Chapter 1

-Ava’s POV

Concealers

Scarfs.

Smiles

None of them were enough to mask the shock 1 still felt as I stared at the screen before me.

I saw my husband, Dylan, his hands gripping Crystal’s neck in pleasure unlike the same way they always gripped mine whenever I spoke out of term. He kissed her with passion, leaving red marks on her naked back, different from the bruises he gave me, which came from his anger whenever he punched me for any slight mistake.

Quickly forcing all thoughts out and wiping away the tears that were seconds from falling. I focused on the door.

The only solution to stop this constant pain was right behind it and all I had to do was turn the knob then the door suddenly swung open just as I reached for it forcing me to collide with a wall.

I stumbled backwards, my legs giving out and I crumbled to the floor looking up to see the wall.

Then saw him.

The answer.

His cold gray eyes stared back at me pinning me to the ground. It didn’t matter how many of his pictures I had seen, I was not prepared to be physically hit with how beautiful he was

Grayson Blackwood.

The Alpha King,

His eyes locked onto mine, and for a split second, everything stopped. The world around me faded, and all that existed was his gaze–sharp, assessing, and impossibly cold.

With the last ounce of strength I had, I bowed my head, kneeling at his feet. “Please,” I rasped, my voice raw and broken. “Please, Alpha King- help me.”

stepping towards us and

stare, though equally cold, burned with an intensity that made me want to shrink back. It was the kind of look that held

Blackwood’s gaze was

hardly breathe under the weight of it, and yet, there was

so beautiful be

magnetic, drawing me in even as my instincts screamed at me to run. He stepped back, retreating into the hall, and I

in the room were on me, and I could feel the weight of their judgment like

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voice was laced with fury but I ignored him,

through me if he could see every secret, every lie, every fear I had ever

voice rose, sharper, angrier.

“Who is she?”

though my eyes were focused solely on him. His voice

clenched, his teeth grinding together as

for a fleeting moment–interest, maybe?-but just as quickly as it appeared, it was gone, replaced by the same detached indifference. He turned to Dylan, a slight arch to

his mouth to respond, but I couldn’t let him take control of this situation, not now. Not when I was so close. On instinct, my

and there was a flicker of a taunting smile on her lips making

before him. “Alpha Grayson, forgive me for this intrusion, but this was my only option. I’ve been backed

cutting through the air like whip. “Ava, go back inside.

Grayson silenced him with a single, frigid glance.

almost too soft to be threatening, but the power behind it was undeniable. Dylan fell silent immediately, his mouth snapping shut as though

pounded in my chest, a wild, uncontrollable rhythm as his gaze shifted back to me, trailing down my body

“Naked,” I thought

naked under

what felt like an eternity, he spoke again.

it was absolute. My voice wavered as I

yet no words left his lips as he waited for me to continue. From the corner

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