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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 glanced back at Simon in the driver's seat. He reached out to meet and said his medic friend was willing to see us both. My fingers rub the meandering scar along the grove of my palm. Transferring attention to my bare chest as my fingers trace phantom pendants where the layered necklace had been. I know I promised a Botan I'd never take it off, but I was with a man he wanted dead. Regardless, I wouldn't put it past him to have men follow me, anyway.

"I don't know." I tuck my hands between my thighs to keep them still. "I just feel like we're being watched."

"Oh, we definitely are," he says casually, cheerfully unbothered. "Why do you think we have been driving for over an hour—it only takes fifteen minutes to get to his house from where we started. We had three tails on us and now there is only one."

Dread slips beneath a feeble façade of relief, enough to loosen the grip around my breaths.

Chapter 123