The Alpha and the Surrogate

Emma M. Bootle. Writings🍀 1 story

Summary

She thought she was just carrying a child. She didn’t know she was carrying a secret worth killing for. She took the job to make amends… not to change her life. One mistake had cost Joel everything—her closest friend and her little girl who felt like her own, the self-worth she’d been holding together with quiet lies. Becoming a surrogate for a caring doctor was supposed to be her chance at being a blessing for once. But the man tied to this child’s bloodline—her brother, the pack’s future Alpha—is nothing like she expected… nor is the world they comes from. She doesn’t know its laws, its dangers, or that the child she’s carrying is bound to it in ways she never imagined. Raised to trust no one outside his walls, least of all humans, the Alpha-to-be has little patience for outsiders. Yet something in Joel defies his rules… and pulls at the cracks in his carefully built armor. But when a string of anonymous attacks begins to stir old wounds and hidden secrets, Joel finds herself caught in the crossfire. In a place where trust can be a weapon, the truths they hold could bind them forever—or destroy them both.