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The Prettiest Trap
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2026-03-27 07:20:47
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THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The Night Everything Shifts
Chapter ThirteenTwo hours before forty guests arrived Zara gets a call that the head chef has been in a car accident.She is standing in the venue in her black dress with her earpiece in and her clipboard in hand when the catering manager finds her with the kind of face people make when they are about to ruin someone's evening.She listened to the full situation in eleven seconds.Head chef. Minor accident. Shaken up. Cannot work tonight. Sous chef is competent but has never run a forty-cover formal service alone. The first course goes out in ninety minutes."Get the sous chef on the phone. Now. I will be in the kitchen in three minutes."She hands her clipboard to Priya without breaking stride."Hold the room setup. Nobody touches table three until I get back.""Where are you going?" Priya asks."To make sure dinner happens," Zara says over her shoulder.The kitchen is loud and hot and running on the particular anxious energy of a team that just lost its captain. The sous chef is a
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The First Time He Laughs
Chapter TwelveDamien is not at his desk when she arrived.He was standing at the long table on the side wall of his office with folders spread across it in a way that would look disorganized to anyone who do not understand his system. Zara has been inside WolfeGroup long enough to understand his system. Everything has a logic. The logic is just not visible until you look for it.He looked up when she walked in. No greeting. He just gestures at the chair nearest the table and turns back to whatever he is reading.She dropped her bag. Sits. Pulls the nearest folder toward her and opens it.For a few minutes they work in silence. Her reading. Him reading. The city moving quietly outside the glass.Then she gets to page four of the Victor file and her stomach drops."He has been tracking my client meetings," she says."Since week two," Damien says without looking up. "He pulled your business license, your registered office address, your client list from public contracts and three years
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The Woman Who Came Uninvited
Chapter ElevenZara's office above the florist shop is her private space.Not her WolfeGroup conference room. Not a borrowed desk in a borrowed building. Her actual office. The one with her name on the door and her mood board on the wall and the framed reviews she worked years to earn. Nobody comes here without an appointment. Nobody even has the address unless she gave it to them directly.So when she unlocks the door at eight forty in the morning and finds a woman sitting in the client chair with her hands folded in her lap and the posture of someone who has never once slouched in her entire life, Zara stops in the doorway and does not move.The woman looks up.Close cropped grey hair. Sharp eyes. A grey coat that costs more than Zara's rent. She looks like she was carved from something old and patient and completely unbothered by the fact that she just broke into a private office and is treating it like a waiting room.Adaeze.Zara recognizes her from the gala. The woman who pulled
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The Night He Tells Her Everything
Chapter TenThe cab smells like pine air freshener and old leather and Zara spends the whole twenty minute ride with her hands in her lap doing absolutely nothing.No phone. No notes. No running through what she knows and what she does not know and what she plans to say. She gives herself the ride to just sit with the fact that in a few minutes Damien Wolfe is going to tell her something he has not told anyone and she needs to be present for it. Not planning. Present.She is good at a lot of things. Being present when she is nervous is not one of them.She watches Atlanta roll past the window. A couple arguing outside a restaurant. A group of women laughing outside a bar. A kid walking a dog so large it is practically walking him. Normal Tuesday night things happening in a city that has no idea what is moving underneath it.She thinks about the gold glow she thought she saw in Damien's eyes that very first day in his office. She had dismissed it as a trick of the light. She had writte
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The Prettiest Trap
Chapter NineThe invitation arrives on her desk at nine in the morning in a cream envelope with her name written by hand.Nobody hand-addresses envelopes anymore. That is the first thing Zara notices. The second thing is that it was placed directly on her desk, not left with Priya, not slid under the door. Someone came into her conference room while she was getting coffee from the machine down the hall.She picks it up without sitting down.Inside is a single card. Heavy paper. Clean print.Private Industry Mixer. Tonight. Seven PM. The Aldridge Club. Hosted by Victor Graves. Your presence would be appreciated.That last line. Not requested. Not invited. Appreciated.She puts the card on the desk and goes to find Priya."Who came into my conference room this morning while I was getting coffee?"Priya frowns at her tablet."Nobody on the access log. Why?""Someone left something on my desk."Priya's frown deepens. She pulls up the corridor camera feed on her tablet, scrolls back fiftee
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE Lunch With The Wrong Brother
Chapter EightMarcus showed up at the conference room door at twelve fifteen holding car keys and absolutely zero explanation.Zara looked up from her laptop. He is dressed like someone who has never had a bad day in his life. Dark jacket, easy smile, keys swinging from one finger like he has already decided how this goes."Lunch," he says."I have work," "You have a laptop and the ability to do that work after lunch. Come on. There is a place three blocks over that does jerk chicken that will make you rethink every meal you have ever had."She looked at him. Then at her laptop. Then back at him."Does your brother know you are here?"The smile does not move but something behind it shifts just slightly."My brother is in a call with Frankfurt until two. He will not notice I exist until dinner."That is not a no. She notices. She grabs her bag anyway.The place is small and loud and smells incredible. They get a table by the window and the server knows Marcus by name and brings two wa
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