Bound By Fire: The Dragon Prince's Obsession

I woke up reborn, my hands frantically searching my stomach to confirm my unborn pup was still alive. Not long after, my fated mate, Alpha Julian, walked into the bedroom. He asked me to temporarily give up my Luna crown and perform a fake rejection. He wanted to give my title to Elara, a traitor's daughter, just to save her from being cast out of the pack. In my past life, I hadn't even had the chance to tell him I was pregnant. I cried, begged, and eventually compromised to help him. But when Elara later faked her death in the snow to frame me, Julian went completely mad with guilt. He locked himself in his study, and when I tried to comfort him, he violently shoved me away. My back slammed into the stone fireplace, and I bled out on the floor, losing our baby. He didn't even stay to help me. He ran into the mountains to search for Elara's remains, leaving me to rot in misery until I died. I could never understand how a man's pity for a liar could completely destroy a sacred mate bond and his own flesh and blood. This time, looking at his guilty face, I didn't shed a single tear. "I, Aria, reject you, Julian, as my mate." The ancient words left my lips without a tremor, and I turned to pack my bags.

I was an unshifted Omega, the weakest in the pack, but I always felt safe because Kaelen, the future Alpha, had protected me since we were pups. That was until the strong warrior Seraphina arrived. Suddenly, Kaelen gave her the sweet berries he had picked for me and publicly agreed that I was a pathetic liability. He let the entire pack mock me in the Great Hall, laughing as they called me a useless crybaby. When I looked to him for my usual shield, he instead used his crushing Alpha Command to force me to my knees. "Cease your weeping, Elara. It is exhausting." He coldly declared that he needed a powerful Luna to fight by his side, not an Omega he had to constantly hide and protect. I couldn't understand how ten years of deep connection could be erased by a month of political games. The boy who once broke his own bones to save me from rogues now looked at me with nothing but arrogant disgust. So, I swallowed my tears and quietly signed the departure contract for the distant Royal Academy. I packed my bags, left all his childhood gifts on his cold stone steps, and boarded a carriage out of the territory. He wanted a stronger Luna, so I gave up my place. From now on, I would live for myself.

Chloe had just undergone surgery to remove her fallopian tube, but her billionaire husband, Julian, didn't show up at the hospital. Instead, his housekeeper called, ordering her to attend a business dinner. When she dragged her agonizing, stitched-up body back to their penthouse, Julian didn't ask if she was okay. He just threw a limitless black Amex card at her face, telling her to stop playing the victim and name her price. Things escalated when his seven-year-old daughter accidentally spilled scalding water on Chloe's hand. His ambitious assistant, Kara, immediately swooped in, screaming that Chloe had deliberately burned the child out of jealousy. Julian didn't even look at Chloe's blistering skin. He held his daughter, called Chloe a monster, and threatened to destroy her. "You wouldn't survive a day without the Carlisle name," he sneered. Looking at the child she had raised for five years and the husband she had sacrificed everything for, a chilling coldness seeped into Chloe's bones. She had abandoned her Ph.D. at Columbia and her status as a top Christie's auctioneer, only to become a disposable, unpaid nanny and a corporate accessory. She didn't cry or defend herself. She simply took off her five-carat diamond ring, threw the black card at the assistant's feet, and packed a single suitcase. When Julian saw her a week later, she was standing in the spotlight of the Met Gala, holding an auction gavel, ready to make him pay.

For two years, I was trapped behind my own eyes, a prisoner in my own skull. A crazed fan had hijacked my body after a brutal car crash, wearing my skin like a cheap suit. When my soul finally locked back into my flesh in a cramped hospital room, I realized she had destroyed everything I built. This parasitic stalker had drained my massive fortune to zero, buying luxury gifts for a mediocre actor and turning me into the internet's most hated woman. My phone was flooded with death threats, and the hashtag demanding I go to hell was trending at number one. Even the hospital nurses despised me. One marched into my room, raising her hand to violently slap my pale cheek. "You psychotic bitch, you make me sick!" Worse, my sprawling Beverly Hills estate had been foreclosed and sold to a mysterious billionaire named Kasey Dominguez. I had absolutely nothing left. No money. No reputation. No home. The sheer violation of watching a psychotic stranger ruin my life while I was locked in the passenger seat of my own mind made my blood boil. I refused to let her destroy my legacy. As the nurse's hand descended, my atrophied muscles snapped into action. I twisted her wrist until the joint popped, grabbed the keys to my freedom, and slipped out into the cold Los Angeles night. I was going to take my life back, starting with the billionaire who thought he owned my house.

Alondra woke up choking on synthetic drugs, pinned to a mattress by a massive, sweating VIP guest. Her adoptive family, the Franks, had deliberately drugged her and offered her as a plaything to secure a ten-million-dollar financing deal. The sheer terror and humiliation had already killed the original owner of this body. When the VIP was left screaming on the floor, her adoptive mother and sister didn't care about what she had just endured. They shrieked that she had ruined their wealth and destroyed their future. Her adoptive father threw a cheap prepaid card onto the Persian rug like he was feeding a stray dog. "Take this five hundred dollars and crawl back to the trailer park where you belong!" They ordered their bodyguards to drag her out by her hair, mocking her as uneducated white trash who would rot in the slums. The original girl had died in absolute despair, believing she was worthless and unloved. She never knew she was actually the true biological heir to the Kerr family, the untouchable dynasty that practically owned Wall Street. But the soul that had just awakened in this fragile body was no longer a weak victim. It was the soul of a centuries-old European medical assassin. Alondra calmly shattered the bodyguard's wrist, exposed the Franks' impending bankruptcy, and walked out the front door. Outside in the cold night, a fleet of bulletproof Maybachs was already waiting to take the real princess home.

At the Full Moon Banquet, my husband didn't just announce a surrogate. He humiliated me. Alpha Bennett stood center stage, radiating power, while I stood in the shadows—the embarrassment, the Wolfless Luna. "Kelsey is too fragile," he announced to the pack. "Aria will carry our legacy." He called it a medical necessity. But later, I heard him tell his Beta the truth: "I look at her and see a dead end. Aria smells like a mate should." The humiliation didn't stop there. Aria moved into our home, scent-marking my bed with her vanilla perfume. When she staged a fall, Bennett didn't check if I was okay. He grabbed me by the throat, accusing me of trying to kill his unborn "Alpha twins." He even drained his own blood to save her fake pregnancy, while I bled from silver wounds he ignored. Broken and replaced, I left my wedding ring on the table and vanished to Paris. Bennett was so eager to be rid of me, he signed the separation papers without even reading them. It wasn't until his wedding day to Aria that the truth came out. The pregnancy was a lie. The twins were a fraud created by witch potions. Desperate and regretful, Bennett tore through Europe to drag me back, thinking I was still his weak, human wife. He didn't know he was walking straight into the Lycan King's territory. And he certainly didn't expect to find that his "Wolfless" wife had finally awakened as the legendary White Wolf.