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.
Basahin
Chapter: WHAT LOVE COSTS(MAYA'S POV)Julian told me everything the next morning, Christmas morning itself, sitting at my own kitchen table with two mugs of coffee going cold between us, snow falling thick and silent past the window behind him, the whole town outside was wrapped in the particular hush that settled over it on the one day even the market stalls stayed closed. String lights glowed warmly along Main Street, visible even through the frost creeping up the glass, and somewhere down the block I could hear the faint, tinny sound of carols drifting from a radio someone had left playing in an empty storefront."You resigned," I said, when he finished. "From everything. The company your family built across three generations.""I did.""Julian." I set my mug down, hands not quite steady. "That's not a small thing. That's not a grand romantic gesture I get to simply accept with a thank you. That's your entire life.""It was my father's life first. I only ever inherited it." He reached for my hand across the table, s
Huling Na-update: 2026-11-02
Chapter: FORTUNE OR HER(JULIAN'S POV)My father's study hadn't changed since I was a boy, the same dark wood, the same wall of framed deals and acquisitions marking three generations of Vance ambition, the same fire burning low and controlled in the grate, never too large, never wasted. He sat behind his desk when I entered, a single glass of scotch untouched beside him, and didn't look up right away, the old, familiar power move I'd watched him deploy on board members a hundred times."Sit down, Julian.""I'd rather stand.""I'd rather you sat. Humor an old man." Something in his voice, tired in a way I'd rarely heard from him, made me reconsider, and I took the chair across from his desk, the leather cold under me despite the fire."You wanted to see me.""I did." He finally looked up, and whatever I'd expected to find in his expression, cold calculation, controlled anger, wasn't quite what was actually there. He looked old. Older than I'd ever let myself see him before. "Your mother has told me everything I need to
Huling Na-update: 2026-10-30
Chapter: THE WEIGHT OF WAITING(JULIAN'S POV)Christmas Eve morning arrived gray and still, the kind of hush that settled over the mountain after a storm had finally worn itself out, and I stood at the window of Maya's small apartment above the shop watching snow drift lazy and unhurried past the glass, my phone heavy in my hand with a message I hadn't yet found the courage to answer.It was from my mother,Victoria. 'Victoria: Your father expects you before the board convenes. He's given you considerable grace already, Julian. Please don't mistake it for patience that doesn't end.'I read it three times, the same careful, precise phrasing my mother always used when she meant something far more urgent than her words let on, and felt the easy warmth of the last two days collecting itself back into something heavier, something I'd been quietly setting aside while I let myself simply be happy for forty-eight hours that felt, in hindsight, almost stolen."You're doing the thing," Maya said from the doorway, wrapped in a blanket, hair
Huling Na-update: 2026-10-29
Chapter: FOUR FOR DINNER(CHLOE'S POV)Ren showed up at my door wearing an actual collared shirt, which was such a departure from his usual quiet, practical layers that I nearly didn't recognize him standing on my porch in the snow."You're dressed like a man going to a job interview," I said, by way of greeting."I'm dressed like a man who's never been on an actual date before and panicked slightly in front of his own closet." He held up a small bouquet of grocery-store carnations, a little crushed from the walk over, and the gesture was so earnest and so unlike the composed, careful man I'd met two weeks ago that something in my chest went warm and unsteady all at once. "I understand flowers are traditional.""They're lovely. Thank you." I took them, breathing in the faint, ordinary smell of them, and found myself unexpectedly moved by how hard he was trying. "You know this isn't actually our first date. We've had approximately four hundred conversations over burnt hospital coffee at this point.""Those felt like some
Huling Na-update: 2026-10-28
Chapter: ORDINARY THINGS(JULIAN'S POV)"You're allowed to just shop, you know," Maya said, watching me study the window display of the toy shop two doors down from her own with the focused intensity I usually reserved for contract negotiations. "It's a wooden train set. There's no due diligence required.""I've never bought a Christmas present for anyone under the age of thirty. I'd like to get it right.""They're five weeks from existing outside of me, Julian. I don't think either of them has strong opinions about trains yet.""Then I have time to form a strategy before they do." l pushed open the shop door anyway, bell jingling, and she followed me in, laughing, snow still melting in her hair from the walk across town.The whole square had transformed overnight, the way it always seemed to two days before Christmas, every window strung with lights, every lamppost wrapped in red ribbon, a fresh dusting of snow settled softly over rooftops that hadn't fully shaken off the last storm. Somewhere behind us, the violinist had
Huling Na-update: 2026-10-27
Chapter: DISCHARGE DAY(MAYA'S POV)They released me two days before Christmas, with strict instructions about rest and stress and the particular kind of vigilance that came with carrying twins five weeks shy of due, and Julian signed the discharge paperwork with the same careful attention he'd given every piece of paper in that hospital since the night everything changed."You're allowed to carry things again," I told him, watching him insist on wheeling me out himself despite the nurse's assurance that I could walk the short distance to the car. "I'm not made of glass, Julian.""I'm aware. I'd simply like five more minutes of being useful before you remind me of that fact again." He tucked a blanket around my knees that I absolutely did not need, snow already dusting his shoulders from the brief trip outside to bring the car around. "Humor me.""Fine. Five minutes.""Generous of you.""I'm a generous person. Ask anyone who hasn't watched me negotiate a flour delivery."That earned a real laugh out of him, tired but ge
Huling Na-update: 2026-10-26
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