Astrid dedicated her life to Leon, believing in their love, their pack, their future. But the devastating return of her sister, Clara, as Leon's destined mate, shatters Astrid's carefully constructed world. Betrayal cuts deep, leaving Astrid stripped bare and forced to confront a horrifying truth: her loyalty was misplaced, her sacrifices meaningless.

Just as despair threatens to consume her, Kaeleen, a magnetic and rebellious Alpha from a rival pack, storms into her life, igniting a forbidden passion that challenges everything she thought she knew. He offers her a chance to escape the suffocating control of her past, to claim a life of her own, a life where she is the priority.

But Leon won't relinquish his prize so easily. Obsessed and dangerously possessive, he unleashes a storm of violence and manipulation, determined to drag Astrid back into the darkness. Now, Astrid must make a desperate choice: succumb to the chains of her past, or embrace the dangerous allure of a love that could save her... or ignite a war that will consume them all.

The silence that descended upon Rebecca's office was so thick I could feel it pressing in on me. The playful, food-filled atmosphere had evaporated in an instant, replaced by a stunned stillness. Rebecca's pizza slice hovered halfway to her mouth, forgotten. Shadow's eyes, usually full of mirth, were wide and fixed on me with an intensity that made my skin prickle.


"You what?" he asked, his voice a low, incredulous whisper that was so unlike his usual cheeky tone. 


"Did you just say remember how to fight?" Rebecca asked me.


"But…I don't understand. Please explain." Shadow said to me.


I held his gaze, refusing to shrink back. This was a part of me, a piece of the puzzle of my past that they didn't know. If I was going to truly be a part of this family, this pack, they deserved to know who I was all of me or rather what part of me I wanted them to know. Not just the quiet, broken girl Kaeleen had found.


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