Contracted to the Alpha: An Arranged Slow Burn MM Paranormal Werewolf Romance

He got one who refused to perform.Cael Voss has spent his entire adult life holding a corporation together while his family handed the credit to someone else. He is precise, capable, and invisible in exactly the way that second sons of powerful pack families are trained to be. When his father threatens to arrange a mating that would turn him into a controlled asset rather than the leader he has always been, Cael makes a decision: if he has to take a mate, he will choose that mate himself. On his own terms. For a fixed price. And the alpha he chooses will stay out of his way.Theron Ashvale has never been anyone's safe choice. He has debts, enemies, and a run-down apartment in Portland that he pays for week to week. What he also has is a reputation for being absolutely reliable once he commits to something - and he is not interested in pretending. When a man slides a folder of terms across a table at him and tells him he might be more trouble than he's worth, Theron reads the terms, asks three questions, and makes one non-negotiable condition: whatever this arrangement is between them, it will be real. Not performed. Not managed. Real - even if it doesn't last.The contract is straightforward. The mating is necessary. The bond is supposed to be a formality.It is not a formality.What Cael didn't factor in was a man who notices everything, refuses to be managed, and treats him not as a Voss family asset or a Voss family problem - but as a specific person worth paying attention to. What Theron didn't factor in was a man whose brilliant, precise mind turns out to be the most interesting thing he's encountered in years, and who is quietly, stubbornly carrying more weight than any one person should have to carry alone.Between pack politics, a father who built a game with rules he never shared, an old threat wearing a familiar face, and a mate bond that turns out to have opinions of its own, the arrangement they agreed to stops looking like a transaction somewhere around the third week. Neither of them says so. Both of them know.The contract was temporary. The man was not. Grab your copy now.