Vanished Three Years, I Own My Ex’s World

The Northern Pack has one rule it does not break: the Alpha heir may never take a human girl as his mate. Kieran Wolfe, the Alpha, forms a mate bond with Elise anyway, and Elise is human. He defies the Elders' Council over it, takes 99 lashes, and is made to kneel at the altar for three days and three nights. Blood is coming through his shirt when he smiles at her and says, "Elise, don't be afraid. I only want you." The Council gives way in the end and agrees to let Kieran leave with her, on one condition. He has to leave a pure-blood heir behind for the Pack. After that the word Elise hears from him most is "wait". The first time, he asks her to wait while he finds a she-wolf to carry his pup, and he sleeps with Cecilia Donati 33 times before she is pregnant. The pup is a girl and the Elders want a male, so he asks Elise to wait again and sleeps with Cecilia another 99 times until she is pregnant a second time. Elise puts up with a great deal of humiliation while she waits. When she thinks the worst is behind them, Kieran's daughter by Cecilia eats wolfsbane by mistake at the party held to present her. Everyone is sure Elise poisoned the girl. Kieran tells her he had told her to wait, that she knows what wolfsbane means to their kind, and asks her why she hurt his child. By the time he finishes, Elise's nails have gone into her palms, and when she opens her hands she has made up her mind that she will not wait for him again.