Big Bad Bully

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>THE BIG BAD BULLY DOESN'T FALL FOR HIS PREY</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> Even if she smells like nutmeg honey and sin.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> Even if her chaos and color drips into your black-and-white discipline-and leaves it bleeding.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>I was raised in a pack that worshipped bloodlines and power.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Humans were beneath us-soft fragile fleeting things.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Fine for entertainment. Never for mating.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Especially not for </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>me</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> heir to one of the most ruthless alphas in the world.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>So when my new alpha chooses a human bride I grit my teeth and obey.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>I'll plan the wedding. I'll tolerate their ridiculous customs.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>But I won't fall for her best friend-the passionate paint-splattered activist who thinks I'm the villain in her revolution.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>She calls me arrogant. Predatory. A corporate machine in designer suits.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>She's not wrong.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>And yet she's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>always</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> in my space. In my mind. Under my skin.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>She stirs instincts I've fought to bury-possessive primal ruinous ones.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>She thinks I'm the enemy.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>But I'm not the danger in this story.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>She is.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Because if I take what I want-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>If I claim her the way my wolf demands-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>I'll break every rule I was raised to uphold.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>And I won't be sorry.</span></p>