His Mouth Said No, His Heart Screamed Yes

Synopsis

Sienna Blackwood has spent two years married to Damian Blackwood, Manhattan's coldest financial titan—a marriage defined by no kisses, no intimacy, and separate bedrooms. Gossip whispers that she isn't attractive enough to satisfy her husband. Fed up, she heads downstairs with divorce papers in hand. But when she trips and he catches her, she suddenly begins to hear his thoughts—and learns the man whose face is a glacier has been secretly and desperately in love with her all along. She uncovers the truth he's hidden for centuries: he is a nine-hundred-year-old apex predator, the guardian wolf of Manhattan. A conspiracy aimed at him forces her to decipher every lie he's told—his coldness was protection, and he could see through every wall she had built. When the threat closes in, the man who always whispered "don't come closer" collapses to his knees, terrified not of exposure, but of being abandoned by love again. What began as divorce papers ends as a counter-coup. What began as one-way mind-reading becomes a bond that only opens when she chooses. Two years late, the strangest couple in Manhattan finally says the words they both meant all along.