LOGINKieran looked down as well and stiffened, realizing what he’d done. What I’d just made him do with a few words and a single touch.“Your body betrays you,” I whispered. “Just as you made mine do only a few days ago. So I think we’re even now that you know how it feels to have no control while someon
Charlotte’s POVKieran had me pinned to the wall. Again.How many times had we found ourselves in this position before? How many times had Kieran asserted his dominance over me, acting like he had any right to do this to me?And most of all, how many times had I actually liked it?More than I could
Charlotte’s POVMy face went aflame.Kieran, seemingly satisfied by his successful jab, grabbed his clothes out of his dresser and turned to me, looking at me expectantly as if waiting for me to get out. With what little dignity I had left, I opened the door and walked out, shutting it firmly behind
“I’m not.” Now, he was the one who rolled his eyes. I hated that the childish gesture kind of looked good on him, like it took some years off of his face. “The guests are still out there. If you leave and go to another room right now, everyone will have questions. You have to stay until they dispers
Charlotte’s POVI wanted to tell Nora the truth.We weren’t a “real” family. Not now, not ever. No matter how much she wanted it, it was never happening, and especially not now.Her father had just marked me without my permission, binding me to him for reasons I never had a say in. It was unfair, an
Charlotte’s POVThe rest of the banquet passed in a blur. Guests came and went, shaking my hand and giving me well-wishes that I had to respond to with smiles and thank-yous. I never got a chance to confront Kieran for what he’d done, but the whole ordeal burned against that mark on my neck, making
Charlotte’s POV“Who is it, Sophia?” the belligerent she-wolf’s friends were calling from the far side of the curtain.Sophia stared at me, eyes wide in disbelief. Her haughty, beautiful face quickly composed itself into domineering arrogance.“Just some disgusting human,” she called back to the oth
Charlotte’s POV“We’ll see how your rules make me obey!”The provocative words fell from my lips as though by accident. I cringed as Kieran’s expression turned grim. His lips curled contemptuously.“I will watch you obey,” he promised ominously, “Now go.” He pointed down the hallway towards the cent
I was taken by a servant to a lavish room on the top floor to unpack. Doing so took me less than five minutes- I truly didn’t have much.Looking at my meagre possessions spread on the antique boudoir surface was somewhat depressing. How small a footprint my life had left so far!My stomach rumbled a
Charlotte’s POVKieran and I both froze at Nora’s soft words.“I want you to marry my dad.”She reached for Kieran’s hand as well, then tried to put our two hands together. Neither Kieran nor I knew what to do, but as our fingertips brushed, I felt that same shocking jolt of electricity I had felt w







