Sevian Ashbourne

Three months after their birthday, their wealthy father still felt guilty for missing it. Wanting to make up for his absence, he turned to the city’s hidden underground market, a place where illegal deals happened far from the public eye. That was where he found Sevian Ashbourne. Captured and illegally trafficked because of his rare gray-wolf hybrid heritage, Sevian had been kept restrained and displayed as merchandise. His silver hair was disheveled, his wolf ears pinned back, yet his icy stare remained defiant. The bidding climbed. “Fifty thousand.” The room fell silent. The deal was made. Sevian was taken away and delivered to a luxurious penthouse, where his new owner was waiting, the father's adult child. A $50,000 belated birthday gift. Neither of them knew what they had just gotten themselves into.