Tempting My Ex's Alpha Uncle
Freya Dalton walks into what she thinks is her engagement party and finds out her boyfriend of four years, Silas Ravencroft, is not proposing to her. He is announcing his engagement to another woman chosen by his family.
When Freya drags him backstage for an explanation, Silas calmly tells her she does not fit the status of a future Luna beside him. His family wants a political match. He still “loves” her, he says, so he is willing to keep her as his mistress. He will continue paying her sick mother’s medical bills, keep her comfortable, and visit her in secret. All she has to do is accept and stay available.
Freya spits in his face and walks out drunk, shattered, and furious.
At the entrance, she throws herself at the first man she sees, asking him to take her away for the night.
Unknown to her, that man is Raiden Ravencroft.
Silas’s uncle.
The real power behind the Ravencroft empire.
The ruthless Alpha who makes board members shake and enemies disappear.
Their drunken night should have been a mistake. Instead, it becomes the beginning of Freya’s downfall and her rise.
The next morning, Freya runs before she can even learn his full truth, because the doctor just called that Silas cancelled the hospital payments keeping her mother alive. Desperation forces Freya to accept the first high-paying job she can get.
As Raiden Ravencroft’s new secretary.
Now Freya enters Raiden’s world with a plan: tempt him, get enough money to save her mother, then leave before she falls too deep.
But Raiden already knows exactly who she is.
And unlike his nephew, the Alpha uncle doesn’t intend to let her go so easily.
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Chapter: Chapter 15 - Before the TripGossip travels faster on that floor than even official information in Ravenscroft Holdings, and by the time I got back from lunch on Monday, it was clear the whole department already knew I was flying to Meridian with Raiden before I’d even told Talia.Catherine found me by the printers. “I heard you’re going to Meridian.” She said it lightly and conversationally, as if she was talking about the weather, but her eyes were doing that slow, assessing sweep they always did like trying to figure something out. “Two days. Overnight.”“It’s a work trip.” I said, focused on picking my printed sheets fro the tray and not meeting her gaze. I refused to give her the satisfaction of a reaction. “There's a staffing review before the renovation sign-off.”“Of course there is.” Her smile didn’t move past her mouth, same as always. “You know, it’s funny. Raiden’s only ever taken one assistant on a property trip in the four years I’ve worked here. Her name was Priya. She lasted about six months after
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Chapter: Chapter 14 - The AssignmentRaiden’s message came through at four-thirty pm. My phone lit up with three words on my screen; my office, now. His summons used to send a jolt of nerves through me but now, few weeks later, I was feeling something closer to anticipation, which was quite questionable.He didn’t look up when I came in. “Close the door.”I did, and stood in front of his desk with my hands loosely folded, waiting for him to let me know why I was called.“I’m inspecting the Meridian property next week. Staffing logistics, guest services flow, security protocols and all other necessities before the renovation sign-off.” He said, looking at me with an unreadable expression as almost always. “You’re coming with me.”I did not expect that last part.“Me? Not Garrick?”“Garrick’s handling the Whitmore close while I’m gone. I need someone who can take notes and perform the necessary tasks without me having to explain twice.” He paused briefly, almost unnoticeable. “You’ve proven you can do that.”“What day next
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Chapter: Chapter 13 - TerritoryFREYA'S POVThe stairwell was the one place on the floor without cameras pointed directly at the door, which I hadn’t paid attention to once, until Silas stepped out of it in front of me on my way down to the mail room, blocking the exit like he’d been waiting there for me.“You’re avoiding me.” He said it flatly, no charm left in it this time, none of the manipulative softmness he’d tried by the elevators. “Every time I come up here you disappear before I can finish a sentence.”“I’m working.” I stepped to the side to go around him. He mirrored my movement, closing the gap I’d tried to create and standing so close enough now that the stairwell felt smaller than it had a second ago.“I heard Raiden had me pulled from the Whitmore account.” His voice had an edge under it I recognized from the worst nights of the last four years. The tone that came right before he said things he was going to regret. “You know how that looks. My own uncle cutting me out because his secretary complained.”
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Chapter: Chapter 12 - Playing the GameFREYA'S POVIf Raiden Ravenscroft wanted to run tests, I decided somewhere around my fourth week, then he could get used to being tested back.I told myself it wasn’t about the wrist or the way he’d walked me to the elevator like it meant nothing. It was strategy. If proximity to him meant proximity to money, to leverage or whatever version of security I could carve out of this job before Elena’s window closed, then I’d be a fool not to use every advantage I had.I started small. A blouse with one more button undone than strictly professional, nothing anyone could call inappropriate, just enough to make a point. I timed my coffee runs so I’d pass his office when the door was open. I found reasons to bring him things myself instead of leaving them with Garrick, Things like signature that could have waited or a call that could have been routed through the assistant line.He noticed. Of course he noticed. Nothing got past him, which was exactly the point.“You could have emailed this,” h
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Chapter: Chapter 11 - Small SabotageFREYA'S POVThe report was due at ten. I’d blocked out the morning for it two days in advance, checked the calendar Sunday night before bed to be sure, and walked in Monday assuming I had until ten to finish it.At nine-fifteen, Garrick appeared at my desk holding a printout. “Where’s the Q3 vendor summary.”“It’s not due until ten. I’ve still got.......”“It moved to nine.” He set the printout down in front of me, and there it was, right there on my own calendar, the entry showing the deadline shifted back an hour, with a timestamp from Friday afternoon that I never saw. “Which means it was due fifteen minutes ago, and Whitmore’s people are asking why they don’t have it.”“I never got a notification for the change.”“The system sends one automatically.”“Then it malfunctioned, because I didn’t see it.” My voice came out tighter than I wanted it to, defensive in a way that probably made me sound guiltier than I was. “I can have it finished in twenty minutes, it’s basically done, I jus
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Chapter: Chapter 10 - The First TestFREYA'S POVThe floor cleared out by seven, that particular hush that only happens after everyone else has gone home, settling over the office. I was packing my belongings into my bag, hoping I could still catch the earlier train, when Raiden’s door opened. “Ms. Dalton. A moment.”Not a request. It never was.I walked into his office.“I need eyes on the Whitmore contract before tomorrow’s call,” he said, once I was standing in his doorway. “Garrick’s already gone. It needs to happen tonight.”“Of course.” I set my bag down by the chair across from his desk, already reaching for the tablet I used to take notes, but he was moving around the desk toward me instead of handing it over from a distance the way he usually did, like paper could only be passed at arm’s length.He held the folder out to me directly.I reached for it. His fingers didn’t quite let go when mine closed around the edge, a half-second delay, deliberate or not, long enough that the backs of his fingers grazed my wrist
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