LOGINI always thought my husband, Ryder, was forced to marry me. For six months, he wouldn't touch me. I tried everything. I wore my sexiest lingerie. I guided his hands over my burning skin. I could feel how hard he was, completely out of control. But at the last second, he'd always push me away, gasping. He'd finish me with his fingers instead. My hope died. I decided to leave him. I was ready to accept a top dog trainer position in Europe. The night before I planned to hand him the divorce papers, I heard voices from his study. Ryder, talking to his best friends. "Ryder, you're dying for her, man. So why won't you touch her? Another man's going to snatch her up!" "But she's so fragile..." Ryder's deep voice was filled with pain. "You know... I'm a monster. If she sees what I really am... it will terrify her." His voice dropped to a raw whisper. "If she really needs... comfort... from another man... I can take it. As long as she comes home to me in the end." His friend growled. "Stop! Then maybe stop posting on that encrypted dark web forum, asking for help!" Monster? What did that mean? Late that night, I used his computer. I found a hidden forum called "The Den." A pinned post at the top. Thousands of replies. User ID: Midnight_Howler. One sentence. Dripping with desperation and frantic obsession: "I finally married the girl I've loved for years, but I'm terrified to touch her. How can I survive my rut without hurting her, without her discovering my secret?"
View MoreI slowly turned my head.The man holding me was Ryder's mirror image. But his energy was all wrong. And he was smirking right at me."Surprise!" he winked. "I'm the evil twin, Ryan."Me: "???"Ryder’s face was thunderous. He stalked over and physically snatched me out of Ryan's arms. "Ryan! What the hell is wrong with you!""Relax, little bro," Ryan chuckled, throwing his hands up in surrender. "I just wanted to see the woman who's got our big, bad Alpha crying on the internet."My face instantly caught fire. Wait. They all knew?"Just how many of you know about Midnight_Howler?" I demanded."The entire pack," Ryan grinned. "You're practically our internet-famous Luna."Ryder looked like he wanted the floor to swallow him whole. I just raised an eyebrow and stared him down."Well, well. It seems we need to have a little chat about your 'infidelity' accusations."Ryan wisely took that as his cue to exit, leaving the two of us staring at each other in the gym.I crossed my arms, smirkin
Ryder went completely silent. He looked like a giant wolf awaiting punishment.I poked a finger hard into his rock-solid abs, getting more annoyed by the second."Six months of marriage, and you completely iced me out," I said, tracing circles on his chest. "You had me thinking I was just a pawn for your business empire. A contract wife.""No!" He captured my lips frantically. "Never!""Then what was it?""Because..." He stared into my eyes with a tragic, desperate kind of love. "Because you're my one and only mate. A werewolf only gets one fated mate in a lifetime. I was terrified of losing control and hurting you.""And I was terrified that if you found out the truth, you really would run away to Europe."His raw honesty chipped away at my anger. "So, you've been in love with me this whole time?"He nodded, slumping in relief like a man on death row getting a pardon."For years," he admitted, brushing a thumb across my cheek. "Since the first time I laid eyes on you at that gala.""T
The next day, I tore the entire bedroom apart. Still no application. I knew it. Ryder definitely snatched it in the heat of the moment.I put on my best makeup and marched straight up to the top floor of Sterling Group. When I pushed open the heavy mahogany doors, Ryder was right in the middle of a board meeting.Every suit in the room turned to stare, but my eyes were locked dead on him."Sorry to interrupt," I said, strolling right up to him. "I need a word with my husband.""Take ten, gentlemen," Ryder ordered smoothly. "Go grab a coffee."Once the room cleared out, he poured me a glass of water. "What brings my gorgeous wife to the office?" he asked, throwing me a flawless, innocent smile."Did you see something on my nightstand?" I cut right to the chase."Your nightstand?" He tilted his head, acting like he was racking his brain. "Did you lose something important, sweetheart?"God, he was a good actor."Never mind." I set the glass down. "I probably just misplaced it.""If you l
My arrogant Alpha was on his knees. At my feet.He forced my hand flat against his scorching chest. I could feel his heart thrashing, trying to punch its way out of his ribcage."Feel that?" he rasped. "This is what you do to me."He dragged my hand down. He stopped over a vicious, jagged scar on his lower stomach. "I got this fighting for the Alpha title," he said, staring up at me with crazed devotion. "Just so I could have the right to stand beside you. To be worthy of you."That was it. That broke me.I yanked him into a kiss, pouring everything I had into it. He kissed back instantly, like a starving beast who hadn't eaten in a century.We were tearing at each other when I finally pushed him back, gasping for air."Those guys..." I panted against his lips. "It was just a misunderstanding. Chloe sent them. I didn't touch them."He froze. Two seconds later, the dark agony in his eyes vanished, replaced by pure, feral ecstasy."Really?" he trembled."Really."He snapped.He scooped m












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