On the night Aria Valery was supposed to celebrate her engagement, she walked in on the man she thought was her fated mate buried inside another woman. Her best friend. Shattered, humiliated, and drunk on heartbreak, she stumbled into the path of Damian Storm, billionaire tycoon, ruthless Lycan chief, and the most dangerous playboy in the supernatural world. He was everything her mate wasn’t. Older. Colder. Sinfully irresistible. The kind of man who never touched the same woman twice… until her. What began as one night of reckless revenge spiraled into an obsession neither of them could escape. But Damian Storm doesn’t just break rules, he rewrites them. And being desired by him comes with a price. Her family is marked by the Council. Her father has been dragged away by Gammas. Her cheating mate refuses to release their bond. And Damian? He’s a man who swore never to love again, yet can’t stop claiming her like she was always meant to be his. Between betrayal, forbidden lust, and a prophecy that could tear the Lycan race apart, Aria must choose: walk away from the most dangerous man alive… or risk burning with him. Because once Damian Storm has tasted you, he doesn’t let go. Not even fate can save you. But now, her cheating fated mate who hates her, won't still let her go as well.
View MoreI jerked my chin from his grip, heat and fury radiating from my chest. “Give me my phone, Damian.”“No.”The single word was a wall I slammed into. Wolves were everywhere.Somewhere behind them, my mother cried my name, but the sound drowned beneath boots and the snap of orders as a black-column of Gammas marched up the drive in lockstep.A silver-bannered standard rose above them. The Council’s crest.My blood went cold.“Aria Valery!” the lead Gamma barked in a high voice. “By order of the Lycan Council, you’re to be taken into custody under Article Forty-Seven, Bloodline Containment.”Damian didn’t turn his head, but power rolled off him in a silent shockwave. “You brought a containment writ into my city without notice.” Not a question. An accusation.The Gamma captain shifted his weight. “Chairman Storm. The order is valid and immediate. Step aside.”He didn’t move. “Show me the writ.”The captain hesitated, then lifted a sealed scroll. Damian’s hand rose, and the parchment slid t
I didn’t need to turn to know who it was.Damian Storm.The crowd of wolves near the house hushed instantly, their whispers slicing through the silence like knives. The Lycan Chairman never appeared without reason. And yet here he was, cutting through the shadows like he owned the night.“Step away from her,” Damian’s voice boomed, deep and sharp enough to send a shiver through me.Ethan stiffened. “This isn’t your concern, Chairman.”Damian’s gaze landed on him like a predator sizing prey. “Everything concerning Aria is my concern.”My heart lurched at the way he said my name—like he already owned it. Owned me.Ethan squared his shoulders, but I could feel the tremor beneath his bravado. “She’s my mate.”Damian’s lips curved in something that wasn’t quite a smile. “You broke that bond the moment you touched another. Don’t speak to me about mateship you don’t deserve.”The air thickened between them. My pulse raced, torn between anger at Ethan and a dangerous thrill at Damian’s protec
My body recoiled at the sound of his voice. “Talk?” I spat, stepping down the porch stairs toward him. “Like the way you ‘talked’ with my best friend between your sheets?”Gasps rippled from the wolves around us, but I didn’t care. My anger tasted like iron on my tongue.Ethan flinched, but he didn’t look away. “This isn’t about that. Not now.”“Oh, yes it’s about that,” I snarled, closing the distance until I could feel the heat of him. My wolf clawed inside me, furious and wounded. “Don’t you dare act like what you did doesn’t matter. You ruined everything, Ethan. And you know I loved you so much.”His lips pressed into a grim line. “I ruined us, yes. But your father? That wasn’t me.”My stomach clenched. My mother’s sobs still rang in my ears. “Then who?”Ethan leaned closer, lowering his voice so only I could hear. “The Council. And they’re not after him. They’re after you. It's you they really want.”The ground seemed to tilt beneath me. My fists curled at my sides. “What the hel
“Aria!” My mother’s sobs came through the phone, sharp and piercing. “They dragged your father away. The Gammas said he defied the Council’s orders. Please....come home. Hurry!”My heart pounded. The world spun, panic rising in my throat like bile.“I’m coming,” I choked, already struggling out of Damian’s iron grip.But his hand tightened around my wrist like a shackle. His gray eyes burned into me, unyielding, unrelenting.“You’re not leaving.” His voice was low, dangerous, the kind of tone that brooked no defiance."Not when I'm in such a state." He glanced down, and I followed his gaze to see the outline of his hard-on straining against his trousers, threatening to break free. God, that must be huge.I yanked against his hold. “My father, he could be killed! I don’t have time for this.”The corners of his mouth curved into something that wasn’t quite a smile. “Time? That’s what you don’t understand, sweetheart. When the Council marks someone, time is already gone.”The bluntness
The night I was supposed to get engaged became the night my entire world fell apart.I wasn’t supposed to walk in on Ethan, my fated mate, the man who promised me forever, bent over my best friend in his apartment. I wasn’t supposed to hear their shameless moans, the sound of their skin colliding, or the desperate way he groaned her name instead of mine.For a moment, I couldn’t even breathe. My engagement dress slipped from my hand as if my body knew before my mind caught up. All those years of dreaming, of believing in the sacred bond the Moon Goddess herself had tied, went up in flames.“Aria! Wait....” Ethan called out to me in shock, on the brink of his release, I guessed. His voice was breathless, and he didn’t even pull out of her. He released everything inside her.That told me everything I needed to know about them.I turned, rage and humiliation burning through my chest, but the tears betrayed me anyway. I wasn’t strong in that moment. I was broken, gutted, ripped apart in a
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