THE COST OF WANTING HIM
READING AGE 16+
Nadia Vasile has spent eleven months as the personal assistant to Caius Dren, Alpha of Harrow Pack, and eleven months learning the precise geography of a man who has made an art form of keeping everyone at arm's length. She is human. He is not. She is professional. What she feels is not.When a rival Alpha's long-running intelligence operation surfaces and names her as a target, Nadia is moved inside the main house for her own protection. And the careful architecture of distance Caius has maintained since losing his mate fifteen years ago begins, finally, to crack.But Senn isn't running a territorial dispute. He's running a legal case and its central argument is that Caius Dren's compromised judgment is written all over his face every time he looks at his assistant.To survive the Tribunal, they'll have to stop hiding what they are to each other. The question is whether either of them can afford what that costs.
Unfold
There was a specific kind of loneliness that came from being the most competent person in a room.
Nadia had lived with it long enough that she'd stopped noticing the shape of it, the way you stopped noticing a scar once it finished healing. She was good at her work, had always been good at her work, and good work had a way of becoming its ……
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