Defiant Princess

defiant princess LOST MOON UNIVERSITY BOOK 2 BELLA JACOBS Copyright Defiant Princess © 2023 by Bella Jacobs All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. This contemporary romance is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication/use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners. This ebook is licensed for your personal use only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with, especially if you enjoy sexy, fast-paced urban fantasy reads. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return it and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author’s work. Edited by Sandra Shipman Editing and Kelley Lambert Greer. Cover design by Enchanting Covers. Created with Vellum defiant princess Lost Moon University Book Two By Bella Jacobs about the book FORD: The only thing worse than wanting to destroy my rival for the Zion pack's throne? Falling in love with her, of course. I never set out to fall for Juliet, but it turns out I'm a sucker for a badass, smart-mouthed, defiant princess. Especially one who refuses to back down from a fight. There are dark forces at work at Lost Moon and more secrets than either of us bargained for. At this point I'm not sure we'll live long enough for Juliet to realize she needs me as much as I need her. Because this fight? It might not be one we can win… Defiant Princess is the second in a scorching dark romance series and is not for the faint of heart. It ends in a cliffhanger. praise for bella jacobs I could not put this one down. It had me on the edge of my seat for the entire book!…The end left me breathless! I need more!! CHRIS C. REVIEWS -5 STARS “Oh Damn, Oh My God, Sexy and Wow". Can't wait to read the next book. GRAVES ON AMAZON -5 STARS I’m glad to have found this amazing storyteller. HANAN ON AMAZON -5 STARS For all the underdogs. contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Sneak Peek of Savage Prince About the Author Also by Bella Jacobs one JULIET My mother… My dead mother is alive and of at least relatively sound mind and body and she never tried to find me. To save me. And now I’m going to be eaten by a wolf like Little Red Riding Hood before I have a chance to tell her just how shitty it was to grow up a motherless daughter in the Zion pack. I skid to a stop on the pine needles covering the forest floor, my lungs burning from my sprint and a part of me ready to take the easy way out. The giant red wolf snarling in front of me looks like he could gobble me up in one bite. I could do it. I could ask him to open wide and jump inside. Or I could lay down and lift my sweater, baring my soft, vulnerable belly the way I did that one time in the arena. It would be over in seconds, and this time the monster tearing me apart would finish the job. He wouldn’t leave me alive to suffer the pain of knowing my mother abandoned me to be raised by a psychopath to make her own life easier. That has to be what happened. My father decided he was ready for a new wife, but he wanted to keep the kid, the heir, and pretending my mother was dead was the easiest way out. He’d already been married three times before my mother, but none of those women had given him a child. The pack had assumed he was barren and that the Alpha throne would pass to his younger brother’s children when he died. Then along came Mom, a beauty from an absurdly fertile pack in France with two Ivy League degrees and an impeccable pedigree. Not that my father cared that my mother was a genius, I’m sure. Hammer liked to brag that I was brilliant, but only because I was an extension of him, sprung from his loins and therefore something he could take credit for. I’m sure my mother’s pretty face and allegedly fertile womb were his primary motivations. Even before I learned my mother was still alive, I was laboring under no delusions that Dad loved Mom or grieved her loss all that much. Sure, he said he did, but he was married again six months later to Crystal, the woman he tried to knock up for a few years before he divorced again and married Ford’s mom. Adriana came with a bonus prize—the son Hammer had always wanted. Even when he was a tween, it was obvious Ford would grow up to be a handsome, powerful, dominant wolf, just like his dear old stepdad. Ford… He’s behind me. If I lay down to die, he’ll try to save me, and possibly end up dead for his troubles. One wolf, he could probably take, but this red menace isn’t alone. As