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THE CONTRACT WIFE OF THE DEMON WOLF FIFTY-SIX
LENAKeeping a pregnancy secret sounded easier when I first decided to do it, but the plan became difficult almost immediately because my body refused to cooperate with me. I woke up nauseous most mornings, struggled with food I had once enjoyed, and had to change my schedule so Aaron would not notice how often I needed to step away.I moved my next medical appointment to a time when I knew he would be at a business meeting, then deleted the reminder from my phone. When Aaron asked why I had stopped drinking coffee, I told him I had been trying to sleep better, and when he noticed I was eating less at breakfast, I blamed the stress of the investigation.“You hate oatmeal,” he said one morning, watching me push the bowl around.“I am trying something different.”“You called it tasteless the last time you tried it.”I looked at him over the bowl. “Maybe my standards have changed.”He laughed, but his eyes stayed on me for another second before he returned to his breakfast. I knew I ha
THE CONTRACT WIFE OF THE DEMON WOLF FIFTY-FIVE
LENAI stared at the pregnancy results until the words stopped looking real, even though the doctor had already explained everything twice and confirmed that I was pregnant. My mind went straight to the dates, counting backward through the weeks until there was no room for doubt about who the father was.Zain.I pressed my fingers against the paper and tried to breathe normally, but my thoughts were moving too fast. The timing was clear, and knowing that made the news harder to accept because this was not simply a pregnancy I had to deal with; it was Zain's child.The doctor continued talking about follow-up appointments and what I needed to do next, but I only caught pieces of what she said. I nodded when appropriate, thanked her, collected the results, and walked out of the clinic feeling as though I had left part of myself behind.My first thought was not about motherhood. It was about Zain's father.He had always wanted an heir from his son, someone who would carry the family n
THE CONTRACT WIFE OF THE DEMON WOLF FIFTY-FOUR
LENAThe new lead took Aaron and me back into the records surrounding Raina’s death, and this time we stopped looking only at the people who had direct connections to Gary. We traced every person who had handled information after the investigation began, comparing names from police notes, building records, legal correspondence, and the private contacts connected to Zain’s family.One name kept appearing where it should not have been. He was not part of Zain’s immediate family, but he had worked closely with them for years and had access to information that should have remained with the investigators handling Raina’s case.“What did he do with it?” I asked.Aaron slid another document toward me. “We do not know yet, but several details disappeared after he received them.”I read the page twice, feeling my fingers tighten around the edge. “So someone close to Zain’s family helped hide what happened to Raina.”“It looks that way.”“Looks?” I asked, looking at him.“We still need proof b
THE CONTRACT WIFE OF THE DEMON WOLF FIFTY-THREE
LENAThe files we had spread across the dining table no longer looked like separate pieces of a murder investigation, a family attack, and a business conspiracy because the same names kept appearing in places where they had no business being together. I ran my finger down one of the old records while Aaron stood beside me, and the more connections we found between the people who destroyed his family and the people circling my sister’s death, the harder it became to believe that our marriage had brought us into this mess by accident.“We stop working around each other and start working together,” Aaron said, pulling a chair toward the table. “If Gary is involved, we need to watch what moves through his businesses, his private meetings, and the people he trusts without letting him know we are looking.”I looked at him for a moment before closing the file in front of me. “Then we do it properly, because I am not sitting in this house while you take every risk and bring me the answers af
THE CONTRACT WIFE OF THE DEMON WOLF FIFTY-TWO
The Marriage We Didn't PlanLENAI kept Raina's final warning beside me while Aaron and I went through everything we had collected, reading the sentence again whenever my thoughts started moving too fast. If someone had been watching Raina because of what she discovered about the Blackwood family, then her murder had never been only about silencing her, because whoever did it had also been protecting whatever secret they feared she would reveal about me.Aaron sat across from me with several old files open in front of him, his attention moving between the documents and the note. “We need to find out why your bloodline matters to them,” he said, and the seriousness in his voice told me he had already decided this was no longer something we could leave for later.“I need to know what Raina knew first.”“We can do both.”I looked at him over the top of the file. “You said that last time.”“And I was right.”“You were also very annoying.”A small smile appeared on his face. “You still ma
THE CONTRACT WIFE OF THE DEMON WOLF FIFTY-ONE
LENAI read the three words again, hoping I had misunderstood Raina's handwriting, but the words remained exactly where I had seen them: ''The Blackwood bloodline.'' My stomach tightened because Raina had spent months investigating people connected to Zain's family and Gary, yet she had also been digging into something about our own family that she had never once mentioned to me.Aaron stood across the table, watching my face rather than the document. “Let me help you trace it.”“I will,” I said, closing the folder.His eyebrows rose. “That sounded like a no.”“It means I'll trace it myself.”“Lena.”“I need to know what Raina found before anyone else tells me what it means.”He looked like he wanted to argue, but after everything that happened in the records room, he seemed to think better of it. “Fine, but you're not doing it alone.”I looked at him for a moment before nodding. “You can help me find the records, but I want to read them myself.”We started with the oldest Alpha arch
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