Flash Marriage to the Dangerous Secret Alpha

I was born into a powerful werewolf family, but because my inner wolf never surfaced, my mother treated me like a defective product to be sold off.

When I threw an iced coffee at an arrogant Alpha who demanded I close my beloved coffee shop to become his subservient Luna, my mother finally snapped.

She gave me a terrifying ultimatum: bring home a fiancé by the weekend, or she would forcibly marry me off to a fifty-year-old abusive drunk.

Desperate to protect my life's work and my freedom, I turned to Derrick, a seemingly poor construction worker and forgotten high school acquaintance.

I proposed a fake engagement to get my family off my back.

"There is another option. We get married," he said calmly.

He insisted a real marriage certificate was the only foolproof way to sever my mother's control.

I thought I was making a pragmatic business deal with a harmless, working-class guy who just needed a place to stay.

But when my cheating ex-boyfriend showed up at my shop to harass me, Derrick didn't just step in to defend me.

He caught my ex's wrist and snapped the bones like dry twigs, radiating a terrifying, primal power that brought the entire room to a dead silence.

"Get. Out."

Looking at the ruthless predator standing protectively in front of me, I realized my new husband wasn't a nobody at all.

I hadn't just escaped my family's cage; I had legally bound myself to the most dangerous monster of them all.