MasukHe was never supposed to be the King. And he was definitely never supposed to be her mate. Lamia Blackmoor is ready to become the Luna of the powerful Jasperfang Pack. She has her life perfectly mapped out for the Blood Moon Celebration. But five days before the sacred ceremony, her royal fiancé Rham shatters the alliance. He breaks the pack laws and flees into the rogue territory with a low-rank wolf, leaving Lamia facing ultimate public shame before the entire Grand Wolf Assembly. Enter Clay Jasperfang. Clay is the rogue second prince—the pack’s charming, dangerous wild child who spends his time drinking moon-wine and breaking every rule in the territory. Built like a towering wall of hard muscle, he carries a lethal aura and a reputation for breaking hearts across the Silvercrest Territory. But with King Aldric dying, the Silverclaw Throne needs an immediate heir, and Lamia needs to save her family from total social ruin. To protect his brother and shield the woman he has secretly craved for winters, Clay steps out of the shadows and offers a scandalous trick: Marry me instead. To fool the pack elders, they must spin a wild tale of a fierce brotherly battle over the most beautiful future Luna in the Moonshadow Dominion. But inside the Alpha’s den, the tension is raw. Lamia is terrified of laying bare her vulnerabilities to the most magnetic, unpredictable predator she knows. And Clay is done playing games. He demands an eternal moonmark and a true mate bond—in every single way. Can a marriage born of desperation survive the heat of a real wolf's hunger, or will the weight of the throne crush them both?
Lihat lebih banyakMy feet swung over the edge of the mattress again, determined to stand, but Sterling strode across the rug in two massive steps. His big hands clamped around my ankles, lifting my legs and swinging them back onto the bed. His fingers lingered against my warm skin for a second longer than necessary, sending an electric shock straight through my pulse points.We froze, staring at each other. My eyes burned with pure hatred; his returned the glare with absolute coldness.Slowly, Sterling straightened to his full, towering height, tweaking one dark eyebrow up. "Going somewhere, Maisie?""I am not staying under the same roof as a tyrant who is determined to blame me for an accident I didn't cause!" I held his intense grey gaze, something raw and desperate forcing the words out of my chest. "Please... just tell me you believe me! I wasn't driving!"Sterling studied my face for a long, agonizing moment. His dark eyes slowly drifted down my neck, lingering on the heavy curve of my chest benea
"If I told you that no male wolf has ever touched me, that I built an iron fortress around my heart the day my family cast me out, would you even believe me?" I rasped, my vocal cords burning as I glared up at the massive Alpha standing beside my bed. "Or would you just call me a liar again?"Sterling raised one dark, imperious eyebrow, his broad shoulders blocking out the sunlight streaming through the arched windows of the Whitaker River Estate. "A broke outcast with nothing to her name? Anyone in your position looks ragged and starving. Tell me, Maisie, before you turned up floating in my river like abandoned baggage, how exactly did you survive?""I worked fifty hours a week at Mercer Electrical Works," I snapped, the memory of the grease, wire coils, and heavy iron parts making my knuckles ache. "I lifted crates, fixed power lines, and kept Alwyn Mercer's machinery running until he retired and shuttered the shop without warning. Then my brother decided my small room at Harcourt C
"A high-ranking female who could have provided a stabilizing influence," Sterling continued, his voice dripping with dark irony as he stared down at my pale, bruised face. "How Everett would have hated the solid, unexciting omega you are trying to pretend to be!""That 'unexciting omega' would have forced him to hand over the keys when he was drenched in fire-whisky, thereby keeping him alive!" I snapped back."Are you attempting to make me feel guilty for my brother's grave?" he asked, his grey eyes turning to ice."He was the one driving the vehicle," I said, my chest heaving as pain shot through my ribs. "Are you honestly blaming me for the crash?""I saw you behind the wheel with my own eyes when you both left the Whitaker Grand Ballroom," Sterling replied coldly."We pulled over and swapped seats five minutes after leaving the pack gates!" My hands clenched into the heavy duvet. "Everett demanded to drive. Why are you shaking your head? I swear on my honor we traded places!""The
Voices drifted up from the lower courtyard right beneath my window."Sterling, this vessel is an absolute wreck!" a male voice shouted, followed by the heavy thud of boots on timber. "Whoever was navigating this floating coffin is lucky they didn't end up crushed against the rocks.""Replace 'he' with 'she', Baxter," Sterling answered from the dock below, his voice dry and devoid of pity. "She calls her craft the Moon Lady. Though she prefers to describe herself in even less flattering terms. 'Stray river trash', I believe, was her term of choice."My body went completely rigid under the sheets."You're joking," Baxter Hensley laughed, his voice echoing off the stone wall. "A lone female living in a breakdown like this? Some wild rogue type? Free with her favors, is she? Is that why you brought her inside the house?"A sharp blush flooded my pale, feverish cheeks. I clenched my fists, my claws aching to extend."A wild rogue?" Sterling’s voice carried a dark, sardonic edge. "Hardly. A












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