LOGINSONYA'S POV
The word hangs heavy in the air between us, making my nipples harden against my bra.
"Excuse me?"
Reign sets down his glass and walks toward me, slow and predatory, his presence overwhelming. "I'll pay off Derek's debt and guarantee his protection from the Rogue King. In exchange, you sign a contract agreeing to be mine."
"Yours?" I take a step back, my ass hitting the edge of his desk. "What does that even mean?"
"It means you move into my estate. You act as my mate in public. You fulfill all the duties of a Luna." He's close enough now that I have to cock my head back to look at him, his heat radiating through his suit. "And in private, you belong to me completely."
"That's insane."
"That's the deal."
"You can't just… I'm going to be your stepsister in three months!"
"Which makes it even more interesting, doesn't it?" His hand comes up, tucking a strand of my hair behind my ear. "Besides, we both know you're wasted on Derek. He doesn't see you. Not the way I do."
"You don't even know me."
"Don't I?" His thumb traces my lower lip, pressing just enough to part them, and I hate how my body responds, how my wolf purrs at his touch, my pussy growing slick with arousal. "I know you've been in love with my brother for six years, Sonya. I know you hide it behind smiles and friendship because you're too afraid of rejection. I know you touch yourself at night thinking about him, wishing he'd choose you over girls like Brittany, fingering yourself while moaning his name."
My face flames with humiliation, but the image he paints makes my thighs press together. "You're an asshole."
"And you're aroused." His other hand settles on my hip, pulling me closer until my breasts brush his chest. "I can smell it, little omega. Your body knows what your mind refuses to accept. You don't want Derek. You want someone who sees you. Someone who wants you badly enough to burn the world down for you."
"And that's you?" I try to sound sarcastic, but my voice comes out breathy, my hands fisting in his shirt without thinking.
"That's me." His lips brush my ear, his hot breath making me shiver. "Sign the contract, Sonya. Save Derek. And let me show you what it's like to be properly worshipped."
I should say no right now.
This is crazy. Insane. Wrong in so many ways.
But Derek's face flashes in my mind. The panic in his voice. The way he said he was desperate.
Reign's hand slides down from my hip, cupping my ass through my jeans, squeezing firmly as he grinds his hard cock against my belly.
The thick length of him presses insistently, making my mouth water and my pussy ache. "Feel that? That's what you do to me, little omega."
Before I can protest, he spins me around, bending me over the desk with one strong hand on my back.
My cheek presses into the leather blotter, my ass lifting as he yanks my jeans and panties down to my thighs in one swift motion, exposing my dripping folds to the cool office air.
"Goddess," I gasp, but it turns into a moan when his fingers part my pussy lips, sliding through my slickness to circle my swollen clit.
"So wet for me already," he growls, his free hand palming his cock through his pants as he rubs the head against my ass cheek. He doesn't push inside, just teases, the hot tip dragging along my crack while his fingers plunge into my entrance, two thick digits curling to stroke my inner walls.
I buck against his hand, my wolf howling in my head as pleasure coils tight in my belly.
His thumb presses my clit, rubbing in firm circles while his fingers fuck me shallowly, stretching my pussy without giving me the full thrust I suddenly crave.
The wet sounds of my arousal fill the room, obscene and intoxicating.
“O..oh fuck… R-Reign….”
"That's it, little omega," he murmurs, leaning over me, his chest to my back, breath hot on my neck. "Come for me. Show me how much you need this, need me owning your body like the slut you're going to be."
The words push me over the edge. My pussy clenches around his fingers, gushing slick as I shatter, crying out his name while his cock throbs against my thigh.
He pulls his fingers free with a wet pop, bringing them to my lips. "Taste yourself."
I suck them clean obediently, the tangy flavor of my cum making my cheeks burn hotter.
"How long?" I whisper, still trembling from the orgasm.
"Six months."
"And after that?"
"After that, you're free to go. If you still want to." His smile is dark and confident as he fixes my clothes. "But you won't."
Goddess help me, I'm actually considering this.
"I need time to think."
"You have sixty seconds." He releases me, checking his watch. "After that, the offer expires, and Derek's on his own."
"That's not fair!"
"Life isn't fair, little omega. Now choose."
My hands are shaking. This is blackmail. Manipulation. I should tell him to go to hell.
But I don't, the aftershocks of pleasure still buzzing through me, the promise of more too tempting.
"Fine," I hear myself say. "I'll do it."
Reign's smile is pure victory, and pure sin. "Excellent choice."
SONYA'S POV We make it through the rest of the film without acknowledging each other again. I watch Phoebe laugh at something on-screen, and I make a mental note not to tell her anything yet. We don't know for sure what's going on, and there's no point panicking her over a suspicion.The lights come up and we file out with everyone else, and the figure two rows back gets up too.They follow us out.Not close. Just far enough away to pretend they're not following us, which almost makes it worse.We make it to the lobby, and Phoebe stops to look at the poster for next week's movie, and Landon moves to stand beside me."Confirmed?" I murmur."Confirmed." His voice is completely level. "When we get outside, stay close to Phoebe. Give me thirty seconds, then follow my lead."We get outside into the cold night air, and it happens fast.The figure separates from the small crowd still making its way out of the building. At first, they seem to be heading across the car park like everyone else
SONYA'S POVLandon finds me in my office at nine in the morning, which is never how good news arrives. Good news knocks politely. Landon walks in with purpose."Nadia's information checks out," he announces, dropping into the chair across from my desk without being invited, which is very Landon. "All of it. Every camp location our scouts could verify matched. The compromised security names, two of them have already been pulled from the Summit guest list pending investigation. The third one resigned yesterday, which tells us he knows we know."I set down my coffee. "So Nadia's legitimate.""As far as we can tell, yes." He leans forward. "Which means Astrid is real, the Forgotten Pack is real, and the threat to the Summit is real. It also means we have a genuinely useful asset in Nadia, if we play it right.""Have you told Reign?""He's meeting with her again this morning. Wanted you there, actually, but I told him you had three scheduling reviews to get through first." He pauses. "Do y
REIGN'S POVSonya's lying on her back staring at the ceiling, which she does when she's thinking about something she's trying to decide whether to say.I'm on my side watching her, which I do more than she realizes."Say it," I tell her.She turns her head to look at me. "Say what?"“Whatever's on your mind.”She doesn't answer right away. Then she turns back to the ceiling. "I was thinking about the future, Reign.""What about it?""What it looks like." She's quiet for a moment. "The version where the Summit goes well and Astrid and Derek get stopped and we come out the other side." She takes a moment. "What does that look like? For us?""Like this," I say. "More or less.""More or less meaning what?"I think about it honestly. "More pack work. More of you stealing all the blankets. More mornings at the lake and more evenings where we argue about something stupid and more nights like this one." I look at her profile. "More Phoebe eating your food and Landon pretending he's not comple
REIGN'S POVSonya starts slow and she keeps it slow, which sounds manageable until you're actually in it and your entire body is screaming at you to move, but you're holding yourself still because she asked you to and you would honestly do anything she asked.She rolls her hips in these long, intentional circles, and every time she bottoms out my breath leaves my body in a way I can't quite control, and she watches me like she's cataloguing every response, which she is, I know she is because I do the exact same thing to her and it's absolutely maddening to be on the receiving end of it.My hands are at her hips, not directing, just there, and I can feel every movement and change through them, the exact rhythm she's building, the way her thighs flex against mine."You're thinking very loudly," she says, looking down at me."I'm not saying anything.""You don't have to." She traces a finger down the center of my chest, light, on purpose, and the touch is so simple and so distracting sim
SONYA'S POVThe kiss changes somewhere in the middle of it.I feel it deepen, not all at once, but gradually, the kiss growing more intense without losing its softness.His hand at my jaw moves to the back of my neck, and his other hand at my waist pulls me closer, and I stop thinking about the Summit and Astrid and everything waiting for us in a month because there is only this, right here, right now, and I am choosing it without hesitation.I pull back just enough to look at him.His eyes are dark, watching me, and there's none of the teasing or the control that shows up in other versions of this. He just looks at me like I'm the only solid thing in the room.“Reign,” I whisper.“Sonya,” he answers, his voice hoarse, like he's finally stopped trying to keep himself calm.I reach up and undo the first button of his shirt. Then the second. He watches me do it, completely still, as if he's letting me set the pace instead of taking over like he usually would."You don't have to hold bac
SONYA'S POVAfter the meeting with Nadia, I can't sit still.I try. I go back to my Luna's office and look at the scheduling documents for approximately four minutes before my brain refuses to process any of it. I make coffee I don't drink. I stand at the window and look at the courtyard and think about Melvanie's face in that ritual chamber, the way the void opened up and swallowed her, the way she screamed.I thought that was over.I thought we were done.Reign finds me in our bedroom two hours later, still pacing, still turning the same thoughts over and over, like I might somehow come up with a different answer if I think about them long enough.He closes the door behind him and leans against it, watching me."You've done about forty laps of this room," he says."I'm processing.""I know. I'm not stopping you. I'm just here." He crosses to the armchair in the corner and sits down, giving me the space to keep moving. "When you're ready to talk, I'm listening."I stop pacing.I loo







