Joy Apens
""You don't belong here, Jasmine. Don't forget that.""
Hardin's cold voice makes me freeze.
I look up at him, trying not to show how much his words affect me.
""You think becoming part of this family suddenly changes who you are?"" he asks. ""It doesn't.""
I clench my hands, forcing myself to remain calm.
""I never asked you to accept me.""
""Good,"" he replies, turning toward the door. ""Because I don't trust you or your mother. And I'm going to find out exactly why you came here.""
He leaves without another word.
I stare after him, realizing that moving into the Alpha's home hasn't rescued me from my problems.
It may have brought me directly into an even bigger one.
***
Jasmine Scott is an omega who has spent most of her life being overlooked.
Raised in a poor neighborhood by her struggling single mother, Jasmine has always been treated as an outsider at school. Everything changes when her mother marries the Alpha.
Suddenly, Jasmine is living in a world of status, privilege, and powerful werewolves. She hopes the change will finally give her and her mother the peaceful life they have always wanted.
There's only one problem.
Hardin Scott.
The Alpha's handsome and arrogant son wants nothing to do with Jasmine. He is convinced that she and her mother entered his family for selfish reasons, and he refuses to believe otherwise.
Determined to expose what he believes is their hidden agenda, Hardin makes it clear that Jasmine will never truly belong in his world.
But Jasmine refuses to be intimidated.
The more they clash, the more Hardin begins to question his assumptions about her. Jasmine isn't the calculating outsider he expected. And as family secrets gradually surface, both of them discover that the truth behind their parents' marriage may be far more complicated than either imagined.
Why did Jasmine's mother really marry the Alpha?
What secrets are hidden inside this powerful family?
And when everything they believe begins to fall apart, will Jasmine and Hardin remain enemies—or discover that they have been fighting the wrong battle all along?"
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