A girl going into heat in the middle of a press conference, surrounded by Alpha politicians who didn't plan to show the world their true, volatile nature? Causes of mayhem. the girl whose first heat made every mayoral candidate go into a rut on national television...? I thought the utter humiliation sucked-that losing my job for something out of my control was as awful as it got. I was wrong. He came from the shadows. Told me I belong to him. And then... Then he showed me exactly what that means. But powerful as my Alpha suitor is, his ruthless possessiveness might be the ruin of us both. I am not a trinket. I am not a thing to own. And I will never surrender.