rin

e tray in the entryway, I walked across the

sized four-poster bed carved with snarling Kir

straight toward the two-meter-wide f

pet always started with the clothes he forced her to wear; a custom closet

otion-sensor lights flickered on row by row, illuminating a hundred

alls, filling the air with the rich aroma of

hich were packed with current-season haute couture-from modest silk bl

y ordinary girl dizzy with greed, yet I knew damn well Dayton hadn't b

cked onto the right side of the room, where a row of c

e black glass door open. Warm amber spotlights clicked o

ozens of outrageously daring, barely-th

er black lace bodysuits to deep-V satin robes cut down to the

fine leather collar chokers set with tiny black diamond

across a gossamer-thin black silk gown,

billionaire CEO and iron-fisted Pack Alpha; behind closed doors, h

nted a stripped, trembling prey animal

t the hemlines, my eyes stopped

airs of ten-centimeter stiletto heels gleame

els, crusted in crushed diamonds with heel

wolf's enhanced bone density and balance, walking across polished marble

what triggered an apex Alpha's twisted pro

iled my index finger over the cold diam

fingertip pulled a buried memory

several months ago, du

ything Dayton kept in a downtown flat on a mode

culated gamble to rip open this tyrant's ascetic mask, lay

hat night, a nearly identical pair of

e wolf inside him wild, I had changed outfits three s

rning cold and sharp as the memory of the crackling firep