로그인BLURB FOR THREE YEARS I WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A TOOL. Rowan used me to manage his pack while he took all the credit. Then he threw me away like trash, publicly, at our own engagement party—for a woman claiming to be an alpha heiress. They called me worthless. Wolfless. An omega who didn't deserve respect. That night, I made a choice. I walked into a bar and straight into the arms of a devastatingly handsome stranger. One night with someone who I never imagine would change my life so drastically. Except the next morning, I proposed something crazy: a one-year contract marriage. To my shock, he said yes. Caelan is everything Rowan never was—attentive, generous, mysterious. He treats me like I matter. Like I'm someone worth protecting. But he's hiding something. His wealth, his power, the way people defer to him... nothing adds up. As I rise through the Council Board trials, proving I'm more than anyone believed, I'm falling desperately in love with a man who might only see someone else when he looks at me. But I have secrets too. And when my true power awakens, everything—my past, my identity, my heart—will shatter and reshape in ways I never imagined. He saved me once. Now I'll have to decide if I can save us both.
더 보기CHAPTER 25 FREYA'S POV We were now inside the elevator, and I could feel him without even looking at him. That was the thing about Caelan. He didn't have to touch me for my body to know he was there. His warmth bled through the space between us like heat from an open flame, and no matter how hard I stared at the climbing numbers above the elevator doors, I couldn't stop feeling him. His arm brushed mine. Just that. Just the barest graze of skin, and my breath hitched so loud I was sure he heard it. I felt him turn to look at me. "Freya." God, the way he said my name. Low and deliberate, like he had all the time in the world. Like he knew exactly what it did to me and was choosing to do it anyway. I turned to look at him, and that was my mistake. Because the moment my eyes met his, he closed the distance between us and kissed me. It wasn't soft. It wasn't the kind of kiss you eased into. It was the kind that started in the middle — hungry and certain, his hand cupping my fa
CHAPTER 24 FREYA'S POV The way he said ‘to me’ was not aggressive. It wasn't loud. It was simply the tone of a man stating a fact that he considered non-negotiable and was mildly surprised needed to be stated at all. Kieran looked between us once, and I saw the moment he figured out what was between me and Caelan. "My apologies. Congratulations to you both." He tilted his head gracefully and moved away into the crowd without another word, choosing a direction that put a significant number of people between himself and Caelan. I turned to look at my husband. He watched Kieran go for a moment longer than necessary. Then he looked at me, and his expression shifted — the edge still there, but something else underneath it now. I pressed my lips together very hard. "Are you trying not to laugh?" he said. "Absolutely not," I said, but burst out laughing anyways. Something crossed his face that was almost embarrassment, which was so unlike him that it made me laugh again. "You kno
CHAPTER 23 Freya's POV “Did you hear?” Nina texted me that morning. “The midpoint evaluation is out. I had been awake since five, which was not unusual for me, sitting at my desk with notes I had already memorized spread in front of me as something to do with my hands while I waited. When the notification came through on my tablet I opened it slowly, like taking my time would change what was there. Second overall. Second, out of forty-three candidates who had started this program and the twenty-something who remained after the midpoint cut. Second overall in every combined metric — strategy, leadership, problem-solving, physical assessment, all of it weighted and calculated and resulting in my name second from the top of the list. I scrolled down. Aurora made the cut comfortably, ranked eighth, which made me exhale with a relief I hadn't even known I was carrying. Rowan was in the middle of the qualifying group, which was about where his actual ability landed him when he coul
CHAPTER 22 FREYA'S POV Caelan had started showing up in person more often than not— enough that his absence on the evenings he didn't come had started to feel like a noticeable thing rather than the default. He came with food when he suspected I hadn't eaten properly, which was often and which I was starting to accept was simply a permanent feature of how he paid attention to me. He came with coffee during the late study sessions, the specific kind, the one I had mentioned preferring once in a conversation about something else entirely. He came with things I had referenced in passing that I had not expected him to remember. Three days after I had mentioned, somewhere in the middle of a long phone call, that I missed honey cakes from the bakery near my old school — the small one that had been there since before I was born, the one that made them with crystallized ginger in the pastry the way my grandmother used to bring them home — he showed up with a box of them. I stoo






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