Formal Dog Dress

Everyone knew Harper Jones was hopelessly devoted to Silas Underwood. Five years ago, she gave up her dreams to care for him after he lost the use of his legs. She believed that sincerity, if deep enough, would be returned in kind. But on the eve of their wedding, Silas went and registered his marriage with someone else—his first love, the one he never really let go. Only then did she understand: in his heart, she was nothing more than a blade of grass—trampled, unnoticed. Five years of humility. Five years of willing humiliation. She had finally learned her lesson. She picked up the phone and called her family. "I'll go through with the arranged marriage," she said. What she didn't expect was that the day she got married would also be his wedding day. When Silas stepped out of his car, he saw Harper, dressed in white, radiant, about to become someone else's bride. In that moment, the man who had always believed she would never leave him finally broke. "Harper… Nothing happened between me and Sophie. I was wrong. Please, forgive me…" He knelt in front of Harper, begging and sobbing, like a man with nothing left to hold onto. Harper looked down at him, the way one might look at a stray dog on the street. There was no ripple in her heart. No sympathy. No anger. Just stillness. "Love that comes too late is worthless," she said. "Now go step up and be a real father to her kid."

Vivienne Fox has a fuck buddy or friends with benefits but no strings attached, with Darius Kaelen Frost, the formidable Alpha of The Moonshadow Pack, known for his icy demeanor and his disinterest in romantic entanglements. He believed love to be superfluous, yet trusted Vivienne as his sole companion in matters of intimacy. Secretly, Vivienne harbored a hope that Darius might choose her as his mate, but she knew that was unlikely, given his singular focus on her physical presence—their clear agreement. However, everything changed when Darius's destined mate, Princess Celestria, emerged, and she’s meant to be the Moonshadow Pack’s Luna. It was a devastating blow when that day, Viviene finds out about her pregnancy with Darius's child—a taboo in their pack, where such unions without a formal mate were scorned. Faced with this dilemma, the doctor offered Vivienne a chance to vanish quietly, to protect herself and her unborn child. Darius, oblivious to her pregnancy, severed the deal with Vivienne for Celestria, dismissing Vivienne as inconsequential without knowing she carried his child. In a desperate bid to shield her child from the pack's judgment and the possibility of ruining the Alpha’s reputation, Vivienne fled without a trace.