Oby Jennyfer

I wasn’t supposed to be there that night. I wasn’t supposed to feel anything. Right from the back of that crowded courtyard, something inside the most powerful man on campus cracked open. He has never lost control in a day in his life, until the night of the bond ceremony. And I felt all of it. The rage, the grief, the loneliness he had kept locked away for so long. By morning, he tracks down whoever felt his fracture, he expects a threat. But, he finds me instead; Nora Vane, a human scholarship student who can’t explain why she felt a werewolf’s emotional collapse from across a crowded courtyard. He should eliminate the problem. Instead, he does something that shocks the entire supernatural world. He claimed me in front of everyone, he took my hand and told the full room that I belonged to him. He told me it was just politics, protection, and it's temporary. Caden Wolfe Heir to the strongest werewolf bloodline in the supernatural world. Cold and always in control. The real problem is I can feel what he actually feels. Not guesses, not hints. Every wall he builds, I sense what is behind it, and what is hiding there is nothing like the man he shows the world. The council wants me gone. There is an old law written to make sure someone like me never exists. The danger could not be greater. But what truly scares me is not the council. It is him. Some bonds do not ask for permission. This one never did.

I had just one assignment. Go in. Find out the truth, document it, and leave. I wasn't meant to be emotionally attached, or stay more than a year. Neither was I supposed to care about his hidden charm personality he kept away from the public. I was not meant to fall in love with the man I came to destroy. In a room crowded with people, Adrian Tao pointed at me in front of everyone who had never bothered to know my name, and said “her,” and the plan I had been working on for three years cracked right down the middle. He thought he had chosen the safest choice. The calm secretary, the woman who isn't demanding, emotionally and materially. He has no idea who he's dealing with. And the longer I stay, the more terrified I am of what happens the day he finds out. Because I know secrets about his family that could bring down their empire. I know things about him that I was never meant to discover. And I know that when the truth is eventually revealed, he will stare at me the same way he did this morning over coffee, like I am truly the first thing that has ever happened to him in years. But by then, it won't matter anymore, everything will already be ruined. Some secrets keep you safe, some destroy you. And some you carry for a long time and they stop feeling like lies, you begin to feel they are the only true thing you have left.

I gave my husband five years of my life, and he never once looked at me like I mattered. I wasn’t stupid. I knew about the other woman. Everyone did. But I kept telling myself that being patient was the same thing as being loved. Then one night I stopped telling myself that lie. I didn’t yell. I didn’t cry in front of him. I simply put my ring on his desk and asked for a divorce. He signed the papers so quickly it felt like he had been waiting for me to say it first. So I left. I took almost nothing. I started over with nothing but a laptop and a stubborn decision not to disappear quietly. Turns out I’m good at this. Really good. Six months later, I walk into the biggest business event of the year. The entire room goes silent. I am the person who just bought a share of his family’s company. And I am standing next to the one man he truly hates. He looks at me as if he is seeing me for the very first time. Too bad, he already had five years. Now he won’t stop showing up. He won’t stop trying. And he won’t stop looking at me like he made the worst mistake of his life… because he did. The problem is, there is another man now. A man who never made me feel invisible. A man who actually wants to know me. For the first time in my life, I get to choose. Not who gets to keep me, but who I truly want. He is about to discover that the wife he let go, no longer needs him. But, the real question is whether that truth is finally what makes him worth wanting back.

At twenty one Ellie eloped with her college sweetheart Luca King in a cheap Vegas chapel. They ate gas station tacos and promised forever. Then the NHL draft happened. Luca became a superstar and slowly forgot the girl waiting at home. He never cheated. He just stopped choosing her. Missed dinners, postponed dreams, and years of feeling invisible. Ellie finally walked away and built her own life. Her athleisure brand Second Wind is taking off. She is strong, independent, and engaged to a good man who actually shows up. Now Luca is injured and stuck watching from the sidelines for the first time. When he sees her engagement photos everything hits him at once. The woman he threw away is gone and he cannot get her back so easily. This is not about one big betrayal. It is about all the small ways he let their love die. Can a man who had everything learn what it really means to choose someone every single day? And can Ellie risk her heart on the same guy who broke it before? A raw, emotional second chance story about fame, regret, and fighting for the one person who mattered most.