My Alpha's Prank Made Me His Stepbrother's Mate

LovelyPert Paranormal

Ravena Nightwolf has loved Zayden Darkfang since they were pups running wild through the Blackthorn woods. When his mother died and his father remarried a scheming she-wolf named Selene Voss, Ravena watched Zayden grow colder, guarded, obsessed with proving he alone deserved the Alpha title his stepbrother's mother coveted for her own son, Axton Voss. Still, through college and pack trials, Ravena never doubted that she and Zayden were fated not until the night of their bonding ceremony.What should have been the happiest night of Ravena's life becomes her nightmare. Egged on by a bet he never meant to lose, Zayden swaps places with Axton in the dark of the ceremonial grove, a cruel prank meant to humiliate his stepbrother. But the Moon Goddess does not make mistakes for fun. The bond that seals itself under moonlight binds Ravena not to Zayden, but to Axton, the stepbrother he has despised since childhood.Fury erupts. Zayden refuses to accept a bond he never intended to give away, and Axton, who has spent years being overlooked, underestimated, and quietly in love with a girl he was never allowed to want refuses to hand her back. Ravena is caught between two wolves who would burn the pack lands down before surrendering her, while Selene Voss watches from the shadows, delighted that her son now has a legitimate claim to the Alpha bloodline through the mate bond itself.As pack law is dragged into the chaos, a mate bond, once sealed, cannot be broken without death or forfeiture of rank. Ravena starts piecing together fragments of the past that neither brother wants her to see. Old journals hint that Zayden's mother did not die of illness, as everyone was told, but was poisoned and that Selene knew, long before she ever married into the family. Worse, Ravena uncovers proof that Axton is not Selene's biological son at all, but the child of Zayden's father from an affair Selene has spent two decades concealing to secure her own position, meaning Axton's blood claim to the Alpha title is stronger than anyone imagined, prank or no prank.The revelation flips the war on its head. Zayden realizes the brother he hated was as much a pawn as Ravena was. Axton, faced with the truth of his birth, must decide whether to seize the power now legally his, or walk away from a legacy built on his mother's lies. And Ravena, mated by accident to one brother while her heart still aches for the other, discovers the goddess's bond may not have been a mistake at all, it may be the only thing standing between the pack and the war Selene has been engineering for twenty years.With enemies closing in from a rival pack sensing weakness in the divided Darkfang line, Ravena, Zayden, and Axton must choose: keep tearing each other apart over a prank turned permanent, or unite against the woman who orchestrated their heartbreak from the very beginning even if it means redefining what mate, brother, and Alpha truly mean.A tale of rivalry, forbidden longing, and a bond neither brother can undo, where the real enemy was never each other.

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