LOGINSeven years ago, Ruby Bell woke from a coma to learn her mate had abandoned her, her daughter was dead, and the Blackwood family had stolen everything she loved. She buried Ruby Bell and became Jane Campbell—an untouchable investor with a permanent seat on the Blackwood board. Her plan is simple: destroy the empire built on her parents’ blood and the land where her mate once promised to protect her. But the day she walks into their boardroom, an anonymous letter shatters seven years of carefully constructed lies: “Your daughter is alive.” Now Jane must uncover the truth, find the daughter she thought she lost, and stay close to the very family she swore to destroy. But Dominic Blackwood—the mate who abandoned her—doesn't recognize the woman sitting across the table. She recognizes him. And if he discovers who she really is, the mate bond she thought was dead may become her greatest threat—because this time, she will make sure he never forgets the woman he left to die.
View MoreDominic POVThe mark behind her ear.That single crescent of pale skin tore through seven years of silence.Everything around me lost its edges. The temporary fencing, the security detail, the signed folder still warm in my hand—all flattened into distant static while my pulse hammered in my throat. My wolf raked the inside of my ribs, a snarl trapped behind my teeth, recognition slamming through every nerve like a live wire.Mate. Mine. Impossible.They told me she was dead. I had believed them for seven years. I had mourned her, buried her in every way a man could bury someone without a body.But that mark.I had traced that exact crescent a hundred times with my mouth in the dark. I had kissed it while she slept, pregnant and soft against me, her scent wrapping around us both like a second skin.No other woman on earth carried that mark.Not by coincidence. Not by chance.She met my eyes, one brow lifted. “I’m not sure what you mean.”I didn’t look away. “The crescent behind your
Ruby POVThe paper burned against my palm like it had been pulled from a fire.I stood frozen in the corridor, the muted sounds of footsteps and conversation fading around me. My vision narrowed until there was nothing left but the sharp black ink and the brutal simplicity of the sentence that had just rewritten the last seven years of my life.My daughter is alive.My firstborn.I reread the words a third time, as though the letters might rearrange themselves into something less catastrophic if I stared at them long enough.Someone had written Ruby Bell.Not Jane Campbell—the careful identity I had spent years building. Someone had walked into Blackwood Global, found me, and used the name I had buried seven years ago.That realization cut deeper than the claim about my daughter. I had changed everything—my name, my city, the way I walked, the way I spoke, the way I looked at people. I had built a life designed to keep Ruby Bell buried.And still, someone had found me.I scanned the c
Ruby’s POVThe heavy cream envelope rested on the glass desk like a blade wrapped in silk.Blackwood Global HoldingsOfficial Notice of AppointmentMs. Jane CampbellPermanent Seat, Board of DirectorsI turned the card once between my fingers, feeling the raised black lettering catch the morning light. Seven years of silence. Seven years of building a life they could not buy, threaten, or erase. And now the last piece had fallen exactly where I intended.Beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows the city stretched in clean lines of steel and glass. My reflection looked back at me—chestnut hair smoothed into a precise low knot, gray contact lenses muting the brown that once gave me away, features refined enough that even those who had known Ruby Bell would never see her in the woman staring back. My natural scent was buried beneath layers of expensive Parisian perfume, every change forged from the very pain they had tried to bury me with.On the far wall hung a single framed satellite image
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