Marianna

"You've been drinking," I said, taking a cautious step back. "The wolfsbane brew."
Ethan's eyes raked over me, and for the first time in our three years together, there was hunger in them. "You smell like wildflowers," he murmured, leaning closer. "Have you always smelled this good?"


Ethan couldn’t recognize me—his true mate.
Riley claimed to be his true mate, yet she left North America three years ago. As he assumed the Alpha position, he needed a partner to solidify his new reign, so he turned to me, an outcast expelled from my original pack.
He remained celibate for three years, but a single glass of specially mixed wolfsbane wine led to an intimate encounter between us.
I was overjoyed to discover I was pregnant, only to receive his proposal to terminate our agreement at the very same moment.
"Riley's back," he said without preamble. "It's time to end this charade."

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I had no choice.
To save my benefactor’s dying son, I said yes to being Finn’s surrogate.
It was supposed to be just a deal—cold, clear, with no feelings involved.
But the more time I spent with him, the more I saw the truth.
Behind his hard, cruel shell was a man who was hurting, a man who hid his pain from the world.
However, after the five days were over, he didn’t ask me to stay.

I thought that was the end.
I would be sent to a sanatorium once I was pregnant, and maybe… I would never see him again for the rest of my life.
But somehow, without explanation, the Sterlings took me to a wedding—
a wedding where I was the only bride.

And then I saw him—
covered in blood, collapsing onto my wedding dress.