He rejected her in front of the whole pack. Now he needs her more than ever — and she owes him nothing.

Margot Ellery built a life Highmarsh's Alpha doesn't get to touch. Two years after he stood in front of fifteen witnesses and tore their mate bond apart, she runs her own veterinary practice on the edge of pack land, answers to no one, and has almost stopped waking up reaching for a bond that isn't there. Almost.

Then a warrior stumbles onto her clinic floor half-dead from wounds no natural predator could make, and Julian Marek follows him onto her territory — uninvited, unwelcome, and still burning with a claim he gave up the right to make. He needs her hands. He needs her silence about what he did. He does not get to need her heart back too, no matter what the ache in his chest tells him.

Something is hunting Highmarsh's wolves, and only Margot can treat what's left of them, which means the alpha who broke her isn't leaving anytime soon.

She'll make him earn every inch of the ground he lost before she lets herself want him again — if she lets herself at all.