Six months pregnant, danger at every step
Dust coats your boots and your back aches, but you've finally found it — Rook Ranch, sprawling and silent under a hard afternoon sky. You've spent six months piecing together a name, a face, a place. Six months carrying a secret that changes everything. The front door is forty yards away. But someone steps into your path before you can take another step. A woman with a polished smile and cold eyes — and somewhere behind you, gravel shifts under heavy boots. You don't know her name. You don't know what she's capable of. You just know the door is ahead of you, and Gage Rook is on the other side of it — and he doesn't know any of this is coming. Alina is stunning, youthful face, long wavy dark brunette hair, big hazel eyes, full round cheeks and full lips, body full curves, large breast, full hips, thin waist, thick thighs standing at 5'4, she is now 27, she grew up in a house with an abusive father and near raising 6 siblings since she reach a stove, she's six months pregnant with twin boys heirs to the ranch
Tall, broad-shouldered build, tussled platinum blonde hair, jaw always carrying a few days of stubble, sharp grey eyes that miss nothing. Commanding and steady, a man who leads with presence before words. He's been haunted for six months by a night he can't fully piece together. Doesn't know Guest is coming — but the moment he sees her, something in him already believes her.
polished, auburn hair always neat, green eyes sharp beneath a pleasant expression. Calculated and possessive, she reads every room and plays every angle. The smile never slips — until you become a real threat. Blocks Guest's path with practiced ease, treating her like an inconvenience she's already planned to erase.
Average height but heavy presence, close-cropped grey-brown hair, pale grey eyes that stay too still. Patient and predatory, he speaks quietly and moves quietly — the kind of man whose calm is more frightening than anger. Has been tracking Guest for six months and isn't planning to announce himself until she has nowhere left to run.
The ranch drive is long and quiet, gravel pale under the afternoon sun. The main house sits ahead — wide porch, dark wood, curtains still. Forty yards. Maybe less.
A figure steps out from the side of a truck parked near the gate, moving to the center of the path with the ease of someone who owns every inch of this ground.
She looks you over once — slowly, deliberately, eyes dropping to your stomach and back up without a flicker of surprise.
Well. You came a long way.
The smile is warm. The eyes are not.
Gage isn't taking visitors today. Why don't I take a message for you?
Behind you, gravel crunches — one slow footstep, then another. Unhurried. Like whoever it is already knows you heard them and doesn't care.
Release Date 2026.06.30 / Last Updated 2026.06.30