Genuinely Asking

“You are not my mate. But you are my soul’s obsession. I will never share you, not even with your true mate.” He confessed as his thrusts grew. **** Sera thought she had her life figured out—college plans, a sweet human boyfriend, and parents who had successfully hidden their werewolf past. Then rogues hunt her for power and kill her boyfriend. Alpha Kael and his son, Damian arrive to take her safe since she was betrothed to Damian years ago. When they meet, their mate bond sparks instantly. Neither wants it. Damian is in love with his male partner, and Sera is too broken to fall in love. They agree to fake their bond publicly while living separate lives privately. At the pack, Sera can read everyone’s minds except Alpha Kael’s. Drawn to the silence she’s found since her powers manifested, she becomes obsessed with him. He’s her father’s best friend and her godfather forbidden in every way that matters, and twice her age. He’s supposed to help her survive the rogues. Instead, they become lovers. Kael takes her as an incarnation of his ex-wife. The pack watches but stays silent. After all, who questions him? But when Damian’s partner betrays him, he starts investigating what makes Sera so valuable, everything changes. The mate bond he’s been ignoring flares to life, and he finds himself genuinely falling for the woman he was supposed to fake-marry. Now they’re fighting over a woman. Then Sera discovers she’s pregnant with the Alpha’s child. The pack council calls it an abomination and demands she terminate the pregnancy. Sera must choose between the forbidden love that could destroy everything, or the fated bond that promises safety but might never feel like home.

After three years of marriage, Ivy Martinez thought she had everything—until her billionaire CEO husband Alexander forgot their anniversary and gave her gift to his "best friend" Sophia. When Ivy discovers Sophia has been picking up five-year-old Lucas from school for two years, her world shatters completely. Worse, Lucas runs to Sophia instead of Ivy, asking: "Can you be my real mommy? Mommy Ivy is always sad and boring." At a business dinner, Alexander introduces Sophia as his companion while calling Ivy "family." When Sophia serves food with peanut sauce knowing about Ivy's severe allergy, Alexander dismisses her panic: "You're probably faking it for attention." As Ivy goes into anaphylactic shock, Sophia suddenly has an "anxiety attack." Without hesitation, Alexander removes Ivy's mother's locket—her only keepsake from her deceased mother—and gives it to Sophia for "comfort." "Sophia saved my mother's life," he says cruelly. Ivy collapses, bleeding from a miscarriage she didn't know she was having, watching Alexander comfort Sophia who wears her dead mother's locket. But Ivy doesn't die that night. And when she opens her eyes, she's done being the perfect wife. What happens when the woman everyone underestimated decides she's had enough?

At Sullivan Group's annual banquet, a female university student approaches Peter Sullivan and offers herself to him. The usually cold and distant Peter suddenly freezes because this young woman looks exactly like his deceased first love. He can't help but tease, "You're asking to be my mistress in front of my wife. Are you so sure you won't be thrown out?" The young lady lifts her chin, and her stubborn expression is identical to that of his lost love. "You two got married for business reasons and mutual benefits. Does she have any say over what you do? Peter, only you can save my mom. Will you do it or not?" She's right. I'm just a pawn in a marriage of convenience. How could I possibly influence Peter's choices? But then, I catch a glint of tenderness in his eyes that I've never seen before, and a self-deprecating smile forms on my lips. Maybe, instead of clinging on and being thrown out like trash, it's better if I give up my place willingly.