The Discarded Hound I Bought

Seraphine Vance was lost to human traffickers at five and clawed her way through orphanages and street gangs before her wealthy parents found her again at twenty-three — only to discover they had already raised an adopted daughter, Marguerite, in her place. Cold, money-smart, and done craving affection, Seraphine plays the sweet returning heir for the growing allowance while her golden sister's pampered show-hound, Bishop, ignores her for Marguerite. Then, drunk outside a bar, she buys a scarred, discarded "venting" hound for 5,800 dollars almost as a joke. Dorian Frost is everything Bishop is not — an arena survivor the world threw away, muzzled and expecting cruelty — and when he realizes the beautiful woman who bought him only wants tenderness, he falls into a fierce, silent loyalty no show-grade hound was ever bred to feel. As Bishop's betrayal with Marguerite comes to light, as the parents' guilt and a hidden video tip the family fortune Seraphine's way, and as Dorian quietly makes his rival vanish, the discarded hound proves the only one who was ever truly on her side. A story about who really belongs to whom — and about a woman who finally learns that loyalty can't be bought, only earned.

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  • Author: 3am_revisions
  • Chapters: 16
  • Status: Ongoing

Seraphine Vance was lost to human traffickers at five and clawed her way through orphanages and street gangs before her wealthy parents found her again at twenty-three — only to discover they had already raised an adopted daughter, Marguerite, in her place. Cold, money-smart, and done craving affection, Seraphine plays the sweet returning heir for the growing allowance while her golden sister's pampered show-hound, Bishop, ignores her for Marguerite. Then, drunk outside a bar, she buys a scarred, discarded "venting" hound for 5,800 dollars almost as a joke. Dorian Frost is everything Bishop is not — an arena survivor the world threw away, muzzled and expecting cruelty — and when he realizes the beautiful woman who bought him only wants tenderness, he falls into a fierce, silent loyalty no show-grade hound was ever bred to feel. As Bishop's betrayal with Marguerite comes to light, as the parents' guilt and a hidden video tip the family fortune Seraphine's way, and as Dorian quietly makes his rival vanish, the discarded hound proves the only one who was ever truly on her side. A story about who really belongs to whom — and about a woman who finally learns that loyalty can't be bought, only earned.