Claimed by the Alpha CEO

as not a man

in discipline. Every movement, every breath, every gaze was calculated

e kind that ran deep, like a stil

red the moment she walk

Vale moved like a whisper, like someone trying to blend into walls and shadow

hazel eyes that flicked across the room, never landing on him for more than a second. She wore a soft, ribbed navy

. Not the kind of raw, biting instinct that came with a destined mate. No... this w

reading. His desk lamp cast a warm glow across the rich mahogany shelves behind him, lined wi

he could see

o ordinar

t dozens of students - talented, bright, ambitious ones. But none of them had e

sessive. Not how he would be with a mate. Just... aler

we

p

be

nting the fog in yellow streaks. His shirt sleeves were rolled up, revealing the tight band of muscle around his forearms, veins faintly

his eyes f

floral, clean, but with a trace of something wild under

s wasn'

, it wasn't

d inside her. Something s

ing an

cendants who'd grown up human, never knowing the monster that lay beneath th

rora might b

angerous that he couldn't

he reminded himself

hen she'd finally answered his question in class. The way her vo

o idea wh

oing to find

did... she'd

t want to be

knew - he would be, wh