LOGINHe never planned to touch her, let alone crave her. When ruthless billionaire Roman Thorne is forced into a strategic marriage, he chooses Elena Sinclair, quiet, obedient, and easily controlled. Or so he thought. Behind her innocent eyes is a sharp tongue, a hidden past, secrets, and curves that haunt his nights. Elena has no intention of being anyone’s trophy wife. She plays by her own rules, and Roman’s cold detachment only fuels her fire. Now Roman wants more than her name on his paperwork. He wants her moaning his name in the dark. He wants her loyalty. Her heart. Her everything. Too bad Elena didn’t come to be owned.
View MoreElena took a single step closer.Roman’s face flickered through her mind. Jace’s relief. The life she had built piece by piece after escaping this man.“You already don’t exist in my world,” she said gently. “You’re just noise now.”That was the final blow.Marcus screamed and pulled the trigger…And the sound that followed wasn’t a gunshot.It was boots.Shouts.Glass shattering as the walls of Marcus’s illusion finally collapsed.Roman’s men stormed in from every direction, weapons trained, voices sharp and commanding.“DROP IT!”Marcus spun, panic overtaking rage, gun wavering between Elena and the door.Elena didn’t flinch.She held his gaze one last time.“This is where it ends,” she said. “Not together.”Marcus looked at her. And in her eyes, he saw it.Not love.Not regret.Closure.His hand fell.The gun hit the floor with a hollow clatter.Marcus dropped to his knees, the Phantom Wolf finally stripped down to a man who had built his entire existence around someone who had alr
Marcus stared at her, rage and grief and longing colliding until none of it made sense anymore.“Choose,” he said again, weaker now. “Me. Or him.”Elena met his eyes.“I choose,” she said, each word deliberate, “to end this.”Marcus’s face twisted, the last threads of control unraveling as the truth finally reached him. That no matter how tight his grip on the detonator was… He had already lost her.Marcus didn’t know the clock had started running against him.Elena stood perfectly still, every breath measured, every expression carefully chosen. To him, it looked like hesitation. Like conflict. Like a woman cornered into making the hardest decision of her life.In truth, she was buying time.Miles away, Roman was already moving.The door to the locked room exploded inward with controlled force, Roman’s men flooding in before the sound could finish echoing. Jace barely had time to look up before hands were on him, steady and firm, cutting restraints, dragging him away from the center o
Something in Marcus finally broke.Not loudly at first. Not all at once.It cracked.“You still talk like that,” he said, a tremor slipping into his voice despite his effort to steady it. “Like you’ve rewritten the past just because it’s inconvenient now.”Elena didn’t move. She didn’t soften. That restraint did more damage than anger ever could.“I didn’t rewrite anything,” she said calmly. “I chose it.”That did it.Marcus laughed, sharp and fractured, dragging a hand through his hair as he turned away, pacing like the walls had suddenly closed in on him.“Chose it?,” he repeated bitterly. “You say that like I was the enemy.”He spun back to her, eyes blazing now, control unraveling thread by thread.“I was the one who kept you alive,” he snapped. “When you were nothing. When the world wanted to swallow you whole. I was there.”Elena’s voice stayed level. “You were there because you needed me dependent.”“No,” Marcus roared, slamming his fist into the wall hard enough to make the li
Roman’s breath went shallow. “Elena…”Marcus’s voice sharpened. “I save you. That’s the point. I give you a way out. I always have.”Elena’s eyes opened, cold and steady. “You’re not saving me. You’re proving you never knew me.”A pause.“You always did this,” Marcus said. “Turned my worst instincts into villains so you didn’t have to face what we were.”“We were never ‘we,’” Elena replied. “You were possession pretending to be love.”Roman took her hand, squeezing once. Not to stop her. To anchor her.“Elena,” he said quietly, “we can do this together.”She looked at him, and the moment held everything they didn’t need to say. Then she turned back to the call.“I’ll come,” Elena said. “You’ll release Jace first.”Marcus smiled into the line. She could hear it. “No. You come. I show you. You disarm it. He walks.”“And if you lie?”“I don’t lie about exits,” Marcus said. “I build them.”Elena ended the call.For a beat, no one spoke.Roman’s voice broke the silence, controlled fury und
The city didn’t announce itself when they landed.No skyline reveal. No welcome banners. Just a stretch of concrete, low clouds, and a terminal that looked like it could belong anywhere. Jace liked that. It felt… clean. Anonymous. Like the trip existed outside the noise of everything waiting back h
Roman didn’t say it immediately.That was how Elena knew it mattered.They were alone in the study, the city humming faintly beyond the glass, night settling into its familiar rhythm.Elena stood near the window, arms folded loosely, eyes scanning the dark like she expected something to move back a
Marcus nodded, filing the information away. “She trusts you.”“Yeah,” Jace said easily. “We trust each other.”The words came without hesitation.If he noticed the way Marcus’s eyes lingered for half a second longer than necessary, he didn’t think much of it.They cleared security quickly. Marcus h
Elena’s fingers went cold.No caption. No timestamp. No sender.But she knew.Because years ago, before everything burned, before names became liabilities and survival became a skill, there had been a language only two people spoke.Phantom Wolf had taught it to her under the guise of strategy.“Wo












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