"Look at me!" He spoke angrily.
"You're a monster," I said softly, almost whispering, refusing me to obey.
"Look at me!" He shouted, making me comply. "I rule this place, ragazza! You only speak or move in my presence if I allow it. I decide whether you live or die. I am the Don, ragazza," he said, pointing the gun at me again, this time at my head, the same place he had just shot.
I struggled to breathe, my chest rising and falling, his words echoing in every part of my body. He stared intensely at me while cocking the pistol, ready to fire.
"Don't hurt me, Stefano," I pleaded, my voice trembling and faltering.
"Too late, Beatrice."
His fingers moved; Stefano was about to pull the trigger when the image of Davide filled my mind, his laughter, the sleepless nights caring for him, and most importantly, the question of who would take care of him when I was no longer there. Stefano had no right, Stefano couldn't do this, and I would do anything to save my son, even if it meant handing him over to one of the leaders of the most powerful mafia in the country. It was time to tell the truth.
"We had a child that night!"

At the top of a metropolis where tech corporations conceal ancient werewolf lineages, Rhaek Vorn commands with an iron fist and seduction. Alpha of one of the world’s largest corporate powers, he keeps a harem of submissive wolves and forges alliances through fear—until the past returns in flesh and blood.
Narelle Nox was handed to him while still young, exchanged for resources and protection, raised under his watch to one day be claimed. Marked in an ancestral ritual as his future fertile wolf, she escaped before her fate was sealed, pregnant and determined to disappear. But years later, she resurfaces as a beautiful, firm woman strategically positioned as a shareholder in Vorn's corporation, hiding her identity—and the child he never knew.
The reunion is a collision of past and present. Rhaek recognizes her. The blood calls for possession. Narelle refuses to bend. As the company becomes the stage for a silent battle between desire and power, the Alpha must contend with his current Luna, a threatened harem, and the wolf who bears his mark... but may destroy him from the inside out.