When Jasmine’s fated mate Elliot rejects her for the Lycan Chairman’s daughter, she is left broken, humiliated and alone. To make matters worse, her father gets arrested for embezzlement, and Jasmine needs to raise ten million to release him.

Desperate to save her father from a wrongful conviction, Jasmine takes the only job she can find—tutoring the bratty daughter of a rich werewolf family. 

But she never expected her employer to be the Lycan chairman himself: Gareth Laken. He is ruthless, dominant… and her ex-mate’s future father-in-law. 

Gareth thinks she’s a threat. A bitter ex-girlfriend out for revenge, waiting to harm his own daughter. But the more he watches her, the more he sees a woman refusing to be shattered by the world that betrayed her. A woman he can’t stop wanting, despite the huge age difference.

Now, Jasmine is caught between two powerful men—one who destroyed her, and one who might destroy everything she has left to protect.



Excerpt

“You’re playing a dangerous game,” Gareth said, voice low, his towering frame just inches from mine.

“I didn’t come here to play,” I shot back, even as my heart pounded. “But you should be asking Elliot why he keeps showing up at my door. I’m not the one chasing ghosts.”

His eyes darkened, his gaze dropping to my lips. “He’s not the only one haunted by you.”

I froze.

I should have walked away.

Instead, I whispered, “Then why do you look at me like you want to hate me and kiss me at the same time?”

He didn’t answer.

But his silence spoke louder than any lie.

Everyone in the room paused as we waited for the wolfsbane to enter my system and make me pass out. 


But the encompassing darkness never came. 


I stared up in shock at the rogue who was holding the needle. He hadn't given me wolfsbane like Isabella, or else I’d already be unconscious. 


I assessed my body as all the rogues leered at my breasts. I tried to tune out their disgusting behavior and focus on what I was feeling. 


Despite the freezing cold ground beneath my naked flesh, my body began to warm, reminding me of the time that I had a dangerously high fever. Did they inject me with some kind of poison to make me sick? 


But there was an ache deep in my stomach. I felt like a balloon just waiting to be popped. Why was I so…needy? I wanted someone to trail their hands teasingly down every inch of my body. I needed a pair of soft yet strong lips on mine and to have the taste of a man on my tongue. 


Chapter 83 - Chapter 83: Poison