nor

sting long, fractured shadows across the cavernous room. I o

hirt, his massive frame perfectly still. His obsidian eyes were locked onto me, burning with that terrifying, pr

the heavy silence, vibrating in my chest. "Why bind yourself to a monst

silk sheets over my chest. I abandoned the mask of a terrified Omega. If I w

ffocating weight of his Lycan aura. "If I married Matteo or Luca, I would forever be the path

the stepmother to the coward who rejected me. I didn't choose you for love or a fairy-ta

wolf, humming in the air-a dark, vibrating energy assessing my worth. Then, the corner of Kaelen'

hout one," he murmured, the golden ring

ned his respect; now I needed his authority. "Braden didn't just humiliate me yesterday.

ent vanishing into lethal stillnes

epmother, it is my duty to teach him the respect he so clearly lacks. I am asking for y

my place for daring to threaten his heir. Instead, a crue

til he was looming over the edge of the bed. The scent of sharp ceda

manded, his voice devoid of any paternal w

a chill down my spine. "How can you say that?" I whispered, genuine

The heat radiating from his massive body was scorc

stated, the words dropping

en prince of the Blackwood Pack, the boy who had tormented me and nearly destroyed my li

ing to an impenetrable mask of ancient aut

her expects us in the Great Hall for the midday meal. It is tim