LOGINELENA'S POV, The room they had given me to wait in was small by palace standards, which still made it larger than most rooms I had lived in during the years between then and now. Someone had placed flowers on the narrow table by the window, white ones, and I didn't know whether that was intentiona
RYAN'S POV, “Ollie needs stability,” he said, leaning back on his chair. “She's been patient, she's always been too patient for a child her age, and I've been asking her to share me with an entire nation for years.” He paused, turning the pen in his hand slowly, like he was still working out how to
ELENA'S POV, “Support the Queen,” he said, and the way both of them were talking through their eyes, it made me shake my head in embarrassment. “I have control over both of the packs. I will be their new Alpha, and after that, I will ensure that the packs publicly come forward in your support, wit
ELENA'S POV, Three weeks had passed, and I was still learning the weight of the crown. Not the physical one, that stays in a glass case in the east wing and comes out only for the formal occasions, like coronations or state dinners. The other kind, the kind that lived in every decision made befor
The King's jaw tightened. "I will not hand the Crown of this Kingdom to a woman based on a prophecy and a viral video." "Then we'll take it based on those things and the army standing outside your gates," Ryan said, still perfectly even, still without heat. "Your choice is not whether this happens
"They came out," Ryan said quietly, watching the road ahead. "At this hour. They came out." I didn't answer because I didn't have words for it yet. I just watched the faces moving past the window and let the weight of it land where it needed to land. --- The Palace gates were already breached
ELENA'S POV,I pressed my back against the door, my chest was heaving as I felt him against the door.And despite everything happening in my head, I tried to silence the storm that was ready to destroy me from the inside. I felt weak. My lips still burned from his kiss, and no matter how hard I will
ELENA'S POV,I tried to pretend the morning collision with Casey hadn’t happened in real life, that I imagined the whole thing.But the memory clung to me like dirt on a car's wheels. The look she’d given me when we bumped was as sharp as a blade, and it had carved its way under my skin. She didn't
I pushed open the office door and set the files neatly on his desk. The space smelled faintly of cedar and leather—his scent, when I circled to sit on his chair. Ryan’s scent was woven into everything in the room. I breathed in and savored it, imagining what it would be like when it was mine, when h
He started going inside me, and I had to take a deep breath to calm my nerves. He looked me in the eyes to make sure I was fine before slowly pushing deeper. I felt his length sliding in and the friction it caused while rubbing against my insides. It was a newer sensation that tingled my fingers as







