Mated to the Master

Vespera Vael has spent centuries maintaining absolute control over the Velvet Ledger, the exclusive sex club she owns and rules with quiet, exacting authority. No one suspects its soft, curvaceous master dominant is actually a dragon-or that dragons consider pack bonds a ridiculous mammalian inconvenience.

Then Narissa kneels at her feet.

The lycan omega came seeking submission training, hoping to understand why she still feels incomplete despite the love of her unconventional pack: Gideon, her devoted wolf alpha; Perry, their charmingly absentminded phoenix beta; and Sabine, a leopard alpha who insists she is merely tolerating everyone.

One command completes the bond Narissa has waited centuries to find.

Now Vespera is perfuming her own club, developing instincts no reptile should possess, and trying to determine how fate expects her to love four people in four entirely different ways-without confusing biological compulsion for consent.

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""Stand up."

Narissa's pulse stumbled. "Master?"

"Your scent is distracting, pup." Vespera's golden eyes narrowed. "You may leave my office once you've collected yourself."

Narissa remained on her knees. "I distract you?"

Vespera's voice dropped.

"That was not permission to disobey me."