Christmas with My Hidden Alpha

Mercy V. Romance

Noelle hates Christmas.
With a name like hers, it feels like a cruel joke. After losing her mother on Christmas Day, the tinsel, carols, and fake smiles are just background noise she endures for her job as an overworked, underappreciated event planner in Paris.
This year is supposed to be different. She’s planned the perfect surprise for her boyfriend—a romantic trip to Spain, a walk under the lights of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, maybe even a proposal.
Instead, she finds him in a hotel storage room, cheating on her with her coworker.
Humiliated and betrayed, Noelle storms out into the snowy Paris night beneath the sparkling Eiffel Tower… and straight into more trouble. When her ex grabs her and refuses to let go, a stranger steps out of the shadows.
Rafael Iriarte is everything Noelle should despise: confident, bossy, impossibly intense. A renowned architect working between France and Spain, he’s in Paris to design a luxury mountain lodge in the Pyrenees.
He’s also something no human girl should ever believe in:
A hidden alpha werewolf.
The moment Rafael scents Noelle, his wolf knows the truth—she’s his fated mate. But revealing his nature would put her in deadly danger. So he does the one thing he swore never to do again: he lies.
He steps between her and her ex with barely leashed violence, claiming Noelle as his and making a powerful enemy in the process. To keep her safe—and to keep her close—he offers her an escape: a job planning the holiday opening of his secluded lodge, where Christmas is celebrated with old Basque traditions, midnight mass, and bonfires that hide howls in the dark.
Noelle wants revenge on the man who broke her heart, not a new romance—especially not with a controlling stranger who keeps secrets and calls her “mine” like she’s a prize to be claimed. Their clash of wills sparks an enemies‑to‑lovers storm as fierce as any winter blizzard.
But as Paris gives way to snow‑covered mountains and Spanish carols, Noelle starts to see a different side of Rafael—the man who wraps her in his coat when she’s shaking, who looks at her like she’s his whole world, and who would destroy anyone who threatens her.
When the truth about what he is—and what *she* is—finally comes out, Noelle must decide:
Stay a low‑status human on the edge of a dangerous world,
or step into her power as a Guardian and claim the Alpha who already claimed her heart.
One cheating ex. One secretive Alpha. One deadly Christmas in the mountains.
This holiday, love might be the most dangerous wish of all.
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