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.”

growl from the side, stepping towards us and I couldn’t help but notice the stark difference

to shrink back. It was the kind of look that held a thousand unspoken threats, and I knew

gaze was

his notice. I could hardly breathe under the weight of it, and yet, there was something else

beautiful be so

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

the room were on me, and

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fury

through me if he could see every secret, every

voice rose, sharper,

“Who is she?”

were focused solely on him. His voice was

as he spat out the words.

eyes flashed with something 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 brow. “I thought you said your Luna was

of this situation, not now. Not when I was so close. On instinct, my gaze traveled to Crystal narrowing on the bruise on her

flicker of a taunting

my head before him. “Alpha Grayson, forgive me for this intrusion, but this was my only option. I’ve been backed into a corner, and I had nowhere

snapped, his voice cutting through the air like whip. “Ava, go back inside. You’re making a fool

silenced him with a

but the power behind it was undeniable.

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

“Naked,” I thought

felt naked under his

moment passed then after what felt like an

were simple, but the command in it was absolute. My voice wavered as I forced the words out. “I want you to end my

no words left his lips as he waited for me to continue. From the corner of my eye, I saw

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