Mbali_Xabela

Landen Vacheron, heir to a fortune built on oil and ambition, has lived his life as a wealthy playboy, the world bowing to his every whim, thanks to the empire his billionaire father, Colton Vacheron, forged. But as his older brother Vance steps into the role of CEO, Landen begins to see that the true cost of power and privilege is far greater than he ever imagined.

Avara Du Pont is a devoted daughter who set aside her own dreams to bolster her father’s political aspirations. Unaware of his dark secrets. When it comes to light, Colton Vacheron offers him a proposition he cannot refuse; a marriage alliance between Avara and Vance, as a way for him to garner more political influence. And Mayor Du Pont will receive a king’s ransom as payment to stave off the shadows spilling into his life. Avara agrees to the fake relationship in order to protect her family from her father's criminal ties.

Bloodbound: The Alliance

I settle behind the outside bar of the kitchen where Vance stands at the island with dangling kitchenware near his head. I ease onto the well-supported stool, dull pain flaring through my bottom. Vance watches with entertainment etched in his features, grinning and goofier in this moment than all of the time I have known him for.

"I'm glad at least one of us is amused," I comment dryly.

"I'd watch that tone if I was you," he cautions with a fleeting facade of seriousness before he breaks into another humored grin. "Or did someone not learn from their spanking?"

Impulse makes me flip up a hand of surrender.

Chapter 61