INICIAR SESIÓNLukasThe ballroom was too loud, too bright, and entirely full of people I could not care less about.A high-profile corporate gala was the last place I wanted to spend my evening. The room was packed with rich snobs, fake smiles, and hungry investors looking for any weakness. But the pack elders had demanded my presence, and the media had been whispering nonsense about my marriage falling apart. So, I had made one thing very clear to my wife: she was coming with me.I stood near the edge of the room in a sharp black tuxedo, holding a glass of whiskey. My eyes searched the crowd until I found her.My breath caught.Katlyn was standing near a pillar, talking to the head of the board. She was wearing a deep emerald gown that hugged her curves, her dark hair pinned up with loose strands framing her face. But what caught my eye was her left hand.She was wearing it. The flashing diamond wedding ring I had slipped onto her finger on our wedding day. She had kept it hidden in a drawer for m
KatlynElena opened the door suddenly. She turned around with a smug smile on her face."Oh, by the way," Elena said, her voice dripping with fake sweetness. "I invited Thalira to come stay at the estate for a few days."My heart stopped. Thalira? She was rich, she came from a powerful family, and she had spent her whole life trying to get close to Lukas. Everyone knew she wanted to be his mate."Why?" I asked, my voice tight.Elena raised an eyebrow. "To help manage the estate, of course. And to help care for my son. You look so tired, Katlyn. A little extra help will be good for you."My blood boiled. A hot wave of pure, ferocious jealousy hit me so hard my hands began to shake. I did not want that woman anywhere near my husband, even if our marriage was a fake.I looked over at Lukas. He was leaning against the bedpost, watching me. He saw the fury on my face. Instead of looking annoyed, a slow, annoying smirk spread across his lips. He knew exactly what this would do to me. He wan
Katlyn The sun was not even fully up yet, but I was already awake. My eyes popped open and stared at the dark ceiling. Something felt heavy against my chest.I looked down. Oh no.I was tangled up in Lukas. My arms and legs were wrapped around his naked torso like vines on a tree. My face was buried right against his warm shoulder. I could hear his slow, steady heartbeat.Panic hit me like a splash of cold water. What was I doing? I had promised myself I would never get soft with him. We had an arrangement. We were just two people forced into a fake marriage by the pack elders. We were not supposed to cuddle. We were definitely not supposed to sleep like this.My heart hammered against my ribs. I felt so weak.Without thinking, I planted both hands against his bare chest and shoved him with all my might.Thud.Lukas didn't even have time to blink. One second he was fast asleep, and the next, he was flying off the bed. He hit the floor with a loud crash, tangling himself up in the fl
Katlyn The giant beast reared back on his hind legs, his chest rising and falling in fast, heavy gasps. His lip curled up over his long, razor-sharp fangs, and a low, violent growl rattled through his throat. He was staring right at Valeria, who was bleeding on the grass, ready to pounce and tear her apart.Then I stepped right in front of him.The monster froze. He stopped dead in his tracks, his massive body locking up mid-motion. The violent growl in his chest died down into a low, rumbling hum. Slowly, his gigantic head tilted down, and those glowing eyes locked directly onto my small, shaking frame.I was terrified. Every single human instinct inside my brain was screaming at me to turn around and run for my life. The heat coming off his body was like standing next to an open oven."Lukas..." I gasped out, my voice cracking.I stood my ground. My legs were shaking so hard I thought I would fall over, but I refused to take a single step backward. Tears spilled over my eyelashes
KatlynThe mug of warm tea slipped right out of my hands, shattering against the hardwood floor of my bedroom.I didn't even hear the glass break. I couldn't.Out of nowhere, a very terrible, overwhelming sensation of impending doom slammed directly into my body like a freight train. It was so intense, that my knees buckled, sending me crashing down onto the floor right next to the spilled tea. I clutched my shirt, my fingernails digging desperately through the fabric into my skin as a sharp, excruciating physical ache blossomed in the center of my chest.It wasn't a metaphor. It wasn't just anxiety. It was an agonizing, hollow pain—a painful tear deep inside my soul, burning like white-hot iron.*Lukas.*I couldn't draw air into my lungs. Every breath felt like inhaling shattered glass as the fifty miles of highway stretching between me and his estate suddenly felt like an impossible, unmanageable canyon.My entire body screamed with a primal, desperate instinct that something was t
LukasThe suffocating smell of damp pine and rot hung thick in the freezing midnight air, but it didn't do a damn thing to cool the burning inferno raging in my veins.For seven straight days, I had played the quiet businessman, drowning in corporate damage control while a bloodthirsty monster ran loose in my territory. But I didn't get to where I am by playing defense. I tracked the bastard down to a quiet, isolated patch of woods right on the border of our territories—a place where no human eyes, no cameras, and no pack law could interfere with what needed to be done.I stepped into the moonlit clearing, my heavy boots crushing the frosted grass beneath my feet. Standing thirty feet away, leaning casually against the trunk of a massive pine with his arms crossed over his chest, was Rafael.The air around us turned instantly to ice, thick with the crushing, suffocating weight of two Alpha presence clashing against one another."Lukas," Rafael purred, his voice dripping with smooth,
Katlyn I practically fell through the front door, my four-inch heels clutched in one trembling hand as I leaned against the mahogany wood to catch my breath. My lungs burned, and my heart felt like it was trying to kick its way out of my ribs.This isn't real, I chanted to myself, my mind spinning
Lukas, 29I smelled it before I even saw her.Fuck.I smelled her, the intoxicating scent of cedarwood, vanilla, and something sharp, like a thunderstorm brewing over the Swiss Alps. It was the scent of a being I had been searching for through a decade of agony.Warm, sweet, alive and mine.Mine.T
Katlyn I stepped into the elevator at exactly 8:00 PM. My heart was thundering harder than any pulse I’d ever written for a hero, and I was praying, pleading with the universe—that he either hadn't seen the drive or was too busy to open it.Heaven knows I would not survive the look on his face aft
Katlyn “Reject it!”I didn’t even look up from the tablet. I paused, then continued.“It’s a collaboration request from—”“Reject it.”I inhaled slowly through my nose, already feeling the headache brewing behind my eyes. “Sir, this is the third partnership proposal from the textile conglomerate in







