MY ALPHA STEPBROTHER IS OBSESSED WITH MY SECRET IDENTITY

♣️XAVIER♣️My father found me in the training room before I'd even had the chance to sit down, still in the shirt I'd worn to dinner, my knuckles wrapped from a session I hadn't finished yet."You stared at her the entire meal." He shut the door behind him instead to knocking, which told me exactly how serious he intended this conversation to be."I stared at my new stepsister. Forgive me for noticing the person joining this family.""That's not what that was, Xavier, and you know it." He crossed his arms, the same stance he took whenever a warrior under his command needed correcting instead of praising. "I saw your face when you walked in. I've seen that face before, on you, and I didn't like it then either."I unwound the wrap from my knuckles slower than I needed to, giving myself something to do with my hands instead of answering him right away. "You don't actually know anything about that family. Debt up to their necks, a sick daughter in the hospital, and a mother who needed a h

♣️XAVIER♣️I stood at the edge of the forest with my warriors around me, and none of us spoke, because there was nothing left to say before a hunt like this one.Twelve prisoners tonight. The ones who had crossed into our territory and killed three of our men doing it. I had waited for this moment.The horn sounded and I heard them run, their boots crashing through the brush, breathing already ragged with fear. My men spread out around me, moving the way I had trained them to move, quiet, patient, pushing the prisoners deeper into the trees instead of chasing them down all at once.I found the first one crouched behind a fallen log, shaking so hard I could hear the branches rattle above his head."You crossed our border." I crouched in front of him. "You killed three of my men doing it.""Please." His voice broke on the word. "I have a family. I have—""So did the men you killed." I didn't feel anything when I said it, not rage, not satisfaction either, just the flat certainty of a de

🌸VIOLET🌸The Knight Estate looked even bigger in daylight than it had the night of that first dinner, all pale stone and towering windows, and I stood in the entrance hall with my duffel bag cutting into my shoulder, trying to understand how three days of paperwork and one signature had turned into moving in before the wedding had even happened."I know this is sudden." Marcus Knight met us at the door himself, the way he had that first night, his voice warm in a way that still caught me off guard given everything I'd heard whispered about this family in the pack. "I wanted you settled before the wedding chaos starts. No sense in you three living out of boxes for another month, not when there's this much space sitting empty.""Thank you, Marcus." My mother's voice carried real relief, and I hated how much that relief made it hard to argue with him standing right there in front of us.He crouched slightly to meet my sister's eyes, his tone gentling in a way I hadn't expected from a m