ログインI came to my father’s funeral in a white dress and a red rose, thinking the worst they’d do was spit on me again. They were celebrating. It wasn’t a funeral. It was Drelia’s coronation party with my father’s corpse in the background. I was ready to leave. Let them have their title, their cameras, their champagne. I’d go back to my law firm and pretend I never had Mende blood. Then the will changed. The family lawyer said two words that shattered everything: “You’re the heiress” Suddenly the bouncers who were dragging me out were bowing to me. Suddenly Drelia and Cade looked like they’d been gutted. Suddenly I had a title, a target on my back, and 30 days before the Council declared me Luna or declared me dead. The pack hates me. My family wants me gone. And the only way to keep my head is to play a game I never wanted to play: politics, blood, and maybe a marriage to the one man who has every reason to watch me burn.
もっと見るVERLINHe was my bully and first mate who rejected me at 18.I still saw it when I closed my eyes.Xaden, 21 and already wearing his brother’s blood on his hands, looked at me like I was a mistake.“Not you. Not ever.”The bond snapped and burned, and he walked away without looking back.That was five years ago.Now I was standing on the ridge with nothing but a ruined jacket, a busted phone, and a secret that could get me killed.My borrowed car was a smoking crater 200 yards down the road.His car was the only way off this lonely road.I watched him walk away from me, shoulders tight, jaw set. He didn’t offer his hand. Didn’t say a word. Just left me with the bodies and the smoke.Fuck him! Let him go.I told myself I didn’t need him for exactly thirty seconds.Then I remembered the envelope.It was in my jacket pocket, damp from the rain.I'd taken it out to have a glimpse of it.Inside was a list of names, dates and offshore accounts.All tied to the virel family. Xaden's family.
XADEN“Don’t tell me what to do.”"Really?" I smirked to cover up the way my hands still shook from holding her."It was easy to get rid of that shitty husband of yours but you didn't"Her face went blank, then anger surfaced as she pointed the gun to me.Then I raised my hands up, teasingly."Where you sent to assassinate me? This was what I got from playing the good guy. Fuck that"Silence."I thought of reconsidering" I added "Since you're too beautiful for the job"She shot a bullet in the air, and I didn't cower."Xaden"I hated my name, but the way she called it low and pissed sent something dangerous down my spine."Yes darling?" I smiled deviously.Her eyes flashed with anger but my smile faded as I'd heard footsteps. Three of them, moving through the trees.They weren't running but hunting.I let out a whistle that sounded more like a seduction and immediately, she turned back-to-back with me.The first masked man stepped out, gun raised.Veralin fired first.The shot went wi
XADENThe argument started in the war room, where it always did.I'd wore a smug face, like everything doesn't matter, it was better than painting the room red again.I twirled the glass of wine in my hand, barely drank from it, my head void of thoughts.“You’re drunk,” Roseline chipped in.My sister-in-law. Dowager alpha.The woman who’d been holding this pack together with sheer spite since my brother died two years ago.I didn't even want to meet her gaze because she stared at me like I was a loaded gun she wasn’t sure wouldn’t go off.I set the glass down on the table next to me. It didn’t shatter. I had better control than that.“I’m not drunk. I’m done.”“Done with what?” She walked closer, her eyes observant. “With mourning? With protecting Kieran? Or by pretending you don’t want the throne?”Oh, the eight year old. Kieran, my brother's son. The real heir.A kid who still left the hallway light on at night and asked if his dad was watching him from the moon.I smirked loudly li
VERALINThe word didn’t make sense at first.Heiress? I mean the next alpha was me?Laughter died as the crowd shifted like a single entity, moving towards my direction.Confusion and anger were written on most of their faces.Even the sky turned heavy like a storm was about to break."What?"My voice came out too small and broken, like the girl who used to hide in the closet."That's a mistake""It's not," he replied calmly, his eyes fixed on me.“Alpha Mende amended the will three days before his death. Witnessed and sealed. You are his legal heir, Miss Veralin Mende.”The crowd surged, their job was just to be spectators."LIAR"Stepmom roared as she was pacing closer, shoving through the bouncers, her face twisted.“You’re trying to steal what belongs to Drelia! She’s the legitimate daughter! The pack chose her!”Drelia was already moving, eyes wild, chest heaving.“Mom, get her away from him! She’ll ruin everything! She’ll sell the pack to the council!"Two elders walked forward,
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