Chapter: 004Chapter 4I locked the living-room door behind me and climbed the stairs in a daze, each step heavier than the last.Halfway up, a sharp pain stabbed through my skull. Memories of Kieran's cold rejection crashed over me all over again — his voice, his hatred, the way he'd looked at me like I was nothing. I cried out and nearly ran the rest of the way to my room, desperate to hide under the covers and disappear.I slammed the door, kicked off my boots, and threw myself face-down onto the bed.That was when I heard it. A low, ragged grunt just outside my window.My head snapped up. The sun had already set. I was completely alone in the house."What the hell was that?"Fear tried to freeze me in place, but curiosity won. I slid off the bed, crept to the window, and yanked the curtain aside.My blood turned to ice.A man clung to the iron bars outside, body trembling violently, breath coming in harsh, wet gasps that fogged the glass between us. A dark hoodie and long sleeves hid most of h
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Chapter: 003Chapter 3A violent shiver raced down my spine. My jaw went slack. Goosebumps flooded every inch of my skin, and for one dizzying second the floor seemed to tilt beneath me.Rejection. The word alone was unbearable. I kept waiting for him to laugh, to say it was all some cruel joke, to pull me into his arms and tell me none of it was real. The punchline never came.I forced myself forward, reached up, and pressed trembling fingers to his cheek, desperate for even a scrap of the softness he used to give me so freely."Please tell me this is a joke," I whispered, voice breaking apart on every word.He shoved me away hard enough to send me stumbling backward."Don't touch me!"I caught myself just before I hit the floor. The push hadn't been full strength — but the disgust behind it burned worse than any bruise ever could.When I looked up, pure hatred stared back at me. I regretted meeting his eyes the instant I did."I don't understand the lies you're telling yourself," he said coldly,
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Chapter: 002Chapter 2The music cut off so fast the silence felt violent. Every head in the room turned to me at once. Laughter rippled through the crowd, aimed straight at the bouquet still clutched in my white-knuckled fists."Don't even call Kieran your boyfriend, let alone your mate," someone sneered from behind me. "He only wanted one thing from you, and he already got it. You really thought he loved you this whole time? Even if the bond's real, he'll still reject you."The room exploded with laughter, cruel and delighted. Only Finn stayed quiet, his jaw working like he wanted to say something and couldn't find the nerve."He's already moved on to the Beta's daughter," another voice chimed in, gleeful.The words hit like a fist. My stomach dropped straight through the floor. My knees buckled. Tears flooded my eyes before I could blink them back.Shame burned so hot I couldn't lift my head. This had to be a joke. A cruel, elaborate, unforgivable joke.Somewhere near the cake, a boy I didn't r
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Chapter: 001Heart racing, breath quick, I clutched the bouquet of fresh roses against my chest and half-ran, half-walked toward his house. Petals trembled with every step. So did I.This visit was meant to be a surprise. A perfect one. I wanted him to melt the second he saw me standing there with flowers in my hands, proof of how much I'd missed him.Three weeks. Three weeks caring for my ailing grandmother in a town two hours north, falling asleep to the sound of her ragged breathing instead of Kieran's voice on the phone. Now I was home, and every mile between his house and mine felt like an insult.In two days I would turn eighteen. Two days, and my mate scent would finally bloom in full, sealing our bond for the whole pack to sense. I was deeply, stupidly in love with him. Kieran had always been gentle. Devoted. He'd kept his distance from every other girl at school just to prove I was the only one who mattered — or so I'd believed with my whole chest.The day he turned eighteen, his scent ha
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Claimed By The Wrong Brother
Sophia Hawthorne spent five years loving a man who never loved her back. Five years being the perfect wife — until her husband asked for an open marriage. The very next day, he brought home a pregnant woman.
Humiliated and betrayed, Sophia decides to make him regret everything. And revenge leads her straight into the arms of the one man she should never want.
Jaxx Moretti.
Her husband's younger brother.
The family's black sheep. Her greatest temptation. The man with a wicked smile, filthy promises, and a dangerous habit of looking at her like she's already his.
Getting involved with him was supposed to be simple. A reckless mistake, a way to make her husband jealous.
But Sophia quickly learns that Jaxx was never interested in being her revenge.
He wants to consume her.
Every line she swore she'd never cross disappears the moment he's near. And the more she tries to convince herself she's in control, the more she realizes she's been losing this game from the very beginning.
Because Jaxx doesn't want a few hidden nights. He doesn't want half of her. He wants everything.
And once Sophia lets the wrong brother into her bed, her marriage, her body, and her heart, walking away is no longer an option. Now she's trapped between the husband who never wanted her and the brother who refuses to let her go.
What began as revenge is turning into obsession. And Sophia is about to discover that some mistakes don't ruin your life.
They ruin you.
Baca
Chapter: 005CHAPTER 5Sophia's Point of ViewI didn't go to work the next day.By eight in the morning, the light through the curtains felt too bright, too mocking. I stayed in bed until my phone started buzzing, the vibration rattling against the nightstand like an accusation."Clara," I said, my voice thick and dry."Ma'am? Are you on your way? The production team from the Houston plant is already in the conference room—""Handle it," I cut her off, staring at the ceiling molding. "Handle everything today. Cancel my afternoon sessions. I'm not coming in."A long pause. Clara had been my assistant for three years; she knew I didn't miss days. I'd worked through the flu, through my grandmother's funeral, once through a fever of a hundred and two. "Are you sick? Do you need me to call the family doctor?""No. Just take care of the office. Please."I hung up before she could ask anything else. I wasn't sane enough to sit in a boardroom today, to negotiate delivery margins with clients while my marr
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Chapter: 004CHAPTER 4Sophia's Point of ViewHis footsteps faded down the hall, and then I was alone with the ruined cake and the hum of the refrigerator, the only sound in a house that suddenly felt enormous and empty.I dragged myself up the grand staircase and into our bedroom, where I sank to the floor by the edge of the mattress and let the sobs come. I couldn't let the staff hear me fall apart, so I pressed my face into the duvet and let it swallow the sound.My mind kept dragging me backward, to a scorching afternoon three months earlier in the sitting room at the main Hawthorne estate, when I'd brought Daniel's mother the latest round of clinic results, hoping she'd finally see we were trying.Matilda had thrown the folders at my face instead, the papers scattering across the Persian rug, my most private medical details exposed for anyone to see. "A woman who can't have children is not a woman, Sophia," she'd said, her gold bangles clinking as she jabbed a finger at my chest. "You're a ba
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Chapter: 003CHAPTER 3Sophia's Point of ViewI stared at him for a long time. The words hung in the air, completely detached from the man who'd had his hands on my hips twenty minutes ago.I laughed — a breathless, almost manic sound that echoed against the marble tiles."You're joking," I said, setting the cake box down on the island so I wouldn't drop it. "Please tell me you're joking. That's a horrible joke, Daniel, even for you.""I'm not joking, Sophia," he said. His voice didn't rise. It was the same level tone he used when reviewing quarterly reports, when explaining to a subordinate why their proposal wouldn't work. "We've been trying to have children for five years. Every doctor, every treatment, every cycle. It's failed. An open marriage is the only solution that makes sense right now."The laughter died in my throat like I'd swallowed glass. "Daniel, what the fuck are you saying? Is this the surprise? You want to open our marriage?""Yes," he said, nodding once with the same efficiency
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Chapter: 002CHAPTER 2Sophia's Point of ViewA low, gravelly chuckle vibrated through the speaker, instantly warming the small, enclosed space of my car."Always," Daniel murmured, his voice dropping into that slow, intimate register he reserved for moments when it was just the two of us. "But you're the one who deserves to be spoiled if you actually managed to pin Langford down. Did he give you a hard time?""Nothing I couldn't handle," I said, a faint, secret smirk touching my lips. "Let's just say he signed exactly where I told him to. But enough about business. What are you doing right now?""Sitting on the edge of our bed, thinking about what you're wearing under that blazer."My breath hitched instantly. "Daniel...""Are you wearing those lace ones? The black ones I bought you in London?" His voice became a deliberate silk drag. "Because if you are, Sophia, you need to pull over right now. Tell me what you're doing.""Stop, Daniel," I gasped out, my hand tightening on the steering wheel. "I
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Chapter: 001CHAPTER 1Sophia's Point of View"Since we have reached a conclusion, please sign here." I pushed the leather-bound file across the mahogany table, forcing my fingers to remain steady even as the air in the private dining room grew suffocatingly thin.I hated these closed-off spaces. The restaurant was high-end, the kind that charged a premium for heavy velvet curtains that muffled the sound of the outside world, but all it did was make my skin prickle with unease.I'd built Hawthorne Supply from a single warehouse contract into a name that mattered in three states, and I'd done it while everyone in this industry assumed I was decoration on Daniel's arm. Every meeting like this one was proof that they were wrong. I'd learned to read a room of men who underestimated me faster than they could finish their first drink, and I'd learned exactly how much of myself I had to armor before I walked in.The walls seemed to press inward, reminding me of every business meeting that had gone sidewa
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