Blood and Power
She never bows to anyone. He’s the alpha for a reason. Unstoppable force meets immovable object.
Guin
I raised my siblings without any help from my overbearing father. When he died, I buried him without shedding a tear. I run a company worth more than some countries, and I have never needed anyone to save me. Ever.
So Kodiak can shove his protection and his opinions about what’s best for me.
He’s the alpha, but I don’t belong to anyone.
I decided that a long time ago. Which does not explain why I run hot every time he says my name like it’s an order.
Or why I keep storming into his office when I could send an email.
Then I find out what’s been hunting my bloodline for twenty years and what it needs to finish the job. And the only thing standing between me and the sins of my parents is six and a half feet of alpha who has never asked permission for anything in his life.
Kodiak
I carry the weight of a hundred lives in my blood. Every oath. Every heartbeat. Every debt. I stopped wanting things for myself the day they put the President’s patch on my cut.
Then Guin Vanderbilt walks into my office in heels that cost more than my bike and tells me exactly what she thinks of my authority.
She’s the only person alive who talks to me like that.
My wolf has been quiet about her for a long time.
Now he won’t shut up, and neither will the part of me that wants to put her over my desk and find out how fast the ice queen melts.
But a Bastard who deserted the pack twenty years ago is back on our territory with a vendetta older than either of us, and he knows what she is. I’ll have to make a choice: claim the only person I’ve let myself want for over a decade or put the pack first and lose her.
In Montana, power isn’t given. It’s bled for and paid back with interest. She won’t kneel. He won’t ask. Something older than both of them is counting on it.