Moonlit Debt

I had one hand pressed to the bleeding stranger’s chest when his eyes snapped open—gold beneath the moonlight. “You smell like my dead mate,” he growled, then rejected me as his fated mate. Darius Cain is Chicago’s untouchable Alpha, a widower who swore he would never bond again. But when loan sharks come for the twenty thousand dollars I owe, he offers me a deal: pretend to be his mate for six months, and he’ll erase my debt. Every full moon, his wolf fights to mark me—and every time he touches me, I forget he’s the man who refused me. Then I start dreaming of a woman with my face dying in flames, and Darius’s enemies begin hunting me for a bloodline I never knew I carried. Will I trust the Alpha who rejected me—or uncover the truth before his dead mate’s killer claims me too?