LOGINOne night. || One mistake. || One Alpha who won't let her go. She had one plan to escape her arranged marriage to the crippled Alpha—lose her virginity to a stranger and make herself unsuitable as a bride. Desperate and heartbroken after catching her boyfriend with another woman, she walks into a club room and gives herself to a man she'll never see again. Except she does see him again. The next day. In a wheelchair. Surrounded by guards. The stranger wasn't a stranger at all—he was the Alpha himself. And he was never crippled. Now she's trapped in a marriage she thought she'd escaped, bound to a man who knows every inch of her body but reveals nothing of his secrets. He moves through shadows, hunting traitors in his pack while playing the weakened leader by day. And he's decided she belongs to him—not because of politics or duty, but because of a mate bond only he can feel. When he discovers her university application, her last hope for freedom, he doesn't hesitate. One word from him could destroy her future, blacklist her from every college on the continent. She'll stay. She'll play his wife. And she'll hate him for it. But he doesn't need her love. Not yet. He has time to make her understand that the night she tried to throw away was the night that sealed both their fates. She can fight him all she wants—he's already decided how this ends. She thinks he stole her choice. He knows he's just claiming what was always his. In a world where women have no power and Alphas have all of it, she'll learn that the most dangerous prison is the one built by a mate who refuses to let go.
View MoreJasper was already pacing by the time I fully registered what I had read on the screen.He moved the way he did everything — with complete physical control that was nevertheless failing to conceal what was underneath it. Three steps toward the window. Back again. His jaw was tight and his hand was gripping the phone hard enough that I could see the pressure in his knuckles."This was posted forty minutes ago," he said. "It already has over twelve thousand shares."I leaned against my doorframe and folded my arms. "It's a blog post, Jasper."He turned and looked at me like I had said something in a language he didn't speak. "It's a blog post that is currently sitting in the inboxes of every major investor connected to Vanderbilt Holdings. It is a blog post that the financial press will pick up within the hour if they haven't already." His voice was controlled and sharp and operating at the very edge of controlled. "This is not nothing, Thea. This is exactly the kind of narrative that t
I watched from the second-floor window as Kieran's car disappeared down the tree-lined drive, my forehead pressed against the cold glass. The mate bond hummed beneath my ribs, carrying Emrys's fury and my father's restraint and my own devastation in waves that made it hard to breathe.Four months pregnant. Morgana was four months pregnant.My hands moved to my stomach automatically, doing math I didn't want to do. Four months back was June. Our seventh wedding anniversary. I'd made reservations at the restaurant where he'd proposed, bought him cufflinks he'd claimed to love, worn the dress he'd once said made me look beautiful.He'd canceled the dinner last minute. Business emergency, he'd said. Important client meeting that couldn't be rescheduled. I'd eaten takeout alone in our kitchen, telling myself it was fine, we'd celebrate another night.He'd been with Morgana instead. Getting her pregnant while his wife waited at home with cooling pasta and wilting hope."Khione."My mother's
I watched from the second-floor window as Kieran's car disappeared down the tree-lined drive, my forehead pressed against the cold glass. The mate bond hummed beneath my ribs, carrying Emrys's fury and my father's restraint and my own devastation in waves that made it hard to breathe.Four months pregnant. Morgana was four months pregnant.My hands moved to my stomach automatically, doing math I didn't want to do. Four months back was June. Our seventh wedding anniversary. I'd made reservations at the restaurant where he'd proposed, bought him cufflinks he'd claimed to love, worn the dress he'd once said made me look beautiful.He'd canceled the dinner last minute. Business emergency, he'd said. Important client meeting that couldn't be rescheduled. I'd eaten takeout alone in our kitchen, telling myself it was fine, we'd celebrate another night.He'd been with Morgana instead. Getting her pregnant while his wife waited at home with cooling pasta and wilting hope."Khione."My mother's
I didn’t knock.I just pushed the door open and stepped inside like I had every right to be there.He was standing by the window, city lights bleeding red and gold through half-open blinds. A black silk robe hung loose on his frame, the belt knotted low on his hips, and when he turned, the lamplight caught the sharp cut of his jaw, the hollow beneath his cheekbone, the glint of pale eyes making him look so deliciously dangerous—or was it dangerously delicious?My lungs stopped working.Cora hadn’t been exaggerating. This man was stupidly, unfairly hot.“Hi,” I said, and my voice cracked like I was thirteen. Heat flooded my face. “So, um. I’ve never actually done this before.”He tilted his head, “Done what, exactly?”Was that surprise I saw on his face?“Fucked a stranger in a sex club.” The words tumbled out too fast. “But at least you’re ridiculously attractive, so… small mercies, right?” I swallowed hard. “Look, I don’t need romance or sweet talk or any of that. I just need my virg


















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