The Alpha King’s Slave Bride

Thomas drugged Haiyi on the night of a full moon and left her at a castle far from pack territory, where rogues could find her and force a pregnancy on her. The Council had been threatening him with exile over the years she had not conceived, and he had been beating her over it since they were married, when she was eighteen. She was an orphan and an Omega with nowhere else to go. The castle was not empty. Gareth, the Wolf King, had been living in it because wolfsbane poisoning turned him feral at every full moon, and he was in that state when she arrived. He caught the pheromones of her heat and claimed her, and what came of it was a mate bond that could not be undone. He tracked her scent afterward, carried out pack justice on Thomas, and installed her in the castle as his personal maid. Haiyi put terms to him: she would keep his secret and settle him when he turned, he would keep her from harm, and nothing physical would happen that she had not agreed to. The arrangement held. Each full moon she brought him back out of the state the poison put him in, and what was between them stopped matching the terms they had set. The other maids resented her, and Cecilia, the noblewoman he was engaged to, worked against her.