LOGINSix years ago, Adeline lost everything…her mate, her clan, and the life growing inside her. The fire took her home. The betrayal took her heart. Now, under a false name, she lives quietly as a doctor in the human world, hiding her wolf and her past behind calm hands and a steady smile. Until the day fate decides to test her silence. In the middle of the palace square, a little girl tugged at her sleeve. Her small hands were cold, her eyes too pale for someone so young. “I don’t feel good,” she whispered. Adeline knelt and gave her a piece of candy from her satchel. “Eat it slowly, sweetheart. It’ll make the hurting stop.” The girl smiled, soft and trusting…and Adeline never imagined that moment would change everything. Because the child she comforted that day wasn’t just anyone. She was the Alpha King’s daughter. When their eyes meet again, time stops. The bond they thought dead stirs back to life. The little girl clings to Adeline’s coat and calls her “Pretty Aunt.” And Vincent, the Alpha King who buried her six years ago, can only stare at the woman fate refused to erase. Two boys who look like him. One daughter who smells like her. A secret that can’t stay hidden forever. Because love may break, wolves may fall…but the bond between mates and blood always finds its way home.
View MoreAdeline POVEvelyn stood in my doorway as if the night had set her there and forgotten to take her back. Her temple had damp hair clinging to it courtesy of mist outside while her coat was wrinkled with sleeves pushed up like she’d walked here fast and didn’t stop to think.I didn’t invite her in. I just shifted my body enough to block the hall where the boys slept. “Why are you here?”Her fingers worried the coat belt, twisting, smoothing, twisting again. “Why won’t you tell them?”The words were simple. The ground under them was not. They landed in my stomach like small stones and kept falling, as if there was no bottom left inside me.“This isn’t your concern, Evelyn.”“It is,” she said, stepping over the threshold before I could decide to move. “You’re not the only one carrying this. They’re your children, Adeline. They deserve t
Adeline POVI didn’t realize I was still holding my breath until the school gate disappeared in the rearview mirror.I had picked up my boys and we were riding home. Elijah was in the seat behind me, his hand stretched forward and his fingers hooking the cuff of my sleeve. He always did that when he couldn't place his thoughts as if skin could anchor what words could not. Beside him, Caleb leaned his forehead to the window and watched the city float by.No one spoke for a long stretch of road and part of me enjoyed the silence. I was in my head too.“Mommy?” Caleb’s voice finally broke through. He didn’t turn from the window. “Can Mathias come to the school meeting too?”The question was unexpected. It made my fingers tighten on the wheel before I could answer. I made myself breathe once, twice, smoothing my voice the way you smooth a page before you write a hard truth on it. “Which meet
Adeline POVThe hum of the centrifuge hadn’t left my ears all day. Even when I turned it off, the sound stayed. It was like a huge reminder that I lived more with machines than people. It's been twelve hours of cross-checking data, calibrating instruments, and pretending the world outside didn’t exist.By the time I peeled off my gloves, my hands had ethanol as a second skin. I was tired. The other researchers were long gone, leaving the lab echoing with every step I took. I closed the last file I was cross-checking, slipped it into the system, and told myself I would rest tonight. I had to pick the kids first, then go home to rest.The sun had already started to dip when I reached the kindergarten. Laughter was the first welcome I got as it floated through the air, light and free. This was a time in my life I envied more than I admitted. I scanned the playground automatically, eyes sweeping past the clusters of parents waiting at the g
Delilah POV“In all my years of practice,” he said, hands clasped behind his back, “I’ve never seen such disregard for seniority. That young doctor should have been disciplined the moment she declined an appointment with me.” Dr. Anderson’s voice echoed as we walked down the corridor.He was beside me like a man addressing an eager student. I pretended to listen, keeping my ears attentive to every word he said. It was working as it was just the way he liked.“You’re right, Doctor. His Majesty shouldn’t tolerate it. It sets the wrong example for the younger staff. A surgeon that is inexperienced shouldn’t be allowed so much independence.”Anderson seemed pleased by my agreement. “Exactly. A woman with such youth at her side would still be ruled by emotion. When she’s given authority, she mistakes it for brilliance and it’s dangerous.”I nodded pol
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