Omega's Secret: The Cruel Alpha King's Hidden Luna

SLAP!

The sound exploded through the grand hall like a rifle shot.

Juliet staggered backward as Alpha Walton's palm cracked against her cheek with brutal force, the impact snapping her head to the side. For a moment that stretched like eternity, she saw nothing but blazing white. The polished marble floor rushed up to meet her vision, slick and cold, as her knees threatened to give out completely.

She barely managed to keep herself upright.

Blood flooded her mouth, thick and copper-bitter. She swallowed it down instinctively, terrified that if she opened her lips, she might let slip a sound-one that would give him satisfaction.

Agony spread across her face like wildfire.

But she did not cry.

She never cried.

"Where the fuck is Sofia?" Alpha Walton bellowed like a rabid animal.

His golden eyes burned with unhinged fury. "Answer me, Juliet!"

She couldn't stop herself from flinching. Inside her chest, her wolf Rosie curled into herself, trembling. A broken whimper echoed through Juliet's very soul, the sound of a creature too shattered to fight back.

Today was supposed to be a celebration.

The grand union.

The day Frostfang Pack would finally secure its survival by offering Sofia Walton as mate to the most dangerous Alpha in North America-Kaius Blair of the Blackwood Pack.

Everyone knew his name.

Everyone trembled at the mention of it.

Alpha Blair had built his empire not on diplomacy, but on blood and terror. Ruthless. Strategic. Absolutely untouchable. A man who ruled both corporate empires and werewolf territories with equal precision.

The rumors alone were enough to make grown werewolves break out in cold sweats.

They said his bloodline was so overwhelmingly dominant that it literally drained weaker wolves to death. That females who were not his true mate often withered away... or died screaming.

And by all accounts, he still hadn't found his fated mate.

But pack succession depended on bloodlines. He had chosen Sofia as his breeding stock-as an Alpha's daughter, she possessed the genetic strength to survive his brutal mating and bear him powerful heirs.

He had paid a king's ransom for a surrogate wife. But now, Sofia Walton had vanished into thin air. Right under the Frostfang Pack's supposedly watchful eyes.

"I...I don't know where she is," Juliet said quietly, dropping her gaze in the submissive posture an Omega was expected to maintain. Her voice shook despite her desperate attempt to steady it. "I haven't seen Sofia since yesterday."

Behind Alpha Walton, the guards looked like they wanted to disappear into the walls.

One of them stepped forward reluctantly, clearing his throat. "Alpha... according to our tracking teams, Sofia left the territory last night. She was with Jasper Reed. Their scent trail leads straight to the eastern border."

The name hit Juliet like a silver bullet to the heart.

Jasper.

Her breath caught in her throat.

Her destined mate.

The warrior who once whispered forever into her hair when no one was watching. The only person who had ever looked at