"Will it kill you to back the fuck up?" I snapped. "Yes, princess," he whispered sweetly against my ear, voice full of that sick affection. "It would. I would drop dead right here if I couldn't be next to you." "My lucky day," I muttered sarcastically.

Sold to the Devil. Pregnant with a Secret. Mated to a Monster. Rose Alayna Hart was born an Alpha's daughter but broken into an Omega's submission. To save her dying father and settle her pack's crushing debts, she is sold by her cruel mother to the most feared man on the coast: Alexander Vale, the Alpha of the Obsidian Pack. Alexander is a man of ice and iron. He doesn't want a wife; he wants a buffer zone for his borders. He views Rose as a weak, pathetic pawn in a political game-until he smells the truth on her wedding day. She is pregnant. Believing she has trapped him into marriage while carrying another male's bastard, Alexander's indifference turns to cold, simmering rage. He locks her in his estate, stripping her of her title and promising to annul their union the moment the "abomination" is born. But Rose isn't carrying a stranger's child. She is carrying the consequence of a single, heat-hazed night in the neutral woods-a night with a shadow she never saw, but whose scent she can never forget. Pine. Rain. And Power. While Rose fights to protect her unborn son from the father who despises him, Alexander is haunted by a memory he can't quite place and a scent he can't resist. When the truth finally shatters the lies, the Ruthless King will have to do the one thing he has never done before: Kneel. In a world of wolves, secrets are dangerous, but the truth is lethal.

- 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 - 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞