Alpha’s Chosen Replacement

Maximilian doesn’t love me. And I know that.

I’m his secret lover, the one who shows up when he calls, the woman who changed everything—my hair, my style, my identity—to get closer to the woman he really wants.

People whisper behind my back. They call me desperate, pathetic, a stand-in. They think I’m just a replacement for the woman he’ll never have, and when she returns, I’ll be nothing.

But they don’t know the truth. Maximilian isn’t hers, and he’s not really mine, either.

Because I made him into a stand-in, too—for the man I can never have again.