n Pri

ition I'd planned to announce to the pack elders the very week Seraphina Foster shredded my engagement in front of a hundred cameras-evap

ly. The spectacle. The jilte

ccounts-loans called in early, a lumber contract canceled, her mother's estate, bled dry into the family trust years ago, sud

the patience to do it without a single public word? The Sinclairs. I had no proof, and that was the worst part. The Sinclairs nev

ien

queeze, the Fosters' mother-heritage account wallowing in procedural ice. Half a city was quie

d in, and every tho

wrist. I couldn't find her in the living area. A primal panic, cold and sh

the door open with a single, sharp tug, splintering the frame. She was asleep. Her scent filled

saw me looming. "What are you doing?" she w

e, the mattress dipping; then I lay on the covers, on the far side of the bed,

-the wolf-wanted to: pull her under me, mark her, make her mine so sh

te. The fire was extinguished. Sleep claim

the far edge, awake. The realization crystallized: it wasn't her being in

y. My personal, living cure. I could not let her go. E

d. "From now on, you will sleep

phin

violet eyes flashin

a low, dangerous growl, the Alpha's Command bl

ut my genetics betrayed me. I was a wolf, and he was my Alpha

t, the words tasting l

master suite. It felt like the final lock clicki

s side, a silent, brooding mountain of muscle. He didn't touch me, but his presence was

st sleeping beside me. The Mate-bond was a torment. It sang with pleasure at his proximity, even as my mind

, a sheen of sweat on his brow. The curse was fighting back. He got into bed, his body radiat

e groaned, his voice

me. "What's

t's not enough anymore,"

s nowhere to go. My back hit t

is voice or mine, but a raw, possessive snarl, slammed into my mind.

electric. My body betrayed me, a shiver

hispered, a p

thing harsh. "Sera," he breathed my nam