
FAKE MARRIAGE WITH HOT NEIGHBOR ALPHA
Harper Vargas spent every day of her marriage trying to be the perfect mate for Nicolás Duarte. She cooked his meals, smiled at his pack events, and ignored the cold emptiness in his eyes whenever he looked at her. She told herself it was enough. She told herself he would learn to love her eventually.
Then she found her sister's photograph hidden in his drawer, and everything she believed came crashing down.
Valentina was always the golden daughter. The pretty one. The thin one. The one their parents actually wanted. And while Harper played house with a man who could barely stand the sight of her, Valentina was warming his bed overseas, laughing about how easy it was to fool the fat, desperate little sister who never knew when to quit.
Now Harper is alone, broke, fired from her job, and backed into a corner by a father who sees her as nothing more than a bargaining chip to be traded to the highest bidder. His latest offer? A sixty three year old predator with four ex wives and wandering hands.
But there is one way out.
Her mysterious new neighbor, the impossibly gorgeous Alpha who watched her cry in a hallway, matched her drink for drink at a dive bar, and gave her the best night of her life, has already asked her to marry him. She turned him down once. She won't make that mistake again.
The only problem? Their marriage is supposed to be fake. And the way he looks at her doesn't feel fake at all.
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Chapter: Chapter 5I made it halfway down the hotel hallway before my phone started screaming.Not ringing. Screaming. The ringtone I set for my father was a blaring alarm sound because every call from Alpha Rafael Vargas felt like an emergency, even when it wasn't. Especially when it wasn't.I answered while jabbing the elevator button. "What.""Where are you?" His voice was the cold, controlled kind of furious. The kind that used to make me shrink when I was younger. "I've been calling you since last night.""I was busy.""Busy doing what? Running around the city making a fool of this family? Niall told me what you did at that club. You attacked him. In public.""He had it coming.""You get yourself home right now, Harper. Not your apartment. This house. You have one hour."He hung up before I could answer. Typical Rafael Vargas. He didn't have conversations. He gave orders.Part of me wanted to ignore him. Part of me wanted to take a cab to the airport and disappear to somewhere warm with no pack pol
Last Updated: 2026-09-17
Chapter: Chapter 4The hotel suite door barely closed before his mouth was on mine.I didn't know who moved first. Maybe it was me. Maybe I grabbed his collar and pulled him down to reach my height because I was done being careful, done being the good girl who waited and hoped and swallowed her pain like medicine. Whatever started it, we collided in the dark like two people who had been running toward the same cliff and decided to jump together.His hands found my waist, my hips, the thick curve of my body that I usually hid under oversized sweaters and crossed arms. But he wasn't hiding anything. He gripped me like he meant it, like every soft inch of me was exactly where his hands were supposed to be, and the sound I made against his mouth was embarrassing and honest and I didn't care."Off," I gasped, pulling at his shirt. The buttons weren't cooperating so I yanked, and two of them popped and hit the hardwood floor like tiny gunshots."That was expensive." His voice was rough against my throat."Bil
Last Updated: 2026-09-17
Chapter: Chapter 3Valentina screamed. The sound cut through the bass and the chatter and hit every corner of the club like a siren. She scrambled off Nicolás's lap, champagne soaking through her white dress, glass everywhere.I still had a shard in my hand. I didn't even realize I was holding it until the sharp edge bit into my palm.Nicolás was on his feet, blood streaming down his face from the gash between his brows. His eyes were wild, shifting between gold and human, his wolf barely caged beneath his skin. "You crazy little...""Finish that sentence." I stepped closer, the glass between us like a dare. "Go ahead, Nicolás. Finish it."He didn't. He pressed his hand harder against the wound, blood slipping between his fingers, and for the first time in four years I saw real fear behind those pretty eyes.Valentina grabbed a napkin and pressed it to his forehead. "She's insane! Someone call security.""Oh, I'm insane?" I turned to her. The fury was clean now, focused, like a blade heated until it glo
Last Updated: 2026-09-17
Chapter: Chapter 2Luna's Eclipse sat on the top floor of one of Highrise City's tallest buildings, all black glass and golden light pouring out from its entrance like a dare. Even from the street I could hear the bass thumping through the walls. The line wrapped around the block, but Isadora walked straight past everyone and winked at the bouncer, who unclipped the velvet rope without a word."Must be nice being a Reyes," I muttered, pulling my short skirt down over my thick thighs as the cold air bit into my skin."Perks of growing up in a pack that actually throws good parties." Isadora linked her arm through mine and pulled me inside. "Now stop fidgeting. You look incredible."I didn't feel incredible. My bruise was covered under three layers of concealer, my curvy body was squeezed into a dress that Isadora picked out because she insisted it showed off my best angles, and every step I took sent a dull throb through my belly where the bond was still rotting away. But I was here. I was standing. That
Last Updated: 2026-09-17
Chapter: Chapter 1My hands wouldn't stop shaking.I parked in the basement lot of my old apartment building, the one I kept paying rent on even though I hadn't slept here in four years. Four years of living at Nicolás Duarte's packhouse. Four years of waking up next to a man who looked through me like I was furniture.The elevator ride up felt longer than it should have. My whole body was burning from the inside, that sick, twisting heat of a mate bond breaking apart. Every breath hurt. Every heartbeat felt like it was tearing loose from my ribs. I pressed my thick palm against the wall to steady myself and walked down the hallway to unit 4B.I punched in the code. Wrong. I tried again. Wrong again."Come on. Come on, come on, come on." My voice cracked. My fingers were too swollen and shaky to hit the right numbers. The tears came before I could stop them, fat and hot and rolling down my bruised cheek where Nicolás's hand had connected hours ago.I slid down against the door, my full thighs hitting th
Last Updated: 2026-09-17