LOGINAurora is a twenty-one-year-old wolf shifter who recently graduated with a master's degree in business and landed a prestigious manager's position at Xanders Financial, the largest financial company owned by her pack. Driven and focused on her new career, finding a mate is the last thing on her mind. However, her carefully planned life takes an unexpected turn when Maverick, the Alpha's son and notorious playboy who has been studying abroad for five years, returns to town. Maverick arrives at the company headquarters intending to inform his father, Alpha Alexander, that he is abandoning his future Alpha duties to marry his fiancée, Scarlett, and live in Paris. But the moment Maverick and Aurora cross paths, they are hit by the overwhelming scents of caramel apples and pine, and their wolves instantly recognize each other as fated mates. Despite the powerful pull of the mate bond, Aurora tries to push Maverick away, frustrated that he is already engaged and determined to protect her heart and her career. Meanwhile, Maverick's world is thrown into turmoil. He postpones his wedding to figure out how to handle the mate bond, much to his father's demand that he reject Scarlett immediately. Unbeknownst to Maverick, his fiancée Scarlett is a manipulative, status-obsessed Delta wolf who secretly rejected her own true mate just to secure Maverick's wealth and power. Realizing her plans to take over the company are threatened, Scarlett begins plotting to uncover the identity of Maverick's fated mate so she can eliminate Aurora as competition once and for all. Caught between a scheming fiancée, an Alpha's expectations, and a stubborn but beautiful mate, Maverick must decide if he is finally ready to leave his playboy ways behind and fight for Aurora.
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-BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP. Rolling over to hit snooze for the fifth time today, I thought to myself ugggg why do mornings have to come so early? I mean it feels like I just closed my eyes an hour ago, but nope, it's now 6:00am and I am late, or late enough. I will barely have time to make it to breakfast after showering and heading to the office. Coffee, that’s what I need ASAP! Thank Goddess my mother bought me a Keurig when I moved out last month. At least this way I can have my cup of liquid gold before I head into my first day of my new career.
Aurora, what have I said about not hitting snooze so many times my wolf, Violet,, as she stretches, wakes herself up as well.
Yeah, yeah Violet, I know it’s a bad habit. At least I’m not a smoker, lol or that would really put us behind.
Oh, Aurora, what am I ever going to do with you to keep up that attitude? We will never find our mate, Violet says while shaking her head.
See I have just graduated with a master's degree in business, and I landed the newest manager's position in the largest financial company, Xanders Financial, which our pack owns. I mean, don’t get me wrong. Yes, my father is the Beta, so many around me think or feel (not that I really care) that I only landed the job due to my parent’s status parents' here is the kicker: I didn’t. I had to interview just like the rest of the candidates for the position did as well. So, after I have showered, put on my mascara, lip gloss, and did a quick straighten of my curly caramel brown hair. I was set to start my week on the right foot, or so I thought. Well, world, let’s see what you have in-store for us today. I say to our wolf Violet, since we have yet to find our mate, not that I am actively looking for one even though Violet keeps getting frustrated with me. I mean I am just 21 years old and many of my friends found theirs the day they turned 18.
Alpha Alexanders POV
I am in the office early as usual. Everyone that has ever worked for our company already has an idea that I would already be in the office, and it is very unlikely that anyone else would beat me into the office. Hell, most days I sleep at the office which is exactly why I keep a wardrobe fully stocked and our onsite gym has private showers as well. So, imagine my surprise when I see Aurora has walked in at exactly 7:30am when her shift nor anyone else in the company comes in before 9am. Good Morning Aurora I say, “I am surprised to see you hear so early, are you trying to gain bonus points today?” Good morning, alpha no I just wanted to get a head start to make sure I am updated with the accounts that will be assigned to me. Now Aurora there is no need to for the normal formalities in here you can just address me by Alexander. Shocked expressions cross Aurora’s face, and she immediately apologizes. No need for the apologies it's refreshing to see someone so eager to get their day or rather week started. I already have my schedule for the day and notice that a new appointment has been made in my weekly calendar. To my surprise it is none other than my oldest son who has been studying abroad for the last five years has decided to make an unannounced trip back home in three weeks and is coming directly to my office as his first stop apparently. No matter what he says he needs to make sure he is staying to fulfill his future alpha duties which Goddess knows I would like to be within the next year if not sooner. I am ready to retire. Just hopefully he doesn’t show up again with another non mate female on his arm that thinks they have secured their position as the future Luna.
Auroras POV
So far, I have managed to find my office and get this the first thing I notice is a stack of files laying directly in the middle of my desk. First let me make sure I have everything I need to make sure they stay in order, and I can stay on task. Computer check, Filing cabinet check, notepads check, pens check. It looks like I will have no problems settling in. Well here goes nothing, as I am getting all the files organized by oldest to newest to ensure I am getting the most overdue accounts back in order a cute brunette decides to pop her head in my office. Hey there, you must be Aurora, I am Missy and will be your assistant so if you need anything just feel free to call me and I will get you what you need. Hey Missy, it is nice to meet you as well I have a feeling a coffee run would probably by the first and most important thing to remain on your to-do list, lol. I keep trying to get the doctors to give a caffeine IV, but they just won’t I say chuckling the whole time. Missy is laughing right along with me. Oh, Aurora I can tell we are going to be great friends and I have the same mission with mine as well. How do you like your coffee we are lucky to have a coffee bar in the building? Just get me the largest caramel macchiato you can find I say while laughing. On it I will be back in just a few Missy says. I return my focus on the now organized pile of accounts and dig in to tackle the first, and mind you the thickest file of them all.
The silence that instantly followed Maverick's declaration was absolute. It was not the peaceful, quiet calm of a productive Friday morning in a corporate office building. It was the heavy, suffocating, entirely terrifying silence of a vacuum right before a massive, catastrophic explosion. The air pressure inside my small glass office dropped so rapidly, so violently, that my ears actually popped. Maverick completely filled the doorway. He didn't just stand there. His physical presence entirely consumed the limited space. His broad, incredibly muscular shoulders completely blocked the artificial, fluorescent lighting bleeding in from the hallway, casting long, dark, imposing shadows entirely across the carpeted floor. He was breathing heavily. His chest was rising and falling in sharp, jagged, entirely predatory movements that legitimately threatened to completely rip the expensive, custom-tailored seams of his charcoal suit jacket. But it was his eyes that truly, entirely par
CHAPTER 12: Friday morning arrived with all the grace, subtlety, and sheer destructive force of a massive, uncoordinated train wreck. The corporate headquarters of Xanders Financial was an absolute madhouse. We had a hard, unmovable, entirely unforgiving deadline for the final stages of the Smithson corporate merger, and I was quite literally buried underneath a towering mountain of physical paperwork and glowing digital spreadsheets. My desk looked less like the organized workspace of a junior manager... ...and more like a bomb had gone off inside a high-end stationary store. I had been sitting in this exact, stiff ergonomic chair since six o'clock in the morning. I was desperately, frantically trying to catch up on the hours of critical data entry I had lost over the past three days. Three days that had been entirely derailed due to the massive, six-foot-four, green-eyed distraction that kept forcefully invading my office, my personal space, and my every waking thought. Eve
The penthouse suite of the Four Seasons hotel was originally designed to be a sanctuary. It was supposed to be a glittering, glass-walled testament... ...to the absolute power... ...and the immense, staggering wealth that I was marrying into. Instead... It had become my own personal, incredibly expensive prison. I paced the entire length of the sprawling, open-concept living room. My sharp, red-bottomed stiletto heels clicked rhythmically against the imported, dark Brazilian hardwood floors. Click. Click. Click. The sound echoed sharply through the massive, empty rooms. It was a hollow sound. A lonely sound. Three days. We had been in the city of Dallas for three agonizing, mind-numbing, entirely infuriating days. And in that time, I had seen my supposed fiancé for a grand total of perhaps four hours. "Financial emergencies," Maverick had claimed that very morning. He hadn't even bothered to look me in the eye as he stood in front of the vanity mirror, perfectly knotti
By the time Wednesday morning rolled around, the air inside the Xanders Financial headquarters was absolutely thick with it.Gossip.It hummed through the sleek, modern hallways. It buzzed in the employee breakrooms. It practically vibrated through the frosted glass of my office walls. Everyone... every single person... in the building had noticed.They had noticed that the Alpha’s notoriously elusive son, the playboy who was supposed to be on a romantic vacation with his gorgeous Parisian fiancée, was instead spending ninety percent of his waking hours hovering around the fifteenth floor.Hovering around me.I sat at my desk, my fingers resting motionless over my keyboard. I stared blindly at the complex spreadsheet illuminating my monitor, the numbers blurring together into a meaningless sea of black and white.Inside my mind, Violet was pacing relentlessly.He is close, she hummed, her tail brushing against the edges of my consciousness. I can feel him. He is th






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