The cursed King's Captive: A Mate In Disguise

"The cold steel of chains bit into my wrists, but it was his voice that truly held me captive. "If he fails to perform," he said coldly, "you can feed him to the hounds."

The crowd hushed and my heart slammed in my chest. My heart sank. To him... I was nothing.

So, if they wanted a show, fine. I'd give them one. But not without covering my tracks.

I let my gaze drift over the room, past the giddy nobles with wine-stained mouths, past the women twirling on laps and the bare-chested men lounging like prizes.

Then I saw him, a tall, lean male with golden skin and inked arms, muscles coiled under smooth flesh, smirking like the whole night was a joke only he understood.

"I want him," I said, pointing. Gasps rippled through the chamber the moment I raised my chained hand and pointed.

"Two boys!" someone shouted gleefully.

"Ravenstone's favorite kind of scandal," someone else laughed.

But this night was only the beginning.

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"Julian was born to lead. An Alpha's daughter, fierce and untamed, destined to inherit power and command. But fate is cruel. In one blood-soaked night, her entire pack is slaughtered, her name erased, her legacy burned to ash. Forced into the shadows, she binds her breasts, silences her rage, and becomes a phantom hiding behind a boy's name to survive the hunt.

Until she's captured by him.

Lucian. The infamous Alpha King. A brutal warlord feared across the realm, dominant, unyielding and devastatingly lethal. He mistakes her for an assassin. She knows better. He is her fated mate and the one man her body burns for, the one soul she must never touch. Desire coils between them like a live wire, tempting fate with every stolen glance, every forbidden thought.

But Lucian is cursed, dark magic coils through his veins, and Julian harbors secrets that could destroy them both. As lust ignites into obsession and deception turns deadly, ancient prophecies stir, and enemies circle like wolves in heat.

Julian wasn't born to run.

She was born to conquer.

And the Alpha King will either kneel at her side... or be brought to his knees beneath her."