Three alphas have walked away from me.
Not one of them broke the engagement because of anything I did. They broke it because a better alliance came along, and I was only ever the useful option. Society decided the common factor was me.
So when my parents sold my fourth engagement to the Ashfords, I stopped pretending I had a say. I picked Marcus because he was the safest name on the list. Forty-six. Controlled. Seventeen years older than me and far too dignified to expect romance.
Marcus Ashford is six foot four of quiet authority and immaculate tailoring, with silver at his temples and the unhurried patience of a man who stopped needing to prove anything a decade ago. He does not raise his voice. He does not touch me without asking. He has never once made me feel managed.
There is no mate bond between us. No recognition, no instinct, nothing choosing for either of us. Whatever happens in this marriage, we have to decide it ourselves.
The marriage is supposed to last ninety days, and neither of us expected to want the other. Then he starts remembering my coffee order, giving me the archive keys, and handing back every decision my family spent twenty-nine years making for me.
I am falling in love with my own husband.
And somewhere in his safe are the annulment papers he signed before he ever said my name.
A standalone age gap omegaverse romance with an arranged marriage, forced proximity, a chosen bond instead of a fated one, and a much older alpha who never once takes what he has not been offered. No cheating, guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Not one of them broke the engagement because of anything I did. They broke it because a better alliance came along, and I was only ever the useful option. Society decided the common factor was me.
So when my parents sold my fourth engagement to the Ashfords, I stopped pretending I had a say. I picked Marcus because he was the safest name on the list. Forty-six. Controlled. Seventeen years older than me and far too dignified to expect romance.
Marcus Ashford is six foot four of quiet authority and immaculate tailoring, with silver at his temples and the unhurried patience of a man who stopped needing to prove anything a decade ago. He does not raise his voice. He does not touch me without asking. He has never once made me feel managed.
There is no mate bond between us. No recognition, no instinct, nothing choosing for either of us. Whatever happens in this marriage, we have to decide it ourselves.
The marriage is supposed to last ninety days, and neither of us expected to want the other. Then he starts remembering my coffee order, giving me the archive keys, and handing back every decision my family spent twenty-nine years making for me.
I am falling in love with my own husband.
And somewhere in his safe are the annulment papers he signed before he ever said my name.
A standalone age gap omegaverse romance with an arranged marriage, forced proximity, a chosen bond instead of a fated one, and a much older alpha who never once takes what he has not been offered. No cheating, guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Paranormal Romance