LOGINHelena Voss has spent her whole life waiting to matter to someone. The night her fated mate rejects her before her pack, she runs into Central Park and meets a cold stranger who does not care about her tears, yet cannot stop staring at her like her scent has caught him off guard. When danger finds them in the dark, he saves her without a second thought, then walks away without giving her his name. Days later, her world collapses. Kingston warriors were found dead at her pack's border, and that same stranger, the Alpha King of Kingston was attacked minutes after their meeting. Desperate to stop a war neither side wants, her Alpha offers her as a peace bride, and on her wedding day , Helena discovers her husband is the stranger who saved her life and never gave her a reason to trust him. Moved into a Manhattan penthouse ruled by four Alphas who do not trust her, Helena fights back with sharp eyes, sharp instincts, and a growing hunger for the truth. She exposes a mole stealing from the pack, survives a jealous rival's poison, and pieces together whispers of a name circling her like smoke, Silver Moon, a royal pack burned to nothing eighteen years ago, the same night a little princess supposedly died in the fire. The closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous her word becomes. Someone has been watching her long before she stepped inside Kingston territory, someone who knew exactly what she is, someone running out of patience. Inside that penthouse, four powerful men are slowly falling for the broken girl among them, with no idea the enemy they should fear most is already sleeping under their own roof, wearing a crown she does not remember she was born to wear.
View MoreI was still sitting with Cassius's words circling my mind, it can't be, when a knock cut through the silence, sharp and formal, nothing like comfort."Helena." Damian's voice came in through the door, controlled and distant. "I need to talk to you for a moment.""Come in," I said, pulling the borrowed robe tighter around myself.He stepped inside and shut the door behind him with the same careful precision he seemed to bring to everything, still in his suit, though the tie had been loosened, the only sign that tonight had cost him anything at all."My father's behavior tonight," he said, without preamble, "was inappropriate, and I won't pretend otherwise. I wanted you to hear that from me directly.""Then he looked at my scar like he'd seen a ghost.""I noticed." His jaw was tight, gray eyes giving away nothing. "Whatever he thought he recognized, he did not explain it.""And I do not have an answer for you yet," he continued."Do you have a guess?" I asked."I don't deal in guesses."
Nobody moved. The officiant cleared his throat, waiting for one of us to start walking, and neither of us did, both frozen at opposite ends of an aisle neither of us had chosen."Helena," Felix whispered beside me, low and urgent. "Keep walking."Then I forced my legs to carry me forward, forcing my face into something steadier than I felt, until I was standing close enough to see the fading bruise along his jaw and the tension locked into every line of his shoulders."You," I breathed, barely audible."You're the bride," he said silently. "I didn't know. I swear to you, I did not know it was you.""I was told to say nothing about last night," I responded quietly. "So whatever you're thinking right now, I need you to forget that you ever saw me in that park."Something moved across his face, sharp and calculating, gone as fast as it came. "That's not how this works.""It has to be. Please."The officiator cleared his throat again, more pointed this time, and the room, which had gone
The man in the dark suit led me through the gates without waiting for me to catch my breath, Kayla's hand slipping out of mine before I was ready to let go of it."Please," I said, hurrying to keep up pace with him, "just tell me what happened this morning. You said something happened at the estate.""That is not for me to say, Miss Voss.""I'm about to marry into this family within the next hour. So I think I've earned the right to know."He said nothing. He simply held the door open, and I stepped in through it because there was nothing else left to do.Inside, the lobby was a chaos dressed up as calm. Guards moved in quick, clipped steps, low voices cutting off the moment I passed, phones pressed to ears, every set of eyes splitting attention between whatever crisis had happened and the girl who had just arrived to marry their Alpha. A woman in a sharp black dress intercepted me before I had gone ten feet."This way," she said, already pulling me toward a private elevator. "We don'
"No." The word came out of me before I understood I was saying it. "You cannot decide this for me.""I am not deciding. I am asking," Felix said, stepping down from the podium, lowering his voice like that would make it less cruel."You are not asking. You are standing in front of over two hundred people and telling them that I am the price for peace, then waiting for me to agree in front of all of them."Whispers filled the hall, sharp and afraid this time, not mocking like they had been the night before. "If you say no," Felix said quietly, "Kingston attacks within the week. And we do not have the numbers to survive that, Helena. You know this.""So my life is worth less than everyone else's.""That is not what I meant.""It is exactly what you said." My voice cracked. Then Kayla pushed through the crowd and grabbed my hand, squeezing hard. "Helena, you don't have to—""She does," someone shouted from the back. "Would you rather we all die because one girl won't agree to marry a ric












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