The Highlords Command

At nine months pregnant, I was in the final stretch of my term, and my body heavy with a baby due any day. But my husband, Vito Falcone, underboss of the family, had locked me away. He held me in a sterile underground medical room and injected me with a labor suppressant. As I screamed in agony, he coldly told me to endure it. Because his brother's widow, Scarlett, was expected to go into labor at the exact same time. A blood oath he'd made with his late brother declared that the firstborn son would inherit the family's lucrative West Coast territory. "That inheritance belongs to Scarlett's child," he said. "With Daemon gone, she is utterly alone and destitute. You have my love, Alessia. All of it. I just need her to deliver safely. Then it's your turn." The drug was a constant, agonizing torment. I begged him to take me to a hospital. He grabbed me by the throat, forcing me to meet his icy gaze. "Stop the act! I know you're fine. You’re just trying to steal the inheritance." "To get ahead of Scarlett, you'll stop at nothing." My face was ashen. My body convulsed as I managed a desperate whisper. "The baby's coming. I don't care about the inheritance. I just love you, and I want our child to be born safely!" He sneered. "If you were really that innocent, if you had an ounce of love for me, you wouldn't have forced Scarlett to sign that prenup, waiving her child's inheritance rights." "Don't worry, I'll be back for you after she's given birth. you're carrying my own flesh and blood, after all." He kept a vigil outside Scarlett's delivery room all night. It was only after seeing the newborn in her arms that he remembered me. He finally sent his second in command, Marco, to release me. But when Marco finally called, his voice was shaking. "Boss... the missus and the baby... they're gone." In that moment, Vito Falcone shattered.

"Dans un État où les loups-garous sont des armes militaires, Elara survit en silence. 'Muette' - dépourvue de forme animale - elle est reléguée aux archives du QG des Loups, méprisée par ceux dont elle entend secrètement les pensées. Son don interdit : apaiser les esprits tourmentés des plus féroces guerriers-lycans. Sa vie bascule lorsque l'unité d'élite commandée par Rhyse, un Alpha au bord de la folie meurtrière, revient d'une mission catastrophique. Dans la panique générale, une impulsion irrésistible pousse Elara à CHUCHOTER. D'un seul mot mental, elle éteint la rage de Rhyse, sauvant la base... et se condamnant. Car ce premier contact réveille un Pacte ancien, scellé entre leurs lignées sanguines et trahi des siècles plus tôt. Désormais liés par une magie plus forte que leurs volontés, ils n'ont d'autre choix que de s'allier. Le Haut-Conseil voit en Elara un outil précieux à contrôler. Les Puristes, une abomination à éliminer. Et dans l'ombre, des marginaux aux pouvoirs étranges voient en eux l'espoir d'un monde nouveau. Entre manipulations politiques et attaques sanglantes, leur seul refuge pourrait bien être l'un dans l'autre - au risque de réveiller un amour aussi dangereux que le pouvoir qui les unit. Car le véritable Pacte n'était pas un asservissement, mais un équilibre : le Chuchoteur calme la Bête, et le Loup protège le Chuchoteur. Ensemble, ils doivent redécouvrir cette vérité avant que leurs ennemis ne brisent définitivement le lien entre leurs peuples."