MISTLETOE,MOONLIGHT AND MY SECRET
**MISTLETOE, MOONLIGHT & MY SECRET**
I have exactly one rule: never let anyone find out what I really am.
I broke it once, seven months ago, with a masked stranger at a gala I was never supposed to attend. One perfect night. Then I vanished before morning, certain I'd never see him again.
I was wrong.
A historic blizzard just blew him straight through my bakery door, and Julian Vance hasn't stopped staring at my stomach since he walked in. He doesn't recognize me as a rogue werewolf hiding from my own pack. He recognizes me as the woman who broke his heart, and the mother of the twins he doesn't even know exist yet.
He offers me a deal: pretend to be his fiancée for one week, survive his family's Christmas gauntlet, and he'll save my failing shop from closing forever. Fake ring, fake smiles, clean ending when the snow melts.
Except my wolf already knows what I refuse to admit.
He's my mate.
Now I'm hiding two secrets from a billionaire who's falling for me for real, a future mother-in-law doing pregnancy math out loud at her own dinner table, a gossip columnist with a pen already out, and a pack that will do anything to bring me home before he finds out what I am. Every stolen glance makes the lie harder to keep. Every truth I almost tell costs me a little more of the life I've spent three years hiding inside.
I have until Christmas morning to decide.
Tell him everything, and risk losing the one man who's ever looked at me like I was worth staying for.
Or keep lying, and lose myself instead.
A holiday romance where the biggest danger isn't the storm outside, it's the truth neither of them is ready to survive.
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Chapter: THE ICE QUEEN (MAYA'S POV)I saw the car pull up through the fogged front window and nearly dropped the tray of croissants I was pulling out of the display case. "That's not just Julian," Chloe said beside me, peering through the glass, watching the whole thing unfold like a car crash in slow motion. "That's a whole entourage situation. Is that woman wearing heels? In this snow?" "Chloe...." "I'm just saying, respect the commitment to the aesthetic." "Chloe, that's his mother." She went quiet very fast, which for Chloe was its own kind of alarm bell. "Okay. Right. I'm going to go be extremely busy in the back." "You are not leaving me alone for this." "I absolutely am. I have zero training for billionaire mothers. I once cried in front of the health inspector." She was already untying her apron. "You've got this. You handled Julian showing up in a blizzard looking like a Christmas card. You can handle his mom." She vanished through the back door before I could argue, and I had exactly four seconds to
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Chapter: GUESTS (JULIAN'S POV)The Aspen Peak Grand occupied the top third of the mountain like it had been carved there on purpose, all glass and cedar beams and a lobby fire that had apparently been burning continuously since the resort opened in 1987, according to the small brass plaque nobody had ever asked for. The resort had sent a truck down for me before dawn, chains on the tires, taking the one lane through town that existed purely because the Vance family paid enough into the county's snow removal budget to make it happen ahead of anyone else's turn. The rest of the valley could wait for Thursday. I'd never once had to. I stood at the window of my suite at seven in the morning, still in yesterday's clothes, watching the plows clear the private drive below while the rest of the valley remained buried under three feet of snow the county wouldn't touch until Thursday at the earliest. The world outside was the kind of quiet that only exists after a storm, no wind, no traffic, just snow settling on snow, t
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Chapter: THE WORST IDEA I HAVE EVER HEARD(MAYA'S POV)That's my baby. I know it is." The words hung in the candlelight between us, and I made myself hold his gaze instead of looking away, because looking away would have been its own kind of answer. "Julian..." "You don't have to say it again." He sat back against the counter, arms crossed, watching me with an expression I couldn't quite name.It wasn't anger, not exactly. Something more exhausting than that. "I already know." "Then why do you need me to say it?" "Because you haven't. Not once. You went quiet and let me decide what that meant. That's not the same as you telling me." He wasn't wrong about that either, which was the most irritating part. Behind me, the back room door creaked open, and Chloe reappeared with an armful of blankets and a flashlight jammed under her chin. "Okay, good news, we have blankets. Bad news, I checked the weather app before it died and it says the roads are closed county-wide until further notice, which is apparently code for 'a week,' becaus
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Chapter: SEVEN MONTHS OF SILENCE (JULIAN'S POV)The door had barely stopped rattling in its frame and I still hadn't managed to say another word. Maya. It was actually her. Seven months of telling myself the masquerade had been some kind of fever dream, some perfect, impossible night I'd built up in my head because reality had never given me anything to compare it to, and here she was, standing behind a bakery counter with flour on her hands and my child under her ribs. I'd spent the drive up the mountain on a call with legal, cutting off a junior associate mid-sentence because he hadn't read the terms closely enough, and I hadn't thought twice about it. That was simply how I ran things. I did not, as a rule, arrive anywhere soft. "Maya. Is that.....?" I couldn't finish it. I didn't need to. Her face told me everything the rest of the sentence would have. "You need to leave," she said instead, voice tight, already moving toward the door like she could physically push the last thirty seconds back outside with the storm. "The ro
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Chapter: THE MAN IN THE DOORWAY (MAYA'S POV)Smile, Maya," Julian murmured against my ear, his hand firm at my waist. "The cameras are watching." I smiled, bright and glamorous, the kind of smile I'd practiced in the mirror until it looked like it cost me nothing at all. Crystal chandeliers threw light across the Vance family ballroom like the whole room was on fire. My dress, designer, borrowed for the night, cinched to hide as much of the bump as fabric could manage, did its best. My heart didn't. Nobody here knew I was broke. Nobody knew I was a rogue werewolf hiding in plain sight. And nobody, especially not the man with his hand on my waist, steering me past a wall of flashing cameras like I was something worth protecting, knew that the baby kicking under my ribs right now belonged to him. Seven days earlier... Four minutes left on the timer, and I still didn't listen to the blizzard alarm buzzing on my phone for the third time that hour. "Maya, the news is not messing around this time." Chloe's voice carried from t
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