Isabella’s POV
A few days had blurred since the midnight bargain.
The contract was sealed with blood and oaths.
I was now Isabella Frostbane in name only, wife to Lucan Frostbane, Alpha of PeakPoint Pack. The ceremony had been swift and private, performed to silence any questions about why the powerful Alpha kept the human healer so close. To the pack we were the perfect union. In truth, we were enemies bound by necessity and silver poison.
We shared a chamber. One bed, one room, and one lie neither of us could outrun.
I told myself I hated it. That every moment near Lucan Frostbane reminded me of the blood my people had lost. Yet my body remembered the heat of his skin that first night. The thick weight of his manhood against my fingers. The way my core had clenched with shameful w
