Contract Over: I Rejected My Alpha Husband First

s the glittering hall, her heart

olden light of the chandeliers. Four years had changed him. He looked taller now, broader in the

the champagne soaking her hair and th

her voice came out hoarse and th

ip tighten

back to her. "Let me go.

made Berea's e

er hard across the face. The sound cracked through the nearby

heek, and for a moment, she tasted blood at the corner of her mout

t returned. Do you really think anyone wants his

ce," Freya said, pressing a

chin and glanced

e she embarrasses th

ds moved

panic

, trying to pull free.

speaking over the applause. The crowd's attention had already returned to their Alpha, to his perfect suit, his gracef

Jonas turn

she thought his g

ed forward to greet him, bl

wn on Freya's arms an

she cri

swer

soft laugh

dripped champagne onto the marble, and the guests who noticed only looked away with practiced indifference. Some even s

h a side door, the music and applause ha

t air hit

arden stretched before her under moonlight, elegant and silent, with trimmed hedges,

s twisted her ar

nything. Let me explain to Alpha Jonas.

think Alpha Jonas has

ea said you stole her diamond necklace. If you don't want to b

rn something

uard shoved

and nearly fell to he

ly. "She said the necklace must have fallen into t

d at him in

blue beneath the lights. The night wind moved across th

h the pool?" Her voic

heard

d already. I can bar

a cruel smile. "Then you'd better

r chest. "This is insane. There are cameras

guard pu

s she fell backw

swallowed h

bbles, and the burning pressure of water closing over her head. Her soaked uniform dragged her dow

broke through, she suc

of the pool, looking down a

one of the

iss Berea will report you for theft. With your father's debt reco

s hear

pri

as not just a cell. That was a

moving, dresses spinning, glasses raised in celebration. Somewhere inside, Jonas was smiling for h

ld water, searching for a nec

n her mind, her teeth chat

too cold, and there are too many scents from the garden. Bu

ng breath and forc

seized

Her fingers brushed along the tiled bottom, searching between shadows and drain covers while

ms gre

started

th the freezing water, and every breath f

she s

she had

f, the guards would drag her to prison, and Jonas

s finally brushed against somethin

rabbe

klace shimmer

Berea had know

e had no air left to feel either properly. She kicked t

ter again, she was shaking so

holding up the necklace. "I

exchanged

d down and snatche

rembled as she tried to pull herself up, but her soaked unifo

guard he

ingers slipping ag

lf her face, and water streamed from her sleeves onto th

e air c

ught it was the col

h and intoxicating, cutting through th

a fr

ulse

wrapping around her senses until the worl

eya whisper

th a force that nearly t

at

t Freya lik

o

was imp

for Jonas. She had built her last fragile

cent was n

ore dangerous, and far too power

suddenly st

hanged from b

ted her h

e entrance, tall and impo

ny hair caught the silver light, and his cold, piercing eyes swept across the terrace with

astatingly

nothing gent

the controlled stillness of his body. A dangerous, oppressive aur

mediately bow

voice shaking. "This Omega was caugh

did not lo

was fixed

ut her strength failed. Her fingers slipped from the

second, the

saw him. Strong arms reached down and lifte

er soaked body, and s

llapse, he pulled h

unded her

up close. Freya's body went weak in his arms, not only from

er head with

wet hair, trembling lips, and the re

debt collar half-hidden ben

nd terrifying fl

moved, but no

is voice low, rough, and f

d this

mbled in

not know

would give her to a stranger who loo

locked onto hers, and the word left hi

at