's

lars. Give up yo

's business partner and was now my so-called stepmother. She lo

and slowly tore it i

ou

the table and met her eyes. "If you want to buy my inheritanc

ith anger. "How dare you

d spending my father's money." I leaned

the floor. A tall, broad man stepped out from behind her. He had blond

arrogantly. "I'm Luc

the last word

one child," I said.

anished fro

who can't even shift. What right does she have to lead the Crawford Pack? Her father

es

d looked a

dollars? The mess you're desperate to take, e

s lips t

His Beta presence press

Lucas wasn't even my father's biological s

heir," I said without looking aw

nly weak, you're stupid. Do you really

ink about how you'll explain killing

ad, no one can stand in your way! She's an orpha

, a group of guards in black rushed

eat was deafening, but I forc

n front of me, standin

e shouted. "Ms. Crawford is t

, old

ried to move toward him, but one of th

nd of brakes cut t

head t

to a stop in front of the manor gates. A

odm

led the East Coast, then Bloodmoon rul

hardened wolves stepped out. The man leading them

pale. Rebec

want?" Lucas asked, unable to

His gaze settled on me, studied m

a, we have come to es

froze. My mind

st. "What Luna? What

x-sealed parchment from his coat,

d Pack made an agreement: their eldest son and eldest daughter would marry wh

nd looked a

l heir, Ava Crawford, has returned. Under the contract, she will ma

ing wen

here, my

pha I had never met, from the s

ey had wanted me dead. Now I had suddenly become the fu

as a

r you, Ms. Crawford. I'm Oswald, Alpha Adrian's second-in-co

to me at the same time. It wasn't fear. It w

epbrother, then at Alvin, who had been hel

as certain:

nsion tighte

. I knew nothing about Alpha Adrian, and a man with his powe

omething wrong with him. Why else wo