ry

oth, I kept my expression calm even as a thin laye

ingers on the linen cloth while his golden-amber

t's put everythi

blade cutting through the

's daughter, Dolly, to meet me here ton

orner of my mouth, I glanced briefly towa

the center of the room, practically straining he

ghtly against the overturned brass numb

a at table nine. Since fate flipped your six into a nine and put

t the wooden divider toward the main hall where Dolly was frantical

ack your stepsister's

he suffocating lethality of his Alpha aura pulling ba

benefit rather

ut flinching, I spoke

inging to her coattails. I stand alone, I know exactly what

ough the ambient music from the center of the dining room as D

m here? I am the future heir of the Holder fami

's elite made the frost in Jaxson's eyes deepen, and when he looked

in high-society ladies is

chuckle that vibrated

, are you willing to accep

y eyes to trace the line of my collarbone, his nostrils f

suit, his jaw clenching as if he were fighting d

ct isn't easy to fu

gravelly, heavy with an Alpha

erms. I don'

Jaxson shifted back into the cold, ruthl

the table, he uncapped the black fountain pen to

wing that the real negotiation with thi

break free from the Holder family's mud forever a

ulder blades pressed against the bo

eavy signet stamp carved with the Twilight Pack's crescent-w