The Deaf Alpha’s Unexpected Mate
Vee Okonthe alpha’s temporary matethe alpha rejected matethe silent alpha
In the dining room doorway, with her back to me, stood a woman in black.
She wore a long black coat over a black silk shirt, black trousers, black boots with a heel that clicked on the floor like a clock. Her hair was slicked back from her forehead and coiled low at her nape. A silver crescent lay against her collarbone. She stood with one hip cocked and one hand on the doorframe, exactly the way Isolde stood, with exactly the same lazy, devastating contempt, and in front of her a young maid was trembling so hard that the jug in her hands rattled.