Ava Reed

Aurora Crestwood has been in love with her best friend Liam for ten years. Ten years of being his shoulder to cry on, his late-night phone call, his emotional support through every breakup. Ten years of watching him chase the same toxic woman who keeps breaking his heart.

When Selena Beaumont announces her engagement to someone else, Aurora thinks she's finally free. But Liam has other plans. He wants to crash the wedding, make one last desperate play for the woman who's never truly wanted him. And he wants Aurora to help him do it.

Against her better judgment, she agrees. What she doesn't expect is to meet Kian Vance.

Liam's estranged brother is everything Liam isn't—dangerous, direct, and completely uninterested in playing games. He's also friends with the groom, which makes him the biggest threat to their sabotage plan. But when Kian looks at Aurora, he doesn't see Liam's reliable best friend. He sees a woman who's been hiding her true self for far too long.

"I'm going to steal her from you," Kian tells his brother with cold certainty.

When Kian proposes a wager—if the wedding falls apart, Aurora belongs to him—she should walk away. She should focus on helping Liam win the woman he's obsessed with. She should stick to being the good girl she's always been.

Instead, she shakes hands with the devil himself.

Now Aurora is caught between two brothers, a wedding that might not happen, and a dangerous man who sees right through her carefully constructed walls. Kian promises to show her what it means to be truly wanted, but his interest comes with a price.

As the wedding weekend spirals toward chaos, Aurora must decide: will she keep playing it safe, or will she finally embrace the fire she's been hiding?


Claimed By The Wrong Brother

"I'm going to be so late," I muttered, frantically pulling on my blouse. My fingers fumbled with the buttons as anxiety crept up my spine.


I hadn't missed a day of work in three years, and here I was, rushing after a morning sex session with Kian Vance. Julian was going to kill me. Or worse—fire me.


Kian lounged against my bedroom doorframe, watching me scramble. Unlike me, he seemed completely relaxed in his rumpled clothes from yesterday. His dark eyes tracked my movements with an intensity that made my skin tingle.


"You have time," he said coolly. "It's barely nine."


"Nine is an hour late for me!" I tugged a brush through my tangled hair. "And I have a meeting at ten with the entire security team."


While I rushed around my bedroom, I noticed Kian's attention shift. He was examining my apartment with methodical precision—checking my windows, eyeing the locks on my door. His casual demeanor had evaporated, replaced by something more calculating.


Curiosity and Consequences