Alpha's Substitute Wife

Some deals are made in desperation. Some promises are made in fear. And some marriages begin with a lie so heavy it presses against the chest like a stone.

Lena Yap never wanted any of this. She was the quiet daughter, the one who worked at the bookstore, who made her own tea every morning, who stayed out of trouble. Her older sister Clara was supposed to be the one walking down that aisle, sealing the Yap family's debt to the Blackthorn Pack with a gold ring and a forced smile.

But Clara ran.

And Lena was left behind to pick up the pieces or rather, to become one.

Drake Voss, Alpha of the Blackthorn Pack, is not a man who tolerates deception. He built his authority on order, on consequence, on keeping his world exactly as controlled as the one inside his chest. He married a woman he barely knew because it was practical, not because he felt anything. He hadn't let himself feel anything in years.

He doesn't know yet that the woman standing beside him in that cold ceremony hall is not the woman he agreed to marry.

He doesn't know that she's the only one who ever could have been his.

Some truths take a long time to surface. And when they do, they destroy everything in their path including the walls people build around the parts of themselves they're most afraid to lose.