"You want to become my breeder?” the Alpha King growled, his dark eyes burning with hatred. “After murdering my wife and unborn child, you dare to offer to carry my heir?” “I didn't kill her!” I cried desperately. “But if becoming your breeder is the only way to save my life, then I'll do it!” •••••••••• On her twenty-second birthday, Victoria Timothy's world shattered. The man she loved betrayed her with her younger half-sister and rejected their sacred mate bond. Before she could even recover from the heartbreak, she found herself accused of murdering the Alpha King's pregnant wife. With blood on her hands, a false witness testifying against her, and her own father demanding her execution, Victoria had only one desperate chance to survive: become the ruthless Alpha King's breeder and give him the heir he had lost. Their arrangement was never supposed to involve love, tenderness, or promises. It was simply the price of her survival. But hatred slowly turned into something neither of them expected. The same King who once wanted her dead found himself falling desperately in love with her, chasing after the very woman he had sworn never to love. However, the royal bloodline held a deadly secret, and becoming the Alpha King's breeder was far more dangerous than Victoria had ever imagined, because every woman who carried the Alpha King's heir seemed destined for tragedy. Then a mysterious incident changed everything, robbing the King of his memories of her. He remembered everyone else, including his dead wife, but the woman he had once hated and desperately pursued had become a complete stranger. When fate brought them together again, Victoria returned as his brother's pregnant fiancée. Despite having no memory of their past, the ruthless Alpha King found himself irresistibly drawn to her, unaware that she was hiding a secret capable of turning his entire world upside down. And when the King finally regained his memories, he wanted nothing more than to reclaim the woman he had lost. But Victoria had not forgotten the hatred, humiliation, and suffering he had put her through. Once, she had begged him to believe she was innocent, offering to carry his heir just to escape death. This time, the ruthless Alpha King would have to prove that he deserved a place in her life. WARNING: 18+ This book contains graphic depictions of sexual assault and other disturbing themes. The author does not support or condone any form of sexual violence or abuse. Reader discretion is advised.

“But I’m your mate…” she choked out, fighting back her tears. He groaned and looked away. “I know, but I don’t fuck little girls.” “I’m not a little girl! I’m eighteen, for goodness’ sake!” she yelled before storming out. •••••••••••••••• She was eighteen, and he was thirty-one. Fate had chosen them as mates, but he couldn't stop seeing her as the girl he had watched grow up and promised her father he would protect. Unable to accept their thirteen-year age difference or the feelings the mate bond awakened in him, he pushed her away and surrounded himself with other women. But one drunken night changed everything, and when he woke the next morning, she was gone. Five years later, she returned. Only she was no longer the heartbroken girl who had begged him to accept her. She was now a strong, independent woman who wanted nothing from the Alpha who had rejected her. And she wasn't alone. She had a son—a little boy who looked unmistakably like him. Now he wants his mate and the son he never knew existed, but she hasn't forgotten the pain he caused her. Five years ago, she begged him to choose her. This time, he will have to convince her to choose him.