Taming the Stray

Dorian finds Arden, the Hayes family heir missing for twenty years, fighting a stray dog for stale bread. Traumatized and unable to speak, Arden bites and hoards food like a wild animal. Dorian takes him home, slowly taming and healing him with food, patience, and care. His cousin Callum, hungry for power, repeatedly kidnaps, drugs, and frames Arden, even tries to kill Dorian. With Dorian’s protection, Arden regains speech and reason, learns to control his violence, and finally testifies at the hearing, exposing Callum’s twenty years of crimes. Callum is arrested; Arden returns to Hayes Group and confirms his relationship with Dorian.