Contracted To The Single Daddy Alpha

FreyaI worked twelve-hour shifts every day at the diner on the edge of Moonshadow Pack, and most nights I went home smelling like grease and coffee. Fancy events and pack celebrations? Those things felt like they belonged to another life , one that was never mine to begin with.I was just a waitress buried in debt, invisible to most people around me. So when Alpha Adrian Wolfe announced the Luna Trial, I told myself it had nothing to do with me. Not even a little.And even if I was curious , which I was not , I had no time for trials. I could not stop working, not even for a single day. The medical bills I took on years ago were still piling up, and every shift I worked was one step closer to paying them off.“Oh my moon, can you believe it? The chance to be Alpha Adrian’s luna! I would die if he picked me!”I wiped down the table slowly as two women nearby kept talking. I had heard this same conversation at least five times today already. I tucked a small stack of tip coins into my

FreyaAlpha Adrian had sent me back to my room in the same way you might dismiss someone who had caused enough trouble for one afternoon. Firm. Final. No room for questions.Now I sat on the edge of the big four-poster bed and stared at the wall, but I was not thinking about him or about Celeste or even about what had just happened in the garden.I was thinking about Lily.She was clever , I had to give her that. She had told me her mother was one of the maids here, and I had believed her without a second thought. She had those kinds of eyes, bright and playful, full of quiet little plans. I could not even be annoyed at being tricked.But the thing that would not leave me alone was her age.Six, maybe seven years old. Which was the same age my daughter would be now , if she was still alive.If she had not been stolen.My baby had come early. She was so small when they placed her in the NICU, all soft and warm and perfect, and I had loved her from the very first breath she took. Then o

FreyaAlpha Adrian walked Lily and me out of the ballroom, and Lily held both our hands at the same time like she had decided this was exactly how things were supposed to be.I let her hold mine because I did not have the heart to pull away. But my mind was somewhere else entirely , circling, looping, coming back again and again to that small crescent-shaped mark at the back of her neck.It was the same. I was sure of it. The same shape, the same soft color, in the same exact place.My daughter had been born with a mark just like it.The possibility sat in my chest like something I was afraid to breathe on too hard, in case it fell apart. She could be mine. She was the right age. She had brown curls. She was clever and warm and she had walked straight up to me in a garden and let me in like I belonged there.But she was also the Alpha’s daughter.And that meant either this was a coincidence , or something far worse was true.I could not think about that right now. I needed to stay in

Freya“Lily?” I say between gasps “What happened?”Alpha Adrian slammed his phone on the desk, then growled at me like I was the cause of the bad news. He shoved me out of the way before storming out. I followed him. My legs move without permission from my brain. Alpha Adrian moved fast through the hallway, his shoes clicking faster until he disappeared down the corner. Is he that fast or am I moving too slow?A wave of nausea washed over me. Breaths hang between my lungs, beads of sweat cover my forehead and the hood of my lips. The hallway seems to stretch endlessly and begins feeling like I was running on a treadmill. The large, badge-shaped windows moved past me repeatedly in a fast motion of blurred movement. High pitched ringing filled my ears as the hallway windows whooshed past me like trains on a very high speed. Soon, the hallways stretched so thin it practically felt like I was running on air. Then the blinding lights came piercing from all angles as the ringing inten

AdrianShe looked so angelic as if she hadn’t just almost been kidnapped. My hand stroke the stray strands of lily’s hair. She seems peaceful in her sleep. A faint smile was on her lips like she was experiencing the best dream ever. My fist clenched at my side. Damn that stupid vane’s daughter. I wish I’d gotten my hand on her before she escaped. She had the guts to kidnap my daughter because her father’s pack plays a big role in mine. Freya had lost it. She’d almost killed my guard because of this. When I first saw her in the pack house, I sensed nothing inside her. She had no wolf of some sort. But last night, something massive and dangerous swirled inside her. I felt it. That power was too immense for a she-wolf. “Too dangerous to be close to lily,” I thought. But yet, it had been her wolf’s sense that led her directly to Lily, because otherwise, Celeste would have successfully taken my daughter to her mentally twisted father. I should be grateful to Freya for this, but why