I Escaped the Alpha Who Thought He Owned Me

“I’ve accepted the proposal to wed Alpha Thoren Dravenwood,” I told my father, my voice steady despite the tremor beneath it. “Since your precious illegitimate daughter can’t stomach the thought of being bound to a cursed man, I’ll take her place.”

He inhaled sharply, his jaw tightening, but I saw the moment his resistance cracked. His shoulders eased, his expression softened, and he gave a single approving nod.

Of course he did. He’d never refused Elowen anything.

My mother had withered away long ago, her heart splintered when she learned my father had another family—a secret he’d buried…