(It's completed! Thank you to every reader who follows this book and everyone who was moved by Zoe's story. I hope we can all achieve the future we desire!) A lone alpha lost his destined queen in a savage border raid. Her passing became the pack’s eternal wound—each year the wolves gather in silence beneath a moon painted black. Five years on, the mark on his soul flares again—this time for the last person he expected: the younger sister of the woman whose ghost still rules every heartbeat. Whispers rise like winter fog: she was the reason the beloved heir leapt into death’s jaws; she should have been the one never to return. She has grown up invisible, a pale echo of a brighter star, bearing the weight of every unspoken wish that the grave had chosen differently. She dreamed that a mate’s eyes might finally see her, not the silhouette behind her. Instead she finds the same mirror of grief—and when he flinches, her last hope cracks. One word, sharp as broken ice, severs the bond before it can tighten. He lets her walk away, telling himself it is mercy. Then the ground shifts: buried lies surface, guilt turns inside-out, and the alpha understands how completely he was wrong. He races against rumor and remorse, chasing the flicker of a second chance. But the wolf he rejected has learned to sing her own song beneath stranger moons—and she is no longer sure the path home ends with him.
After four years of marriage, she finally discovered her husband had another family—and her own niece was actually his secret child with his adopted sister. She was never his wife, just the extra woman in his life. On the day his company went public, she crashed his celebration party with one perfect gift: divorce papers. He thought she was spoiled and useless, sure she would come crawling back. He cut off his mistress and illegitimate daughter, ready to win her back. But she shocked everyone with a multi-billion pharmaceutical patent—and a new wedding date. Furious, her ex tried to stop the wedding… until the rich list came out. He was nothing compared to her groom—the nation’s top richest man. She turned to her new husband and smiled: “Tell him, darling. You’re the billionaire he can never touch.”
On the night that was meant to celebrate three years of vows, I walked into our chamber and found my husband tangled in the sheets—with his brother’s widow. Shock scalded my lungs; their laughter scalded worse. “Wolfless trash,” they sneered, turning my own marriage bed into a courtroom. Their plan was simple: brand me unfit, lock me away, and divide the Aurorawisp Pack—my birthright—between them. I ran barefoot through corridors I once called home, heart drumming two words: escape, revenge. At the edge of the territory, under a moon sharp enough to cut glass, I met the one man no wolf dares challenge—Alpha Ethan, sovereign of the northern wilds, power rolling off him like winter smoke. “Alpha,” I breathed, cheeks flaming, “will you help me end this marriage?” A slow, sovereign smile. “I can dissolve bonds, Madam…but I collect a price.” I lifted my chin, voice trembling. “I won’t pay with my body. I can offer coin—” “Keep your gold,” he said, gaze pinning me like a specimen of starlight. “I want one year. You at my side, my name on your lips, my mark on your wrist—contract Luna, nothing more, nothing less.” The night air crackled. One signature, and I’d trade a traitor’s ring for a tyrant’s collar. Yet if power is currency, perhaps the most dangerous ally is exactly the weapon I need. I extended my hand. “One year, Alpha. When the contract burns out, I walk free.” His fingers closed over mine—warm steel. “One year, Luna. Then we both decide what freedom means.”
Hi my dear readers, thank you so much for loving this book! I’ll do my best to update every day, and you’re always welcome to leave me comments—I’ll definitely take your suggestions into consideration. ♥♥♥ Olivia had been adopted by Alexander, the Alpha King of the Southern Territory, since childhood. He was 10 years older than Olivia. He spoiled her, loved her like an uncle, and gave her everything. Until at eighteen, during her first shift, she recognized Alexander as her destined mate. When Alexander offered her a mating contract to help him bear pups, she agreed without hesitation. But just as she finally conceived his pup, his childhood sweetheart returned. Alexander, who had always spoiled and loved her, was now ready to sever their mate bond without hesitation. "This is what I owe her, Liv," Alexander said, his eyes filled with anguish. Olivia wept and fought, but ended up battered and broken, left with nothing. Heartbroken and defeated, she quietly left with the pup growing in her belly, disappearing without a trace as if she had simply vanished from the face of the earth. Alexander, however, searched for her like a man possessed, scouring every corner of the world—until at the Northern Territory Alpha King's grand banquet, he discovered that his cherished little mate was none other than the heiress to the entire Northern Territory...
I gave him three years of silent devotion behind a mask I never wanted to wear. I made a wager for our bond—he paid me off like a mistress. "Chloe's back," Zane said coldly. "It's over." I laughed, poured wine on his face, and walked away from the only love I'd ever known. "What now?" my best friend asked. I smiled. "The real me returns." But fate wasn't finished yet. That same night, Caesar Conrad—the Alpha every wolf feared—opened his car door and whispered, "Get in." Our gazes collided. The bond awakened. No games. No pretending. Just raw, unstoppable power. "Don't regret this," he warned, lips brushing mine. But I didn't. Because the mate I'd been chasing never saw me. And the one who did? He's ready to burn the world for me.
He was her fated mate. But to him, she’s the daughter of the monster who destroyed his world. He was supposed to kill her. He was never supposed to love her. The daughter of a ruthless rogue king, Sienna Valerius lived a perfect princess life but suddenly hunted, hated, and marked for death before she ever had a choice. She hopes for freedom. But fate doesn't care about bloodlines. It only cares about bonds. Alpha Kieran—the cold, merciless leader of the Darkmoon Pack, whose people were slaughtered by Sienna’s father years ago. He wanted her dead. He wanted to make her suffer for father's sins But when he saw her He was torn between vengeance and desire, Kieran claims her not as his Luna—but as his prisoner. His captive. His responsibility. And maybe... something more. Yet every heated stare, every forbidden touch, pulls them deeper into something neither of them can fight. He wants revenge. She wants freedom. But fate wants them tangled in ways that will either save their world... or set it on fire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
