Awkward Silence

I’m Sadie Summer. Once I was an orphan, still treated like a servant by the family who adopted me—until fate threw me into a contract marriage with my cold, powerful billionaire boss. I stood by him when everyone else walked away. I saw the man beneath the armor, and for a moment... I believed he saw me too. But then came the accident. It turned us into strangers again. Still, I stayed—through the silence, the ache of being forgotten. Now he’s healed--almost whole. He still wants out. He wants a divorce. Worse, the people who wronged me are whispering lies, poisoning what little he remembers of us. Maybe we were never meant to be. But I’ve been alone before. I know how to survive. Only this time, I’m not walking away with my head down. Let him regret what he let go. Because I may have loved him once... But I won’t beg him twice.

Camellia Reid just wants to raise her deaf sister, dance in the dark for just enough to get by, and keep her world tightly controlled. But when a man with wildfire eyes and a voice like a sin-soaked promise walks into her club, everything begins to unravel. Lucien Draven is Alpha of the Obsidian Pack and is ruthless, revered, and bound by legacy. The moment he sees her, he knows. She’s his mate. His bond. The one thing fate gave him without permission. But she’s human. And humans don’t belong in his world. Still, he touches. He takes with hands that worship and a name only she gets to whisper. Torn between love and duty, he hides her to protect her only to break her by doing so. Loved in private. Denied in public. Their nights burn,Their secrets bleed. But when Lucien’s silence cuts too deep, Camellia turns to the man who lingers in the shadows of her life,Darius Thorne. He is the Alpha of a rival pack and Lucien’s estranged blood. Cold where Lucien is fire, he offers her safety, power, maybe even something like peace. Now torn between two alphas, hunted by the ghosts of a world she never asked to enter, Camellia must choose who to trust before it becomes her undoing. Because sometimes, fate doesn’t feel like a blessing. Sometimes, it feels like a trap wrapped in heat, hunger, and teeth.