"Why does this boy have my eyes?" Five years ago, Clara Hayes was just a desperate waitress trying to pay her mother’s medical bills. But a mistaken room key and a velvet masquerade mask led her into the dark penthouse suite of Julian Vance the notoriously cold, ruthless billionaire tyrant of Wall Street. Terrified by the monster she had surrendered to, Clara fled before dawn, leaving nothing behind but a cheap silver locket. Weeks later, Clara discovers she is carrying his twins. But before she can tell him, Julian's venomous fiancée intercepts her, threatening Clara's life and forcing her to run away and hide her pregnancy from the world. Five years later, Clara has built a quiet, safe life as a single mother to her fiercely intelligent twins, Leo and Lily. But her sanctuary is shattered when the Vance Empire buys her workplace in a hostile takeover. Julian doesn't recognize the unmasked woman standing in the lobby. But when a four-year-old boy with his exact molten silver eyes and dark, brooding scowl walks into the room, the ruthless billionaire's world stops turning. Julian was robbed of five years of his children's lives, and now, he will burn the city to the ground to claim what is his. But he doesn't just want his heirs. He wants the woman who hid them. “You hid my flesh and blood from me, Clara. Did you really think I wouldn't find out?” Julian whispered, his massive frame backing her against the locked door of the penthouse. His silver eyes burned with a dark, terrifying possessiveness. “I am taking my children home. And you are coming with us. Because if you try to run from me again... I will chain you to my bed.” Tags/Tropes: Secret Twins, One-Night Stand, Boss & Employee, Billionaire, Second Chance, Misunderstanding, Ruthless Alpha, Groveling, Touch-Her-And-Die, Fake Marriage/Contract.

"You are nothing but a medical asset. A blood-bag. Do not confuse a biological glitch with a soul," he snarled, his metallic fingers cold against my throat."Then why is your human heart beating so fast, Alpha?" I whispered back.For three centuries, the Lycan race has survived by trading their souls for steel. Under the glow of a fake, holographic moon, they shift using cybernetics and heavy machinery. They don't have mates. They have algorithms. They don’t feel love. They process data.I am Elara. A "Fleshy." Born in the toxic, neon-lit Slag Wastes without a single mechanical upgrade, I’m considered a broken, human-adjacent runt. I’ve never shifted. I’ve never heard the call of the moon. I just keep my head down and dig through the trash to survive.Until the Apex Enforcers hunt me down and drag me to the glittering penthouse of the most ruthless Alpha alive.Kaelen is the Alpha-Prime. Half-machine, terrifyingly gorgeous, and the billionaire CEO who owns the sky. He is also hiding a fatal secret: he is dying of "Cyber-Blight." His mechanical implants are rotting his remaining flesh, and my pure, organic blood is his only cure. He planned to lock me in a glass cage, drain my blood, and toss me aside.But Kaelen's multi-billion-dollar algorithms failed to predict one tiny, impossible detail. The moment our eyes met, his internal systems violently crashed.Mate.Now, the only way to keep the Alpha alive is to keep him tethered to me. He hates his weakness, and I hate him for kidnapping me. But as Kaelen's machines fail one by one, the ancient, organic wolf trapped beneath his titanium shell is waking up and it is violently, uncontrollably obsessed with claiming and protecting me.Forced into hiding in the perilous under-city, we have to rely on each other to survive. His synthetic fiancée wants me dead. The Board of Directors wants me harvested. And an army of cyborgs is hunting us in the dark.They all think I am just a weak, Fleshy slum-rat. But they are about to find out that my dormant blood doesn't just hold the cure to a virus. It holds the DNA of a forgotten Moon Goddess.He wanted a lab rat. He accidentally woke a Queen.Why you should read this book:If you are tired of the same old "forest pack" werewolf stories, welcome to the future! This is a high-stakes, adrenaline-fueled paranormal romance packed with intense action, a totally unique sci-fi world, and a slow-burn romance that will leave you breathless.Themes & Tropes included:🐺 Fated Mates: An undeniable soul-deep bond!🦾 Cyberpunk Shifters: A completely fresh take on the werewolf genre.🔥 Forced Proximity: Tethered together to survive.👑 Alpha Billionaire: Ruthless, cold, but melts only for her.📈 Weak-to-Strong FL: Watch Elara go from a street scavenger to a powerful organic Dire-wolf!🖤 Enemies to Lovers: From captive and captor to fiercely loyal mates.⚔️ "Touch Her & You Die": Massive possessive Alpha energy.🌶️ Slow-Burn to High Heat: 18+ mature romance!