Alpha King’s Rejected Breeder Mate and Her Secret

He was supposed to use me. I was supposed to leave.
Neither of us expected to fall.
I thought being sold to the king was the worst thing that could happen to me.
I was wrong.
The worst thing was falling for him—a cold, broken Alpha who’d locked his heart away after losing everything. Who looked at me like I was salvation and damnation wrapped in one impossible package. Who made me promises neither of us could keep.
Ethan Blackthorn needed an heir. That’s all. A simple arrangement—I’d give him a child, he’d give me freedom and enough gold to save my dying mother and desperate brother.
Clean. Transactional. No feelings involved.
Except nothing about us stayed clean.
He kissed me like I was oxygen. Protected me like I was precious. Loved me so fiercely it started breaking us both. His fear became control. His love became cage. And I had to choose between the man I loved and the woman I was becoming.
So I ran.
Pregnant. Alone. Terrified he’d follow.
Even more terrified he wouldn’t.
But running from the king just threw me into the arms of his enemy—a rogue Alpha building an army in the shadows. A man who sees me as the perfect weapon against everything Ethan represents. A man who might be right about how broken the system really is.
Now I’m caught between two men. Two futures. Two different kinds of destruction.
The king who’d burn his kingdom for me but doesn’t know how to love without suffocating.
And the rebel who promises freedom but wants to use my pain to start a war.
I’m seven months pregnant with the heir to a throne I’m not sure deserves saving.
My heart is split between a love that almost destroyed me and a cause that might be worth dying for.
And somewhere in the middle of political plots and ancient pack laws and a system designed to crush women like me—
I have to figure out if love can actually change anything.
Or if some things are just too broken to fix.