" you can never be my mate"

Vivian William thought she was finally about to feel safe.
She walked into the Pack Affairs Office believing she was securing a future only to be destroyed by a single phone call. The man she trusted didn’t hesitate. He laughed as he told her the truth. She was never meant to be his mate. Never chosen. Just a convenient name on paper until the woman he truly wanted arrived.
Abandoned. Humiliated. Watched by a pack that thrived on her shame.
And with her mother’s life depending on medical coverage she no longer had, Vivian was left with no room to fall apart.
That was when a stranger appeared.
Finnick Norton was calm in a way that felt dangerous. Sharp-eyed. Controlled. Sitting in a wheelchair, yet carrying a presence that made the room bend around him. He didn’t offer comfort. He didn’t offer lies.
He offered marriage.
A bond without promises. Without romance. A clean agreement between two people who needed something badly enough to risk everything.
Vivian said yes, believing she had nothing left to lose.
She didn’t know she had just married the most powerful man in Sunshine City.
Finnick Norton isn’t just a stranger. He’s the unseen Alpha behind Finnor Group the empire that rose in silence and now stands above the city’s strongest families. A man who controls without raising his voice. A man who never moves without purpose.
At work, Vivian is forced to interview the city’s most mysterious and desired bachelor only to come face to face with her husband hours after marrying him… a man who looks at her like she’s a stranger.
But Finnick is always watching.
What begins as survival turns into tension. Into restraint. Into something neither of them planned for.
Because Vivian was never meant to be temporary.
And Finnick Norton never makes a bond he doesn’t intend to keep.

I remembered the dinner party clearly—it had been at a place not far from Century Hotel. Xavier noticed the change in my expression and grinned mischievously. "What's wrong, Mr. Norton? Did something come back to you?" I struggled to find words. "I… I…" Xavier laughed, shaking his head. "Then, you


I remembered the dinner party clearly—it had been at a place not far from Century Hotel. Xavier noticed the change in my expression and grinned mischievously. "What's wrong, Mr. Norton? Did something come back to you?"


Xavier laughed, shaking his head. "Then, you had a little too much to drink and ended up at Century Hotel…"


It hit me like a flood. Memories from that night two years ago crashed back—sharp, vivid, and impossible to ignore. They rose one after another, like waves breaking against a shore I had long forgotten existed.


Chapter 121 - A PROMISE WRITTEN IN BLOOD