Mated to My Captor's Half-Brother

"Those need polishing. Kit's in the bottom drawer." Heat flooded my face. "Julian, please—" "That's *Alpha* to you." His voice was cold. "I'm waiting." I knelt, hands shaking. The office floor was cold through my suit. "Started believing your own press? Those Forbes interviews made you feel important?" He sipped his drink, watching me work the cloth over his shoes. I kept my head down. "Look at me." I met his eyes. "This is what you are. Not a CEO. Just a plaything on her knees" He smiled coldly. "I understand." "Good girl. Next time you feel proud—" He tapped his shoe. "Remember this." _ Briar Vance, a pharmaceutical botany prodigy, becomes a "debt hostage" to Alpha heir Julian Sterling and is humiliated as a servant at his engagement party. In defiance, she storms into a bar and meets the mysterious owner Lucian Kincaid—secretly a biotech magnate with ties to the Sterling family. Impulsively, she asks him to pose as her lover for revenge. Their "pretense" spirals into reality as Lucian helps Briar defend Vance Botanicals against Sterling Corp's suppression. The truth emerges: Sterling Corp illegally extracts Moonborn blood for black market trade. When Briar's Moonborn bloodline awakens and Lucian's Alpha instincts explode, their pheromone resonance reveals a shocking truth—they are fated mates. After the Wolf Council's intervention, Dominic is imprisoned for illegal trafficking, and Julian is stripped of his Alpha inheritance. Lucian becomes the new Alpha, ruling Shadowmoor pack with his Luna, Briar. A supernatural romance of werewolf destiny, power, and chosen love.