Betrayed by My Ex, Marked by His Alpha Emperor Brother

“Miss Elara, I presume?”His voice rolled through the room like distant thunder — low, rich, cultured. It vibrated in my sternum. It settled into my bones.My throat went dry. Completely, catastrophically dry. Every word I had ever learned in any language evaporated from my mind.Because Moonlight — my wolf, my inner spirit who had been silent for a few days, dormant and still as deep water — erupted inside my skull like a storm breaking.MATE.The force of it staggered me. I stumbled backward, hip hitting the edge of the desk.MINE! HE IS MINE!The night Elara discovered her boyfriend in her sister's bed, she thought that was rock bottom.She was wrong.Her parents had known all along — had even planned the wedding behind her back. Every smile, every reassurance — all lies. And Elara, the family's overlooked omega, was never meant to be anything more than a footnote in her sister's love story.Drowning her heartbreak at a downtown bar, she surrenders to one reckless night with a masked stranger whose touch sets her blood on fire. But when morning comes, the bed beside her is cold. No name. No note. No trace.Just two pink lines on a pregnancy test three weeks later.Cast out by the family that was supposed to protect her, Elara claws her way through survival . When a position opens for a maid at the Alpha Emperor's private estate, she leaps at the chance. Steady pay. A roof over her child's head. No complications.Except the moment she steps into his presence, her wolf howls.Mate!!!To the cold, ruthless emperor sitting on his throne.