Glazé
"I'm not going to touch you." My voice comes out rougher than I mean it to, thick with everything I'm holding back to say it steady. "Not unless you ask me to”.— "I might not have a choice much longer."—“You will," he says, though I can hear, underneath it, that he isn't entirely certain he believes it either. ___She hid what she was for ten years. His wolf found her in one night.
Omegas don't get to choose. They're found, they're sold, they're claimed and Juni has spent her whole life making sure no one finds her first.
Until Alpha Kieran Voss does.
He doesn't bid on her. He doesn't claim her. He locks his door, stands guard, and lets her survive her first heat with nothing but water and distance. He is the first man who's ever given her a choice instead of taking one.
She tells herself it's just the heat talking. She's wrong.
His wolf recognized her the moment he was her and it was a bond so strong even his own pack has never seen its like. When he finally marks her to save her life, it doesn't calm the storm inside her.
It wakes it up.
Because Juni was never just running from a debt, or a cruel Alpha, or an auction block. She's the last of a bloodline the Moon Goddess marked generations ago — the reason the entire Selection system exists in the first place. And the men who buried that bloodline once will do anything to bury it again.
He swore he'd never claim her without her choosing him first.
He's about to learn that choosing him and surviving it might be two different things.
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