THE WOLF’S PRINCESS
I was born a princess.
But nobody ever treated me like one.
In Elaria, my younger sister Lily has everything that should have been mine—the crown, my father’s love, and the life I was denied. My sick mother and I are locked away, forgotten by the family that should have protected us.
Then Elaria’s debt to the terrifying Veyron Empire comes due.
The wolves demand a princess.
They want Lily.
But when she refuses to become their sacrifice, my family gives me an impossible choice: take her place or watch my dying mother lose the treatment keeping her alive.
So I enter Veyron as Princess Lily, knowing that if my true identity is discovered, I may never survive.
I expect chains. I expect cruelty. I expect to die.
I never expect Lucas Draven.
The Crown Prince of Veyron is cold, ruthless, and feared by everyone. They say no woman who catches his attention survives.
Then his wolf chooses me.
In front of the entire empire, the most feared wolf prince claims me as his mate.
But Lucas doesn’t know my real name.
He doesn’t know I’m Samantha Vale—the princess his kingdom was never supposed to receive.
And while I struggle to survive a palace filled with jealous enemies, Lucas’s younger brother Damon becomes dangerously obsessed with taking me for himself.
Every secret brings me closer to destruction.
Because being the Crown Prince’s mate doesn’t make me safe.
It makes me a target.
I entered Veyron as a sacrifice.
But I may leave as its queen.
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Chapter: Chapter 6: The MateLucas had Damon by the throat before I even understood he’d moved.He slammed his brother into the stone wall hard enough to crack it, and I heard the air punch out of Damon’s lungs and saw his feet leave the ground entirely. I’d expected shouting. I’d expected the kind of argument brothers have loud, ugly, over quickly. This wasn’t that. Lucas’s face had gone utterly still, and somehow that stillness was worse than any rage I’d ever seen.“Lucas” Damon choked out, clawing at the hand around his throat. “It’s me. It’s just, I was only”“Touch her again,” Lucas said, quiet enough that I had to strain to hear it, “And I’ll forget you’re my brother.”The words landed in the room like something physical. I watched Damon’s face change the shock in it, real and raw, stripped of every ounce of his usual charm.“You’ve never” Damon’s voice cracked. “You’ve never once cared what I did with a woman. Never. Not in thirty years.” He said it like a wound reopening, like this was less about
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Chapter: Chapter 5: The Women Who Hate HerI hadn’t moved from the spot where I’d backed myself against the wall.“I don’t understand what you want from me,” I said, and my voice came out steadier than I felt, which was the only small victory I had left that night.“I don’t want anything from you.” Lucas hadn’t moved either, keeping the width of the room between us like he understood, without being told, that closing that distance would break whatever thin thread of composure I had left. “You’re under my protection now. That’s what matters. No one in this palace will touch you.”“Protection.” I almost laughed. “You dragged me out of a throne room in front of hundreds of people who now think I’m your whatever this is. That’s not protection. That’s a target on my back.”Something flickered across his face, there and gone, like he hadn’t considered it from that angle. He opened his mouth to answer.The door slammed open before he could. It was one of the guards, he whispered to him, and he left in a hurry.Two women swept in
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Chapter: Chapter 4: The Prince’s ChoiceI don’t remember being carried out of the arena.I remember waking up somewhere quieter, my shoulder wrapped tight enough to ache, and I remember the fear that came rushing back the second I understood where I was not a cell, not a healer’s room, but somewhere close to the throne, close to him.They dressed my wound, gave me barely enough time to stop shaking, and then two guards walked me down a corridor lined with black stone and silver banners, straight toward a set of doors taller than any I’d ever seen in my father’s palace.The throne room was full when they brought me in. Nobles, guards, court officials, all of them turning to look at me the moment I crossed the threshold, and I understood immediately that whatever had happened in that arena had already become the only thing anyone in this palace wanted to talk about.Lucas stood near the base of the throne, not seated, still in the black and silver of the court now instead of fur and blood, and if I hadn’t seen it with my own
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Chapter: Chapter 3: The BeastsThe first thing I noticed was the smell of blood already in the sand.Not fresh. Old. Soaked so deep into the arena floor that no amount of raking could get it out. I stood there in the tunnel with the other five women, chains at our ankles now instead of rope, and I understood before anyone told me a single thing that whatever was about to happen here had happened many times before.“This isn’t a selection ceremony,” The burned woman whispered beside me. Her voice had lost whatever steadiness it had left.“This is a show.”She was right. I could hear it before I could see it a roar of sound above us, thousands of voices, layered together into something that didn’t sound human at all. When the gate finally ground open and they pushed us out into the light, I understood why.The arena was enormous. Stone rings climbed higher than any building I’d ever seen in Elaria, and every single row was full. Werewolves, thousands of them, packed shoulder to shoulder, some already on their feet,
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Chapter: Chapter 2: The Monster’s EmpireThe wagon smelled like fear before anyone said a single word.There were six of us packed into the back, wrists bound with rope that had already rubbed my skin raw, our knees pressed together because there wasn’t room for anything else. Six women, six kingdoms, six sets of eyes that wouldn’t quite meet each other. Nobody wanted to be the first to admit how frightened they were. I understood that. I was doing the same thing.Outside, the road had changed hours ago. The soft green hills of Elaria had given way to something darker, taller trees, colder air, mountains in the distance that didn’t look like they belonged to any kingdom I’d ever heard described in a storybook. Every mile felt like it was pulling me further from anything familiar, and I found myself memorizing small, useless things the color of the sky, the shape of a bird overhead as if I needed proof, later, that another world had existed before this one.It was the woman across from me who broke the silence first. Older th
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Chapter: Chapter 1: The Daughter They SacrificedMy mother’s hand was so thin I was afraid to hold it too tight.I did anyway.“Please,” I said. “Just breathe. Just keep breathing.”She didn’t answer. She hadn’t answered in almost an hour, not really just small sounds, small movements, the kind you learn to read when someone you love is dying slowly instead of all at once. I’d gotten good at reading them. Three years of practice will do that to you.The healer had left an hour ago. He didn’t say the words out loud, but I saw them on his face before he closed the door behind him. I’d seen that face before, on other healers, in other rooms. It always meant the same thing.Not enough money. Not enough medicine. Not enough time.I heard my father’s footsteps before I saw him. Heavy. Unhurried. He never rushed for her.“Father.” I stood so fast my knees cracked against the bed frame. “The healer says if we don’t get the new treatment by tomorrow.”“I know what the healer says.” He didn’t look at my mother. He never looked at my moth
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The Godfather Stolen Bride
Vivian believed she was one day away from marrying the man she had loved for three years. Instead, she discovered Julian in a church office with Laila, her best friend, hearing him dismiss their relationship as nothing more than an inconvenience.
Before Vivian could recover from the betrayal, she uncovered an even more devastating truth. Julian’s family had never intended to let her become his wife. With their company facing financial ruin, they had arranged for her to marry Magnus, a ruthless older drug dealer whose investment could rescue their failing business. To them, Vivian was not a woman with a future of her own. She was a debt to be settled.
Refusing to surrender her life to a transaction she never agreed to, Vivian fled and encountered Vincent, Julian’s godfather, a formidable mafia boss whose wealth, influence, and dangerous.
When Julian attempts to use the media to humiliate Vivian and force her into the marriage arranged for her, she makes a bold decision. She publicly declares her relationship with Vincent.
Vincent offers her a marriage built around protection, power, and a dangerous alliance. Vivian accepts neither his proposal nor his promises blindly. She has conditions of her own, and she is determined never to become another man’s possession.
But Julian’s downfall transforms his wounded pride into a consuming obsession.
When Vincent is framed and arrested, Vivian step into a world she once feared, assume responsibility for his organization, and uncover the truth behind the conspiracy that threatens to destroy everything they have built.
The woman who once ran from danger become powerful enough to confront it.
And the man who has spent his life controlling everything starts learning whether he can trust the woman he has chosen to stand beside him.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 8: ReputationGerald opened his mouth and found nothing in it.The courtyard held its breath again. Vincent waited with the patience of a man at a good restaurant, and when no answer came he went on in the same easy voice."You want me to pretend. Send her upstairs, tell the press it was nerves, forget the whole thing. Is that the shape of it?""We're trying to protect everyone," Celeste said."From what, exactly? Shame?" He tilted his head. "You came to my home with a camera crew and told the city I'd stolen a bride. You've been shouting for twenty minutes. And now you're concerned about shame.""Think of your reputation," Gerald said, low and urgent. He stepped closer, and one trembling hand rose as if to grip Vincent's sleeve before it thought better of it. "Think about what you've built. Your father left you a name and you turned it into an empire. Twenty years of work. Are you going to let one little girl drag it through the mud?""One little girl," Vincent said.Vivian felt her spine st
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Chapter: CHAPTER 7: Pretend It Never HappenedNobody breathed.A hundred cameras hung on the silence like hooks. The only sound in the courtyard was the faint electric hum of a satellite van, and then Julian laughed, a short, cracked sound with nothing behind it."She doesn't know what she's saying."He crossed the gravel in four strides and caught Vivian's wrist. His fingers were cold and damp. "What are you saying, Viv? Have you completely lost your mind?""Let go.""You're in shock. Look at you, you're in someone else's clothes." He turned his face to the lenses, and the tears came back as if on a switch. "She hasn't slept. She doesn't know what she's saying."Vincent's hand moved at his side. Vivian saw it from the corner of her eye, and she spoke before he could use it."Julian. Let go. There are a hundred cameras, and I would hate for them to see you hurt me."His fingers opened. He had never been afraid of her before, and she watched him learn how."Miss Hale." The woman in the green coat had pushed to the foot of the
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Chapter: CHAPTER 6: Right NowCameras swung toward the window like a field of sunflowers.Vivian stepped back so fast that she hit the wall. She had been seen. In ten seconds every screen in the city would carry a photograph of her face in the blanket, in the house of a man whose name nobody said aloud.She dressed with fingers that would not work, and went to the landing above the front hall. The great doors stood open to the courtyard. From the shadows she watched Vincent come out onto the steps.He did not hurry. He stopped at the top and looked down at the crowd the way a man looks at weather he has already forecast."This is private property," He said. He did not raise his voice, and the reporters still went quiet to hear it. "You have five minutes to leave it.""Vincent, please." Gerald Marsh pushed forward, one hand pressed to his chest like a man in pain. "We aren't here to fight. We love that girl. She lost her father two years ago. She hasn't been herself since. She's been on medication, she's fragil
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Chapter: CHAPTER 5: The Devil's Terms"Marry me."He said it into the dark, in the flat voice other men used for the weather. Vivian thought she had misheard. Gray light was seeping around the edges of the curtains, and the fire had died to a red thread in the grate."What?""Marry me, Vivian." Vincent had propped himself on one elbow. She could not read his face. "Not as a favor, and not because of tonight. As a bargain. I'd like you to hear all of it before you answer."She sat up and pulled the blanket to her chest. An hour ago she had asked what he wanted from her. She had not expected the answer to come with a ring finger attached."Go on," She said."Julian and his parents took your father's company. I'll help you take it back. Every share, every signature, every board seat. I'll help you make the Marshes pay for what they did to you, and I'll do it properly, in a way they can't wriggle out of." His voice stayed even. "Then there's Magnus."The name made her stomach turn over. "He sent men for me.""He paid e
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Chapter: CHAPTER 4: What She ChoosesShe did not sleep.She sat in the east guest room on the edge of a bed she did not trust, still in the blue dress, with the shower running to cover the sound of her crying. She had cried in the car, and again when she first washed her face, and she was beginning to understand that grief did not come in one wave. It came in tides, and each one found a different thing to take. The vows she had rewritten. The way she had practiced signing Vivian Marsh on the back of an envelope, feeling foolish and pleased.When the water finally cooled she dried her face, put on the robe someone had left, and went to find him.He was in the library with a map unrolled across the table and a pencil behind his ear. He looked up when she came in and put the pencil down at once."You should be resting.""I tried. Every time I close my eyes I hear his voice." She stood in the doorway with her arms folded. "I've never been this angry. I don't know what to do with it.""Come in."She went in. He didn't touch
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Chapter: CHAPTER 3: The Godson's BrideThe villa was warm, and everything in it looked like an invitation. Vivian noticed the other things slowly.The staff vanished from rooms before he entered them. A landscape in the front hall hung a little too flush against its wall. In a side passage, the stone floor had been scrubbed paler in one corner than the rest, and no one had tried to hide it."My name is Vincent Cross," He said on the stairs. He had waited until the foyer was empty to say it, which told her he knew what the name did to people.She did know it. It was never said in the street, only in rooms with doors. Cross was the name behind the other names."You were at the church," She said."I was there to see my godson. Julian has called me nine times since morning. He wants a loan." His eyes rested on her. "I came to say no in person. Instead, I found a woman running up the bell tower stairs with Magnus's men behind her.""He's your godson.""By christening certificate. I haven't liked him since he was fifteen."
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