The Alpha who despises me… chose me as his mate??

Waverly was supposed to stay invisible. Just another Omega scraping by in the Outer District. Until the day the Alpha Prince returns with a sketch of his “missing mate.”
A girl with her face.
Sold into the High-Class world she was never meant to enter, Waverly is forced to play a dangerous game; pretend to be the Prince’s destined mate… or watch her family be destroyed.
But Prince Kaeren knows the truth.
He created the sketch to secure his inheritance. There was never a mate. So who is the girl standing in front of him?
She's a liar. A threat. A mistake he intends to break.
He accepts her as his mate… not to love her, but to ruin her. To expose her. To humiliate her. To make her regret ever wearing that face.
But the more he tries to destroy her, the more he can’t look away.
And the girl he swore to hate might be the only one who can destroy him first.

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This book drags you through things that aren’t pretty and doesn’t apologize for it. Waverly’s world is messy, dangerous, and unfair in ways that will make your chest tighten in all the worst (and best) ways.
You might laugh when you shouldn’t. You might cry without warning. You will probably get angry.
And yes—there are R18 scenes. If you’re here for comfort… this isn’t that. If you’re here for feeling something… You might want to stay.
Reader discretion is advised (or not. I’m not your mom. Hehe ;))

"I don't want you in the Outer District, Rose. I've seen what life over there means, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, let alone you. I'll become Alpha, and I will support you and your mate, even if he's a 'nobody.' You'll have the crown's backing."


Rose finally laughed, wiping her eyes. "You're the kindest person in the world, you know that? Even if you pretend to be a jerk to everyone else."


"I'm fairly certain Waverly would argue against that right now," I muttered, the memory of our morning argument—and her wounded expression—stinging more than I cared to admit.


Chapter 26 - _ Cornered