Before Wedding, He Chose Her

I spent twenty years loving Rudolph Perkin and five years building a life in his Chicago penthouse, only for him to trade our wedding vows for a "blood debt" he doesn’t realize I’m the one who actually paid. He chose a pureblood legacy and a calculated heir over the woman who pulled him back from the brink of death, leaving me to bleed out emotionally while he marked another. They see me as a thin-blooded hybrid, a fragile Omega easily discarded for the sake of clan duty—but they’ve underestimated the resilience of a scientist with nothing left to lose. As I leave the city lights behind for the heat of the Nevada desert and the secrets of the Stardust Project, Rudolph is about to learn that you can’t reclaim a heart once you’ve traded it for a lie.