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Room Full Of Wolves

مؤلف: HANNAH LOVE
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Chapter Twenty

Zara knows within twenty minutes of being in the room that this event is different.

Not the logistics. Those are clean. The venue is a converted private estate in Buckhead, everything she specified delivered exactly right, the florals on brief, the lighting warm and precise, the catering team solid after the lesson she gave them at the investor dinner.

No. The difference is the guests.

She has run eighty-three events in five years. Corporate dinners, charity galas, private celebr
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  • THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE    Blood and Evidence

    Chapter 33The council hall fell silent the moment Zara’s aunt stepped forward. The woman looked older than Zara remembered. Lines around her eyes. Tension in her shoulders. She avoided Zara’s gaze at first.Victor stood beside her like a man who had already won.“Council members,” he began, voice smooth and carrying. “We are here to decide if Damien Wolfe remains fit to lead. I bring proof that his instincts have been compromised. Not just by a human mate. By a human mate whose blood carries the mark of an old enemy.”He gestured to the aunt. “This is Lena Mensah. Sister to Zara’s mother. She has lived in hiding for twenty years because Damien’s pack destroyed her family line. Now the alpha brings that blood back into our midst and calls it fate. I call it a threat.”Murmurs rippled through the room. Several older wolves leaned forward.Lena spoke next. Her voice shook at first. “My sister ran. She hid what she was. She married a human and raised a child who carries the same diluted

  • THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE     Bloodlines

    Chapter 32Zara stood very still in the small side room. The words Adaeze had spoken hung between them like smoke.“My mother was not fully human,” she repeated slowly. “She carried wolf blood from a line Victor’s pack destroyed.”Adaeze nodded once. “A small pack that lived on the edge of Victor’s territory twenty years ago. They refused to merge. His father ordered the elimination. Your mother escaped because she was visiting family in another state. She never told you. She never told anyone. She married a human man and tried to bury it.”Zara’s mind raced through every memory of her mother. The way she had avoided certain topics. The quiet strength that had always felt slightly different. “Why tell me now?”“Because Victor found the records last month. He has been waiting for the perfect moment to use them. Tonight he plans to stand in front of the council and declare that you are not a human mate. You are a survivor of a wiped out bloodline returning to weaken us from within. Some

  • THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE    The Line We Cross

    Chapter 31The afternoon light slanted across the penthouse floor. Zara stood by the window in the dress she had chosen for the council meeting. Simple. Dark. Armor without looking like it.Damien watched her from across the room. “You do not have to come.”“I already decided. Hiding gives Victor the story he wants. Me standing beside you gives the council something else to see.”He crossed to her. “If this goes wrong tonight they will come after you harder than before. Some of them already believe a human mate weakens the bloodline.”“Then we show them it strengthens it instead.” She turned to face him. “I am not Elena. I will not die in a rival attack while you are off settling pack business. I am here because I chose to be. That is the difference.”Damien’s jaw tightened. “I failed her. I will not fail you.”“You did not fail her. You were doing what the pack asked. The same way you have done everything since. But I am not asking you to choose between me and them. I am asking you t

  • THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE    The Text at Dawn

    Chapter 30Zara woke to sunlight cutting across the bed. For the first time in weeks her body did not feel braced for the next blow. She reached for her phone out of habit.The message from the unknown number waited on the screen.You should have stayed away from him. Now the whole pack will pay for your choice. The vote is only the beginning.She sat up fast. The words hit like cold water.She found Damien in the kitchen pouring coffee. He had changed into a black shirt and dark jeans. The couch looked like it had been slept on but not comfortably.“Victor sent this last night,” she said and handed him the phone.Damien read it once. His expression did not change but the air in the room shifted. “He is getting desperate. Good.”“Good? He is threatening your pack and me.”“He is showing his hand early. That means he knows the edited video alone will not be enough to remove me.” Damien set the phone down. “We use that.”Zara poured herself coffee even though her stomach felt tight. “Wh

  • THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE    Close Enough to Break

    Chapter 29The penthouse doors opened to a space that felt too big and too quiet. Floor to ceiling windows showed the city lights below. Damien stepped in first and disabled the extra security panel by the door.Zara stopped in the middle of the living room. “I did not agree to be moved here like some package that needs protecting.”“You are here because Victor already had someone follow you and break into your office,” Damien said. “The next step will be worse. This building has layers of security the pack controls. Your apartment does not.”She turned to face him. “I came here to talk to you. Not to be locked in a tower while you handle everything alone again.”“You are not locked in. You are safe. There is a difference.”“Not when you decide it without asking me.” Her voice rose. “I spent two days going through those documents because I needed to know the truth for myself. I will not trade one kind of control for another.”Damien ran a hand over his face. For the first time since s

  • THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE     No Turning Back

    Chapter 28Zara stood in her doorway, phone glowing with the article. The photos from the gala looked intimate. Stolen. The headline cut deep. Billionaire Recluse Damien Wolfe and His Mystery Woman. Anonymous sources questioned his fitness. His mental state. His ability to lead.Victor had not just leaked a story. He had aimed at the one place Damien could not ignore.She shoved the phone into her bag with the envelope of documents and locked the door. She was done hiding. Damien deserved the truth from her lips, not a screen. She needed to say she believed him. That she was sorry.The rideshare arrived fast. She slid in and gave the driver the address for Damien’s building. Two blocks later a dark sedan pulled out behind them. It matched their turns. Stayed three cars back but never lost them.Zara’s stomach tightened. “Take the long way,” she told the driver.He glanced in the mirror but changed lanes without questions.The sedan followed.She called Damien. Voicemail. She tried aga

  • THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE    The Smile That Means Danger

    Chapter EighteenVictor gets the message at eight forty in the morning and takes his time getting there.Not because he is not paying attention. Because he is. He reads the summons twice, sets his phone face down on the table of the coffee shop where he is sitting, and finishes his espresso with th

  • THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE    You Should Be Scared

    Chapter SevenDamien gave Victor exactly one hour after Zara walked out before he called him in.Not because he needed the hour. He does not need it. He knows what Victor had done the moment Zara said an unknown number and Isla Vane in the same sentence. He gives himself the hour because he learne

  • THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE    The Woman Who Died

    Chapter SixShe tried. She lied on her back and stares at the ceiling and tells herself the phone call was nothing. A prank. Someone with too much free time and a blocked number who somehow knew her name and the word bond and the fact that Damien Wolfe had a woman in his life before her.Before her

  • THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE    What She Overhears

    Chapter FiveZara is the last person on her floor at seven forty in the evening.She knows this because the lights in the corridor have switched to low power mode and the only sound in the whole wing is the scratch of her pen on paper and the occasional car horn floating up from the street below. S

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