"I just want to see you lose control for me," I said, my voice softer than I meant it to be. My fingers traced the heat of his neck, feeling his pulse race beneath my touch. "You keep saying you'll drown me in your scent..." I murmured, "But your ears and your neck are so red they're bleeding." My lips curved. "If you actually did it Jonah, you wouldn't make it out of my bed." --- Myra was never meant to be a princess. Born to a dying rogue and raised on the scraps of the Phantom Pack, she survived the shadows by clinging to the only home she ever knew: Jonah. He was her protector, her pillar, and the boy who held her safe while the world tried to break her. Until she was taken. Dragged into a palace of gold and rules, Myra was molded into something she was never meant to be: obedient, silent, and useful. Six years later, she's done being controlled. With an arranged mating looming and her future already sold, Myra makes a choice and she runs. But freedom isn't waiting for her. Because somewhere beyond the borders, in the lands she barely survived as a child, Jonah is no longer the boy she remembers. He's strong. Ruthless. And no longer willing to let her into his heart.

"I'm going to ruin you, Elijah," I whispered, trailing my fingers down his scarred chest, feeling his entire body shudder. "You're mine now. Every thought you have and every breath you take, they all belong to me. And I'm going to taint you so full of my scent that you'll be begging me to let you drown in my body." Elijah has spent years building walls around himself, but Aria ignites something primal inside him that he can't fight. He doesn't do soft and he doesn't do mercy, but one reckless touch and one desperate kiss later, his years of control shatters. Elijah meant to break her. He meant to show her why he's the most feared wolf in the pack, but in the heat of a single night, he realizes he isn't the one doing the ruining. She is. They're learning each other the only way they know how, hard, fast, and without mercy. And when the claiming ceremony arrives, nothing will stop him from making her his. She set his world on fire and he will burn the world down to take her. Tropes: Cold girl x Cold guy Badgirl x Goodboy (in bed) Female Pack healer x Male Delta Wolf Virgin x Virgin She fell first, both fell harder