STAR

I was just a little girl with big dreams.

Starling “Star” Savage.
The name on everyone's tongue, the rising star who will follow her Father’s footsteps.
But my dream never included them.

They were my dad’s golden boys — the future rock gods of our time.
My babysitters. My protectors. My first crushes.
One night destroyed everything…

The four men my father built from the ground up.
The boys who promised me forever.
Until the night their lead singer — my childhood hero — murdered my father in cold blood.

The band fell apart.
My family burned to ash.
And I was tossed into the foster system, forgotten, abandoned…while they disappeared like ghosts.

Now I’ve finally made it into The Scarlet Stage Institute.
Where rising stars are molded into music legends.
But when the blind audition curtain falls…my world stops.

Because the band I just signed with…it’s them…

Atlas — the brutal lead singer with a voice like sin and eyes darker than my nightmares.
Kane — the violent bassist with a filthy mouth and a tendency to destroy anything fragile.
Riot — the tortured drummer who used to make me laugh, now drowning in rage and regret.
Jaxon — the golden guitarist turned ice-cold, his touch electric but his words pure venom.

They don’t recognize me at first. But the second my scent hits the air, everything changes.
Their heads snap. Their pupils dilate. Their bodies tense like predators catching the scent of prey.
A shame, I’m not their little Star anymore.

I’m a woman now — an Omega in my prime — and they crave me.
I came here to make it big — not to fall into the arms of my father’s murderers.

They were once my protectors.
Now they’re my band captors, my Alpha tormentors, my fated band.
And when they finally claim me — I’ll either shatter beneath fame or rise above self-sabotage.