The Substitute Bride Who Stole the Alpha's Cold Heart

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ed in their attic, treating me worse than a stray do

erate demand: I had to take my sister's place and m

ace disfigured and both legs crippled-someone who would undou

d to let me die, then extort compensat

s immediately tried to humiliate me. They all thought I was just a pathe

idea who they we

usand silver sovereigns from the Sinclairs, and now I walked up to the Alpha'

I smashed their gra

ow my terrifying new husband exactly

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ammed open, rattl

clair, my adoptive parents, swept in. Their faces plastered with smiles so fake the

straw I'd found near the window, and

e dripping with honey that couldn't hide t

asp at empty air. The smile on her face tightened

way he did when he was about to say something important

li

"we sometimes have to make sa

y mouth and flicked it

I said, my voice flat

sed to being spoken to this way, especially not by me, the stray they'

Cassandra took over, her pract

bbing at her dry eyes with a silk handkerc

ndon Ewing of the Obsidian Fang Pack today. Brandon had been given in adoption to the Alpha King when he was very young. Though he was the Ki

a wailed. "She can't marry that..

ker of something dark and amused curled m

her voice rising with manufactured hysteria. "You're her older sis

beam of light slicing through the grimy window. I brushed off my worn t

dangerously soft. "Le

ting them han

on the edge of your territory, to take the p

like a physical blow. His

he snarled. "This is

s of contempt. I stood and walked to the window, my back to them. Below, the manicure

y when I was treated like a servant in this house? Where was it when Lilit

ale. She had no answer.

glint of steel in my eyes. The lazy, sullen girl w

m feeling gracious today,

their faces. They t

ave a co

ecting me to ask for a new dress or a new

lver sovereigns," I said

mouth hanging o

t a silver note that can be cashed at any bank in the capital. Consid

shattering into pure rage. "You're i

ext week. Two hundred thousand silver sovereigns to buy a life that might be very short seem

hing the cost of the money against the cost of a broken all

: promise the money, then t

a low warning. "The two hundred thousand has to be in the account before

d lay down, closing my eye

new expression. He clench

deep, sh

ground out.