Fated to My Ruthless Alpha

Jennifer, Matthew's fiancée, shoves Elena into a revealing dress and sends her to "entertain" the elderly Alpha Walter—a trap disguised as a chance to get a doctor for her sick son Lucas. Elena has no choice. But the room has been switched. The man waiting is not Walter; it's Harrison of the Black Flame pack, the Alpha everyone fears. Both have been drugged. "If my brother Matthew sent you to seduce me," Harrison says, "then you succeeded." Only afterward does Elena realize she just slept with Matthew's own brother.

Matthew's response is instant contempt. He locks her away, though he eventually releases a doctor for Lucas as a cold afterthought. The diagnosis is quiet but clear: Lucas needs bone marrow from his real father to survive, and his resilience suggests Alpha blood. Then Lucas does what no one expects. Feeling a pull only a wolf-child can understand, he finds Harrison in the garden and calls him "daddy." Harrison stops cold. He has spent years searching for a girl from a drugged night seven years ago. The boy's features are unmistakable. Elena's curse—being traded to the most feared Alpha in the region—turns out to be the Moon Goddess's longest game. Harrison is not a monster. He is the father she never knew she had found that night, and the second-chance mate meant for her all along. Matthew's cruelty doesn't destroy Elena. It delivers her straight to the one Alpha fierce enough to protect her and her son.