Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

I wanted to kiss Kasmine until he forgot her name. I wanted to piner against every surface of my room and make her feel how much I adored her fire. I wanted to praise her with teeth and bruises with my mouth on every inch of her.

I sat back on my chair, panting quietly like a fucking madman with hard-on for her.

That was my Luna. The only Luna I needed by my side.

Not that pushover - June.

With the way Kasmine handled her, I didn't need to run back home anymore. She handled her perfectly well. All I had to do was call my guards because I didn't understand why she was fully dressed and ready to leave the house.

I didn't know where she was going, but she wasn't stepping outside my walls.

I pulled out my phone and dialed Jair, the head of my guards, immediately.

"Kasmine must not step a toe outside my walls."

"Yes, Alpha."

"If she so much as opens the front door, I want a goddamn siren blaring. You hear me?"

"Yes, Alpha."

I ended the call and stared down at the ink-stained half of the pen still in my hand.

I stalked to the edge of the office now and unlocked the hidden panel behind my bookshelf. The reinforced safe hissed open at my fingerprint, revealing a smaller monitor tucked inside. I tapped in my override codes, and the interface blinked to life.

The Black Ledger.

It had three vaults.

Each one encrypted with Norlan's most unforgiving codework. It wasn't just password protected-it was smartly protected. The kind of system that learned intruders and struck back. Anyone trying to access it without the proper map would trigger layered defenses -some digital, some... less digital.

Whoever this mole was, they had balls. Or stupidity.

And they got really far.

But they hadn't cracked it.

The logs were clear: the attack came in through my office terminal... when I wasn't in the damn building. The firewall blared the second the unauthorized keystrokes hit, and Norlan's protocol kicked in, locking the Ledger tighter than a tomb.

My fingers moved over the access records. The script was clean and smart. But not Norlan-smart.

Still... the hacker had hovered near the encryption kernel. They'd been trying to get into Vault II.

Insurance.

The section that could collapse the entire pack alliance network if it ever saw daylight. Dirt on allies and enemies alike. Photos. Financial blackmail trails. Personal weaknesses. And deeper in that ult... the file I'd buried with enough caution to make even

Norlan raise a brow.

Nagel Vale.

I saw the name pinged in the logs, and my blood turned cold.

No one was supposed to know what happened to Nagel Vale.

If the truth about Nagel ever came out... it wouldn't just break alliances. It would burn entire legacies. Mine included.

I let out a long breath, trying to steady my nerves. If someone was digging in that part of the Ledger, they weren't just fishing. They knew what they were looking for.

And worse... they were willing to risk everything to find it.

I pushed the safe shut with a thunk, leaned against the cold steel, palms flat, and head bowed.

A traiter inside the walls...

One who knew just enough to aim for the throat.noveldrama

I didn't need anyone to tell me this was all Kex's handiwork.

The bastard was drowning in the very storm I conjured for him. And like the coward he was, he didn't want to sink alone. No. He wanted to pull someone under with him.

And who better to drown with him than the man who shoved him into the sea?

He's been calling and sending threats and pathetic little voicemails with empty promises of revenge.

His voice was always shaking beneath the pretense of confidence, as though I couldn't hear the panic scratching behind his words. Like a man gripping a gun with a trembling hand, hoping I wouldn't notice the safety was still on.

Kex is spiraling and losing altitude fast.

He had realized I was the one who pulled the strings and made him lose more than half his life's worth.

And now he wants to scream and kick at the water while it fills his lungs?

Too late, Kex.

The sea doesn't give second chances.

His investors are on his neck. His hoard members have given him an ultimatum to

fix his mess. Otherwise, he'd lose his position as CEO. And every one of them was willing to vote him out.

The fall is inevitable.

I made sure of that

You don't provoke a man like me and expect to walk away intact.

No one forced his hand. He was greedy, sloppy, and loud.

I just lit the match. He poured the fucking gasoline.

And the Black Ledger?

It had become bait. I had to know who this mole was.

I stood there a long moment, then reached for my phone again and called Elias.

"Double the surveillance. I want every inch of this building watched. If anyone so much as breathes near my office, I want them identified."

"Yes, Alpha, Elias responded, and I dropped the call.

Now, I had to deal with Blaine and his nuisance.