The room smelled of pine smoke, clean linen, and the lavender oil Lysa had unpacked the night before, yet all Rhea could think about was the quiet corridor.She expected guards to question whether she could leave, servants to whisper her name, or an elder to demand proof that she belonged beneath an Alpha’s roof. Minutes passed, and nobody came.The silence held no hatred, but her body still confused quiet with danger. She remembered waking in the Obsidian Alpha wing beside an empty pillow and finding guards at the door, servants staring through her, and Maddox looking at her as though grief had made her dangerous. This room should have felt peaceful. Instead, its peace seemed too fragile to trust.Rhea pushed the blanket aside and sat on the edge of the bed. The mating mark began to ache before her feet touched the floor.Distance had set
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Chapter: Chapter 75: The Empty WingRhea’s absence changed the Alpha wing before her carriage had been gone for an hour.The servants moved quietly through the corridors, and every door closed with unusual care. A breakfast tray remained untouched in Maddox’s sitting room until someone finally carried it away. The tea had gone cold, but no one asked whether he wanted another pot.The guards stationed outside the private corridor kept their eyes lowered. They had faced Maddox’s rage before, but his grief frightened them more because they did not know what might disturb it.Rhea’s room remained exactly as she had left it.Maddox had given that order after returning from the eastern battlement.Her hairbrush rested on the dressing table beside a small bottle of lavender oil. A shawl remained folded over the arm of a chair, and one of her books lay open near the window. A strip of paper covered in her handwriting marked the page.The bed had been made after she rose that morning, but her scent still clung to the pillow.Mad
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Chapter: Chapter 74: Leaving the Obsidian PackRhea left the Obsidian Pack at dawn, before the first bell sounded through the mountains.There were no ceremonial drums, council banners, or formal declarations. The eastern gates opened beneath a pale gray sky while frost covered the courtyard stones and morning mist concealed the highest peaks.Even without ceremony, the pack felt her departure.Women from the old Luna corridor had gathered near the eastern courtyard before sunrise. They stood in small groups beneath heavy cloaks, speaking so quietly that their voices barely carried. Some held baskets of food Rhea could not take with her. Others clutched folded notes, knitted scarves, or jars of preserved fruit as though practical gifts might make her departure feel less permanent.Rhea stepped from the western passage with her travel bag in one hand.The black cloak pin Maddox had given her rested at her throat. Its weight seemed heavier than it had the night before.Lysa walked beside h
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Chapter: Chapter 73: The Moonrise DecisionMaddox waited in the old Luna corridor while the moon rose above the eastern wall.Rhea had asked him not to come to her room. Shortly before dusk, she had sent Lysa with a message written in her own hand on a plain sheet of paper.“Meet me in the Luna corridor at moonrise. Please come alone.”He had obeyed.That obedience felt like the final lesson in a language he had begun learning too late.The corridor was empty now. The chairs used during the day had been returned to the side rooms, and the petitions had been carried into the small records office. Only the plain wooden chair near the window remained, the one Rhea had placed there after the council stripped her of the right to hold an official court.The lamps burned low against the walls. Their soft light touched the empty spaces where portraits of former Lunas had once hung, the household ledgers stacked beneath the window, and the faint rings left by coun
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Chapter: Chapter 72: Scarlett’s ConfessionScarlett came to the old Luna corridor after midnight carrying a wooden box against her chest.Rhea was still awake.Sleep had become impossible after Maddox left the sitting room. His confession remained inside her with unbearable clarity.I love you.She had waited so long to hear those words that part of her still wanted to run through the pack house, find him, and let the bond pull them back into the life they had once shared. Yet another part remained rooted beside the dying fire, remembering that love had not made her safe.By the next moonrise, she would have to decide whether she remained in Obsidian territory or accepted Alaric’s sanctuary.The choice sat beside her like another person.When Scarlett knocked, Rhea assumed Lysa had returned to check on her. Instead, she opened the door to find Scarlett dressed in a plain dark gown with her hair braided loosely over one shoulder. She wore no jewels and carried no
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Chapter: Chapter 71: The Choice He Cannot Make for HerMaddox followed Rhea out of the sun court without trying to touch her.They crossed the pack house in silence. He remained close enough that the bond stayed taut between them, carrying the wounded agitation of his wolf, yet he did not reach for her hand or guide her toward the Alpha wing. He did not ask where she was taking him.For once, he understood that even choosing the room belonged to her.Rhea led him to the small sitting room beside the old Luna corridor.It was neither their marital suite nor the council chamber. It was not the healer’s room, where physical pain had once made tenderness easier to accept. The furniture was plain, the fire had burned low, and the table remained crowded with petitions waiting for morning.A half-finished cup of tea stood beside Scarlett’s ledgers. Someone had left a knitted scarf over the back of a chair with a note asking Rhea to deliver it to a patrol widow.This room belonged to the lif
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