Sealed : The Alpha King's Return

Elizabeth Rekiyat Romance

Alfred was seven years old the night his world ended.His parents Alpha King Jayson and Luna Queen Regina were murdered by Maureen, once Regina's closest friend, who had spent years quietly poisoned by jealousy: jealousy that Regina had become queen instead of her, jealousy that Jayson loved his wife completely and gave her everything a king could give. When a prophecy named their infant son the future's most powerful Alpha King alive, that jealousy finally broke into violence. Maureen killed them both, certain the throne would fall to her once the bloodline in her way was gone.
It didn't. Instead, she sealed away Alfred's wolf and every gift tied to his birthright, and left him behind, a boy with no power, no family, and no idea what had truly been taken from him.
Thrown out by relatives who wanted his inheritance more than they wanted him, Alfred grew up in poverty: underground fights, overnight security shifts, a life built entirely out of *enough*. Only his best friend, Marcus, ever stayed beside him without wanting something in return.
Then Alfred saves a woman's life in an alley behind a glass tower he'll never be allowed through the front door of.
Her name is Beatrice, CEO of her late grandparents' company, raised human, resented by a stepmother and half-sister who believe everything she owns should belong to them instead. None of them know the truth: at two years old, Beatrice was kidnapped by a rival of her birth father. The escape ended in a car crash. The rival didn't survive. Beatrice was rescued and quietly adopted by the human family who raised her ever since, while her real parents buried a daughter they believed had died that night, and never stopped grieving her.
When Beatrice's attacker's blade, an ancient weapon belonging to Alfred's own bloodline, pierces his chest, his blood breaks Maureen's seal. Twenty-three years of silence end in one night. The wolf sleeping inside him finally wakes.
The forgotten Alpha King has returned and not just returned, but ascended. As the last living heir of the bloodline foretold to produce the most powerful Alpha in generations, Alfred rises to a position no king has held in living memory: King of all Kings, the one Alpha every wolf kingdom answers to.
It's a position Maureen never stopped scheming to control.
Unable to destroy Alfred a second time, she turns to a subtler weapon, her own daughter, Sophia, raised her entire life on the belief that she was always meant to stand beside him. Through manipulation and dark magic, Maureen maneuvers Alfred into an engagement to Sophia, sealed before he fully understands what's being taken from him, even as his feelings for Beatrice grow undeniable.
The engagement is announced to the entire wolf world. Every king from every kingdom is summoned to attend, Alfred's new rank demanding nothing less. Among them: King Maximilian and Queen Seraphina Voss of the High Kingdom, and their son Rafael arriving with no idea that the woman standing at the edge of the groom's inner circle is the daughter they buried twenty-three years ago.
The reunion should be the story's triumph. Instead, it becomes its cruelest turn, by the time the Voss family recognizes their lost daughter, Maureen and Sophia's dark magic has already done its work twisting Alfred's mind against the very woman the Moon Goddess chose for him. Beatrice finds her real family at the exact moment she loses the man she loves to a curse neither of them can see.
What follows is a war fought on every front at once: Alfred's fractured mind against Maureen's magic, Beatrice's fight to reclaim both her identity and the man she can't stop loving even as he turns from her, the Voss family's desperate re-entry into a daughter's life they never got to raise, and Rafael's fury on behalf of the sister he never got to save the first time. Patricia and Gloria's schemes, Sophia's obsession, and Maureen's decades of buried rage all collide as Beatrice fights to break a curse, reclaim a crown that was always partly hers, and win back a love that was stolen from both of them before it ever had the chance to fully begin.
Before the crown, before the kingdoms, before any of it there is simply a man who was told his whole life he was nothing, and a woman who never knew she was born to be everything, both about to discover that the truth is far more dangerous than either of them ever imagined.
The crown remembers what the world forgot. And love, even stolen, does not stay buried forever.

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