simplysommie

“You’re asking for trouble, little lamb.”

I thought catching my fiancé cheating with my best friend was rock bottom. Then came the vodka-fueled night that incinerated my last shred of sense—and a stranger’s searing touch in a VIP suite that branded itself into my bones.

He storms back into my life weeks later, and I learn his name: Thayne Slade. Billionaire tycoon. Forbes legend. The man who now owns my future.

My stepfather stole thirty million from him. And I? I’m the collateral.

Trapped in his glass-and-steel penthouse, stripped of every last freedom, I’m forced to play the role of his personal assistant—and his fake fiancée—a cruel stunt to spit in the face of his snobbish elite circle. Now I’m surrounded by sharks: a Hollywood heiress who sneers at me like I’m dirt, a father who calls me worthless, and a family that writes me off as a gold-digging tramp. In this world, money buys loyalty. Desire is a weapon. And Thayne Slade holds all the cards.

Will I outsmart the billionaire who owns my fate?
Or will I surrender to the nightmare that’s starting to feel dangerously like home?

I never should have been selected.
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‎I’m not one of them. I’m not even supposed to be part of this pack. I have no wolf, no claws, no fangs.
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‎Only curves the she-wolves sneer at, thick thighs the males stare at too long, and a secret that could kill me: I’m a witch.
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‎The hidden daughter of Cassian Varkis, the warlock who paints entire territories red with blood.
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‎I ran from him years ago and buried my secret.
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‎But tonight the moon betrayed me.
‎Tonight Alpha Zhayad ascended, and to claim his full power he needed his fated mate.
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‎Thirty maidens were chosen. I was dragged into the woods barefoot, wearing nothing but a scrap of white silk, praying the ruthless new Alpha would pass me by like everyone else always has.
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‎He didn't. For some wicked reason, he chose me.
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‎Alpha Zhayad, six-foot-seven of pure, carved sin, chose me.
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‎His hand closed around my throat, and when he growled “Mine,” the mate bond snapped into place so hard I almost came right there against the rough bark.
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‎He kissed me like punishment. Like salvation. Like war.
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‎Then he tasted it. My bloodline.
‎And everything changed.
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‎He knows who my father is.
‎He knows Cassian slaughtered his mother and little sister, and burned his childhood home to ash.
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‎But he's keeping me anyway.
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‎Not out of love, but vengeance.
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‎I’m the perfect bait, the living key to lure out the most dangerous warlock alive.
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‎But I’m also Aurelia Varkis. Daughter of a monster.
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‎And I have never belonged to anyone, not even my warlock father.
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‎Alpha Zhayad is about to learn exactly how lethal my desire can be.
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