LOGINDr. Sage Monroe’s world collapses when Alpha CEO Kade Blackwood demands her dead brother’s $500,000 debt. He offered Sage a chance to become his contracted mate for one year and her brother's debt will be forgiven. But Sage was hiding the secret of her being the daughter of the rogue who slaughtered Kade’s father. When her suppressed wolf explodes free during a deadly ambush, Kade recognizes the bloodline he’s sworn to destroy. Now trapped between a mate bond turning devastatingly real and a Beta’s betrayal that could kill them both, their enemies will exploit every given weakness they could get. Trust is impossible but Desire is undeniable. And the truth might shatter everything.
View MoreSage Monroe had her hands inside a man’s chest when Kade Blackwood walked into her operating room.
She did not look up immediately because she was busy clamping a bleeding artery, but she noticed when the doors opened.
The operating room had a kind of quiet tension that came with life-and-death work, and whoever just walked in had messed it up completely.
“Clamp,” she said to Jenny, her surgical nurse.
“Dr. Monroe.” The voice was deep and unfamiliar, it came from somewhere near the door.
Sage looked up and saw three men in dark suits standing just in front of the sterile field as if they had never heard of infection protocols.
The one in front was tall with black hair, with a face that looked like it had been carved from stone.
She recognized him from the photos she had found in Marcus’s apartment after he died.
Kade Blackwood.
Her stomach dropped, but her hands stayed steady as she worked on the artery.
“Gosh, this is an operating room. Get out.”
“We need to talk.” He did not move or even blink.
“I’m in the middle of surgery as you can see.” She put a stitch on another torn tissue and pulled it tight.
“Right now, whatever you want can wait.”
“It’s been three months already.”
Sage felt sweat cringe down her forehead but she kept her focus on the patient in front of her.
The man on her table had a name, a family and a life that depended on her not screwing this up, and she wasn’t about to let some debt collector ruin that.
“Then it can wait another twenty minutes,” she said. “Or you can leave, your choice.”
There was a long pause where she thought he might drag her out of the room by force, but then she heard him move to the side.
When she risked another glance, he was resting his back against the wall with his arms crossed, watching her like a predator watches its prey.
She ended the surgery in eighteen minutes, checked the stitches twice, and made sure the patient’s vitals were stable before she stepped back.
“Close him up,” she told Jenny, then stripped off her gloves and walked out without looking at Kade.
He followed her into the scrub room and his two men stayed by the door like guards.
Sage turned on the water and started scrubbing her hands, more to buy herself time, because she needed to. She already knew why he was here and what he wanted, and there was no good answer she could think of giving him.
“What do you want?” she asked anyway.
“You know what I want.”
She kept scrubbing even though her hands were already clean. “I’m working on it.”
“Are you?” He moved closer and she could perceive his cologne, something expensive that probably cost more than her rent.
“Because I have not seen a single payment in three months.” He said raising his right eyebrow.
“I need more time.”
“Your brother’s been dead for three months,” Kade said, with his flat and businesslike voice. “He owed me five hundred thousand dollars and he signed your name on the loan. That makes it your debt now.”
Sage turned off the water and grabbed a towel, hard enough her knuckles went white.
“Marcus forged my signature. I didn’t even know about that loan until after he died.”
“Then prove it.” He said it like a challenge.
“Take me to court. Hire a lawyer. While you are drowning in legal fees I’ll foreclose on this clinic and everything else you own.”
Both their eyes met. “I was busy burying my brother and trying to keep people alive. I haven’t had time to…”
“Not my problem.” He cut her off without raising his voice.
“You have forty-eight hours to pay what is owed.”
“That is impossible.”
“Then I take the clinic.” He looked around the scrub room like he was already calculating what it was worth. “Your apartment. All of it.”
The unfairness of it hit her like a physical blow. she had spent years building this clinic from nothing, treating patients who had nowhere else to go, and now this stranger was going to take it all because her brother couldn’t stop gambling.
“I do not have that kind of money,” she said, and hated how desperate she sounded. “I run a free clinic. My patients can’t afford to go anywhere else. If you shut this place down…”
“I do not care.” His expression didn’t change at all. “Your brother took my money and lost it. Now someone has to pay it back.”
“He is dead!”
“Which is why I’m talking to you.” Kade straightened his cuffs in a gesture that was probably meant to look casual but just made him seem more dangerous.
“Forty-eight hours, that is what you have Dr. Monroe. Five hundred thousand dollars is what I’m owed.”
“There has to be another way out of this.” Sage said helplessly.
He looked at her and reached into his jacket and pulled out a black envelope, the kind with heavy paper and a wax seal.
He dropped it on the counter between them.
“What is that?” she asked.
“An alternative to bankruptcy.” He stepped back toward the door. “Read it, then think about it. You have forty-eight hours.”
“Just tell me what it says.”
“Read the contract.”
He stepped toward the door. His men stepped aside immediately. He paused once more and looked back at her, there was no softness in his expression.
“And Dr. Monroe? Don’t waste time pretending you have options. We both know you don’t.”
Sage woke strapped to a metal table.Silver restraints. They burned her wrists and ankles. Made shifting impossible.The lab coat woman stood over her. “I’m Dr. Sarah Wright. I developed the lycanthropy cure.”“There is no cure. We’re born this way.”“You were. But I can change that.” Dr. Wright held up a syringe filled with blue liquid. “This serum rewrites your DNA. Removes the genetic markers that allow transformation. One injection and you’re permanently human.”“That’s murder. You’re killing what I am.”“I’m saving you. Making you safe. Normal.” Dr. Wright smiled. “You should be grateful.”“I’ll kill you first.”“You can try. Once you’re human and powerless.” She turned to her assistants. “Prepare the injection site.”They swabbed Sage’s arm. Brought the needle closer.“Wait!” Sage struggled against the restraints. “You can’t do this. It’s illegal. It’s—”“It’s government sanctioned. Approved by Congress. Funded by taxpayers who want the werewolf problem solved.” Dr. Wright posit
Finally made it to the exit. Shifted to human. A federal agent threw her a blanket.“Where’s the rest?” Chen asked.“Still inside. Some dead. Some alive. I don’t know.” Sage was shaking. “We have to go back for them.”“We’re trying. But Richard’s people are barricaded. Using the other Alphas as shields.”The standoff lasted three hours. Finally Richard emerged. Hands up. Surrendering.“Where are the Alphas?” Chen demanded.“Inside. Alive. Mostly.” Richard smiled even as they handcuffed him. “But it doesn’t matter. I already won.”“What do you mean?”“The world saw werewolves attack humans. Saw them die fighting. Saw proof they’re dangerous.” He laughed. “Public opinion just turned against them. Permanently.”He was right. Sage saw it on the news later. The attack. The fighting. Edited to make wolves look like aggressors.Victoria died in surgery. Two other Alphas dead. Three wounded.The remaining seven gathered that evening. All exhausted. All traumatized.“What do we do now?” one as
Richard walked into the safe room like he owned it.His people herded the twelve Alphas into a corner. Weapons trained on them. One wrong move and everyone died.“Cameras are live,” Richard said to someone outside. “Broadcasting to every news outlet. The world is watching.”Sage looked at the camera being set up. This was planned. Coordinated. They wanted the world to see werewolf leadership captured.“What do you want?” Victoria asked. Her voice was steady despite the guns pointed at her.“What we’ve always wanted. A world without your kind.” Richard smiled. “But since extermination takes time, we’ll settle for control.”“Control how?”“Registration. Tracking devices. Designated living areas. Sterilization for those who don’t comply.” He counted on his fingers. “Basically everything we’d do to any dangerous animal population.”“We’re not animals.”“You shift into animals. Close enough.” He gestured to his people. “Bring her forward.”They grabbed Sage. Pulled her away from the group.
Sage called an emergency pack meeting at midnight.One hundred wolves gathered in twenty minutes. All armed. All ready.“We have intel about an attack tomorrow,” Sage said. “Multiple hate groups coordinating. Target is me, Kade, and Hope. They want to make an example of us.”“Then we evacuate,” Cole said. “Get you somewhere safe.”“Running proves we’re scared. Shows weakness.” Sage looked around the room. “We stay. We defend. We show them we won’t be intimidated.”“That’s suicide,” Beth argued. “How many hate groups? How many attackers?”“The informant didn’t say. But enough that he felt the need to warn us.” Sage touched the gun at her hip. “We have twelve hours to prepare. Fortify the compound. Set up defensive positions. Get civilians to the bunker.”They worked through the night. Building barricades. Checking weapons. Moving families underground.By dawn the compound looked like a military base. Guards on every wall. Snipers on rooftops. Everyone is waiting.Sage stood at the gate
Sage spent the night planning.The council enforcers would arrive at dawn with fifty wolves and trained executioners. There was no fighting them off.But she could run.At three AM she called Cole to the operating room. “We are evacuating. Kade, me, and anyone who wants to come. The rest stay and c
The raid was three days ago and they were still cleaning up. Still waiting for Sarah’s next move.The day passed normally, she saw patients at the clinic, checked on the asylum wolves and had dinner with Beth and Riley.By ten PM she was exhausted, she went to the penthouse to sleep.Her phone rang
Kade landed in Seattle six hours later and went straight to the hospital.He found Sage in the ICU waiting room. She had showered and changed but she looked exhausted. Dark circles under her eyes. Hands shaking from all the stress.“And Dana?” he asked.“She’s still critical. They think she will su
The federal agents hit the den at five in the morning.Sage woke to pounding on the door and shouting. She grabbed a robe and stumbled out of the bedroom to find six agents in tactical gear pointing guns at her.“Hands up! On the ground!”She dropped to her knees. Hands behind her head. The pregnan






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