The Substitute Bride Who Stole the Alpha's Cold Heart

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ammed open, rattl

clair, my adoptive parents, swept in. Their faces plastered with smiles so fake the

straw I'd found near the window, and

e dripping with honey that couldn't hide t

asp at empty air. The smile on her face tightened

way he did when he was about to say something important

li

"we sometimes have to make sa

y mouth and flicked it

I said, my voice flat

sed to being spoken to this way, especially not by me, the stray they'

Cassandra took over, her pract

bbing at her dry eyes with a silk handkerc

rrified of her fate. Lilith was supposed to be mated to Alpha Brandon Ewing

a wailed. "She can't marry that..

ker of something dark and amused curled m

her voice rising with manufactured hysteria. "You're her older sis

beam of light slicing through the grimy window. I brushed off my worn t

dangerously soft. "Le

ting them han

on the edge of your territory, to take the p

like a physical blow. His

he snarled. "This is

s of contempt. I stood and walked to the window, my back to them. Below, the manicure

y when I was treated like a servant in this house? Where was it when Lilit

ale. She had no answer.

glint of steel in my eyes. The lazy, sullen girl w

o it,"

their faces. They t

ave a co

ecting me to ask for a new dress or a new

lars," I said, my v

mouth hanging o

cash. Transferred to an account of my choosing. Consider it b

shattering into pure rage. "You're i

lpha means I could be dead by next week. Twenty million to bu

hing the cost of the money against the cost of a broken all

: promise the money, then t

g to a low warning. "The money has to be in the account before I ta

d lay down, closing my eye

new expression. He clench

deep, sh

ground out.

a cold, triumphant lig