ra

open the heavy oak doors, the Great Hall swallowed me whole. It was a cavern of polished

e beneath the Blackwood crest, his posture rigid, as if he had b

" he said. His voice was eerily ca

ictory flared in my chest.

weakness. A high-ranking Pack member allowing a wolfless Omega to strike her publicly is a humiliation to the hierarchy." He turned hi

I wasn't a wife to be defended. I was just a piece on his board

d, the words tearing from my throat, trem

around. "Read the human clauses of our contract. You breach it, you lose all financial support. More import

ntouchable. A billionaire Alpha who held

roof," I

r his shoulder with a l

said, my voice g

y, but his arrogant fa

Ava Bl

ded outward, a physical, crushing weight that slammed into my chest, driving the breath from my lungs. I

one, his eyes burning with the violent

narled, his voice droppi

memory of that little girl riding his wolf form kept my chin up. "Is sh

dangerous. The muscles in his jaw feat

*" he finally said, his voi

s he forced his Inner Wolf down. The terrifying Alpha CEO

urning to its usual icy detachment. "He needs money. Again. I

ised collarbone. "I won't do i

play the happy, submissive mate. If you refuse, I will have Hazle transferred to a state facility immediately. The ambulance will b

tairs, leaving me alone in th

and the physical strength to crush me. If I was going to survive tomorrow night's dinner with my parasitic step-fami