His Regret, The Crown's Claim
I keep seeing this write us saying, villains are made not born and I guess I can relate.
I was born the bastard daughter of Elder Vance Grayson, one of the most powerful, arrogant high-born lords of the old regime and a trusted advisor to the old Alpha, Cade's father.
But I wasn't to be born to be a lady. My mother had been a common maid in the mansion. She was a very beautiful, desperate girl who looked at the high stone walls and the velvet drapes and decided she would climb her way to the top by any means necessary. She had used her youth, her sharp wit, and her body to seduce the Elder, entirely unbothered by the fact that his high-born wife, Lady Genevieve, sat in the parlor just a floo