Contracted to My Ex's Rival

"Your body craves me even as you deny it," Dominic growled, his fingers tracing the mark on my neck. "I can smell how wet you get when I'm near you."
"Fuck you," I hissed, fighting the electricity his touch sent through me. "Just because you marked me doesn't mean I belong to you."
His smile turned predatory. "Yet your pulse races whenever I'm close, Elise."
When my mate Noah abandoned me for his true mate, I made a desperate choice—a contract bond with Dominic Blackwood, the most feared Alpha in the region. Our arrangement was simple: his protection for becoming his Luna. No emotions involved.
But after countless times he risked everything to keep me safe, my heart betrayed me. I was falling for the man I swore to never love.
Then my world shattered. Accused of serial murders I didn't commit, I discovered the truth as silver chains bit into my wrists—it was Dominic who investigated me, arrested me, tortured me for confessions.
Now I must decide: is the man I've grown to love my greatest protector or my ultimate betrayer?