Maureen Reagan

Hendricks Wilberforce, the Prince of Westminster, discovered his sexual orientation while in high school and crushed on his seatmate, Julius Reagan, but was not bold enough to make a move until they left. His parents wished that he should pick a wife before his twenty-two year's birthday, but he was not interested in the beautiful princesses of the powerful kingdoms who his parents would have loved. His love was only for Julius. Two years later, Julius Reagan needed a job to stop his gigolo father from abandoning his mother to marry any of his rich mistresses who wanted him desperately. He searched for a good-paying job but found none. One day, he learned that the King of Westminster wanted a female janitor for his heir and was willing to pay handsomely. In his desperation, he dressed like a girl and went for the job. He met fifty beautiful ladies and ten of them were employed. The king did that to surround his son with girls and hoped that he would love any of them. Julius was surprised that he remembered Hendrick and began to crush on him. The more he worked in the palace, the more he thought of him. Although his colleagues were beautiful, he never had a feeling for them. A few months before Hendrick's birthday, he had yet to pick a wife, and his father was furious. He walked to his chamber and met Julius waiting on him. "Your freedom stops until you pick a wife, Hendrick," he yelled and locked them up in the chamber. Unknown to Julius that the prince was Hendrick, he was scared that his feelings to have Hendrick could lead him to rape the prince.

“I reject you because you are not even worth the dirt on the bottom of my shoe, Alpha Gwendolyn Radcliffe.” Rejected by her mate in the most humiliating way a year ago, Gwen thinks she has moved on and has accepted that she is not meant to have a mate or a happily ever after. But then she finds out that the rejection is incomplete, and Alpha Reagan Lorde is back. And he is here to stake his claim.

I was born just one minute after Tiara, but the world treated that one minute as if it lasted a lifetime. She was the star. I was the shadow. She was flawless. I was the afterthought. She was loved. I was forgotten. Even by Reagan de Russo, heir to the wealthiest family in the country and the man I had secretly loved for the past ten years. But to him, there was only Tiara. And when he proposed to her, I knew my quiet little dream had finally died. Until that day came. The day Tiara left him at the altar. The day the world stopped turning for just a second. The day the man who had never even glanced my way, turned to me and asked me to take her place. I knew what I was. An escape. A damage control. A backup plan. And I... I was too tired of being strong. So I said yes. We married. Without love. Without a future. Just a one-year contract and a life of make-believe in front of flashing cameras and watching eyes. But the longer I stayed by his side, the harder it became to tell what was real and what was just part of the performance. Because for the first time... Reagan saw me. But can love truly grow from the ruins of lies, old wounds, and the shadow of a woman who’s always been his first choice? Or will I always be… only the second best?